NBA FINALS, Gm 4 – Celtics (3) @ Mavericks (0) – 8:30PM, Fri, June 14, 2024

[meatball sub]

i suppose game 5 will be the game we make a ton of shots bc this is an insane amount of variance

[CelticsWisdom]

cELTICS CAN DOGWALK DOWN THIS LEAD.

They need 10-12 defensive stops, and 10-12 efficient shots....totally doable.

So let Brown mid-range away...and he scores 40+ and gets us back in this thing. It's either that, or go to KP post-ups.

[GrandTheftRondo]

Holiday has missed bunnies.

Brown has missed open jumpers.

White has missed make able shots.

The offence always going to look totally off when that happens.

[Parasite]

Y'all realize the Celtics are winning the series right?

What does that have to do with coming out and playing like this tonight? They had a chance to cement themselves in the record books as the only team to sweep both the conference finals and the nba finals since every round went to best of 7. I actually expected a Mavs win tonight but in close, hard fought fashion. Not whatever this is. They should be embarrassed and hopefully they take it to heart and beat Dallas by 50 next game.

[playa-hater]

And now Perkins is giving Luca credit for this defence.. That is as laughable as seeing a moon really is made a **** cheese..

Pathetic **** celtics..

[soxfan2003]

I'm disappointed that KP can't even get into a game down by almost 30.

Not worth risking him in a game the Celtics were probably going to lose with him. He is clearly healthy enough to play but medical staff/Joe/Stevens doing the prudent thing giving unique nature of the injury. Better save him for game 5 when the Celtics are up 3-0 going into the game.

Psychologically having KP for game 5 will help Boston and hurt Dallas. KP will play in game 5 if series gets there which it likely will and every game after that if he plays well in game 5 and stays healthy.

Going into the series, I kind of thought Celtics in 6 but as long as the Celtics win the series, I don't care if its 4, 5, 6 or 7.

[PierceFan4ever]

When are we going to look like the best offensive team again in the finals…first half of game 1 was it and that’s it

[The_Ghost_of_JB]

Ugly. I'd bench the starters the rest of the way. I don't want any of them to sustain an injury that screws us over the rest of the series.

Celtics could conceivably Win the 2nd Half.
But, they need Bench Players in this Game.

They could win the second half and still lose by 20.

They are too far in a hole now

[The Corey's]

Y'all realize the Celtics are winning the series right?

What does that have to do with coming out and playing like this tonight? They had a chance to cement themselves in the record books as the only team to sweep both the conference finals and the nba finals since every round went to best of 7. I actually expected a Mavs win tonight but in close, hard fought fashion. Not whatever this is. They should be embarrassed and hopefully they take it to heart and beat Dallas by 50 next game.

I'll sleep just fine with the title. Those records don't mean **** to me.

Except how many banners.

[TheMartian]

Mavs are fouling like crazy or am I getting a different broadcast than everyone else?

No, you're seeing the right broadcast. Refs are letting the Mavs have their way on defense and the broadcasters are calling it incredible defense.

[BK_2020]

Holiday has missed bunnies.

Brown has missed open jumpers.

White has missed make able shots.

The offence always going to look totally off when that happens.

Jaylen has missed logo threes and hail mary layups where he dives into three defenders.

[chrisab123]

Bench the starters other than Tatum.

[BRUNiNHO91]

Embarrassing half of basketball. Better not bring this same **** effort to Boston for Game 5

Man if we lose that game 5, boyyy ohh boy..

I fully expected them to blow this if they drop 2 in a row

I’ll never watch a basketball game again if they did it, but I absolutely am terrified of the potential historical meltdown here. Like somebody else said, this team has the DNA for such failure.

[fallguy]

So Boston has absolutely, positively been dog **** the last 3 quarters.

Meanwhile, that Joey guy makes zero adjustments. Zero.

I've been hard on Joe all year but tonight is about the lack of effort and composure from the players.

[MaxwellSmart]

Pritchard has hit ONE effing shot this whole series....a half court bank shot, where it missed so badly, it went in. awful.

[Lee Van Cleef]

We have a serious rebounding and rim protection problem. Why are not using Kornet at all? At least we can condition him fir game 5, get him adjusted. KP is done.

[redslastlaugh]

Yea they thought replay of Nets series sweep in 2022. They thought Kyrie doesn’t want to come back to Boston

They thought Dallas wanted to roll over

That’s EXACTLY what they thought

What was the point of porzi being available joe? terrible.

I think they thought they would get an easy win tonight and didn’t want him in street clothes for the champagne. Instead they got Dallas best shot and have no idea what hit them. Now we have to listen to ESPN suck Luka off til Monday. I’m so pissed.

[reload141]

Yawn.

Zero concern.

[Froob]

Teams blow a 25 pt lead every week in the nba

[zoyathedestroya]

Even if we lose this, I need to see some fight from the Cs. Break through that defense. It can't happen with this iso stuff and chucking one-pass/no-pass threes.