CELTS KNOCK EM OFF THEIR HORSES! NBA FINALS G1 VICTORY CIGAR VS DAL 6/6/24 (BOS LEADS 1-0)

[zoyathedestroya]

Celtics just need to play .500 ball or better rest of the way and 18 is theirs.

[keevsnick1]

Great win.

If Dallas wants to have any chance of winning this series they just need their perimeter defenders to play much better. Brown, Holiday especially were just dusting or bullying those guys whenever they want.

Dallas will play better for sure, but Boston can clean up a few things as well.

[1st banana]

ESPN hating on the Celtics. Leading their sports center coverage with woman's softball.

Not like there's a major top 4 championship game that just ended.

You know if the mavs win there would’ve been an ESPN circle jerk for the whole hour.

[zoyathedestroya]

Porzingis is the first bench player in 40 years to score 20+ pts and block 3+ shots in a Finals game. Last to do it was Kevin McHale for the eventual '84 champs Celtics in G1.

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So much for the Mavs' vaunted rim protecting duo.

But what about Kareem abderreck jalively and that other guy that was on the wizards 3 months ago?

[1st banana]

A lot of us, myself included, have been less than complementary of Joe this year but he’s been low key coaching great. Gotta kinda give it up to him.

[zoyathedestroya]

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Shoot better. Take better shots. Take care of the ball. His defense and rebounding were already Finals-worthy.

[1st banana]

I love Jrue. He’s so in control. I hate having to bring up Smart’s name to prop Jrue more but zero turnovers from Jrue is huge and it just felt like with Marcus he would have a couple of those boneheaded ones at random points in the game. Shot selection was great too. Never rushed anything offensively besides 1 pull up three in the third. Such a great player and fully understand why he’s a winner after having some questions early if he even was a big upgrade over smart.

Mavs got it down to 8 and he quickly drove to the basket got fouled and knocked them both down.

Really settled the team and me down and ignited the kill shot.

[zoyathedestroya]

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This was the moment I realized we're not losing this game even after Mavs cut the lead to 8.

[zoyathedestroya]

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[KamikazeK]

A lot of us, myself included, have been less than complementary of Joe this year but he’s been low key coaching great. Gotta kinda give it up to him.

If we get 3 more wins, I'll be happy to embrace him as the coach for us for the long term, and you won't hear any more complaints from me. I hope it happens!

[HopelessKnick]

First game was impressive. Somewhat shaky in the third for a while but responded strongly to the Mavericks' run. Especially shutting down the lob game was a big factor IMO. I liked the defensive strategy a lot.

[LoquaciousLarry]

Jaylen Brown is the best 2 way player in the NBA. Luka shrinks around him. Great win Boston. JB smokes the VC

[Fierce1]

First game was impressive. Somewhat shaky in the third for a while but responded strongly to the Mavericks' run. Especially shutting down the lob game was a big factor IMO. I liked the defensive strategy a lot.

Joe is doing a good job.

Called the right timeouts too!

[doogie_hauser]

Shout out to the Celtics crowd at TD Garden.

Definitely the most vocal and passionate I have heard them all playoffs.

[Fierce1]

Pacers never scored below 100 points in each of the 4 games against the Cs.

And to think the Pacers have no one averaging 30 ppg.

[zoyathedestroya]

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There’s nowhere to hide him.

[zoyathedestroya]

Svi Mykhailiuk now has more points in NBA Finals history than Carmelo Anthony.

[Fierce1]

That's why I can never put Luka over Tatum, defense matters.