Feelings on the In Season Tournament?

[Roy H.]

If the IST was a preview of what we can expect out of Joe and the team in the playoffs, I'm not all that encouraged.

[johnnygreen]

Sarcasm doesn't really translate on these boards, so I can't tell if everyone is serious about being happy the Celtics are out of the IST. I apologize for being so blunt, but if serious, then what a loser mentality.

I definitely wanted to see the Celtics win this, and prove they finally can get past the mental block of winning playoff type games against "inferior competition".

[keevsnick]

If the IST was a preview of what we can expect out of Joe and the team in the playoffs, I'm not all that encouraged.

Well if the Celtcis shoot <30% from three, and their opponent shoots >45% from three, then ya they'll be in trouble. We saw that last year vs Miami when they shot 30.3% in the ECF from three and MIA shot 43.3%.

But literally every team will lose under those circumstances.

[scaryjerry]

If the IST was a preview of what we can expect out of Joe and the team in the playoffs, I'm not all that encouraged.

Exactly. It’s more of the same with this group. Painful to watch.

If they’re the clear cut favorites “best team in the league” and “guaranteed to win the title” like Charles Barkley was saying last night on tnt then they simply dont lose that game last night.

The tournament itself is pretty cool but not encouraged by the Celtics after it.

[LilRip]

I must be in the twilight zone. If this was a meaningless regular season loss, people would be losing their minds over how we lost to an inferior Indy team. But instead, since it’s an IST game with 500k and a trophy on the line (which still count as regular season W/L btw!), people are absolutely chill about it. Like yeah nbd, win some lose some

[Roy H.]

If the IST was a preview of what we can expect out of Joe and the team in the playoffs, I'm not all that encouraged.

Well if the Celtcis shoot <30% from three, and their opponent shoots >45% from three, then ya they'll be in trouble. We saw that last year vs Miami when they shot 30.3% in the ECF from three and MIA shot 43.3%.

But literally every team will lose under those circumstances.

If we shoot below 30% from 3PT and their opponent shoots better than 45%, and we make no adjustments, absolutely. 

Of course, some teams do make adjustments.  We don't, unless that adjustment is to shoot even more threes.

Also, the shooting disparity wasn't the only reason we lost.  18 turnovers and continued lack of poise were issues, yet again.  Same thing with coming out flat in the third, and playing without intensity.  Not getting to the line, and not making our FTs when we were there.

So, like I said:  not encouraging.

[Vermont Green]

If the IST was a preview of what we can expect out of Joe and the team in the playoffs, I'm not all that encouraged.

Well if the Celtcis shoot <30% from three, and their opponent shoots >45% from three, then ya they'll be in trouble. We saw that last year vs Miami when they shot 30.3% in the ECF from three and MIA shot 43.3%.

But literally every team will lose under those circumstances.

If we shoot below 30% from 3PT and their opponent shoots better than 45%, and we make no adjustments, absolutely. 

Of course, some teams do make adjustments.  We don't, unless that adjustment is to shoot even more threes.

Also, the shooting disparity wasn't the only reason we lost.  18 turnovers and continued lack of poise were issues, yet again.

We are averaging 32.6% from 3 on the road.  We are averaging 14.5 TOV per game on the road.  We weren't all that much below our average, which is exactly the problem.

Our scheme is to shoot a lot of 3s.  You are always going to make 3s at a variable percentage, especially on the road.  We have chosen to play small, something most on here have advocated for.  Small teams need to take more 3s. 

I don't know what the problem is with TOVs.  Not sure why we can't clean that up.

[Kernewek]

I must be in the twilight zone. If this was a meaningless regular season loss, people would be losing their minds over how we lost to an inferior Indy team. But instead, since it’s an IST game with 500k and a trophy on the line (which still count as regular season W/L btw!), people are absolutely chill about it. Like yeah nbd, win some lose some

I feel like those of us who react strongly to individual losses and those of us who don't are pretty consistent though - it's one of the nice things about the board, to be honest.

[celticsclay]

I must be in the twilight zone. If this was a meaningless regular season loss, people would be losing their minds over how we lost to an inferior Indy team. But instead, since it’s an IST game with 500k and a trophy on the line (which still count as regular season W/L btw!), people are absolutely chill about it. Like yeah nbd, win some lose some

Well you can make an argument this is actually much better than a regular season loss. If we had won we probably get an extra game against the bucks (someone correct me if I am
Wrong) on a neutral court rather than a lesser opponent. We also don’t have to worry about the starters playing 42 minutes in a game in December that is meaningless to the rest of us because the nba is promoting this and players make 500k. So we get an easier schedule and avoid injuries risk with a thin team. We also avoid rushing back porzingas for something a lot of us don’t care about. It’s actually pretty good.

[Roy H.]

I must be in the twilight zone. If this was a meaningless regular season loss, people would be losing their minds over how we lost to an inferior Indy team. But instead, since it’s an IST game with 500k and a trophy on the line (which still count as regular season W/L btw!), people are absolutely chill about it. Like yeah nbd, win some lose some

Well you can make an argument this is actually much better than a regular season loss. If we had won we probably get an extra game against the bucks (someone correct me if I am
Wrong) on a neutral court rather than a lesser opponent. We also don’t have to worry about the starters playing 42 minutes in a game in December that is meaningless to the rest of us because the nba is promoting this and players make 500k. So we get an easier schedule and avoid injuries risk with a thin team. We also avoid rushing back porzingas for something a lot of us don’t care about. It’s actually pretty good.

We could still end up with the Bucks, on the road rather than at a neutral site.