Celts Stink Up The Bay, Can't Get the Dub! Loss vs GSW 12/19

[bisme37]

Well bleeping bleep you guys!

We took so many dumb shots tonight and the basketball gods punished us by making sure even our good shots didn't fall when we needed them to down the stretch. And rough game for JT to put it nicely. Big dud of a Celtics performance and a super annoying game.

Kings tomorrow, bounce back ya big goofs, Go C's!

[King Of The 4th]

Don't think this bodes well for Tatum's MVP odds

[GoCeltics123]

This team without KP on the road is so **** unserious

[meatball sub]

JB never shouldve done the "too small" on curry.

[CelticsPride18]

Tatum stinks. He’s never doing the Top 5 leap.

[Jammer]

Strong games by Derrick White, Jaylen Brown and Neemias Queta were wasted. Despite an Outstanding Game, White may have "lost his legs" as he missed repeated shots near the End of Regulation.

With Porzingis out, 38 Year Old Horford is doing double duty. Queta has more than pulled his weight again. Queta should be converted to the final roster spot by early January (when they might just release the 50% guaranteed Mykhailiuk). Brown and White carried the Celtics until Tatum finally started to wake up after rolling his ankle (same one that Tatum rolled in the playoffs). Golden States physicality, screening and rebounding all suffer with the absence of Draymond Green. Yet, the Celtics couldn't score in the last 2 minutes of regulation when they had more than enough opportunities to chalk up a win. Need a player who can just get a bucket when it's do or die. The Celtics didn't have that guy at the end of this game. And they continued to have no offense from their 5 starters in the Overtime Period. I think that if Joe didn't play Horford 38 minutes that the Celtics might have pulled this one out. Queta at least had his legs and was physical, even if he doesn't finish around the rim as much as a 7 footer should. Celtics missed too many open shots at the end and couldn't rebound.

An alternative perspective:

Pts. + Rebounds + (0.5 x Assists) + Steals + (0.5 x Blocks) - Missed FGs - (0.5 x Missed Free Throws) - Turnovers - (0.5 x Fouls)

+25.5 Derrick White 40 minutes
+22.5 Jaylen Brown 41 minutes
+18.5 Neemias Queta 21 minutes

+16.5 Jayson Tatum 41 minutes
+16 Al Horford 38 minutes
+12.5 Jrue Holiday 36 minutes
+8.5 Payton Pritchard 19 minutes
+7 Oshae Brissett 5 minutes

-1 Svi Mykhailiuk 2 minutes
-4.5 Sam Hauser 21 minutes

Team Total = 121.5

[TheMartian]

Tatum looks checked out these past couple of games.

[The_Ghost_of_JB]

This game was so predictable. I knew before it started that Thompson was going to have a great game.

Hauser was absolute trash tonight missing 7 threes. Joe still has no idea how to coach and he thinks a Jason Tatum three are the buzzer is a great play even though it hasn't worked in like 4 years.

I was worried when Boston got like six offensive rebounds in a row and missed every shot.

Boston had no shot whatsoever once this went over time. Just a pathetic performance and Golden State just absolutely owns Boston.

[TSmith0197]

I’m so sick of JT and JB always shooting a 3 point shot to win the game when the game is tied.

[Memokerobi]

Ugly loss, bad old habits. White/JB kept us in the game but looked very much like the way we lose in the playoffs.

Our clutch offense is KP, this was a good reminder of that. Without him, we’re the same team that’s very open to choking away close games. It is what it is

[Ben-N1ce]

Like Mazzula I'm disappointed they didn't shoot 60 threes. Tatum was atrocious. GS owns him and living rent free in his head.

[fallguy]

Nobody on this board can possibly think that Joe adds value in close and late games.

Can they?

[lon3lytoaster]

Team proves again you can’t give them too long a leash to make their own decisions. It’s games like this that make me concerned about the playoffs but goddamn, sometimes they’re just soft and dumb.

You have most of the clock to get a shot in regulation and you get that bull Tatum 3. Absolutely awful by Mazzulla and Tatum there.

Again, these guys have no problem getting punked.

[bfchs123]

Tatum, Horford, Hauser were so freaking bad. Coach still doens’t know how to call a timeout

Team needs Porzingis or else they look very average. Letting old man Klay and a bunch of scrubs close a 17pt lead. Pathetic

[Sweet Serenity]

Tatum turns into a complete mental midget in high pressure games when his shot isn’t falling.

[BlameTheRefs]

This was a playoff atmosphere and they choked it up yet again. They haven't changed at all.

Also, Joe has to go. He sucks

[PierceFan4ever]

Tatum **** can’t explode anymore. Dude struggles to score 25 these days and looks slow and lazy af most of this season.

Started off hot doing the Paul Pierce post up thing but then got extremely lazy the last dozen or so games chucking threes missing free throws taking quarters off doing nothing. Where tf is the player from last season…can’t expect to win it all not against the best players when our best player is always pulling some bs

[Hybrid Shadow]

Too bad Joe didn't realize Brisett had great energy and Sam was way off, should've flipped their minutes.

That lack of timeout plan at the end of games never works for us. Run a play, you get paid to draw up plays. I like Joe mostly, but that flaw will continue to costs us games.

[SuperDeluxe]

I have to admit, the moment it went to OT I stopped watching. I knew this wouldn't end well.

Way to waste excellent games by Brown, White and Queta. Also, I'll never understand why coaches play injured players that clearly aren't themselves (in this case, Tatum).

Oh well.

[Bar Fight]

Complete choke job. I at one point wanted to see this Warriors team again in the Finals to get our lick back. But it's obvious we're never beating these guys in a series as long as Steph is in the league. Same **** story every time. Let him abuse Al and our bigs on switches, panic when he gets going and completely fall apart on the other end. This is a 4-2 series in their favor as long as Steph is alive lol. Especially when JT is **** awful against them