Celts Go Full Grinch, Steal The Pacers' Christmas! Victory Cigar vs IND 12/22

[bisme37]

Ho ho ho you guys we stormed back and won the big game it's the most wonderful time of the year!

Bench mob gave us life in the 3rd! HUGO GONZALEZ and Luka Garza and Simons and Baylor and Sam! Then JAYLEN BROWN brought it home in the 4th! And Derrick did stuff too hooray!

First half was fugly you guys! Pacers kept driving past our guys and kicking it out to an open shooter, and although Indy's been the worst 3pt shooting team on the season, in that first half they made ALL OF THEM. Celts stunk it up on offense too and trailed by 18 points at halftime.

BUT THEN... Joe pulled the starters early in the 3rd quarter, and Hugo and the C's bench came in and brought us from down 20 to down only 6! Celts had the momentum going into the 4th, and from there JB made huge plays down the stretch and closed the door on Indy!

We're off for a few days. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Celtics Pals! Pacers again Friday, Go C's!

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[Tatumfor2]

Coach smokes this one all alone. Get on board MF'ers!!

[Fierce1]

What a move by Joe!

Pacers were leading 69-49 when Joe pulled out all the starters and Simons and the rest of the bench guys brought the Celtics back.

[SuperDeluxe]

No Walsh, no Tatum, no problem.

Hugo.

[Parliament10]

Great Win.

Hugo is phenomenal.
He just makes the right plays. (Except for the Rookie Fouls.)

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Pacers scored more points in the first quarter than in the whole second half.

[Shak_Celts]

Hugo is that dude!!! Shut all that ish down!!! He put the clamps on Siakam in the second half!! They tried everything to get the ball away from Hugo!! SURPRISE SURPRISE, I’m everywhere!!!!! Let me borrow your soul, thank you!!!! He was jumping from body to body like a spirit!!

[Celts17Pride]

Guess I will go JB for VC and Hugo for CP

Celtics are getting a ton of contributions from everyone the VC and CP are tough. Great Celtics comeback tonight lead by the bench.

18-11, keep this thing rolling!!!!!!!

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I was wrong in the game thread. In their 31-point third quarter, the Celtics actually racked up three assists, not just one.

[Shak_Celts]

GARZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! You are getting balls you have no business getting!!! He was kicking their butts!!!! He was touching every rebound, thought dude had magnets in his hands and the ball! Just wonderful these last 2!!! Needed that ball and he went and got it!!!

[bfchs123]

VC to the bench mob - game completely flipped when Joe subbed out the whole lineup

Hugo another massive +/- game and it's not a fluke. Even if not huge boxscore numbers he makes a huge difference when he's out there

Garza has been great too, offensive rebound machine lately

[31to6]

HOLY **** DID THEY MAKE THE RIGHT PICK WITH HUGO

voted JB and Hugo for cigars, but want to give a hat tip to Anfernee for scoring in the 3rd when they needed it

[brackdan70]

Hugo is the reason we won this game, but JB closing the deal is nice.

[brackdan70]

GARZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! You are getting balls you have no business getting!!! He was kicking their butts!!!! He was touching every rebound, thought dude had magnets in his hands and the ball! Just wonderful these last 2!!! Needed that ball and he went and got it!!!

Yeah we got to get Garza some minutes every night. That battling is infectious!!!

[31to6]

this game needed to be a W so glad they got it done. Being down 20 was obviously pretty lame. But shout out to the coaching staff and bench guys for right attitude, right buy-in, right be-ready mindset. This team obviously has a winning culture, and one of the best parts of this will be a bunch of guys saying all the right things in the coming hour or so

[31to6]

Cs now on PaCe for 51 wins, my pre-season prediction

[31to6]

Hugo is the reason we won this game, but JB closing the deal is nice.

I love the way he's scoring in the lane. No fadeaways. Make them stop you. Power small forward footwork!

[CelticFaninLBC]

The Joe haters will find something to complain about.

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Ho ho ho you guys we stormed back and won the big game it's the most wonderful time of the year!

Bench mob gave us life in the 3rd! HUGO GONZALEZ and Simons and Garza and Baylor and Sam! Then JAYLEN BROWN brought it home in the 4th! And Derrick did stuff too hooray!

First half was fugly you guys! Pacers kept driving past our guys and kicking it out to an open shooter, and although Indy's been the worst 3pt shooting team on the season, in that first half they made ALL OF THEM. Celts stunk it up on offense too and trailed by 18 points at halftime.

BUT THEN... Joe pulled the starters early in the 3rd quarter, and Hugo and the C's bench came in and brought us from down 20 to down only 6! Celts had the momentum going into the 4th, and from there JB made huge plays down the stretch and closed the door on Indy!

We're off for a few days. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Celtics Pals! Pacers again Friday, Go C's!

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At least three of those eight plays involved Garza screens.

[doogie_hauser]

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Jaylen and Hu-Goat smoke the cigar !

Joe is developing Hugo properly, you don't want to rush rookies/when they are coming back from an injury or not ready yet at NBA level aka The Raptors and Gradey Dick.