Celtics (2-0) at Cavaliers (0-2) ECF Game #3 5/19/18

[Ogaju]

I blame this loss on Jaylen fasting for Ramadan.

It’s not Ramadan

Yes it is. Ramadan is a month long, just started about a week ago.

Oh yes you are right.

[Phantom255x]

Not exaggerating, but CLE really is playing like they're Golden State tonight.

Guess we should have seen it coming.

[blink]

well Horford only got 4 shots in 3 quarters tonight.
That just isn't enough.  That is something we can fix.

Jaylen got into early foul trouble guarding lebron.
That can be fixed, start Morris on him.  Bring Jaylen onto him later as we did in the other games.

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

Worst part is, we're probably getting Fosters and Brothers for Game 4.

That is why Brad needs to spend the Ts tonight...start working them now.

BEEN SAYIN! if u think it is bad now just wait

[bopna]

Relying on HCA to win this series is a scary proposition.

Yeah I hate to say it, but I have more confidence CLE can steal a game at Boston than we do of stealing one at Cleveland. Maybe it's the Lebron effect, but after watching tonight it kind of feels that way. This one's going 6 or 7 and I doubt we eliminate them at the Q in Game 6...

Game 5 might be pivotal specially if the refs take over and not let us play our D.

if the Cavs steal game 5 then its all over.

[droopdog7]

and no over the back call on Lebron for putting his hand on Rozier's shoulder to go over him for the tip

Thats not a foul.  Sorry.

It may not be, but do that to Bron and let’s see what happens..

Yeah Rozier didn't box him out there on that play. Its not a foul. If he'd have put a body on him to box him out it would have then been a foul on Lebron.

Well, that looks like an over the back foul to me.

Its not.  He just explained why.

[mr. dee]

Relying on HCA to win this series is a scary proposition.

Yeah I hate to say it, but I have more confidence CLE can steal a game at Boston than we do of stealing one at Cleveland. Maybe it's the Lebron effect, but after watching tonight it kind of feels that way. This one's going 6 or 7 and I doubt we eliminate them at the Q in Game 6...

We stole one in Philly. And Cavs did lost to Pacers in their home court. They did their job protecting it. And this team laid a goose egg. Would have been a closer game if they actually played with energy.

[SparzWizard]

Yup looks like this is going to be a 7 game series.

[CelticSooner]

Relying on HCA to win this series is a scary proposition.

Yeah I hate to say it, but I have more confidence CLE can steal a game at Boston than we do of stealing one at Cleveland. Maybe it's the Lebron effect, but after watching tonight it kind of feels that way. This one's going 6 or 7 and I doubt we eliminate them at the Q in Game 6...

I felt like the C’s would have to win at least one in Cleveland to get it done. Lose Game 4 and the series starts over again.

[KGs Knee]

Just have to hope this butt whooping tonight lights a fire in the team and they come back in game 4 as the more desperate team. The Celtics played like they were too cool for school tonight.

Eh, this is clearly worse than anyone expected, but I figured we'd lose tonight with a big Cavs effort. I think in 2-0 series game 4 is the ideal target game to take for the road team. Hopefully it's a better effort on Monday.

Oh, I'm not surprised at all by the energy and effort level of the two teams.   It's easy to play desperate when you're down 2-0. It's much harder to manufacture that desperation when you have a 2-0 lead and three days off to have everyone pump you up.

Game 4 will be very telling. Let them stew over this beat down for a night and come back with some fire, and I think we will see a different team on Monday.

[liam]

and no over the back call on Lebron for putting his hand on Rozier's shoulder to go over him for the tip

Thats not a foul.  Sorry.

It may not be, but do that to Bron and let’s see what happens..

Yeah Rozier didn't box him out there on that play. Its not a foul. If he'd have put a body on him to box him out it would have then been a foul on Lebron.

Well, that looks like an over the back foul to me.

Its not.  He just explained why.

OK, I disagree...

[Phantom255x]

well Horford only got 4 shots in 3 quarters tonight.
That just isn't enough.  That is something we can fix.

Jaylen got into early foul trouble guarding lebron.
That can be fixed, start Morris on him.  Bring Jaylen onto him later as we did in the other games.

That's BIZARRE.

We're like 13-0 in season/playoffs combined when Horford shoots 70% or higher from the field, AND something like 6-0 this year's playoffs when Horford scores 18 or more (INCLUDING the lone road game we won in this year's playoffs)

Like... did we just decide to gift CLE this win by making Horford ineffective and running Smart and Morris iso plays??

[droopdog7]

well Horford only got 4 shots in 3 quarters tonight.
That just isn't enough.  That is something we can fix.

Jaylen got into early foul trouble guarding lebron.
That can be fixed, start Morris on him.  Bring Jaylen onto him later as we did in the other games.

It can’t be fixed unless we bench brown for Morris.  And it’s exactly how we started game 2.

[SparzWizard]

You know the Celtics are going to lose the game when Cavs' starting 5 and 6th man are scoring double-figures.

[slamtheking]

and no over the back call on Lebron for putting his hand on Rozier's shoulder to go over him for the tip

Thats not a foul.  Sorry.

It may not be, but do that to Bron and let’s see what happens..

Yeah Rozier didn't box him out there on that play. Its not a foul. If he'd have put a body on him to box him out it would have then been a foul on Lebron.

yeah, have to admit, the replay angle showed he didn't go over the back.  guess I just missed that based on Lebron's history on getting away with everything