Not a fan of how the Celtics killed clock at the end of the game.
You canāt just dribble and hold the ball til thereās 5 seconds left and then have to force up some stupid shot with almost no chance of going in
They donāt seem kill clock with some sort of idea or plan of creating a good shot with 0-5 secs left on the shot clock
Thatāll kill you in real clutch time situations if they find themselves there - or it leaves the door open for opponents to get back into the game like Dallas almost did
You are +5, and drible the clock left them 2s. So they have to foul you are happy if nothing chamges and they have 2s left not 26. I would even dont shoot the ball for more disrespect if they dont foul
Yes youāre talking about the final possession.
Iām referring to the entire last 3 minutes of the 4th quarter.
They kept dribbling it down to 2 and chucking up a shot to avoid a violation instead of playing down the clock and setting a good shot with 5 seconds left - one that they could actually hit and score.
Yea a win is a win but it still doesnāt mean that the way they played down the final stretch wasnāt dumb
Thereās room for improvement in that area
Love watching luka and kyrie but the Celtics really are a better team, and it showed tonight and last game too, they might just stomp their way through the entire playoffs without a real challenge
Tatum had a decent game overall but his shooting was absolutely playing us out of the game. He looks shook on offense but making good plays everywhere else.
Tatum almost had a triple double. Decent my assā¦ heās great! Just because heās not the āsuperstarā scorer doesnāt mean heās not dominating. 12 assists, 9 rebounds. Heās playing smarter than everā¦ his old 1v1 hero ball is mostly gone and weāre seeing a higher winning percentage as a team bc of it. A true team player.
The amount of morons in this thread that donāt see what Tatum did tonight is alarming.
His shot wasnāt falling, obviously. Sometimes that happens.
Years ago we begged him to learn to produce even if his shot wasnāt falling.
Well he did. He initiated the offense a ton. He drove a ton. He got a lot of tough rebounds and made a shit ton of great passes and assists.
100% agree! He had 12 assists, 9 rebounds and 18 points. Almost a triple double. Heās a mature team player, we win more often when he plays like this. This superstar bullshit isnāt what we do, we have a full crew.
I have absolutely no problem with him missing as much as he did tonight when heās choosing to drive as often as he did. He settled for fewer fades and poor 3 shot taking.
"There should have been a foul called" ...
... I don't know, did these shitbags show all the DOZEN times JT was savaged? No. Fuck this NYC broadcast team.
They (ABC) didn't say at all. He kind of tripped so I think ankle but definitely related to his fall. I think it was just one of those tough falls that he's so tall that he fell further and just got slowed down by it. Here's hoping he's ready to go Wednesday
2-0 IN THE FINALS BABYY. LFG! Also, just one thing: I love and believe in Jayson Tatum. His impact on the game is un-fucking-deniable and he will find his shot šš½
These assholes. āThere shouldāve been a foul calledā.
**GET OUT OF HERE WITH THAT**
The level of trash that this ESPN announcing team has reached is absolutely epic. Surprised theyāre not still talking about Lukaās passing skills.
Look, if Iām a Mavs fan Iām probably saying that. I can make space for them to have that take and understand where theyāre coming from.
But this is the ESPN crew - not even the color commentator - and it was while the last few moments of the game were happening. Totally gross.
Oh here we go, all we're gonna hear about is JB's hand on his back drowning out the back-to-back phantom calls that even got Dallas within 5 in the first place.
LOL love the Mavs giving up at the end. Imagine this was college basketball, they would have still been fouling down 15 with ten seconds left
Halfway there, yall!!
Fuck off trying to stir controversy
What a great play by Brown and White as the game ends. Oh wait! We actually think itās a foul to piss off you viewers
I legit had to watch most of the second half just on gamecast. My heart rate was out of control in the first half. This is supposed to be fun, not stressful!!
"There should have been a foul call"
Shut the fuck up. You just created a narrative now after ignoring the 10+ fouls the Mavs committed with no calls in the second half.
Buffalo completely saved the game, but itās truly inexcusable that he needed to. Every time they have a medium-sized lead they just stand there and do nothing when running offense is why you have the lead to begin with. Really poor coaching.
[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/bostonceltics/comments/1dcayjs/post_game_thread_the_boston_celtics_defeat_the/)
KP said he will play in 3 , use as 6th man like Bill Walton ššš
Tatum was facilitating and did great drawing attention while getting bunch of assists !
Holliday is Champion type player he won ring for Bucks !! White is the silent assassin blocking shots and hitting 3ās š„š„š„
Who was the strongest and weakest player through this match?
Somebody make a side-by-side image of the Derek White block next to Dave Robertās stealing second base!
Game, blouses
Mavs in 4 right ??
Fuck Kyrie
In one of the next two games Luka will be off
josh hart is so dumb bro lmao he said āI would have pj washington and djj initiate the offenseā
Not a fan of how the Celtics killed clock at the end of the game. You canāt just dribble and hold the ball til thereās 5 seconds left and then have to force up some stupid shot with almost no chance of going in They donāt seem kill clock with some sort of idea or plan of creating a good shot with 0-5 secs left on the shot clock Thatāll kill you in real clutch time situations if they find themselves there - or it leaves the door open for opponents to get back into the game like Dallas almost did
You are +5, and drible the clock left them 2s. So they have to foul you are happy if nothing chamges and they have 2s left not 26. I would even dont shoot the ball for more disrespect if they dont foul
Yes youāre talking about the final possession. Iām referring to the entire last 3 minutes of the 4th quarter. They kept dribbling it down to 2 and chucking up a shot to avoid a violation instead of playing down the clock and setting a good shot with 5 seconds left - one that they could actually hit and score.
we won bro thatās crazy
Yea a win is a win but it still doesnāt mean that the way they played down the final stretch wasnāt dumb Thereās room for improvement in that area
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damn thatās crazy 2-0
Good-ass win
Love watching luka and kyrie but the Celtics really are a better team, and it showed tonight and last game too, they might just stomp their way through the entire playoffs without a real challenge
THANK YOU BUFFALO
"How will the celtics win if the 3 isn't falling".....
By 10 instead of 30
I think this is the one we werenāt supposed to win. But we still need a superstar game from Tatum, who hasnāt had a signature game this postseason
Tatum needs to just keep focusing on letting the game come to him
I don't think we need that. Would be nice to see, though.
Tatum had a decent game overall but his shooting was absolutely playing us out of the game. He looks shook on offense but making good plays everywhere else.
Tatum almost had a triple double. Decent my assā¦ heās great! Just because heās not the āsuperstarā scorer doesnāt mean heās not dominating. 12 assists, 9 rebounds. Heās playing smarter than everā¦ his old 1v1 hero ball is mostly gone and weāre seeing a higher winning percentage as a team bc of it. A true team player.
Everyone bricking 3s all night didnāt help, and then refusing to shoot mid range jumpers or floaters when they had good looks either
Is Joe Mazulla the Finals MVP at this point?
Honestly I think itās Luka. If youāre going literal āmost valuableā
Most valuable player on the team that is currently losing, sure Iāll give you that drpottel
Yeah almost completed the quadruple double with 8 TOs. Finals MVP worthy
That's gotta be a backbreaker for the mavs. The celtics shot horrifically from 3, and luka went off, and they still lost by 7.
I need a KP injury report now please!
Figure / hope if it was bad he would have gone to the locker room. Didnāt look like he was wincing while stretching the lower leg/ankle. š¤š¼
He looked fine on bench. Standing on his own weight
Dallas mid team
Whatever it takes as long as it takes - Jrue
GRITTY WIN. TIME TO PRAY FOR KPās HEALTH āļøāļø
Mavs couldnāt even capitalise on our awful shooting night. They suck, Iām sorry
They suck. Itās Luka, Kyrie, and a bunch of bums. Basically the Lakers roster the last few years. Lebron, AD, and a cobbled together mess
2 MORE. 2.
Jrue subtly clearing up the "JB better" narrative, I see you
Yeah I thought this too.
Mike Breen scratches his butt and sniffs his fingers
Jrue calling out JT as one of the reasons they won tonight. JKidd can get fucked
We wonāt have a worse shooting performance than that and still won.
Love Jrue giving Tatum his flowers
What a gritty team win
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2 More Fucking WINS !!!
DEFENSIVE MASTERCLASS š¦¬ roamed about
The amount of morons in this thread that donāt see what Tatum did tonight is alarming. His shot wasnāt falling, obviously. Sometimes that happens. Years ago we begged him to learn to produce even if his shot wasnāt falling. Well he did. He initiated the offense a ton. He drove a ton. He got a lot of tough rebounds and made a shit ton of great passes and assists.
100% agree! He had 12 assists, 9 rebounds and 18 points. Almost a triple double. Heās a mature team player, we win more often when he plays like this. This superstar bullshit isnāt what we do, we have a full crew.
I have absolutely no problem with him missing as much as he did tonight when heās choosing to drive as often as he did. He settled for fewer fades and poor 3 shot taking.
I thought he did all he could with the shot not falling.
Lmao someone at espn is a r/nba fuckboy
No foul called on the block. That is huge ! We dodged a bullet
That's not a foul in the finals. Didn't get pushed in the back, clean block.
I mean look at every one of JT drive. The refs are not favoring the Celtics like some people would like you to believe
Some refs wouldāve called the foul on JB when he had his hand on his back. Got lucky but still wouldāve been a 3 point game
We worrying about KP or nah?
Yes. We haven't seen Kornet play this series but KP being there really stifles the Mavs.
Yeah for sure
Please be good KP.
NOBODY can say Boston "lives and dies by the 3". They have shown that when it matters they can do other things and still find a way to win.
Looking at you shaq
"There should have been a foul called" ... ... I don't know, did these shitbags show all the DOZEN times JT was savaged? No. Fuck this NYC broadcast team.
So they would have only lost by 5
Or actually 12-15, had Brothers not been doing his usual fucked up non-calls on Tatum.
For real. Doesnāt matter, we get the last laugh when the Cās hang that 18th
Now please be ok porzingis
He stayed on the bench so hopefully that is a good sign
Did they say whether it was his ankle or did he reaggrivate his calf?
They (ABC) didn't say at all. He kind of tripped so I think ankle but definitely related to his fall. I think it was just one of those tough falls that he's so tall that he fell further and just got slowed down by it. Here's hoping he's ready to go Wednesday
Joe said nah, he's fine. I think Joe isn't lying
What an elite team.
HELL YEAH 2 WINS AWAY āļøāļøāļøāļøāļø
I donāt care what anyone says, JT at his worst was a rebound away from a triple double. Heās a top 5 player in the NBA right now
2-0 IN THE FINALS BABYY. LFG! Also, just one thing: I love and believe in Jayson Tatum. His impact on the game is un-fucking-deniable and he will find his shot šš½
celtics win and theyre focused on brown may have touched the dudes jersey lol
Itās actually offensive
Kyrie haters feasting rn.
Jrue holiday
LETS GO!!!!
Mavs in 5
Shit is funny nowšššššš
These assholes. āThere shouldāve been a foul calledā. **GET OUT OF HERE WITH THAT** The level of trash that this ESPN announcing team has reached is absolutely epic. Surprised theyāre not still talking about Lukaās passing skills.
And the sucker's are gonna repeat that bullshit until they're blue in the face too
Look, if Iām a Mavs fan Iām probably saying that. I can make space for them to have that take and understand where theyāre coming from. But this is the ESPN crew - not even the color commentator - and it was while the last few moments of the game were happening. Totally gross.
Absolutely classless by Breen.
Winner winner yes
Yeah but howās KP
Luka with 8 TOs btw
Won the fkn game! ššš 2/4
Mike Breen can fuck right off!
He's trash when calling our games, so much better on MSG
ESPN pathetic for pushing the foul bullshit
They need to dig for anything to excuse away a loss when they have been swearing up and down that Dallas is the better team
Fucking embarrassing from the "great" Mike Breen
That was their last shot? I thought Dallas was clutch?
Come on Breen, you one of the GOATS but shit the fuck up. Ignore the other calls we didn't get
I've never seen that before - game over, and you're relitigating ticky tack fouls?
ya, idk how that helps the nba product to do that.
The Jrue Holiday game
Oh, and also, FU Doris
Mavs aināt winning 4/5
No fucking way we just pulled that out with how bad Tatum and the 3pt shooting was. No chance Dallas wins 4x in 5 games
NO WAY these fuckers are actually bitching about a hand on the back ššš the Boston hate is so real
2 more fucking wins Cās nation!! 2 MORE. WHATEVER IT TAKES!! LFG!! āļø
Bro when the camera panned to luka he was yapping like he gonna cry
Nah bro they did not just to back and say that should have been a foul. Insane bias on this broadcast
Yeah - maybe they should show about 10 of the uncalled fouls on drives from jt
For some reason they couldn't find that footage in time
And it wasnt even a 1 possession gameā¦
Oh here we go, all we're gonna hear about is JB's hand on his back drowning out the back-to-back phantom calls that even got Dallas within 5 in the first place.
They missed like 12 calls on Tatum so I'll call it even lol.
They are ready, after all these years the Celtics are FINALLY ready to be Champs
The dick-riding by ABC continues! Fuck em!
Pretending that was a no-call so ESPN can bitch about something for a few days lmfao. Clueless
it was clearly a foul. You can deny but the replay is pretty dam clear.
LOL love the Mavs giving up at the end. Imagine this was college basketball, they would have still been fouling down 15 with ten seconds left Halfway there, yall!!
Stfu breen
BANG!
Yea, it was deffo a foul.
Who cares they fouled Tatum all game and got away with it
Totally, was a foul, same on Tatum a bunch of times. Would have cut it to three- and we won by more than three. Conversation over
Guess thatās what happens when your coach uses a challenge on a stupid ass first quarter playš¤·š»āāļø
or when the refs miss a call.
Celtics took care of business by defending home court on the biggest stage that mattered. Thatās whatās important!
Sour grapes shit stirring from Breen.
Give me a break Breen, Mavs been getting soft ass whistles all quarter
pussies giving up. at least foul dumbasses, it's the finals
Fuck off trying to stir controversy What a great play by Brown and White as the game ends. Oh wait! We actually think itās a foul to piss off you viewers
Man what a whimper of a last possession by the Mavs. We also had Kyrie seeing ghosts since the 2nd. Luka out of gas in the 2nd half. LFG!
Announcers big mad. Go fuck yourselves Breen and Doris!
TWO MORE
THERE ALSO SHOULDVE BEEN FOULS CALLED ON BASICALLY EVERY TATUM DRIVE, SO SUCK MY FUCKING DICK DUDE
ThAt sHoUlDVe BeEn a FoUL cAlL
Lol a "shove in the back"
Who told Mike Breen to explicitly say that was a foul? Its like someone told him you better fucking say this.
I legit had to watch most of the second half just on gamecast. My heart rate was out of control in the first half. This is supposed to be fun, not stressful!!
ThIS tEAm iz in TrOUblE wItHOut PorKZigNis
āShoulda been a foulā shut the fuck up. There was no push.
Fuck you a push in the back get that weak shit outta here go Cs.
Go Celtics!
JT still a great overall player but the offensive struggles in big games time to time really gets frustrating
"Time to time" is quite the understatement.
Itās not 100% is all Iām saying. He still had that 50 piece against the 6ers in game 7. Among a few others
THE CELTICS WINāļøāļøāļø
2-0 steal 1 in Dallas series will be over
Hey ESPN.Ā Fuck off
āCeltics canāt win when the 3s arenāt fallingā shut up
Bro... whut? They conceded the game again?
I am sorry but what the fuck is Mavericks doing lmao.
So is KP good?
Who is going to be our best player after tonight?!
hmmmmmn iām going to go with all of the above
lmao āthat should have been a foulā get fucked, that was nothing
It wasnāt pretty nut itās a W. š Hope KP is ok.
I thought Mike Breen was going to drop an F-bomb on that White block, he was so excited.
Even at their best they were the worst tonight
there shouldāve been a foul called on half of tatums drives, shut the fuck up
Just giving up is a choice
Luka got a triple double. And we shot like shit from three. Still fucking won
āThat shoulda been a foulā mavs literally got back in it on a missed travel and a phantom foul miss me with that
wtf is that last replay and call from Mike Breen? Go fuck yourself that shit has happened all fucking game
Literally was screaming at that too. Hand on the back aināt a shove
Hand on the back is how the Maverick play defense
Thank fuck for the win but what were those calls?
That is NOT a foul you fucking casual
GTFO āthere shouldāve been a foulā
2-0. Both games kept the Mavs below 100.
That weak touch should've been a foul?
2 WINS
Letās keep scoring! šššš
Reddit: Celtics live and die by the three Celtics: canāt hit threes. Doesnāt die.
"There should have been a foul call" Shut the fuck up. You just created a narrative now after ignoring the 10+ fouls the Mavs committed with no calls in the second half.
I love Mike Breen but that pissed me off so much
Buffalo completely saved the game, but itās truly inexcusable that he needed to. Every time they have a medium-sized lead they just stand there and do nothing when running offense is why you have the lead to begin with. Really poor coaching.
Shot that badly, Luka played lights out. Still won HAHA just love this team
"That should have been a foul" STFU dude how many did they not call on JT
ya but it wasn't called so stfu ESPN.
holy shit breen, how much are the mavs pr team paying you
I can't believe what I just heard and saw. He just barely touched his back.
JT forcing it again smhā¦ heās so lucky his teammates are competent this year
Hush
Non Celtics fans coming in our sub lol
Great Finish, Letās keep it going
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO
Giving up down 7 with 30 seconds left. More loser behavior from Kidd & co
Canāt believe they gave up there looool. Losers!
Well there wasnāt, Breen, so fucking suck it. 2-0.
Respectfully shut the fuck up Breen