Game Thread – Nuggets @ Celtics – Fri. 7:30PM, Jan. 19, 2024

Triple7 · Post #641 » by **Triple7** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:03 am

GotDaSauce wrote:
GoGreen wrote:Jays useless down the stretch.

Joe useless period.

This team loves to fold in crunch time.

JB bricking the FT's followed by a bricked 3 was the lowlight of the 4th!

Not to mention getting all those Offensive rebs, only to brick 3’s non stop. Live and die by the 3 offense just too sickening to watch

Scarletfire81 · Post #642 » by **Scarletfire81** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:03 am

Geech wrote:Probably not beating that 50-1 home record.

I hope they don’t, 1986 Celtics would destroy this team.

MaxwellSmart · Post #643 » by **MaxwellSmart** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:04 am

Green89 wrote:KP had 4 points in the second half. Way to go to him when he was so hot in the first half.

KP choked, he couldn't even get a shot off against 5 foot Reggie Jackson.

TatumMVP · Post #644 » by **TatumMVP** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:04 am

titlebound1 wrote:JT had a clean look. He makes those little fadeaways constantly. You guys are out of your minds if you think that's a bad shot. He even got the matchup

It's a bad shot..

robdog_5 · Post #645 » by **robdog_5** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:04 am

Missed open looks

LeBronSpaghetti · Post #646 » by **LeBronSpaghetti** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:04 am

robdog_5 wrote:Jokic and Murray aren't gonna shoot 70% every game. Easy fellas. They just made more shots

Denver shot 26% from 3

Celts17Pride · Post #647 » by **Celts17Pride** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:04 am

robdog_5 wrote:
Celts17Pride wrote:Mazzulla made no adjustments all night defensively.

What game do people watch? I'm not a Joe fan but he went zone. He went Horford on Jokic, he went KP on Jokic. He went Jrue on him

Why not throw a double at Murray or Jokic every now and then? Not once

Fierce1 · Post #648 » by **Fierce1** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:04 am

CelticsPride18 wrote:
VeryMuchWoke wrote:
Jakeopp wrote:Not likely considering we've been watching Brown and Tatum play like this for years.

They played better under Ime

lol they did the same **** they always do in crunch time. The almost blew the Finals run in the last 3 minutes of the 2022 ECf

Yeah, same thing happened with Brad in 2020, with Ime in 2022, and now with Joe.

This is on the Jays.

They have to be better.

The good news is there's still time.

Above The Rim · Post #649 » by **Above The Rim** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:04 am

Am I alone in thinking that was a decent look by Tatum that missed surprisingly bad? He makes those in his sleep earlier in the games

robdog_5 · Post #650 » by **robdog_5** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:05 am

LeBronSpaghetti wrote:
robdog_5 wrote:Jokic and Murray aren't gonna shoot 70% every game. Easy fellas. They just made more shots

Denver shot 26% from 3

Murray and Joker made everything. And what was Boston shooting from 3?

Bar Fight · Post #651 » by **Bar Fight** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:05 am

robdog_5 wrote:Jokic and Murray aren't gonna shoot 70% every game. Easy fellas. They just made more shots

But we are gonna fall apart down the stretch of close games against elite teams every game.

robdog_5 · Post #652 » by **robdog_5** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:05 am

Celts17Pride wrote:
robdog_5 wrote:
Celts17Pride wrote:Mazzulla made no adjustments all night defensively.

What game do people watch? I'm not a Joe fan but he went zone. He went Horford on Jokic, he went KP on Jokic. He went Jrue on him

Why not throw a double at Murray or Jokic every now and then? Not once

He did lol. They doubled multiple times and Jokic sliced them up

robdog_5 · Post #653 » by **robdog_5** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:06 am

Bar Fight wrote:
robdog_5 wrote:Jokic and Murray aren't gonna shoot 70% every game. Easy fellas. They just made more shots

But we are gonna fall apart down the stretch of close games against elite teams every game.

I dont disagree there

Fierce1 · Post #654 » by **Fierce1** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:06 am

Celts17Pride wrote:
robdog_5 wrote:
Celts17Pride wrote:Mazzulla made no adjustments all night defensively.

What game do people watch? I'm not a Joe fan but he went zone. He went Horford on Jokic, he went KP on Jokic. He went Jrue on him

Why not throw a double at Murray or Jokic every now and then? Not once

Every time the Cs doubled or Murray or Jokic, the Cs paid for it.

The Nuggets got a 3-point lead when the Cs doubled Murray and Murray just passed it for a dunk.

It's not true the Cs didn't try to double team in this game.

MaxwellSmart · Post #655 » by **MaxwellSmart** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:06 am

C's Blew three 8+ points tonight....just cannot keep a lead, they relaxed.

Triple7 · Post #656 » by **Triple7** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:06 am

Fierce1 wrote:
CelticsPride18 wrote:
VeryMuchWoke wrote:
They played better under Ime

lol they did the same **** they always do in crunch time. The almost blew the Finals run in the last 3 minutes of the 2022 ECf

Yeah, same thing happened with Brad in 2020, with Ime in 2022, and now with Joe.

This is on the Jays.

They have to be better.

The good news is there's still time.

Can somebody on the team have the balls to tell them that chucking 3’s ain’t the way to beat great teams.

Setshot33 · Post #657 » by **Setshot33** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:06 am

Celtics don't play the right way. Perk at the half was right: Tatum and Brown have to get down hill and live at the line (even though Brown is a horrible FT shooter) but neither seem to know when to do it.
You have to go to the rim down the stretch in close games. Being a perimeter,one dimensional team does not put pressure on the defense and that's a major weakness of this team.

Long time Celtics fans have seen enough of Tatum and Brown to know that neither one are Alphas. Tatum's not carrying anything to a championship.

Perkins just now about Mazzulla: You can't play AAU basketball in the playoffs.

Couldn't have described it better.

Lee Van Cleef · Post #658 » by **Lee Van Cleef** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:06 am

I don't think we stand a chance in a best-of-seven series against a full-roster Nuggets team, assuming we can get there first. Let's hope that somebody in the west will beat them.

Fierce1 · Post #659 » by **Fierce1** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:07 am

Above The Rim wrote:Am I alone in thinking that was a decent look by Tatum that missed surprisingly bad? He makes those in his sleep earlier in the games

True.

If JT made that shot then it was a great play from JT.

But since JT missed and the Cs lost, it's Joe's fault because Joe is this, Joe is that.

The players lost this game, not the coach.

LeBronSpaghetti · Post #660 » by **LeBronSpaghetti** » Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:07 am

robdog_5 wrote:
LeBronSpaghetti wrote:
robdog_5 wrote:Jokic and Murray aren't gonna shoot 70% every game. Easy fellas. They just made more shots

Denver shot 26% from 3

Murray and Joker made everything. And what was Boston shooting from 3?

32%.

Joker shot 63%, which is a normal game for him. Murray obviously was outstanding. But the idea that Denver shot the lights out is factually incorrect. They shot the ball very poorly by their standards.