C's Forget How To Play Basketball, Lose To Random Lake Dwellers! AOS vs LAL 2/1

[KillahGhostface]

This feels like a good night to get banned again.

[tfribs45]

Live and die by the three and this team
Lacks the mamba mentality we hear about during commercials or talk shows. Talk is cheap, there was no heart out there tonight!

[Fierce1]

Team that wanted it more, shot better, played better and defended better won. Not much to it.

Horrendous game by JB, awful by White, Jrue, KP. Tatum was our best starter and even he had a bad game.

Game doesn’t mean **** going forward but its **** annoying that its vs the Lakers. Get ready for the 150 page post game thread, its going to get ugly

Losing to a Laker team without Lebron and AD is a fluke.

Still sucks to lose to the Lakers.

It's not a fluke when you play disorganized, sloppy and one dimensional basketball all game.

If the Celtics are this bad this season then there's no way they come close to having the best record in the league.

[PierceFan4ever]

I find it funny when posters try to blame the role players like Porzingis, White and Jrue. This is 100% on Tatum and Brown. They are the stars. They set the tempo and lead or fail to lead in this case. They have the ball in their hands most of the time so they need to play with energy and focus.

The role players all struggled but I thought Brown looked similar to game 7 of the ECF. His game just unravels if he can't get it going shooting. He needs to find other ways to contribute when his shot isn't falling. I give Mazzulla huge kudos for pulling Brown late in the game. Probably more impressed with that than anything else he has done up to this point

Big ups to Hauser and Queta who played with energy and focus though.

Jayson Tatum is one of the most useless scorers in the first 10 minutes of game. Rarely does he come out and attack to start games. The first 6 minutes every **** time he stands in the corner and lets others shoot and then gets subbed. It will be like at some point in the second quarter where he gets going before again playing lazy af as well as the rest of the team most of the third quarters.

Tatum’s first quarters just pisses me off lol. No wonder he hardly explodes when it comes to scoring because he legit takes quarters off.

Brown is just overrated. Always has been. Peaked in 2022 mainly during those playoffs. His advance stats are always garbage for an all star and shows he’s hardly impactful out on the court.

If they don’t get it done, break those two apart. Neither of them have gotten better this season compared to years past.

[Jammer]

You give a sh it team a lot of confidence and they will play like superstars. They came out like they didn't want to be there with stupid lazy passes that were easily intercepted each time. I still maintain this is a coaching issue. Joe should have called a time out right away and gave an ultimatum. Do you want to play with energy or do you want to sit on the bench for the rest of the night.

This ...

[Setshot33]

This core:

Always a pretender, never a contender.

The same flaws of the last five years are alive and well and stronger than ever.

[GoGreen]

This team thinks a title will simply be handed to them.

[King Of The 4th]

Team is clearly playing a level or two below where they were before the new year. We no longer look dominant at home and we've had too many games where we look like we have no flow to our game.

[Fierce1]

Like I said, when the Cs raise Banner 18, a lot of crows will lose their lives.

[Jammer]

They gave Joe a Ferrari, but that needed it's timing set, and steering fixed.

He did neither.

[Bird84]

This core:

Always a pretender, never a contender.

The same flaws of the last five years are alive and well and stronger than ever.

You have some people still saying they lack maturity which is true, then expecting something different next year. By now they are who they are. Entitled frontrunners that are talented enough to win 18 but will probably resort to laziness when it matters most.

[Fierce1]

Team is clearly playing a level below where they were before the new year. We no longer look dominant at home and we've had too many games where we look like we have no flow to our game.

Understandable because this is the point of the season where everybody needs a break.

It's been 49 games.

[playa-hater]

Shocker they didn’t come to play.

Fire Joe.

I literally just got home. Did not see the game was planning on watching it from the beginning. I managed to accidentally see the final score and I am shocked.. But then again I am not.. Without even knowing if it was the players Lack of energy or lack of focus or lack of I q I do not know. But what I do know is we play stupid low energy basketball way too often.

I'm so sick and tired of this best record c***Yes cause we have so much talent. But there is no one who can honestly say they trust this **** team when it matters the most in the playoffs..

This team has a disgusting lack of leadership. This there is no way a game like this should have happened.. I don't **** care about some portland trail blazers team beating the bucks.. I'm only concerned about our team..

I have witnessed **** like this for far too long. It's the same **** symptoms every year.. Why the **** are people still denying this ****..

Boston needs to send a **** message. Start by firing Joe and promoting Sam Cassel..

Literally someone needs to **** fire this team up.. And it's clearly not gonna happen with our coach.

Pathetic pathetic pathetic...

[Bird84]

Like I said, when the Cs raise Banner 18, a lot of crows will lose their lives.

You mean this year?

[Fierce1]

They have Joe a Ferrari, but that needed it's timing set, and steering fixed.

He did neither.

Bad analogy.

Ferrari is crap for 2 decades now.

Maybe you mean Red Bull.

[Memokerobi]

Live and die by the three and this team
Lacks the mamba mentality we hear about during commercials or talk shows. Talk is cheap, there was no heart out there tonight!

They were packing the paint. We took 40 paint shots and made 19.

[KillahGhostface]

I find it funny when posters try to blame the role players like Porzingis, White and Jrue. This is 100% on Tatum and Brown. They are the stars. They set the tempo and lead or fail to lead in this case. They have the ball in their hands most of the time so they need to play with energy and focus.

The role players all struggled but I thought Brown looked similar to game 7 of the ECF. His game just unravels if he can't get it going shooting. He needs to find other ways to contribute when his shot isn't falling. I give Mazzulla huge kudos for pulling Brown late in the game. Probably more impressed with that than anything else he has done up to this point

Big ups to Hauser and Queta who played with energy and focus though.

Jayson Tatum is one of the most useless scorers in the first 10 minutes of game. Rarely does he come out and attack to start games. The first 6 minutes every **** time he stands in the corner and lets others shoot and then gets subbed. It will be like at some point in the second quarter where he gets going before again playing lazy af as well as the rest of the team most of the third quarters.

Tatum’s first quarters just pisses me off lol. No wonder he hardly explodes when it comes to scoring because he legit takes quarters off.

Brown is just overrated. Always has been. Peaked in 2022 mainly during those playoffs. His advance stats are always garbage for an all star and shows he’s hardly impactful out on the court.

If they don’t get it done, break those two apart. Neither of them have gotten better this season compared to years past.

Tatum has always let other dudes score in the first, mainly Jaylen. It’s well known that if Jaylen doesn’t get going early, he struggles to get going. Whereas Tatum can let other people cook early, and still average 27 on a 60% TS.

The Tatum stuff has gotten silly. He’s having his best year going ISO, his best year posting up, his best season since 2020 in PnR, his pull-up is 4% up over last season, having his best season in the restricted area, and he’s averaging a career high in potential assists per game, despite his usage being down. He’s still carrying bench lineups to +20 net rating, etc.

We don’t see as many big explosions from him, because there’s 3/4 other players on the team who need to get shots. He’s not doing as much, because the team hasn’t needed him to. If anyone thinks he’s not going to be more aggressive with his shot in the playoffs, they are high, and I mean bad high, not the fun weed high.

[GrandTheftRondo]

I find it funny when posters try to blame the role players like Porzingis, White and Jrue. This is 100% on Tatum and Brown. They are the stars. They set the tempo and lead or fail to lead in this case. They have the ball in their hands most of the time so they need to play with energy and focus.

The role players all struggled but I thought Brown looked similar to game 7 of the ECF. His game just unravels if he can't get it going shooting. He needs to find other ways to contribute when his shot isn't falling. I give Mazzulla huge kudos for pulling Brown late in the game. Probably more impressed with that than anything else he has done up to this point

Big ups to Hauser and Queta who played with energy and focus though.

Jayson Tatum is one of the most useless scorers in the first 10 minutes of game. Rarely does he come out and attack to start games. The first 6 minutes every **** time he stands in the corner and lets others shoot and then gets subbed. It will be like at some point in the second quarter where he gets going before again playing lazy af as well as the rest of the team most of the third quarters.

Tatum’s first quarters just pisses me off lol. No wonder he hardly explodes when it comes to scoring because he legit takes quarters off.

Brown is just overrated. Always has been. Peaked in 2022 mainly during those playoffs. His advance stats are always garbage for an all star and shows he’s hardly impactful out on the court.

If they don’t get it done, break those two apart. Neither of them have gotten better this season compared to years past.

It’s become more than the first quarters with Tatum.

It’s like he’s obsessed with not being perceived as a ball hog.

I’m sorry but this team should start with and finish with Tatum offensively.

Worry about the other guys getting their shots within the flow off the back of whatever attention Tatum draws.

[GotDaSauce]

Like I said, when the Cs raise Banner 18, a lot of crows will lose their lives.

[Fierce1]

Like I said, when the Cs raise Banner 18, a lot of crows will lose their lives.

You mean this year?

This year and next year.

There are people here saying the Jays will never win a championship together.

The Cs will be at their best next season, but they're good enough to win it this year.

3 months to go.