NBA Playoff Games 2025, Non-Celtics

[Shak_Celts]

Really, pacers mistake was the lead lost in g4. Looms large.

[playa-hater]

It's not over until you win 4 games if Indiana holds on and wins game six, then anything can happen.

[Triple7]

A fully healthy Celtics would have a great chance of beating this okc team. Except that we play dumb basketball and we choke away big leads, playing with no composure, no confidence, no go to guy to get us through slumps. Still, if our 3ball is going, we would have a better chance than indy. If we didn’t chike away the first two games at NY, we would still be playing, and JT probably wouldn’t be injured

[Fierce1]

A fully healthy Celtics would have a great chance of beating this okc team. Except that we play dumb basketball and we choke away big leads, playing with no composure, no confidence, no go to guy to get us through slumps. Still, if our 3ball is going, we would have a better chance than indy. If we didn’t chike away the first two games at NY, we would still be playing, and JT probably wouldn’t be injured

Losing to NY was better.

Cs not beating OKC because of the reasons you cited.

Losing in the finals is very painful.

I'm content with how this season ended.

It's very clear the Cs need to get better, mentally.

[Fierce1]

The Celtics, especially the Jays and White, need to stop those silly heat checks.

OKC are where they are right now because they're disciplined on offense.

They rarely take bad shots.

It's a high bball IQ team with a #1 defense.

Celtics, as currently constructed, will not beat OKC.

Brad needs to make roster moves and Joe needs to tweak the system.

[Triple7]

A fully healthy Celtics would have a great chance of beating this okc team. Except that we play dumb basketball and we choke away big leads, playing with no composure, no confidence, no go to guy to get us through slumps. Still, if our 3ball is going, we would have a better chance than indy. If we didn’t chike away the first two games at NY, we would still be playing, and JT probably wouldn’t be injured

Losing to NY was better.

Cs not beating OKC because of the reasons you cited.

Losing in the finals is very painful.

I'm content with how this season ended.

It's very clear the Cs need to get better, mentally.

Nah! I would have preferred to get to the finals and lose, than to have no shot at all. With KP unhealthy, we would have had a hard time against okc, but two games of insanely good 3pt shooting, two awful games by okc, the. We could probably squeak a repeat. Plus we don’t know how the C’s would play in the finals, and Okc has no experience playing in one. We could be the underdogs going in, like when we lost to gsw in 22, and beat them handily. Anything could happen. An injury to one of their core players could level the playing field. Plus would have loved a shot to repeat. Losing to the knicks was dumb. We didn’t looked like defending champs.

[Triple7]

The Celtics, especially the Jays and White, need to stop those silly heat checks.

OKC are where they are right now because they're disciplined on offense.

They rarely take bad shots.

It's a high bball IQ team with a #1 defense.

Celtics, as currently constructed, will not beat OKC.

Brad needs to make roster moves and Joe needs to tweak the system.

OKC plays like this against the pacers, because they know they are the better team. If they lost game 4, and down 3-1, thise guys would have melted down and lose in 5 or 6. Big diff against us. If we took care of game 2 against the knicks, not losing the same way as game 1, we would have beaten the knicks 4 straight games. Instead, losing game 2, made our margin for error slim, and our guys got pressured playing close in game 4. In reality, our team lacks the leadership other championship team has.

[165bows]

Well I guess now we know!

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