Celts Shoot Bricks, Lose To Knicks! R2G1 Loss vs NYK 5/5 (NYK leads 1-0)

[BillessuR6]

Absolutely embarassing!

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[Marvel]

I am beyond pissed. I can't even vent right now

[FlatearthZorro]

Ok I’ve taken some time to decompress.

We’re fine everything’s fine. I don’t care about chucking ass loads of 3s but get into actions. Bailed out the Knicks with iso pound the ball clock killing garbage.

Still pissed I have to sit and marinade in this loss for a whole day plus while the Knicks are raising banners already.

Yea, the Knicks aren’t that great on defense. They need to move the dang ball

[Fierce1]

I think the Cs needed this loss.

They had it easy last year up until the Orlando series this year.

JT and White kept going for home run shots.

Cs almost lost Game 1 in the ECF last year.
They were just saved by JB's game tying 3 and the Cs ended up winning in OT.

This time the Cs finally threw away a playoff game.

Hopefully this won't be 2023 all over again.

[Fierce1]

Joe's complete trust in his players results to losses like this.

But that trust in his players is a double-edged sword.

JT, White, and even JB took too many 3s.

That's the coach trusting his players and not telling them to find other ways to score.

Here's the thing though, if JT made that 3pt shot with 5 secs left and the score tied, nobody would be talking about Joe.

This is a case of the coach trusting his players and the players ended up making the coach look like a fool.

[Triple7]

Glad I missed this ending. Went to sleep after Q1 because I had late day minor surgery and woke up after it was over. Oh well, on to game 2. What the hell happened with Zinger and only playing 13 min, even though he was 0-4 while on the court (i saw him miss 2 chippies, and Holiday miss a chippie, and someone else miss a chippie in Q1). No focus thru shot completion killed them in Q1. I knew it would be tough. They had that 16 point Halftime lead but it should have been at least 22.

Same here. I didn’t watch the game at all, but checking bix scores from time to time. Stopped checking when we were up 72-52. I thought this would be an easy win. To my surprise, a friend of mine, a big Lakers fan, texted me laughing emojis. Then the game was in OT. I couldn’t believe the meltdown. Watchd the interviews. Joe and Tatum looked lost. All he could say was he was getting good looks lol. Damn it, even if they were good looks, if you bricking the previous two, then maka an effort to attack the basket. Post up someone. Get to the free throw line. Do anything to break the momentum. How could this championship team lose a 20pt lead in 9mins??? Lol.

OKC just kinda did the same and they had a legendary regular season and did look to be the favorites to win it all. Same with the CAVS.

Well those guys lack experience. We are the defending champs. Plus they are playing against an all time great in Jokic. We are playing against 6’0 Brunson.

[GreenBloodedC]

Like how can you miss that many threes and not switch something up?

Law of averages, but did not get to the mean

[Triple7]

Joe's complete trust in his players results to losses like this.

But that trust in his players is a double-edged sword.

JT, White, and even JB took too many 3s.

That's the coach trusting his players and not telling them to find other ways to score.

Here's the thing though, if JT made that 3pt shot with 5 secs left and the score tied, nobody would be talking about Joe.

This is a case of the coach trusting his players and the players ended up making the coach look like a fool.

Or Joe doesn’t have anything in his bag for moments like this, when the 3ball ain’t dropping. More like JT doesn’t have anything if his 3ball ain’t going in. Just look at Mitchell. Shooting is poor, he said it himself during in-game interview, to attack the basket, which he did. Tatum lacks the dribbling skills to blow past a single defender. He can’t even get past brunson. If 3ball ain’t working, its the coaches job to adjust. Have someone post up and try to get a foul or an easy shot around the basket. Not let your players continue to jack up bricks. We all know all JT wants to do is shoot 3’s. JT, JB, Jrue, Horf and KP all can post up if they wanted to, but its easier to jack off 3’s than grind it out. Its fine if we’re hitting shots, but to continue to chuck away, all because they are open looks, and continue to brick them is stupidity and lazy.

[chrisab123]

Worst loss of the year because of the way it happened. You can’t miss 45 threes and still win

[Setshot33]

This game just backs up the most common criticism of Joe and the Celtics: If the three isn't falling,there is no Plan B.

Red used to talk about a coach having a "feel" for the game. It's pretty clear Mazulla has none.

[jonige94]

Dumbest team in the NBA, with the dumbest coach.

[Fierce1]

Joe's complete trust in his players results to losses like this.

But that trust in his players is a double-edged sword.

JT, White, and even JB took too many 3s.

That's the coach trusting his players and not telling them to find other ways to score.

Here's the thing though, if JT made that 3pt shot with 5 secs left and the score tied, nobody would be talking about Joe.

This is a case of the coach trusting his players and the players ended up making the coach look like a fool.

Or Joe doesn’t have anything in his bag for moments like this, when the 3ball ain’t dropping. More like JT doesn’t have anything if his 3ball ain’t going in. Just look at Mitchell. Shooting is poor, he said it himself during in-game interview, to attack the basket, which he did. Tatum lacks the dribbling skills to blow past a single defender. He can’t even get past brunson. If 3ball ain’t working, its the coaches job to adjust. Have someone post up and try to get a foul or an easy shot around the basket. Not let your players continue to jack up bricks. We all know all JT wants to do is shoot 3’s. JT, JB, Jrue, Horf and KP all can post up if they wanted to, but its easier to jack off 3’s than grind it out. Its fine if we’re hitting shots, but to continue to chuck away, all because they are open looks, and continue to brick them is stupidity and lazy.

You weren't complaining about JT against Orlando.

This is just like what you said, lazy and stupidity.

And stop it with JT's bag because Celtic fans know JT has all the tools of an elite offensive player.

The problem with JT is he wants home runs all the time.

Let's see what happens in Game 2 because all this talk of JT's bag is getting old.

[Fierce1]

The thing that some fans don't understand is the math of Mazzulla-Ball.

What happens if the 3s are not falling?

Usually the Cs lose, right?

But Joe's philosophy is so what if we lose 1 or 2 games?

The goal is not to win every game.

The goal is to win more than you lose.

Win 61 games and lose 21 games is a great winning percentage.

In the playoffs, so far the Cs always win 4 games and lose only 1 game.

From 2024 to the Orlando series, the Celts have never played a Game 6.

It's always Celtics 5.

It's just not realistic to expect the Cs to win every game.

It's the math, stupid!

[London2Boston]

We probably deserved that. Feel like the Celtics World has overlooked this series and already looking forward to Cavs/OKC. Myself included.

Looked like our players did too to an extent and didn’t respect what was in front of them when it was 20 point game.

Hopefully a wake up call.

[BrianFitz]

Illness and didnt look great in his minutes. Maybe sick before the game dunno

The guy’s never reliable. They need him.

We didnt lose because he wasnt there.
We lost because we might be the dumbest team in the league and coach clearly didnt see problems with what they where doing after the break

If Boston lost an OT game by 3 points, and you're saying having Porzingis playing wouldn't have mattered, then it begs the question - what's the point of paying him all this money?

[BrianFitz]

I think the Cs needed this loss.

They had it easy last year up until the Orlando series this year.

JT and White kept going for home run shots.

Cs almost lost Game 1 in the ECF last year.
They were just saved by JB's game tying 3 and the Cs ended up winning in OT.

This time the Cs finally threw away a playoff game.

Hopefully this won't be 2023 all over again.

I'm sorry, but didn't Boston drop a game at home to both Miami and Cleveland last year? As a matter of fact I believe they got blown out by Cleveland in game 2 in Boston and lost by double digits to Miami in game 2 in Boston.

[Triple7]

Joe's complete trust in his players results to losses like this.

But that trust in his players is a double-edged sword.

JT, White, and even JB took too many 3s.

That's the coach trusting his players and not telling them to find other ways to score.

Here's the thing though, if JT made that 3pt shot with 5 secs left and the score tied, nobody would be talking about Joe.

This is a case of the coach trusting his players and the players ended up making the coach look like a fool.

Or Joe doesn’t have anything in his bag for moments like this, when the 3ball ain’t dropping. More like JT doesn’t have anything if his 3ball ain’t going in. Just look at Mitchell. Shooting is poor, he said it himself during in-game interview, to attack the basket, which he did. Tatum lacks the dribbling skills to blow past a single defender. He can’t even get past brunson. If 3ball ain’t working, its the coaches job to adjust. Have someone post up and try to get a foul or an easy shot around the basket. Not let your players continue to jack up bricks. We all know all JT wants to do is shoot 3’s. JT, JB, Jrue, Horf and KP all can post up if they wanted to, but its easier to jack off 3’s than grind it out. Its fine if we’re hitting shots, but to continue to chuck away, all because they are open looks, and continue to brick them is stupidity and lazy.

You weren't complaining about JT against Orlando.

This is just like what you said, lazy and stupidity.

And stop it with JT's bag because Celtic fans know JT has all the tools of an elite offensive player.

The problem with JT is he wants home runs all the time.

Let's see what happens in Game 2 because all this talk of JT's bag is getting old.

I complained about JT in game 1. When he played awful. Missing everything from free throws to 3’s. I praised him game 3-5 when he played great. The problem with him is inconsistency. Every playoffs this happens with him. I’m pretty sure he will make a conscious effort to attack the rim or limit his 3ball game 2, as he was called out by reporters during his post game interview. Let’s see what he does. We can’t win with JT shooting 30percent from the field, and jacking off 3’s at 25 percent clip. He needs to out play Brunson at the least.

[Green89]

You have to winder if his wrist is on Tatum's mind, making him hesitant to drive, get fouled, and have to brace a fall. That's exactly what it seems happened two playoff runs ago when he had wrist issues. If this is the case, we're getting Tatum taking mostly threes all series.

[tfribs45]

self inflicted 31-11 run SMFH, talk about shooting yourself in the foot! Someone on the bench should have brought these guys together and laid into them.... Knicks were in foul trouble and we just settled for brick after brick, Wed needs to be a strong bounce back game. These guys didn't take the Knicks seriously; Holly even said it pregame that it didn't feel like a playoff atmosphere. Well have some humble pie boys, do you want to be one and done and just another Championship team that will implode in the off season, or keep this band together and fight?!

[Triple7]

Just saw a stat that’s crazy. 19/20 fg attempt in the 3rd quarter was 3 ball lol. What kind of offense was this Joe???
No wonder we lost that 20pt lead fast. Of course if we hit some of it, we would have blown them out, but if we miss a couple in a row, damn it JT be that LEADER man. Be angry, play with some sense of urgency man. Your big lead has been cut down, at least be that leader and do something. Attack the hoop and get to the line. Not play scared and soft, by jacking off 3’s non stop, all because they were giving you open looks. Can somebody tell this guy, that he’s not that great of a shooter. He needs to mix it up to be effective. So pissed after watching Jokic and SGA play. Those guys are just efficient scorers.