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Can we admit yet that what the heat did in game 2 was historic? Also, late in their historic game we were still in it? I get it we played much more intensely defensively tonight, but can we not be all doom and gloom all the time?
The Celtics had the best offense in the NBA this year. Game 2 was terrible but can we please take a deep breath and have a memory that lasts longer than 2 days?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvwVc1JArjM
Joe Mazula offense in microscope
That rant is EXACTLY how I also feel watching this team.
The two superstars are dumb enough as it is. Add in a literally brain-dead coach and you have a huge cluster.
It's incomprehensible to me that players and coaches at this level are playing such bad basketball and seem oblivious to that fact.
If Brad is watching this and is not alarmed, then something is very wrong with our franchise.
A long memory is the problem. We all watched last year and are having flashbacks.
Is there a forum friendly term for people that have strong emotional reactions at the first glimpse of adversity? I think if we could come up with a common vocabulary, many would be less offended. I like snowflake, but that might be strong. Maybe something equivalent to woke?
Is it really an overreaction when they showed the same qeak flaws in game 2 that have led to their undoing in the past?
We changed the dynamics of the team by trading some guys away, we had hoped gm 2 celtics were gone.
It's awesome we wrecked them tonight, but that gm2 coaching and team will show its face again these playoffs. Let's hope it doesn't cost them.
For Miami-Boston it's literally "home court DISADVANTAGE"
Boston is 6-2 AT Miami in playoff games since 2022, but Miami is 6-3 at TD Garden in same span.
yup it is nuts. makes us winning game 4 even more important. go up 3-1 and hope to close out at home albeit as you said we are not good at home against miami
Yeah I think Game 5 is the most important one regardless. Like even if we win Game 4, if we lose Game 5 then things could get dicey as Miami has momentum going into Game 6 at home again. Obviously worst case is if we go back to Miami in Game 6 down 3-2.
One game at a time. But the C's really should just win the next two and end it in 5 games.
LOL!! How many players on this team were on the 2018 and 2019 teams.This team is not just good in home court at allFor Miami-Boston it's literally "home court DISADVANTAGE"
Boston is 6-2 AT Miami in playoff games since 2022, but Miami is 6-3 at TD Garden in same span.
yup it is nuts. makes us winning game 4 even more important. go up 3-1 and hope to close out at home albeit as you said we are not good at home against miami
2018 - Lost to Cavs on their homecourt
2019 - Lost all the home games against Bucks in a gentleman sweep.
2022 - Lost in the finals in their home court
2023 - Lost game 7 against the Heat
The narratives after Game 2 were not kind to the Celtics, especially since they dropped a game as a 15½ point favorite and losing home-court advantage. Going back to Miami, a place where they’ve enjoyed playoff highs and lows over the past few years, could have presented a unique mental hurdle.
Mazzulla didn’t react any differently the past few days than after any other loss. He stressed the adjustments. He trusted his players to pivot and move on but also pay greater attention to detail after being humbled in Game 2.
“I think he was calm, he wasn’t worried, he wasn’t fazed,” Pritchard said of Mazzulla. “When you’ve got a coach that’s not fazed, that trickles down to the whole team and I applaud him for that. We follow his lead and how his demeanor is and he’s done a great job this year and he continues to do a great job.
“I mean it’s hard to go undefeated in the playoffs. People think that we’re so talented that we shouldn’t lose but people have better days some days.”
Said Jaylen Brown: “I didn’t notice a difference from Joe. Once we seen the game (film) he didn’t overreact. Miami played incredibly well in Game 2. They shot the hell out of it. I thought we executed our game plan, it’s just that Miami had a really good game.
“Tonight we wanted to come out and make it a little more uncomfortable. There weren’t a lot of adjustments that we made. We’ve just got to make sure we’re the harder playing team.”
Mazzulla downplayed the importance of Game 3, but the winner of that game in a 1-1 series takes the series nearly 75 percent of the time. After a 20-point win in Game 1 and then being stunned in Game 2, the Celtics had to regain their mental edge.
“You just have to find that balance of focusing on what’s most important,” he said. “Sometimes you have that much time off (three days), you could easily start to come up with all these things, but at the end of the day the game’s pretty simple. And you’ve got to find the simple things you can execute; the simple things you can take away and how you bring the right mindset and physicality.
“I know it’s mundane and the playoffs create a lot of hysteria but there’s no difference between the regular season and playoff game. You’ve just got to bring it, mentally, physically and emotionally.”
Mazzulla is right. This game is simple. The Celtics needed to play with more passion and desire defensively. They needed to be tougher, fight through screens, knock some screeners down, fight for loose balls. Payton Pritchard frustrated Tyler Herro throughout the evening, so much so that the irritated Herro threw the ball at Sam Hauser after a foul late in the third quarter and picked up a technical foul.
The Celtics had the best offense in the NBA this year. Game 2 was terrible but can we please take a deep breath and have a memory that lasts longer than 2 days?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvwVc1JArjM
Joe Mazula offense in microscope
That rant is EXACTLY how I also feel watching this team.
The two superstars are dumb enough as it is. Add in a literally brain-dead coach and you have a huge cluster.
It's incomprehensible to me that players and coaches at this level are playing such bad basketball and seem oblivious to that fact.
If Brad is watching this and is not alarmed, then something is very wrong with our franchise.
A long memory is the problem. We all watched last year and are having flashbacks.
Is there a forum friendly term for people that have strong emotional reactions at the first glimpse of adversity? I think if we could come up with a common vocabulary, many would be less offended. I like snowflake, but that might be strong. Maybe something equivalent to woke?
Is it really an overreaction when they showed the same qeak flaws in game 2 that have led to their undoing in the past?
We changed the dynamics of the team by trading some guys away, we had hoped gm 2 celtics were gone.
It's awesome we wrecked them tonight, but that gm2 coaching and team will show its face again these playoffs. Let's hope it doesn't cost them.
Kinda feels like we are in an abusive relationship, then we freak out / overreact at something ... well yeah, because in the past you've messed me around.
The playoff series of the last few years have been head wrecking. Throwing away games. Making tough 7 game series out of what should have been easy wins. Losing series you should have had. So many bad moments. Choking. Turnovers. Shot selection. Defensive breakdowns. Lack of intensity. Bad coaching decisions.
Like I said, like an abusive relationship.
Yes we love this team but we hate it, probebly more than even non fans do, because they’ve done some horrible things to us. So when they do the horrible thing again we lose our minds, then when they do something good we find ways to day “nah but they will mess it up again, I don’t want to open my heart to them again. Much easier to think they suck.”.
So we accentuate all the bad things they do and have done, and try to minimize the good things, because to harden our hearts to anything good they do is a way to protect ourselves emotionally…at least till they win a championship. Then we are happy…till next season when the cycle starts all over again
I’m getting married today. I won’t be able to watch the game but these C’s better win it today! Lol go C’s!
Can we admit yet that what the heat did in game 2 was historic? Also, late in their historic game we were still in it? I get it we played much more intensely defensively tonight, but can we not be all doom and gloom all the time?
