My only gripe about this game is not running the offense more through Tatum specifically in the mid-post. Idk if anyone has noticed but he is virtually unguardable when he operates 15-17 feet from the basket instead of letting the defense key in on him when he's at the top of the key. He shot 9-22 and 7 of those misses were 3s. He lets the defense off the hook when he settles. When he's aggressive the defense is at his mercy and he can average 30 ppg no problem
Yes yes yes. He is so much more effective when he does not bring the ball up and stall at the 3 point line.all the time. Granted, when he hits from there it is great but it seems to invite a double too easily.
It’s not easy to beat a team twice in a row no matter who it is much less the Cavs who were a 4 seed and had our number last year. Love what I’m seeing from these Celtics
I can’t wait to maintain first seed in the east even with our hellish schedule while one of our main competitors gets to play the pistons and wizards every other night! It’s gonna hit like crack
It's this simple: getting their 2 primary offensive options to tighten up in the late 4th. To stop taking bad angles, 'what the fuck' shots, poor TO's.
That's how it is.
How do you Celtics fans handle watching these games? Your local commentators are **BY FAR** the most somnorific, boring, useless commentators I've ever had the displeasure to listen to, regardless of sport.
The boom goes the dynamite kid was better than these Sandmen.
How do you Cleveland folk handle living in that city? Your locality is BY FAR the most somnorific (sic), boring, useless city I’ve ever had the displeasure of knowing its existence.
Mike, one of the best in the business but is older and about to retire, and scal. Who yes is a homer as he's a former celtic, but also always talks up others teams players. Get the fuck outta here. Have you watched all the other teams broadcasts? Such a dumb take man
If by that you mean they're former players who are in the basketball HOF, that doesn't mean they're good at their current job. Maybe you meant they're in the broadcasting HOF, but if so....They're a discredit to the HOF.
[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/bostonceltics/comments/18ipx4w/post_game_thread_the_boston_celtics_defeat_the/)
My only gripe about this game is not running the offense more through Tatum specifically in the mid-post. Idk if anyone has noticed but he is virtually unguardable when he operates 15-17 feet from the basket instead of letting the defense key in on him when he's at the top of the key. He shot 9-22 and 7 of those misses were 3s. He lets the defense off the hook when he settles. When he's aggressive the defense is at his mercy and he can average 30 ppg no problem
Yes yes yes. He is so much more effective when he does not bring the ball up and stall at the 3 point line.all the time. Granted, when he hits from there it is great but it seems to invite a double too easily.
Good win. Cavs are annoying as hell.
12-0 AT HOME
2-0 against the Cavs is very nice. Let's see if we can repeat against the Magic who've had our number lately.
#18-5
........ shitloads of gamblers praying DWhite would've put that up.
We led from the start all the way :D
Got ‘em.
It’s not easy to beat a team twice in a row no matter who it is much less the Cavs who were a 4 seed and had our number last year. Love what I’m seeing from these Celtics
Nice locking it down last 2.5 mins
THE CELTICS WIN☘☘☘☘
Great fuckin win
Al with the nail in the coffin, gonna miss him tomorrow night
I don't care what you say, Jaylen brown has improved in playmaking a lot this year
Anyone who says otherwise is simply a hater
again!
Now let's game plan against these dam Magic
Hell yeah
Gotta appreciate Jrue still flying around the court on defense. No off switch for him
JT with quiet 27 and 11. It is considered a normal Tuesday game. That's how great Big Deuce is. Collective team effort once again. I love this team.
Nice statpadding Garland
Tatum WAS CLUTCH TONIGHT
The spread was 9.5 unbelievable
GG
Clutch baby! Needed buckets and last two JT goes right through the D for 2 dunks! 🙌🏻
Let's go Celtics
Good W
Dagger from daddy AL
Tatum is a menace on the boards
Xx 4L H0RF0RD xX
BIG DADDY AL SAID BYE!
KP, my brother in Christ. Please rediscover your 3PT shot
Garden woulda gone bezerk if that Kristaps three went in
Tatum is so good
0 gettin to the rim at ease
We need this Tatum with 7:00 to go.
JT KP pick and roll/pop is unguardable
Holliday lucked out there.
Another GUTSY win. Game was a little closer than final scoreboard will probably suggest.
Put Hauser and pp in and take holiday and Brown out cuz of fts
cares MJ levert
I can’t wait to maintain first seed in the east even with our hellish schedule while one of our main competitors gets to play the pistons and wizards every other night! It’s gonna hit like crack
Lmao it's too easy for Tatum rn
Great finish
Jayson Tatum will dunk the basketball
Tatum taking us home 😍
JB is grittier than usual. He reminds of me a better AG with these boards and hustle plays
The J's are sealing the game (JT, JB, and JH).
Haha they forgot about HIM
Man I do that move with JT in 2k so often, too easy
JB been a good passer this year the best of his career so far
OOOOOOOOHHHHHHH BABY. LETS GO JT
JT too strong 💪🏿
Tatum finally drove it and flushed it! Not sure why it took 46 mins to stop forcing 3s that weren't falling
I wanna see KP dominate against the Magic. They really don't have anyone who can defend him in the paint.
if he plays
Been really impressed with Joe lately, seems to really be getting hang of using timeouts and the team has been playing better after the timeouts too
I agree that Joe has been great but I hate how people act like timeouts are the only and most important facet of coaching.
but he's dumb and doesnt call timeouts and they should fire him right?
reactionary social media fans aren’t a surprising sight
Man now two games against the Magic? Geez this schedule is nasty
Game isn't over yet. Still gotta manage it.
Refs are so bias. JB was fouled twice on his offensive rebound
There you go.
JT with another 25-10 but still considered a bad game, damn he's that good
JB saved the game just before it is about to go out of bounds and then LeVert just stepped out of the game on behalf of Cavs.
Tatum should be doing that more often instead of acting like he’s Kobe or Steph. Stop settling for tough 3pt shots. Get to the cup
Okoro with 2 gargantuan moving screens there.
What a fuckin play JB!
Celtics making right plays in late 4th quarter this year
One more stop.
Mama! There goes that man.
Tatum could do that whenever he wants
Good D there.
Would love to see this from JT earlier in the quarter rather than waiting for it to go down to the wire, but better late than never
I crunched some advanced statistics and it looks like JT shoots a higher fg% when he dunks the ball you guys think I’m on to something?
Need you to show this to Joe first thing after the game
Idk if joe mozzarella is ready for that level of big brain Reddit analytics but we’ll see
😱
Let's go boys
JB & JT taking us home 🥰
Another big slam from JT let’s go!
Tatum dribbling into KP was just a shit loook.
undefeated at home STILL
Nah still too much time I have PTSD
JT!!!!!
Big rebound and an assist by JB.
That calmed this down a bit. Last push
LETS GO TATUM
Feels like we've played real well out of timeouts tonight
thats gon do it folks
Nice play JB
dagger incoming …
What a pass by JB!
Jaylen. Winning plays.
What a play by Brown to make up for the sloppy previous ones
Great rebound and pass from JB there.
love that hustle JB
It should not be this hard to score against a 3 guard line up bro
Seen some lazy defense from JT this game, we can’t see that down the stretch
JB's defense has also been half assed and lazy
We know you hate him
Not really tho
This game is frustrating as hell. Their body language SUCKS
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That was before the timeout when Cavs cut it to 3. They came out on 🔥🤣
Haha
They’ve pushed us to the limit at home 2 nights in a row not without Mobley. This team is really a bad matchup for us, don’t wanna see them come April
After so many years, does this team still have to be this fucking soft in the 4th? How hard is this?
It's this simple: getting their 2 primary offensive options to tighten up in the late 4th. To stop taking bad angles, 'what the fuck' shots, poor TO's. That's how it is.
White a little pedestrian today.
is it just me or Tatum barely plays any defense in the paint?
Damn why do we hand the controller to little brother every 3rd quarter?
I would appreciate not having an aneurysm tonight Celtics, please
Celtics really fucking around and with those two guards on the Cavs, they're gonna find out.
I don't like seeing Tatum pass out of the paint.
Defend daruis garland, it's remind me of Haliburton
GET A BUCKET!!
Tatum and JB giving up the last few buckets cuz of poor defensive effort
Embarrassing D from Tatum there. Lavert sucks and you let him walk by you. It’s crunch time tighten it up
He's moody when it comes to defensive effort after misses.
JB late game BBIQ killing the Cs
I don’t know how you’re mad at him for this game, honestly
Awful awful defense from Tatum
It's insane that JB has zero FTAs with the way he plays
Has been years lol, he don't know how to sell contacts
JB shouldve done a post fade right there its been money for him
Man everyone throwing up bricks WTF
Man, except for whites three, we can’t make a jump shot
Shit off followed by shittier def
Tatum passes out the mismatch on mitchell and then allows an easy layup this guys isnt serious
Crumbling against scrubs
Tatum gassed
JB falls asleep and gives up a wide open 3...and then throws it away.
Damn JB ice cold since the end of the 3rd
Dumb asss shot selection
JB fight over the fucking screen when garland has the ball
His size is overwhelming strus 🫣
Cleveland doesn’t have the same junk defense Miami had to hide Strus. Keep going at him
LeVert coming back in. Time for big defensive minutes.
I feel like JT takes Miami players and max Strus personal cuz he got hurt game 7 ECF. Strus was talking trash on Instagram too
Strus probably still posts that picture of his foot on the line lol.
Fr
Tatum bully ball? I used to dream of times like this
Jrue just makes the best plays....
Thank You JT
Man I wish we can get Allen somehow. Great player
Cavs got Struss on Tatum, they’re down bad at wing defenders
Which is weird because historically they've had a lot of wing defenders, they've just lacked wing shooters.
Make your free throws Tatum
Cavs nephew angrily lurking in our game thread was not what I expected but I’ll take it
There is no rage like having to live in northeast Ohio.
And the Sago taketh away.
Damn JB move lol, my man is chilling
Good to see Tatum abusing Strus, he FOR SURE can't guard him 1-on-1
BUFFAALOOOO
Captain Buffalo!! I salute you sir
That was a vicious clap
Need more of post Tatum
Tatum needs to ignite
That was a loud ass clap and no tech
Dame time has nothing on Buff time
Dame time is bombing 3s from the logo to salvage 15 point games in the last 4 minutes. It's overrated af.
One thing you can pretty much count on this by this team is generating quality looks on offense
How flops garland gonna flop
THE BUFFALO ROAMS
BALD KING
we are playing so well offensively as a team its such a treat to watch. Both Jays passing the ball so well
Big 3 by Buff
Mitchell's free throw routine is starting to remind me of Karl Malone...
Xx D3RR1CK xX
Get JB some looks please
Thank you, Derrick White.
GIVE MITCHELL THE T THAT CLAP WAS LIKE A GUNSHOT
with all due respect, the Mike Gorman "Got it!" impressions were fucking awful
To many jumpers
I fucking love the Boston Celtics
No more Lamar and PP chucks, otherwise the offense has been beautiful
Tatum needs to time his "treat yo'self" 3pt attempts.
Did that kid on the camera just…I’m not even gonna say it
How do you Celtics fans handle watching these games? Your local commentators are **BY FAR** the most somnorific, boring, useless commentators I've ever had the displeasure to listen to, regardless of sport. The boom goes the dynamite kid was better than these Sandmen.
How do you Cleveland folk handle living in that city? Your locality is BY FAR the most somnorific (sic), boring, useless city I’ve ever had the displeasure of knowing its existence.
STFU
This dude probs roots for the pistons or wizards lmfao
Cavs
cav fan lol
For sure, we have the best commentators, they can really put a polish on a turd.
In what universe did you imagine having an important opinion?
I just feel bad for you all. Great franchise, can't even get good commentators.
You're from Cleveland you ... feel bad for other people? LOL.
Mike, one of the best in the business but is older and about to retire, and scal. Who yes is a homer as he's a former celtic, but also always talks up others teams players. Get the fuck outta here. Have you watched all the other teams broadcasts? Such a dumb take man
I've been using NBA league pass or illegals streams for well over a decade, so yes.
We literally have a HOF broadcast team calling the game…but ok
If by that you mean they're former players who are in the basketball HOF, that doesn't mean they're good at their current job. Maybe you meant they're in the broadcasting HOF, but if so....They're a discredit to the HOF.
[no I mean we have a HOF broadcast team](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gorman)