PLAYOFFS, Rnd 1, Gm 5 – Heat(1) @ Celtics(3) – 7:30PM, Wed, May 1, 2024

[sam_I_am]

You could argue that Jacquez has been their best player this series. Really tough loss for the Heat. We just have to avoid Patty Mills firing up the way back machine and going on a heater from behind the arc

Apart from Bam, he absolutely is. He is actually doing a decent job filling Jimmy Butler role. He reminds me of early career in Utah Gordon Haywood. I think he is a star in the making and the steal of the draft. Or he is the next Miami mirage like Strus, Robinson, Gabriel, Martin….

[BRUNiNHO91]

We gotta take this **** seriously. Close outs are tough games. NY fumbled their chance yesterday and Indiana fumbled against a Milwaukee team missing GA and Dame.


Show up, play focused and smash their **** faces in.

[shackles10]

1) Win
2) Stay healthy







3) Thank Jimmy for not even bothering to make the trip

[Ben-N1ce]

We gotta take this **** seriously. Close outs are tough games. NY fumbled their chance yesterday and Indiana fumbled against a Milwaukee team missing GA and Dame.


Show up, play focused and smash their **** faces in.

100% NY and Pacers screwed up. NY was a total meltdown which enabled Maxey beast mode

[KamikazeK]

We gotta take this **** seriously. Close outs are tough games. NY fumbled their chance yesterday and Indiana fumbled against a Milwaukee team missing GA and Dame.


Show up, play focused and smash their **** faces in.

100% NY and Pacers screwed up. NY was a total meltdown which enabled Maxey beast mode

The Bruins also screwed up a chance to close out their opponent last night too and now they either have to do it on the road or in a game 7. If there was a more obvious cautionary tale, I haven't seen one.

Fortunately I think these Celtics have been around the block enough to know. We'll see though.

[The Corey's]

We gotta take this **** seriously. Close outs are tough games. NY fumbled their chance yesterday and Indiana fumbled against a Milwaukee team missing GA and Dame.


Show up, play focused and smash their **** faces in.

100% NY and Pacers screwed up. NY was a total meltdown which enabled Maxey beast mode

The Bruins also screwed up a chance to close out their opponent last night too and now they either have to do it on the road or in a game 7. If there was a more obvious cautionary tale, I haven't seen one.

Fortunately I think these Celtics have been around the block enough to know. We'll see though.

I don't see how this game isn't over in the first quarter. Miami wants out.

[SLCceltic]

Cs won the season series against the Cavs this season.

Weren't there 2 early season OT losses ??!
Is my memory is failing me ?? getting OLd

That was last season lol.

ha ha yEP ! getting OLD.

okay I feel alot better about seeing Cavs in Round 2. Donovan always seems to go nuclear tho..

POs hopefully different, like a reverse jimmy ha ha

Magic scare me less

[The Corey's]

Weren't there 2 early season OT losses ??!
Is my memory is failing me ?? getting OLd

That was last season lol.

ha ha yEP ! getting OLD.

okay I feel alot better about seeing Cavs in Round 2. Donovan always seems to go nuclear tho..

POs hopefully different, like the reverse of jimmy butler ha ha

Magic scare me less

Celtics blew like a 25 point lead against the cavs maybe 6 weeks ago.

[SLCceltic]

Weren't there 2 early season OT losses ??!
Is my memory is failing me ?? getting OLd

That was last season lol.

"Imma make em both," he said.

ol Grant

82 is WAY too many games for a regular season.. not healthy for the players, obviously ! too many for fans to keep track of as well ha ha

[SLCceltic]

That was last season lol.

ha ha yEP ! getting OLD.

okay I feel alot better about seeing Cavs in Round 2. Donovan always seems to go nuclear tho..

POs hopefully different, like the reverse of jimmy butler ha ha

Magic scare me less

Celtics blew like a 25 point lead against the cavs maybe 6 weeks ago.

DEF remember that one
ha ha
Donovan didn't even play. And I think they were missing Strus and someone else

[SLCceltic]

1) Win
2) Stay healthy







3) Thank Jimmy for not even bothering to make the trip

Looking forward to the responses for jimmy's 'don't let us get one' meme

[leper-con]

Send the Heat to Cancun to drink watered down margaritas .

[The Corey's]

Send the Heat to Cancun to drink watered down margaritas .

Rather send them to Seattle. Miami fans don't exist.

[SLCceltic]

We gotta take this **** seriously. Close outs are tough games. NY fumbled their chance yesterday and Indiana fumbled against a Milwaukee team missing GA and Dame.


Show up, play focused and smash their **** faces in.

100% NY and Pacers screwed up. NY was a total meltdown which enabled Maxey beast mode

The Bruins also screwed up a chance to close out their opponent last night too and now they either have to do it on the road or in a game 7. If there was a more obvious cautionary tale, I haven't seen one.

Fortunately I think these Celtics have been around the block enough to know. We'll see though.

Jays have seen plenty of other's and have experienced plenty of their own cautionary tales ...yet continue to sleepwalk in games

I just don't get it

Maybe it's just vs the grossly undermanned Heat ? Are they jaded ?? This doesn't make sense, they haven't WON **** ! Why do they do this ??!

[SLCceltic]

Send the Heat to Cancun to drink watered down margaritas .

Hope they come here to Cabo instead, I would LOVE to run into JBut and have a chance to roast him a little

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With Jaquez now out, if we don't win by 40 I'll consider this a loss.

It's Mike Gorman's last game. I'll consider it a loss no matter what.

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We should have planned for this. We knew Porzingis was injury prone; and Horford is getting up there in years.
We needed the Bench Bigs to have more burn. -- Crash Course, now.

I presume the plan is to give Horford and Kornet the vast majority of the minutes at center, and play one or both of the other guys a few minutes when the matchups look appropriate.

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So Doc Flynn lives around here?

(The photo is of a guy whose Twitter bio says he lives in Sudbury.)

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h/t Smitty

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These RS numbers mean very little in the context of matchup-dependent playoffs against good teams but posting them anyway:

• Horford ON, no other big: +8.6, 1593 possessions
• Kornet ON, no other big: +11.3, 1038 possessions
• Tillman ON, no other big: +0.9, 206 possessions
• Kornet and Horford ON: +6.7, 473 possessions
• Kornet and Tillman ON: +29.0, 100 possessions
• Horford and Tillman ON: +12.9, 99 possessions

Didn't include Queta. I doubt he gets significant, meaningful minutes unless Joe is in throwing darts mode.

So Tillman has been more effective -- or at least has enjoyed more team success -- at the 4 than at the 5?