Can 100 Knickas take on Two Jays? - Boston Celtics (#2) vs NY Knicks (#3) Official 2nd Round Playoff thread

[Derek Lee]

You a Cavs fan

Get out our thread

You post more about Jalen Green and Cam Reddish than the Knicks. Kick rocks

 

[UpAndComing]

Meh

Outside of G1 against Dallas, Porzingis has given us nothing in the playoffs

Tatum & Brown still have their cold spells and bad habits, but I think they’ve also grown as players over the last 2-3 years

Not to mention that moving guys like Smart & Grant Williams was addition by subtraction

You can tell 90% of people in this thread don't watch the Celtics

Just bad take, after bad take, after bad take with so much confidence lol

 

[Raquinotj]

You can tell 90% of people in this thread don't watch the Celtics

Just bad take, after bad take, after bad take with so much confidence lol

It was a good season for us

 

[FAH1223]

 

[Damnshow]

Typical Celtics basketball. They always have that one (sometimes two) games where they are too stubborn to quit spamming threes and actually get some easy points.

Tatum tends to be soft too damn often.

No excuses for Celtics if they don't make the finals as Cavs are crashing down in 2nd round already.

 

[Damnshow]

At least it's not all bad news Celtic Nation

What the fukk are Celtics gonna do with this bum his stat sheet is nothing but zeros and ones... The Matrix code.

 

[VegetasHairline]

How a 6-foot-4 guard became one of the most feared defenders in the NBA

Jrue Holiday doesn't rack up a ton of steals or blocks, but there is no player more important to the Celtics' stingy defense -- or their hopes to beat the New York Knicks and repeat as champions.

www.espn.com

 

[SCORCH]

The text:

“Listen, man, what the Boston Celtics did last night was an insult to basketball, in my opinion, man,” said Legler. “That’s an abomination, an abomination offensively to play the way they played. And look, people are going to sit there, ‘Well, that’s how they play all the time, man. Live by the three, die by the three.’ What are you talking about? Watch the game. I don’t care how many they listed. First of all, I know this for a fact, because I’ve dived into this. The way the league or statisticians, or people at the game that are doing the stats, label contested, uncontested shots, I’ve got a massive disagreement about.

I’ve already looked at it in Second Spectrum because you pull up information, and you’re like, ‘Wait a second, that’s not an uncontested shot.’ Whatever. So there’s a big number of uncontested shots, and that’s what the Celtics contingent and people that love the Celtics or that defend the Celtics are going to say today, ‘Well, they’re all uncontested threes.’ My ass. I watched, I wrote them all down. They were not. Here’s the thing, too. There’s a difference between what you might even think is an uncontested shot and a rushed shot. You can still have an uncontested shot that’s rushed. What I didn’t understand was why were the Celtics playing… For literally an entire 18-minute stretch, they played offense like there was three seconds left in the game. Every guy that caught the ball.


“That’s what I was trying to figure out. What the hell is the hurry? And guess what? It wasn’t just Tatum, although, man, was he bad last night. You can’t play that way offensively while this lead’s slipping away without figuring out a way to get to a mid-range jumper, a something at the rim, or free throws. It’s embarrassing. But it’s not just him. I actually have a bigger problem, Adam, with Al Horford and Jrue Holiday. In particular, those two guys. Who the hell do they think they are? Klay Thompson shooting balls? The ball’s coming to him in a corner off with 19 seconds on the shot clock, and a guy draped all over them, and they’re letting it fly with no offensive rebound positioning at all? Are you kidding me?”

Fried them

 

[RubioTheCruel]

What the fukk are Celtics gonna do with this bum his stat sheet is nothing but zeros and ones... The Matrix code.

I think Simmons gave the Clippers great mins in the regular season but he's completely unplayable in the playoffs. Not an offensive threat and can't shoot free throws

 

[SchoolboyC]

The text:



Fried them

Playing offense like there were 3 seconds on the clock is an absolutely perfect way to describe how they played after they got the lead

And he’s also 100% right that some of those uncontested shots were still poor shots bc they were rushed, it’s a difference between generating an open look through good ball movement and being open because you’re coming down the court and just firing up a 3 first chance you get

One of the lowest IQ games they’ve played in a long time. But we’re on to Game 2…

 

[MoshpitMazi]

Pacers up 2-0 on Cleveland! The stage is set for a Knicks NBA finals run

Need that ECF rematch against the Pacers fr

 

[SchoolboyC]

Let’s hurry up and get this over with

 

[Gizza]

All lower seeds goin 2-0 LFG!!!!!

 

[Illuminatos]

I’m feeling greedy tonight. Knicks 2-0.

 

[superchoops]

that wasnt a shot clock violation?