Celts Get Revenge For KP, Saw Magic In Half! R1G2 Victory Cigar vs ORL 4/23 (BOS leads 2-0)

[Shak_Celts]

Playoff basketball is fun, but not good on the heart.

[Tyakack]

Winning this game gives us the luxury of sitting Tatum another game. We should unless he feels great.

[Shak_Celts]

Winning this game gives us the luxury of sitting Tatum another game. We should unless he feels great.

No! Come out guns blazing next game, you don’t want to give them any hope!

[doogie_hauser]

If you don't give the cigar to Jaylen, you are a confirmed hater at this point

PP was also fantastic.

KCP deserves an honoury mention from the opposition. He really stank lol

[djFan71]

Playoff basketball is fun, but not good on the heart.

And1ed this one cuz I can’t acknowledge your first post. La la la la.

[Gant]

The Celtics were missing their leading rebounder and won the boards 46-34. That was the game.

Horford, Porzingis, and Brown with 10 rebounds each.

Brown was amazing, producing like that with the injured knee. Efficient too.

Mazzulla putting Pritchard on Banchero to wear him down was some move.

2-0.

[Parasite]

jB easy. Other than his customary WTF turnovers good stuff

I’ve just kind of accepted that Jaylen will handle the ball way more than he should with his kindergarten handles. That’s a Joe problem I guess. Idk. As long as he makes up for that in other ways, which he did tonight, I guess I won’t complain about it.

[Riverwalk2021]

Brown was the man tonight. Played with power on both ends and he looked good physically. The rest pitched in except for Hauser and Kornet who should be 'DNP Coaches Decision' the rest of the way. Please come back JT

[MapleRed]

Mr. Finals MVP with a Finals MVP like game. JB picked the perfect time to have his best game of the season.

Last years playoff X-factor Jrue Holiday is having a similar impact the first two games of the playoffs.

[leper-con]

2 down

[leper-con]

Sloppy late game but they all count the same

[31to6]

Voted JB and team

Good win

Keep going

[Jammer]

Lucky Jaylen Brown played like the NBA MVP TONIGHT. Lucky Zinger played like an All-Star despite all that blood. White hit two very timely 3's late in the game. Kornet's hands are a sieve whether trying to grab a contested rebound he's already got two hands on or just catching a ball over his head, between his two hands, in the post. It happens all time where Kornet can't hold onto the ball. Yikes. Lucky to win this without JT.
Al, Jrue and Pritch made some timely late contributions to hold onto this one.

An Alternative Perspective:

Pts. + Rebounds + (0.5 x Assists) + Steals + (0.5 x Blocks) - Missed Field Goals - (0.5 x Missed Free Throws) - Turnovers - (0.5 x Fouls)

+38.5 Jaylen Brown 42 minutes

+21.5 Kristaps Porzingis 34 minutes

+14 Derrick White 38 minutes
+12 Al Horford 32 minutes
+9.5 Jrue Holiday 36 minutes
+8.5 Payton Pritchard 32 minutes

+3 Luke Kornet 12 minutes
-2 Sam Hauser 13 minutes

Team Total = 105

[Tyakack]

Playoff basketball is fun, but not good on the heart.

I was pissed almost the whole game even though we were winning almost the whole game

[Bad-Thoma]

I voted Tan with an honorable mention to KP's forehead.

[Parasite]

I’m hoping Orlando is just a bad matchup for Kornet and he will be better against other teams. He’s had a stellar year. Would be a shame for him not to show out some in the playoffs. I think he bounces back and gives us great minutes going forward.

[Fencer reregistered]

In honor of KP, the magic trick in the thread title could have been "Torn and Restored".

[redslastlaugh]

I looked at the lineup data for tonight's game and Luke + KP was (amazingly) +45 net rating in 6 minutes with a shutdown 81 defensive rating.
Maybe the solution to Luke's malaise is using Luke only when he can be on the court with KP. Maybe you can buy some minutes (and Horf rest) that way...

Even with Luke lost, still nobody can score on all those arms when it's him and Porzingis

[fallguy]

Did yall see jb walk off? White almost helped him but they don’t want to show weakness. Leg seemed dead, looked like he was carrying it almost. He was grimacing off the bench before that. Ughhhhh.

This displeases me.

[fallguy]

Let's sweep this one and get our guys some rest while the Knicks and Pistons go 7.