KillahGhostface wrote:Last night felt more to me like the defense than the offense, though both were bad in the second half lol. In crunch time, Tatum went 3-4, though he had 1 ugly turnover. Jaylen went 2-3, with one ugly forced three. Al went 0-1, KP went 0-2, and Springer went 0-1.
A big problem was that the Celtics only cashed in on 5 of Tatum’s 15 potential assists, multiple of which were down the stretch. Considering they were primarily wide open threes, that was costly. The most glaring was the Springer one with 4 minutes left, as that would usually be White or Holiday, who drill those shots. Would have given them a 5 point lead. Celtics then went and got a stop on the next possession, Tatum passed the ball ahead to KP on the break, who got his layup blocked by Capela.
Also, I’m never the “ref” guy, but it was annoying watching the Hawks draw touch fouls down the stretch, while Tatum was getting tackled off-ball on the other end lol.
Atlanta ortg for the game was 129, or 15 points higher than the Harden-era Rockets team. Basically this shizz is going to happen where the 3pt rate has gotten so high, if a junk team shoots 50% from three and a good team shoots 29%, upsets are going to happen.
There is just higher variance now imo. Sort of like a hot hockey goalie or whatever.
In some ways makes the success this team has had even more impressive, it was just a year ago everyone was touting an 'era of parity' or whatever due to the three ball rates and the cap rules.
Don't hear much about that this year even though those trends have just continued to increase.
