Heat (0-1) at Celtics (1-0) Round 1 Game #2 4/24/24

[celticinorlando]

Never thought this would be sweep. Figured tonight would be Miami’s best effort.

Game three is very important. Going to find out if this was a one off or if Boston is going to be pulled into deep water.

[liam]

Holiday and KP shot 5-21 and 1-8 from 3...

[Neurotic Guy]

Well s***, if the other team shoots 54% from three on high volume then you're gonna lose.  That just is what it is.

Onto the next one.

Most optimistic take. Thanks. Yeah, 23-43 is difficult to defeat, especially when you are shooting a pedestrian 12-32.   33 point differential.  The downside of the take is -- they had way too many good looks. 

[tenn_smoothie]

I'm not saying Tillman or Kornet would be saviors, but idk why they don't at least try them out there. Teams like Miami literally trot out random guys on occasion and that's how some of them find roles. Same with Hauser last year btw, he just got shelved despite being our best shooter from 3

Joe has regularly buried guys on the bench for long stretches until he is forced to play them and magically when they get regular minutes, most have played well. He just leaves the same 6 out there and once again, does not make any adjustments with substitutions or defensive strategy.

[scaryjerry]

This “historically good super team” just lost home court advantage in round 1 game 2 against the worst team in the playoffs without their best player.

They. Are. Frauds.

Same ole story

[blink]

My biggest worry was that KP couldn't handle the intensity and physicality of playoff basketball, and here we are.

We have a lot of talent, but are an extremely soft team. That talent should allow us to win a series or two, but I think we all assumed that this team could at least sweep the 8-seeded team which is now missing its best player.

Coaching and schemes isn't gonna do much if KP is gonna suck this bad and look fragile. Tonight was entirely on him, poor shooting, bad decisions, looked lost from the start and clumsy.

The heat are going to foul us as much as they can get away with, KP needs to just man up and play stronger.  needs to play better def on Bam and challenge his shots better, just like everyone else on def.

[scaryjerry]

Never thought this would be sweep. Figured tonight would be Miami’s best effort.

Game three is very important. Going to find out if this was a one off or if Boston is going to be pulled into deep water.

Based on the body languages of both teams?

7 game series. Get ready!

[Neurotic Guy]

Holiday and KP shot 5-21 and 1-8 from 3...

Of the things that I'm sure won't happen next game, I think is the top.  They'll be better. Pritchard  had 19 invisible minutes and DW looked sloppy tonight as well.

[jambr380]

Holiday and KP shot 5-21 and 1-8 from 3...

It's a real bummer that these two guys are supposed to be what put us over the top, but they are both traditionally known as playoff chokers.

I realize all of the guys we traded away ended the season injured, but I hope Brad didn't overthink himself in this case. At the very least, I think we are going to miss Marcus. Love him or hate him, he always came to play in the playoffs.

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

Never thought this would be sweep. Figured tonight would be Miami’s best effort.

Game three is very important. Going to find out if this was a one off or if Boston is going to be pulled into deep water.

WE SHOULD NOT BE LOSING AT HOME PERIOD

MIAMI shoulda only had a shot in a gam,e 3 or 4 st home

we are trash at home in playoffs

[Banner18now!]

This “historically good super team” just lost home court advantage in round 1 game 2 against the worst team in the playoffs without their best player.

They. Are. Frauds.

Same ole story

Mazulla sucks. No adjustmnets, on defense or offense. If they aren’t hitting the 3 Joe has no clue what to do. Wasted two years so far with this guy, don’t waste another one.

[tenn_smoothie]

Even with Miami's ridiculous shooting, helped by our bad defensive schemes, the Celts were up 3 at half.
Perfect situation to make some halftime defensive changes to address the shooting and to win the 2nd half and go up 2 - 0.
But we keep playing the same way with the same players and then adding in the lack of energy from our mentally soft players and it's instead at 1 - 1.

[scaryjerry]

My biggest worry was that KP couldn't handle the intensity and physicality of playoff basketball, and here we are.

We have a lot of talent, but are an extremely soft team. That talent should allow us to win a series or two, but I think we all assumed that this team could at least sweep the 8-seeded team which is now missing its best player.

Yeah I feared this all season too.
I was thrilled with his season and staying healthy but never really bought into him being some super star that was going to dominate the playoffs. Pretty much knew once things tightened up and there was a series and scouting going on he would revert into the average players he’s been for years

[Mahk E Mahk]

the J’s might be scoring but their defensive effort tonight is pathetic. you can’t win a chip if you don’t play both sides of the court for 48 minutes. allowing someone as limited as herro to torch you at home is a joke.

I'm not sure what you're watching, but that's not on the Jays. They're getting screened off by Bam - with illegal screens no less - and it's the bigs that are playing way too far down low to contest it. That's literally what it is every single time, with the only other exceptions being when Jrue is playign his free safety defense and way too far off of his man.

It's the ridiculous defensive gameplan that is killing us - the same one that lost us the Finals in 2022. Wonder who we have to blame? 

i’m watching bam feast in the lane, martin and herro shooting uncontested threes, jaquez and jovic with 25. are the J’s not guarding anyone? their defensive effort has been crap, just like the bigs who are sagging on the pnr. take off your green colored glasses; this team is who they’ve always been and the J’s aren’t stepping up on the defensive end.

and where were the J’s on offense in the second half? another disappearing act in crunch time…against the butler-less heat at home!

I mean, they both went over their season averages in points tonight. You're pointing the finger at the wrong guys, my dude.

ah, points…the ultimate arbiter of performance in the nba playoffs.
 

where were they offensively in the second half? how many games have we witnessed the J’s put up big point stats but disappear in the crunch? tatum took himself out of the game mentally again (we all saw it happen), and brown was essentially nonexistent in the 2H. and they played horribly on defense. just because the bigs played poorly on D as well doesn’t have anything to do with the J’s: you want to be “the man” you have to show up in the crunch on both sides of the ball. ultimately, the J’s will be judged by wins and championships and tonight they didn’t deliver (again).

[Moranis]

Tatum +8 in 41 minutes

Brown -20 in 37 minutes

Pretty much sums up the last 7 years.

for gawds sake are you even watching the game.  Brown has played well.  plus minus doesnt tell the whole story so stupid

We've seen this for 7 years.  When Brown has these great shooting games, he is generally playing selfish ball and doesn't work as hard defensively.  It is years and years of the same thing. Tatum played 41 minutes and Boston outscored the Heat by 6 points.  Tatum sits on the bench and Brown has to step up and Boston gets outscored by 16 points in the 7 minutes Tatum rested.  In game 1, Brown took just 12 shots, he had 3 assists, and just 1 turnover.  He was +17 in the 34 minutes. He played much better team ball.  That is the Brown we need.  Not the Brown from tonight when he took more shots than Tatum and had nearly double the shots of the 3rd person.  Gunner mode Brown is not good for the team, even when he is hitting shots because he doesn't play team ball.  He had just 1 assist, he turned it over 3 times, and his defense wasn't very good.