I'm In No Mood For a Clever Thread Title! Loss vs IND 1/8

[BK_2020]

It's all hindsight from here... Not sure who Jrue was supposed to be guarding in the inbounds. Why not just block the pass to Mathurin? Easy pass to the corner is the one you prevent. Let them get the ball above the break and heave from there. Even if McConnell gets the pass back, there's no harm.

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Turner could've slipped that screen btw.

Jaylen ball watching. Probably wanted to get a heroic steal. The game could've ended with a dunk.

I see Holiday ball watching too. You'll say anything to try and prove your narrative.

Holiday is guarding the inbounder bro.

[Celts17Pride]

By the way, JB going a little early was a mistake. KP fouling a game winning three point attempt with the score tied is a sin. Especially when you are 7' 2". Make him make it. If he makes it, so be it. Don't give him free throws.

[Fierce1]

By the way, JB going a little early was a mistake. KP fouling a game winning three point attempt with the score tied is a sin. Especially when you are 7' 2". Make him make it. If he makes it, so be it. Don't give him free throws.

True.

Hopefully they learn from this and don't make this same mistake in the playoffs.

[GoCeltics123]

I'm astonished that the best athletes in the world are filtered thru many levels to achieve an NBA roster spot.

But there are so many incompetent refs in this league. The NBA treats them like it's a career job.

They should fire the bottom 10%, minimum, EVERY SEASON.

There should be a continuous open door for better skilled refs.

It's a sham that the NBA is so far behind the NFL and MLB.

NFL is not much better to be fair

[Fierce1]

We're even now.

Last season the refs gifted the Celtics with a win against the Lakers when no foul was called when JT clearly hit Lebron's forearm when Lebron was driving to the basket for the game winning layup.

[KillahGhostface]

I'm astonished that the best athletes in the world are filtered thru many levels to achieve an NBA roster spot.

But there are so many incompetent refs in this league. The NBA treats them like it's a career job.

They should fire the bottom 10%, minimum, EVERY SEASON.

There should be a continuous open door for better skilled refs.

It's a sham that the NBA is so far behind the NFL and MLB.

NFL is not much better to be fair

NFL refs are the worst. MLB employs Angel Hernandez, so.

[shackles10]

Took my oldest son for his 10th bday and my dad to the game. Sat right next to the visitors tunnel so he could see all of the players come out. That part of the game was amazing. The refereeing at the end is why they took away the cap on the bottle of water I bought lol. I want some money back Pacers… that was some bull and you know it. You can always tell if the call is not in favor of the home team if the replays aren’t all over the Jumbotron from multiple angles. So it’s like the in arena video guy knew it and played some fluff instead but then the refs were like “nah” lol. Haven’t looked at too many close replays of the KP contest but looked like a “high five no call” in arena. Either way to call one and not the other is tough. Ok I’m done with my irrational fan take on a mid-January game that I wouldn’t have if I just watched from home on tv.

[Fierce1]

Just beat the crap out of the Pacers when the Pacers visit Boston later this month.

[GrandTheftRondo]

It's coming straight out of a basketball version of the NYT caption contest.

What a freakin selfish dude. Since JT is out, he wants to be the man. **** glory first before winning. White is open asking for the ball, and Porzingis pointing at white. This kind of selfish plays disrupts chemistry in the locker room.

The play before he found a wide open Porzingis for 3.

He just **** up.

Ah well.

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[BrianFitz]

Not surprised about JB's last shot because he's still a work in progress.

I understand Joe letting JB cook in the last few seconds of the game because it was house money.

If JB missed that shot and the refs didn't call a foul or reviewed the foul, the clock would've been still running and we were headed to OT.

House money?? Joe yet again let precious minutes go off the clock. We would have had plenty of time to advance the ball and draw up a solid, final second play. Not a forced, stupid, too early shot we ended up getting.

But how would JB learn if we keep abiding by the traditional way.

I'm sure Joe would've called timeout if this was a playoff game.

This is one of those moments where you can't simulate in practice and JB had to learn the hard way.

JB just didn't make the right decision.

He's still a work in progress.

He's not a work in progress. It's far past time to admit that he is what he is at this point.

[GoCeltics123]

Jaylen made a bad decision and Joe made a bad decision to not call a timeout. Celtics played a poor second half. It still doesn't matter.

Jaylen was fouled, period, they overturned it and then called a soft foul on KP. Refs cost this team the game. We don't need to do thinkpieces about this team when the refs cost them the game

[BrianFitz]

Between Tatum/Brown i've never seen two dudes take as many game winners and always leave time on the clock. This was never even a thought when Pierce had the final shot at the end of games

Nah. What did you want? To wait until .3 was on the clock and heave a shot? The refs SCREWED Boston by calling the foul. If they had just let it go there would have been no problem at all. The refs took it into their hands and literally did the only thing possible to really give Indy the game. They stopped the clock when the Pacers needed that to happen the most, then inexplicably gave the ball to them for no reason at all.

Even if we pretend that he didn't hit Brown on the head - why in the world should the Pacers have gotten the ball at that point? Should have been a jump ball if nothing else. They blew the whistle ensuring no Celtic would go for the rebound.

[Celts17Pride]

Jaylen made a bad decision and Joe made a bad decision to not call a timeout. Celtics played a poor second half. It still doesn't matter.

Jaylen was fouled, period, they overturned it and then called a soft foul on KP. Refs cost this team the game. We don't need to do thinkpieces about this team when the refs cost them the game

You have been here long enough to know that won't happen.

[BRUNiNHO91]

Jaylen made a bad decision and Joe made a bad decision to not call a timeout. Celtics played a poor second half. It still doesn't matter.

Jaylen was fouled, period, they overturned it and then called a soft foul on KP. Refs cost this team the game. We don't need to do thinkpieces about this team when the refs cost them the game

I feel like when the guy has a 40 piece and hit like 10 of those little midrange jumpers in the game, it’s not right to call it a bad decision. The shot was fine, they couldn’t guard it all night, couldn't guard it in the last play which is why they fouled him. One of the most blatant mistakes the NBA has ever had. To review that in slow motion and OVERTURN it is just so bizarre. We did suck in the second half though. Defense was so bad. There was a point in the 3rd where they let CJ do whatever he wanted. Was sad to watch.

[BK_2020]

Between Tatum/Brown i've never seen two dudes take as many game winners and always leave time on the clock. This was never even a thought when Pierce had the final shot at the end of games

Nah. What did you want? To wait until .3 was on the clock and heave a shot? The refs SCREWED Boston by calling the foul. If they had just let it go there would have been no problem at all. The refs took it into their hands and literally did the only thing possible to really give Indy the game. They stopped the clock when the Pacers needed that to happen the most, then inexplicably gave the ball to them for no reason at all.

Even if we pretend that he didn't hit Brown on the head - why in the world should the Pacers have gotten the ball at that point? Should have been a jump ball if nothing else. They blew the whistle ensuring no Celtic would go for the rebound.

Indy sent a double with 6 seconds left and Jaylen panicked. Jaylen didn't decide to go at any point. Indy decided it for him. You can't let the defense dictate when you take the shot in that situation.
What has to happen is for Jaylen to 1. know that Indy will send a double and 2. that when they send a double, dudes are gonna be left open and 3. pass to them or 4. at least not dribble into yet another defender.

[BrianFitz]

Ofc he didn’t though because he is absolutely horrendous and does nothing useful. The fact this walking lump of **** is getting 6-7 mins in the 4th quarter is bizarre. This man should never see 6-7 seconds in a game. Queta was out there putting up double doubles with toughness and they kill shot him because Kornet had ONE good game. Even though every other game he gets 2 rebounds in 15 minutes.

Having that said, what the refs did was **** criminal. Jaylen got mobbed on the last shot. Porzingis was dumb though he’s pretty terrible at close outs even though that was a **** weak call to make to end a game. Dude was smoothered.

Until Queta learns how to finish better and rotate properly on defence he won’t see minutes.

A third string center getting a few minutes early in the season really doesn’t matter regardless.

Neither guy will play when it matters.

7 minutes in the 4th today did matter though but ok..

And in your mind Queta would have saved the day? Who's to say he wouldn't have missed some rotations and Boston would have lost by more? People always want to attribute more skill to a guy who doesn't play because it's an unknown factor. If Queta deserved to be playing over Kornet he would be.

[Fierce1]

House money?? Joe yet again let precious minutes go off the clock. We would have had plenty of time to advance the ball and draw up a solid, final second play. Not a forced, stupid, too early shot we ended up getting.

But how would JB learn if we keep abiding by the traditional way.

I'm sure Joe would've called timeout if this was a playoff game.

This is one of those moments where you can't simulate in practice and JB had to learn the hard way.

JB just didn't make the right decision.

He's still a work in progress.

He's not a work in progress. It's far past time to admit that he is what he is at this point.

I think he's not done improving.

This season alone he made progress in a short period of time.

JB is just a late bloomer.

[Ben-N1ce]

Kind of lost in this is that they were butt cheeks at the line again 20/29 that contributed to the loss.

[fallguy]

My favorite recurring theme is the 'Queta would have saved us' posts.