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Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025

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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#441 » by The Corey's » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:53 am

Bar Fight wrote:If these two teams meet in the Finals, congrats to OKC fans. This is a horrendous matchup


Some of y'all at embarrassing your self tonight.

Celtics in 5. Book it.
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#442 » by Roger Federer » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:53 am

Marcus Smart would have made that 3
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#443 » by NYCelticsfan136 » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:54 am

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TSmith0197 wrote: OKC has gotten 20 more free throws dude.


Yeah its obvious. We can’t get fouled jacking up 3’s, while okc attacks us inside non stop. Duh!

I see the Celtics attacking. Anytime anyone breathes on SGA it’s a foul.


They’re jacking up 3s
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#444 » by phincsfan » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:54 am

Lost to Denver both times last season and Denver didn’t even make the finals. Unless OKC is in the finals this game means zero.
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#445 » by NYCelticsfan136 » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:54 am

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Bar Fight wrote:If these two teams meet in the Finals, congrats to OKC fans. This is a horrendous matchup


Some of y'all at embarrassing your self tonight.

Celtics in 5. Book it.


Then you woke up. Thunder just more balanced inside and outside.
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#446 » by GrandTheftRondo » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:54 am

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We have no one that can slow him down. How many points did he have in the first matchup?


Who gives a ****. Celtics are winning it all. I don't need the NBA to keep "selling" me some dude in Oklahoma that 15 other guys can do.


Not if Oklahoma City is in the final.

Dude we get it.

You hate the Celtics.

Off to the OKC board, Knicks board or whoever the hell you actually root for
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#447 » by TSmith0197 » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:55 am

NYCelticsfan136 wrote:
TSmith0197 wrote:
Triple7 wrote:
Yeah its obvious. We can’t get fouled jacking up 3’s, while okc attacks us inside non stop. Duh!

I see the Celtics attacking. Anytime anyone breathes on SGA it’s a foul.


They’re jacking up 3s


They’re were also driving too
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#448 » by Fierce1 » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:55 am

No need for excuses.

OKC just better right now.

If Cs and OKC meet again then it will be 3 months from now.

So just try to get better.
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#449 » by Froob » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:55 am

hoping joe didn’t use everything he had for okc for this game
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#450 » by The Corey's » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:55 am

That bald white ref has immediately moved to my number one most despised ref. Guy made about 50 calls tonight.
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#451 » by Green89 » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:55 am

Brown, Pritchard, Holiday - 2/20 on threes
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#452 » by Curmudgeon » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:56 am

The NBA won't love a Cleveland OKC final but that's what it looks like to me.
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#453 » by GrandTheftRondo » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:56 am

Now they call a **** foul
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#454 » by Shak_Celts » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:56 am

Okc doesn’t play, if someone is cooking in the first half, they don’t cook them in the second half. White and Al were banging them then not. Same thing they did to the jays last game.
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#455 » by NYCelticsfan136 » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:56 am

phincsfan wrote:Lost to Denver both times last season and Denver didn’t even make the finals. Unless OKC is in the finals this game means zero.


So you’re saying they need the matchups to be right? That’s like yoo saying the Celtics caught a break last year with the matchups.
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#456 » by phincsfan » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:56 am

Regular season pooper
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#457 » by WeLikeOurGuys » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:56 am

Is he really challenging this like a douche?
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#458 » by GrandTheftRondo » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:56 am

Froob wrote:hoping joe didn’t use everything he had for okc for this game

I mean we don’t have Porzingis.

I would like to think if he plays we attack the inside much more.
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#459 » by The Corey's » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:56 am

NYCelticsfan136 wrote:
The Corey's wrote:
Bar Fight wrote:If these two teams meet in the Finals, congrats to OKC fans. This is a horrendous matchup


Some of y'all at embarrassing your self tonight.

Celtics in 5. Book it.


Then you woke up. Thunder just more balanced inside and outside.


Checks my notes* uh, yup. Playing without KP.

I guess the ship ain't for you then. That's fine. I'll enjoy it all the same.
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Re: Game Thread – Thunder @ Celtics – 7:30PM, Wed, March 12, 2025 

Post#460 » by NYCelticsfan136 » Thu Mar 13, 2025 1:56 am

TSmith0197 wrote:
NYCelticsfan136 wrote:
TSmith0197 wrote:I see the Celtics attacking. Anytime anyone breathes on SGA it’s a foul.


They’re jacking up 3s


They’re were also driving too


60 3 point attempts. That’s not basketball.

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