Celtics (10-9) at Mavericks (8-9) Game #20 11/24/18

[ozgod]

Kyrie and Brad have words during a timeout??

when?

[jpotter33]

Nice MM!!

Impressive that the C's are down 3. VERY impressive.   If this is the Mavs for real -- watch out.  But I can' believe they can play at this level for 48.  If C's can sustain, they have a great chance tonight.  Good that they had a relatively light night last night.

Yeah, outside of a few breakdowns defensively, I thought we've been pretty good tonight. Especially offensively it seems like we've had a much more consistent and solid game.

[ozgod]

Kyrie and Brad have words during a timeout??

I read that Kyrie and Jerome Allen were having a heated discussion.

. When was this? I didn’t see anything

[nickagneta]

Dallas doing everything they can to take advantage of the Celtics all switch defense. KI guarding Doncic was mostly because they ran picks to get the matchup they want. Doncic has not been hurting the C's when Brown and Morris has been on him but Doncic is killing the Celtics once those two players switch off him.

Harrison Barnes is not going to go for 5 more 3 pointers. Dallas is not going to make another 10 3 pointers. If Boston plays like they did that half, they win the game.

[tstorey_97]

Dallas has some balance. The Celtics are going to have to take it from them.

Semi looks great with the ball, just needs to take a shot or two.

Not sure if they've got it yet, but , they look better. Morris' drive at 3 seconds was about as much life as I've seen out of the starters this season.

If you're not willing to die for it?

[Neurotic Guy]

Thinking of bright spots this season: 

Morris
Semi
Baynes

These 3 have played as good or better than expected throughout the season so far.   

Everyone else has generally underperformed, been inconsistent, or started slow.

[Rosco917]

Dallas doing everything they can to take advantage of the Celtics all switch defense. KI guarding Doncic was mostly because they ran picks to get the matchup they want. Doncic has not been hurting the C's when Brown and Morris has been on him but Doncic is killing the Celtics once those two players switch off him.

Harrison Barnes is not going to go for 5 more 3 pointers. Dallas is not going to make another 10 3 pointers. If Boston plays like they did that half, they win the game.

Sounds like a plan.

[Neurotic Guy]

Dallas doing everything they can to take advantage of the Celtics all switch defense. KI guarding Doncic was mostly because they ran picks to get the matchup they want. Doncic has not been hurting the C's when Brown and Morris has been on him but Doncic is killing the Celtics once those two players switch off him.

Harrison Barnes is not going to go for 5 more 3 pointers. Dallas is not going to make another 10 3 pointers. If Boston plays like they did that half, they win the game.

They must have gotten the switches early in the possession, I didn't see the picks -- seemed a couple of times KI was on LD throughout the possession, which obviously didn't make sense.   

[jpotter33]

Pretty disappointed that Tatum hit 4 of his 5 first shots early in the first quarter and then only got one more shot up the rest of the half. We need to make that an emphasis as a team, but also he needs to be more assertive with getting those touches and shots up.

[Neurotic Guy]

No Theis minutes yet.

[jpotter33]

Dallas doing everything they can to take advantage of the Celtics all switch defense. KI guarding Doncic was mostly because they ran picks to get the matchup they want. Doncic has not been hurting the C's when Brown and Morris has been on him but Doncic is killing the Celtics once those two players switch off him.

Harrison Barnes is not going to go for 5 more 3 pointers. Dallas is not going to make another 10 3 pointers. If Boston plays like they did that half, they win the game.

They must have gotten the switches early in the possession, I didn't see the picks -- seemed a couple of times KI was on LD throughout the possession, which obviously didn't make sense.   

The latter ones were when he was the 2 guard with Rozier at the 1 on Berea. It's been about half and half with those coming off of switches and those Kyrie guarding him straight up.

[nickagneta]

Dallas doing everything they can to take advantage of the Celtics all switch defense. KI guarding Doncic was mostly because they ran picks to get the matchup they want. Doncic has not been hurting the C's when Brown and Morris has been on him but Doncic is killing the Celtics once those two players switch off him.

Harrison Barnes is not going to go for 5 more 3 pointers. Dallas is not going to make another 10 3 pointers. If Boston plays like they did that half, they win the game.

They must have gotten the switches early in the possession, I didn't see the picks -- seemed a couple of times KI was on LD throughout the possession, which obviously didn't make sense.   

Haven't been hard picks they just run a player towards Doncic, Doncic goes the other way and the Celtics switch. I also think coming down court, Kyrie picked up Doncic once and the C's got burned by it.

[SCeltic34]

First play out of the half is a 3.  MM got a great look.  Gotta make it.

[Neurotic Guy]

Ugly start to the half.

[ozgod]

Surely we can come up with a better possession than that