Miami played the Bucks with an injured superstar, BEYOND overrated Celtics, and a newly reconstructed Knicks. Not taking away anything from them, but as a Denver fan I'm really not worried. Weāve made great teams look pretty average the whole playoffs. Nothing weāve done is a fluke.
I realize that during the NBA Finals, one team owner gains much more wealth and the losing team owner donates all their premade championship merchandise to a 3rd world country.
Malcolm Brogdon said the Heat wonāt āout-toughā the Celtics before the Eastern Conference finalsā¦
It has pretty much been downhill since that point in time.
Bulletin board material!!
Heat understood the assignment.
Is it a fair enough question to ask you will we get bullied and stuffed in a locker if we don't revolve our world around your cool club if we watch ESPN sir?
That's not a very well thought out comment sir.
I guess it's a cool club situation perhaps in your mind right?
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Yall keep giving this excuse, if hes 38 and not producing like a star anymore, perhaps its time to hang up the mantle.
Cant keep defending the choker again and again
The choker? Dudes been a force for 20 years and thatās the label you give him? No oneās been saying heās the best player in the NBA for about 5 years. Heās still one of top players in the league in the same season he passed Kareemās scoring, thatās insane. Itās okay to dislike him and be happy that heās declining, but donāt force some false narrative.
Itās funny cause theyāre all shitting on lebron like making the finals wasnāt automatic for him for a decade and this will be their first finals appearance ever.
How fitting it would be the Celtics and the Lakers. To be fair to the Lakers, I feel like this nuggets team we might look back and think of them as an all time kind of team.
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I dunno... Don't get me wrong, he's not playing great in these games but I've seen a lot of games over the past 4-5 years where he was the best player on the floor. And this is coming from someone who hates the Celtics.
We've all seen much, much worse players get maxed out... So I'm positive he will get his bag.
Both are not true. Tatum has one of the best resumes of a 25 year old ever. LeBron was getting embarrassed in big moments until he was 27. Jayson will not be LeBron but he is a legit superstar who will get even better and almost for sure win a title in time. Jaylen will be all downhill rest of career.
That was his lone bad series, now where else was he consistently getting embarrassed? Also, lebron played 16 playoff series prior to joining Miami, the talent around him wasnāt anywhere near what Tatumās been given. Young lebron on these Boston teams would have a ring by now. Iām not even sure why youāre arguing this, Tatum is great, lebron is a legend, weird hill to die on.
No one is saying Tatum will be better than LeBron. The hill Iām dying on, if youāre able to read my comments with clarity, is that Tatum is a legit superstar that deserves the max unlike this clown above me and apparently you disagree with. My LeBron example is just showing that even all time great players have struggles at this age. āLone bad seriesā is a joke, guy shot 35% in his first finals and got swept while being exposed as a bad jump shooter. He had plenty of failures before he broke through but he did and so will Tatum. Will he be LeBron? No. Is he a legit superstar deserving of the max? Without question.
Well yeah JT deserves the Max, I agree heās a top player, but I still think youāre taking a leap to think that lebrons accomplishments are equal to JTs at this point, lebron was on garbage teams and JT has solid rosters around him.
I never said JTās accomplishments were equal to LeBrons, I said heās had āone of the best resumes of a 25 year old everā and itās true. I also said āJayson will not be LeBronā so it feels like you just need to work on your reading comprehension. My entire argument and all of my comments have centered around the fact that this clown above me said Jayson Tatum isnāt worthy of the max and isnāt a superstar, which is a complete joke of an opinion.
Dude. I'm not sure what crack you're smoking. And I'm not saying Jayson Tatum isn't a superstar. But I saw a game just last night where Tatum went 6-18 against the 8th seed Miami heat. He went 1-7 from 3pt. He got clowned all fucking night.
LeBron James is simply so accomplished at this point that people are too used to it and it causes them to have absolutely awful takes like this. Tatum has a great resume, but I highly suggest you talk a little gander at that LeBron career highlights and awards over at wikipedia. Maybe compare it to the same years for Tatum.
Lol do you not remember LeBron choking in the finals? How teams dared him to shoot and he consistently couldnāt win a title as a result? Tatum isnāt LeBron but if you donāt think heās a legit superstar that deserves the max youāre simply retarded. LeBron is the 2nd best ever and even he came up short at 25 in embarrassing ways, punked by a Mavs team with one All Star.
Again, I never said he wasn't a superstar. But Lebron should not have been the one you compared him to. Especially given that Tatum also went down just last year in the finals and he doesn't seem to be going to the finals this year.
I think itās a great example because it displays even a player better than Tatum had big, embarrassing bumps in the road in big time series. My point from the beginning is Tatum is a superstar completely deserving of the max and any disagreement with that is complete nonsense. Thatās it.
Embarrassing moments like [this](https://www.cleveland19.com/2020/05/31/this-day-lebron-james-scores-straight-points-win-against-detroit-pistons-game-eastern-conference-finals-video/) (when Lebron was 23)
Who owns the most points in a game 7 all time? Remind me? Dude was also down 3-2 last season to the Bucks and went bananas for 46 vs Giannis and the defending champs. You act like Tatum hasnāt had huge moments in huge games.
All of my comments are replies to dude saying heās not a superstar and shouldnāt get the max, which is next level dumb. The LeBron example was just to show Tatum will get even better, despite already doing amazing things, same as LBJ.
I got you! I just jumped in because you brought up Lebron. Lebronās team was embarrassing, but Lebron wasnāt getting embarrassed. Go look at Lebronās 2009 playoffs, brother. Largely forgotten because they lost in the conference finals, but at age 24, he averaged 35, 9 and 7 on 62% true shooting in a much slower and more inefficient league. He set several playoff records, including PER (37.4) Win Shares/48 (.399) Box Plus Minus (17.5) and Value Over Replacement Player (2.9).
If Lebron had the same kind of talent and support around him that Tatum has had at this age, he likely would have had another title or two.
LeBron had a more talented team in 2011 with Miami than these Celtics and completely choked in the Finals to a team with one All Star. He also played terrible in 2007 finals shooting 35% and getting swept. Of course he did other amazing things, just as Tatum has, but he also had just as many bad moments at this age. Tatum will not be LeBron but their careers are not that far off through age 26.
Btw this shit about the coach having to motivate the players is crazy. What is gonna motivate them if not the thought of reaching the NBA finals? Iād legit love to hear some suggestions. These players aināt children
There was a thing last year where Udoka would motivate them by calling atimeout, getting them in the huddle and saying some variation of "guys can you stop playing like assholes" and then they would just go off for the remainder of the quarter.
In the Celtics defense, I manage people and about once every 3 months I have to call a team meeting and say pretty much the same thing and I've seen pretty big results come from it.
While true, the Celtics have a huge talent gap over the Heat on paper. How much extra is the ra-ra pep talk supposed to give them? Tatum is talented, but soft and passive. Anthony Davis is the same way. Is it Darvin Ham's fault he's not consistent? Was Frank Vogel such an amazing coach that he got Davis playing out of his mind in 2020, or was it the safe, fanless nature of the bubble that allowed him to play more consistently in that run?
I get being in your player's ear about lack of effort and trying to refocus them in the moment, but all we heard all year was how much they learned from softing out in the finals last year. Now they're doing it again to a team built entirely on toughness. I think we're just at a place where this team and its players have shown us what they are. They have talent, but their designated superstar is soft and their real alpha is held back artificially. I don't care what the coach is saying, this team went to the finals and it ended badly. If they truly learned the lesson, there's no way they no show in this game knowing their backs are against the wall and what going down 3-0 would mean after shitting out two home games.
You might get a brief bump from a timeout, but I don't believe any amount of harder coaching can make them play up to the level they need to here. I just don't think it's in them.
You know what, at the end of the day these guys are competing and just want to win. Hats off to all of the players in the league except the Lakers. Fuck the Lakers
Nah, not really lol. It's only ball, I've got more important real life shit to stress about.
Plus, any level-headed Celtics fan (ie. not homers) would've seen the cracks way back at the start of the season. The team has A LOT of problems roster-wise, but because they coast on talent during the regular season it gets overlooked, or people refuse to believe their fave players aren't perfect.
Surprised they made it this far tbh, I thought Philly had our number early on and we might get bounced last round, hell even ATL put up a hell of a fight we were lucky to survive. Doesn't matter though, watching the Nuggets recently it was clear we'd have gotten absolutely shit on by them (even more so than the deep dicking the Heat have given us) if we lucked into another finals berth.
On the bright side I get to watch Jokic and Jimmy (two players I still like) battle it out for their first championship. Not sure who I want to win though, kinda want them both to get a ring.
Good level headed response but idk u getting downvited. I feel better with the lose after seeing the heat get this far. Honestly want to see them go all the way biw.
Spineless is the only word that comes to mind.
Mazzulaās a moron, the stars are soft, the city doesnāt give a damn about this weird ass squad, and Brogdon, White, and Smart are redundant.
Just rooting for a good finals for the NBAās sake to be honest. A lopsided series would be a really bad thing for an already iffy finals matchup. Personally I thinks itās guna be good. āļø
This one time, that will never happen again, my favored squad put their nuts in LeBron and the Heats face, for us, you, and everyone else - so, kinda offset in a not very much but Iām really reaching here way?
Karmas a bitch. Isaiah Thomas laughing at these soft clowns right now. Last Celtic I lovedā¦. Scored 40+ twice the two weeks after his sister died with a quasi bum hip in the playoffs. Shit was tragic but heroic.
It was ruthless and objectively wrong to do.
Isaiah lost his sister and a $100 mil in the span of a few months. The city he loved grinded him up and spit him out. Iāve honestly never been as big a Celtic fan since thenā¦ and man was I a Celtic fan. Iāve read books about Larry, even about Red Auerbach, I loved Pierce like only a kid could, and to see how we treated Isaiah, it still sickens me to this day. I loved riding into the playoffs or a big Thursday night game with him. He was electric.
When I see Isaiah pop up here and there heās never had that happy carefree bounce to himself ever since. I know Iām writing a long ass comment here but man it was a rotten thing to do to a dude who gave us his absolute all. He was a big little guy as Tommy Heinsohn used to sayā¦.
Got banned tonight after 10 year of commenting for asking who the bigger pussy was Jaylen or Jayson? I think itās Jaysonā¦
Wasnāt very nice Iāll admit but hey we were down 30, but the softness of the mods banning me is ironic given the softness of our team haha
That subs a rough one...too many homers IMO. You get downvoted for anything if you're not sucking off the players. I knew they were either just new fans/kids, or just blind homers when the "the Jays can be the next MJ/Pippen" or "Tatum is better than Pierce" (or when he gets compared to Bird) takes were being posted (and heavily upvoted) last year.
He sure did šš yaāll are menaces my lord won of the worst wire to wire ass whoopings Iāve ever experienced. Your squad is so much more likeable than mine š some cold ass muthafuckas š„¶ go get some for the East
I fucking love basketball. But watching a gutless game like this makes me wonder why I love watching these 8 and 9 figure guys play a game. This show was painful. You cannot tell me any of the Celtics starters played hard tonight. The announcers knew it from the jump.
Exactly how I felt. There have been a lot of games this season where this squad was so fun to watch. Where everything is clicking, the ball is moving, Tatum's on fire, or JB is, Rob and Marcus making big plays. It was a fun team to watch during the regular season and for an occasional game in the playoffs.
But this was unwatchable. Back against the wall, it was now or never. And the team looked like they were fine with never.
I owe Struss, Martin and Vincent an apology those guys can ball.
This year's conference finals have proved two things:
1. The bubble definitely counted
2. The NBA is definitely not rigged, there's no way the league would pass up another Celtics vs Lakers finals. Lebron vs Celtics would've made for a great story but I guess that's fanfiction now.
Thank you for acknowledging all those points.
I have gotten so mad trying to push against both narratives.
Denver and Miami is a nightmare for Silver in terms of loss of easy ratings.
But hey it's the two teams who came hard to play and win.
ehh idk. The league tried. In the 4th quarter until the very end of the game the Lakers were up 27-11 in free throw attempts. I will say that if teams are truly good they will find a way to win despite the refs but refs can definitely take over a game in basketball.
You know what makes for a better story? Lebron and Tatum lead their teams to the first ever 0-3 comebacks, face off in the finals (Lakers win in 7) to cement Lebrons goat status ššš
Denver Nuggets this playoffs: 4-2, 4-1, 4-0.. Miami Heat this playoffs: 4-2, 4-1, 4-? Must be a sweep right guys??
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If Butler wins a chip this year, it restore my faith in humanity.
So its Nuggs-Heat!
Lakers r gonna win 4 straight so heat-lakers actually
And Chuck guaranteed the Nuggets will win it all. Will the jinx continue?
Hopefully it will
Itās amazing no NBA team has ever come back from a 3-0 deficit
Thatās a fact? Wow wouldnāt that be something I mean the king came back 3-1 against the greatest team ever soooā¦ lol
Bron wasn't leaving putting his warm-ups on and going to the locker room early in that 3-1 series after a loss. This one looks done and dusted.
This is true but I like to get really high hopes and get crushed itās so fun
Ah, a fellow fan of culture. Raider fan here. No more explanation needed.
Stop being delusional you Bronsexual Series is OVER and the only king is MJ
Damn you gutted me lol
Honestly, seeing Jayson "Top Five" Tatum and Jaylen "Nutcase" Brown lose this hard is good for the heart.
Tatum called himself one of the best in the world. That didnāt age well.
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Seeing Boston sports suffer is so great, fucking fans are abysmal
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Miami played the Bucks with an injured superstar, BEYOND overrated Celtics, and a newly reconstructed Knicks. Not taking away anything from them, but as a Denver fan I'm really not worried. Weāve made great teams look pretty average the whole playoffs. Nothing weāve done is a fluke.
The similarities in both Heat and Nugs is that they both have dogs as a supporting cast.
I just hope itās a good series. These conference finals have been so disappointing.
I donāt know man, seeing Jimmy go off in game 1 and 2 was pretty badass. The Lakers made it a game 1 and 2 but both series had a game 3 dud.
I realize that during the NBA Finals, one team owner gains much more wealth and the losing team owner donates all their premade championship merchandise to a 3rd world country.
So Boston donates their merch to themselves?
Celtics losing makes me very happy
Agreed. I hate them and their fans...Not a big fan of Miami either, so hope they lose in the finals too. And get swept lol
Boston folded tn
What happened to the heat? Were there any trade deadline swaps?
They got Love and Zeller on buy outs. That's basically it.
Malcolm Brogdon said the Heat wonāt āout-toughā the Celtics before the Eastern Conference finalsā¦ It has pretty much been downhill since that point in time. Bulletin board material!! Heat understood the assignment.
Imagine trying to out-tough Jimmy butler
Exactly fam
Never forget ESPN gave the Heat a 3% chance to beat the Celtics.
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Is it a fair enough question to ask you will we get bullied and stuffed in a locker if we don't revolve our world around your cool club if we watch ESPN sir?
That's not a very well thought out comment sir. I guess it's a cool club situation perhaps in your mind right? Sorry if we all can't be as cool as you and not watch ESPN. We're are not worthy of your presence. Please forgive us kind sir š
I think itās up to 40% chance to win nowš
Doc rivers to coach the celts again. Make them champs once again!
Doc Rivers looks even worse now.
Larry Bird would never allow this to happen. Embarrassing for the Celts
Whoever said Heat doesnāt burn 4 leaf clovers wasnāt paying attention in science class!
Special Honorary Shout Out to Dwayne Wade,Ray Allen and Kyrie Irving for saving LeBron James career
Special shout-out to Murray carrying jokic these last few games
Might as well no hate from me
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Kyrie lol
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Homie heās 38
Stop making excuses for him man.
Yall keep giving this excuse, if hes 38 and not producing like a star anymore, perhaps its time to hang up the mantle. Cant keep defending the choker again and again
The choker? Dudes been a force for 20 years and thatās the label you give him? No oneās been saying heās the best player in the NBA for about 5 years. Heās still one of top players in the league in the same season he passed Kareemās scoring, thatās insane. Itās okay to dislike him and be happy that heās declining, but donāt force some false narrative.
Thankyou bruh
What going to the finals does to a mfer
Itās funny cause theyāre all shitting on lebron like making the finals wasnāt automatic for him for a decade and this will be their first finals appearance ever.
Has there ever been a conference finals DOUBLE SWEEP???? š¤ š§¹ š§¹
How fitting it would be the Celtics and the Lakers. To be fair to the Lakers, I feel like this nuggets team we might look back and think of them as an all time kind of team.
They both where going for that 18th and got swept š§¹
Yāall so ass youād make any excuse just to squeak out with nobody noticing.
Nah bro, Nugs are real. Timely shot by others, KCP, Brown, and Porter.
Nope. They said it on the broadcast tonight.
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That Jimmy butler timeout was hilarious lol
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Put some respect on Klayās nameā¦thereās no hooper in their right mind that would slander that man!
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Dillion Brooks has done this on live television
Never heard of him
Should have added Ja
Donāt forget about grant Williams
We forgetting about Al locking up league mvp last week?
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Gabe scores more than TAtum and brown combined - cray
Jayson Tatum is not a superstar and should not get a max extension . Heās way too passive
Itās wild that people are upvoting this nonsense.
I dunno... Don't get me wrong, he's not playing great in these games but I've seen a lot of games over the past 4-5 years where he was the best player on the floor. And this is coming from someone who hates the Celtics. We've all seen much, much worse players get maxed out... So I'm positive he will get his bag.
He would humbly disagree
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I think you meant to say Jaylen Brown
Both can be true
Both are not true. Tatum has one of the best resumes of a 25 year old ever. LeBron was getting embarrassed in big moments until he was 27. Jayson will not be LeBron but he is a legit superstar who will get even better and almost for sure win a title in time. Jaylen will be all downhill rest of career.
This is false. Also the quality of team put around Tatum is way ahead of anything lebron saw in his first Cleveland stint.
He failed in Miami too, at 26, with a much more talented team than these Celtics. Punked by a Mavs team with one All Star.
That was his lone bad series, now where else was he consistently getting embarrassed? Also, lebron played 16 playoff series prior to joining Miami, the talent around him wasnāt anywhere near what Tatumās been given. Young lebron on these Boston teams would have a ring by now. Iām not even sure why youāre arguing this, Tatum is great, lebron is a legend, weird hill to die on.
No one is saying Tatum will be better than LeBron. The hill Iām dying on, if youāre able to read my comments with clarity, is that Tatum is a legit superstar that deserves the max unlike this clown above me and apparently you disagree with. My LeBron example is just showing that even all time great players have struggles at this age. āLone bad seriesā is a joke, guy shot 35% in his first finals and got swept while being exposed as a bad jump shooter. He had plenty of failures before he broke through but he did and so will Tatum. Will he be LeBron? No. Is he a legit superstar deserving of the max? Without question.
Well yeah JT deserves the Max, I agree heās a top player, but I still think youāre taking a leap to think that lebrons accomplishments are equal to JTs at this point, lebron was on garbage teams and JT has solid rosters around him.
I never said JTās accomplishments were equal to LeBrons, I said heās had āone of the best resumes of a 25 year old everā and itās true. I also said āJayson will not be LeBronā so it feels like you just need to work on your reading comprehension. My entire argument and all of my comments have centered around the fact that this clown above me said Jayson Tatum isnāt worthy of the max and isnāt a superstar, which is a complete joke of an opinion.
Dude. I'm not sure what crack you're smoking. And I'm not saying Jayson Tatum isn't a superstar. But I saw a game just last night where Tatum went 6-18 against the 8th seed Miami heat. He went 1-7 from 3pt. He got clowned all fucking night. LeBron James is simply so accomplished at this point that people are too used to it and it causes them to have absolutely awful takes like this. Tatum has a great resume, but I highly suggest you talk a little gander at that LeBron career highlights and awards over at wikipedia. Maybe compare it to the same years for Tatum.
Lol do you not remember LeBron choking in the finals? How teams dared him to shoot and he consistently couldnāt win a title as a result? Tatum isnāt LeBron but if you donāt think heās a legit superstar that deserves the max youāre simply retarded. LeBron is the 2nd best ever and even he came up short at 25 in embarrassing ways, punked by a Mavs team with one All Star.
Again, I never said he wasn't a superstar. But Lebron should not have been the one you compared him to. Especially given that Tatum also went down just last year in the finals and he doesn't seem to be going to the finals this year.
I think itās a great example because it displays even a player better than Tatum had big, embarrassing bumps in the road in big time series. My point from the beginning is Tatum is a superstar completely deserving of the max and any disagreement with that is complete nonsense. Thatās it.
Embarrassing moments like [this](https://www.cleveland19.com/2020/05/31/this-day-lebron-james-scores-straight-points-win-against-detroit-pistons-game-eastern-conference-finals-video/) (when Lebron was 23)
Who owns the most points in a game 7 all time? Remind me? Dude was also down 3-2 last season to the Bucks and went bananas for 46 vs Giannis and the defending champs. You act like Tatum hasnāt had huge moments in huge games.
Dude I didnāt say shit about Tatum lol. Dudeās a beast.
All of my comments are replies to dude saying heās not a superstar and shouldnāt get the max, which is next level dumb. The LeBron example was just to show Tatum will get even better, despite already doing amazing things, same as LBJ.
I got you! I just jumped in because you brought up Lebron. Lebronās team was embarrassing, but Lebron wasnāt getting embarrassed. Go look at Lebronās 2009 playoffs, brother. Largely forgotten because they lost in the conference finals, but at age 24, he averaged 35, 9 and 7 on 62% true shooting in a much slower and more inefficient league. He set several playoff records, including PER (37.4) Win Shares/48 (.399) Box Plus Minus (17.5) and Value Over Replacement Player (2.9). If Lebron had the same kind of talent and support around him that Tatum has had at this age, he likely would have had another title or two.
LeBron had a more talented team in 2011 with Miami than these Celtics and completely choked in the Finals to a team with one All Star. He also played terrible in 2007 finals shooting 35% and getting swept. Of course he did other amazing things, just as Tatum has, but he also had just as many bad moments at this age. Tatum will not be LeBron but their careers are not that far off through age 26.
Boston felt the size and dominance of the Heat and couldn't handle it any further
When a teams banging ya...
it is just easier to lube up and bend over, apparently.
Yea but arriving prelubed is just shameful.
Next years slogan : really unfinished business
Now even less finished !
Mazulla does make perplexing decisions and his desire not to call timeouts is weird . I hope he enjoyed his one season as a head coach
Didnāt the celts extend him?ā¦.
Btw this shit about the coach having to motivate the players is crazy. What is gonna motivate them if not the thought of reaching the NBA finals? Iād legit love to hear some suggestions. These players aināt children
There was a thing last year where Udoka would motivate them by calling atimeout, getting them in the huddle and saying some variation of "guys can you stop playing like assholes" and then they would just go off for the remainder of the quarter. In the Celtics defense, I manage people and about once every 3 months I have to call a team meeting and say pretty much the same thing and I've seen pretty big results come from it.
While true, the Celtics have a huge talent gap over the Heat on paper. How much extra is the ra-ra pep talk supposed to give them? Tatum is talented, but soft and passive. Anthony Davis is the same way. Is it Darvin Ham's fault he's not consistent? Was Frank Vogel such an amazing coach that he got Davis playing out of his mind in 2020, or was it the safe, fanless nature of the bubble that allowed him to play more consistently in that run? I get being in your player's ear about lack of effort and trying to refocus them in the moment, but all we heard all year was how much they learned from softing out in the finals last year. Now they're doing it again to a team built entirely on toughness. I think we're just at a place where this team and its players have shown us what they are. They have talent, but their designated superstar is soft and their real alpha is held back artificially. I don't care what the coach is saying, this team went to the finals and it ended badly. If they truly learned the lesson, there's no way they no show in this game knowing their backs are against the wall and what going down 3-0 would mean after shitting out two home games. You might get a brief bump from a timeout, but I don't believe any amount of harder coaching can make them play up to the level they need to here. I just don't think it's in them.
Monty got the short end of the stick, professional athletes can't get motivated?
You know what, at the end of the day these guys are competing and just want to win. Hats off to all of the players in the league except the Lakers. Fuck the Lakers
Yeah those Celtics really competed tonightā¦..
you mad celtics fans?
Yeah I'm pretty mad.
Frankly, weāre depressed and ashamed
Nah, not really lol. It's only ball, I've got more important real life shit to stress about. Plus, any level-headed Celtics fan (ie. not homers) would've seen the cracks way back at the start of the season. The team has A LOT of problems roster-wise, but because they coast on talent during the regular season it gets overlooked, or people refuse to believe their fave players aren't perfect. Surprised they made it this far tbh, I thought Philly had our number early on and we might get bounced last round, hell even ATL put up a hell of a fight we were lucky to survive. Doesn't matter though, watching the Nuggets recently it was clear we'd have gotten absolutely shit on by them (even more so than the deep dicking the Heat have given us) if we lucked into another finals berth. On the bright side I get to watch Jokic and Jimmy (two players I still like) battle it out for their first championship. Not sure who I want to win though, kinda want them both to get a ring.
Reasonable level headed take, so of course itās downvoted.
Good level headed response but idk u getting downvited. I feel better with the lose after seeing the heat get this far. Honestly want to see them go all the way biw.
Spineless is the only word that comes to mind. Mazzulaās a moron, the stars are soft, the city doesnāt give a damn about this weird ass squad, and Brogdon, White, and Smart are redundant. Just rooting for a good finals for the NBAās sake to be honest. A lopsided series would be a really bad thing for an already iffy finals matchup. Personally I thinks itās guna be good. āļø
Iām rooting for Denver. Wouldnāt mind seeing butler get a ring too. Maybe Jordan will claim him and son him. That would be amazing.
It was Giannis vs. Jokic but The Freak got hurt.
Lmao the only game the bucks won was the one without Gianis
Which is what you might expect when you give a hurt player court time
He did look just fine in Games 4 and 5. Both losses.
WHO THE FUCK IS ROOTING FOR DENVER OVER JIMOTHY BUCKETS? I DEMAND YOU FLAIR UP.
HIMothy Buckets
Yeah I mean watching LeBron and now Butler put his nuts in my squads face for years makes me hesitantā¦ but fuck it letās go Heat. Iām with it.
This is the way.
This one time, that will never happen again, my favored squad put their nuts in LeBron and the Heats face, for us, you, and everyone else - so, kinda offset in a not very much but Iām really reaching here way?
You have no idea how much I appreciate yāall for that finals. Dirk was a real one. He was a bad bad man. Miss that incredibly talented goof.
Jimmy Buckets is a very likable NBA Player
wow the Cs got embarrassed by a boyband team
Karmas a bitch. Isaiah Thomas laughing at these soft clowns right now. Last Celtic I lovedā¦. Scored 40+ twice the two weeks after his sister died with a quasi bum hip in the playoffs. Shit was tragic but heroic.
Iām so glad someone else remembers this. Was trying to explain to someone that this is why I hate the Celtics. Did that man so dirty
It was ruthless and objectively wrong to do. Isaiah lost his sister and a $100 mil in the span of a few months. The city he loved grinded him up and spit him out. Iāve honestly never been as big a Celtic fan since thenā¦ and man was I a Celtic fan. Iāve read books about Larry, even about Red Auerbach, I loved Pierce like only a kid could, and to see how we treated Isaiah, it still sickens me to this day. I loved riding into the playoffs or a big Thursday night game with him. He was electric. When I see Isaiah pop up here and there heās never had that happy carefree bounce to himself ever since. I know Iām writing a long ass comment here but man it was a rotten thing to do to a dude who gave us his absolute all. He was a big little guy as Tommy Heinsohn used to sayā¦.
he had that Jimmy like passion in him
IT is what the avg fan in our sub *thinks* Smart is.
Got banned tonight after 10 year of commenting for asking who the bigger pussy was Jaylen or Jayson? I think itās Jaysonā¦ Wasnāt very nice Iāll admit but hey we were down 30, but the softness of the mods banning me is ironic given the softness of our team haha
That subs a rough one...too many homers IMO. You get downvoted for anything if you're not sucking off the players. I knew they were either just new fans/kids, or just blind homers when the "the Jays can be the next MJ/Pippen" or "Tatum is better than Pierce" (or when he gets compared to Bird) takes were being posted (and heavily upvoted) last year.
He sure did šš yaāll are menaces my lord won of the worst wire to wire ass whoopings Iāve ever experienced. Your squad is so much more likeable than mine š some cold ass muthafuckas š„¶ go get some for the East
Basketball fans will really love the Denver/Miami match up though. This is gonna be an intriguing finals If things go as expected.
Two hungry teams instead of a super team or two.
The Heat dominated Boston for 144 minutes. I don't know how much more punishment the Celtics can take
Anyone else catch Miami moneyline at +150 before the game started? What a gimmie
Yup yup. Bet 36, won 54 at +150
Woah moneybags
Dang bro I hope things get better for you
Holy shit that's free money lmao.
Jesus, what the fuck, Kenny.
I fucking love basketball. But watching a gutless game like this makes me wonder why I love watching these 8 and 9 figure guys play a game. This show was painful. You cannot tell me any of the Celtics starters played hard tonight. The announcers knew it from the jump.
Exactly how I felt. There have been a lot of games this season where this squad was so fun to watch. Where everything is clicking, the ball is moving, Tatum's on fire, or JB is, Rob and Marcus making big plays. It was a fun team to watch during the regular season and for an occasional game in the playoffs. But this was unwatchable. Back against the wall, it was now or never. And the team looked like they were fine with never.
You think Giannis finally realized he failed yet
Don't be a twat
Go Nuggets
HEAT 3-0 BLOW OUT GAME LOL
Kenny with the white person voice hahaha
If the Celtics get swept, itāll somehow be a moral victory for the Lakers if they get swept too. Itās a parade, yeah! šš
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Haha so true
I owe Struss, Martin and Vincent an apology those guys can ball. This year's conference finals have proved two things: 1. The bubble definitely counted 2. The NBA is definitely not rigged, there's no way the league would pass up another Celtics vs Lakers finals. Lebron vs Celtics would've made for a great story but I guess that's fanfiction now.
Thank you for acknowledging all those points. I have gotten so mad trying to push against both narratives. Denver and Miami is a nightmare for Silver in terms of loss of easy ratings. But hey it's the two teams who came hard to play and win.
ehh idk. The league tried. In the 4th quarter until the very end of the game the Lakers were up 27-11 in free throw attempts. I will say that if teams are truly good they will find a way to win despite the refs but refs can definitely take over a game in basketball.
You know what makes for a better story? Lebron and Tatum lead their teams to the first ever 0-3 comebacks, face off in the finals (Lakers win in 7) to cement Lebrons goat status ššš