Celtics (45-31) at Nets (38-37) Game #77 3/31/19

[mr. dee]

Garbage time b/c you are being blown out by the NETS is embarrassing.

A) The NETS actually are a playoff team this year.


B) When they site Kyrie and Horford, what do you expect?

I expect at least a good effort. Chucking jumpers and jogging on transition is not a good effort.

[gouki88]

JB misses both free throws and badly too

It's a norm for him. The guy is probably the worst 3rd pick free throw shooter in history.

He's not even the worst 3rd pick free throw shooter post-2000

[tstorey_97]

I just want everyone to know that I have Texas Tech in the final four on my bracket. It's pretty clear I'm going win big...

Let's see I have Texas Tech, Michigan State, North Carolina and Tennessee.

Wait a minute....there must be some mistake here.

[SHAQATTACK]

Where are all the "Rozier is so good as a starter" folks tonight?

he ll do fine in China

[RodyTur10]

Where are all the "Rozier is so good as a starter" folks tonight?

he ll do fine in China

Whatever team is going to sign him this summer will start to regret it, I'm sure of it.

[mctyson]

Garbage time b/c you are being blown out by the NETS is embarrassing.

A) The NETS actually are a playoff team this year.


B) When they site Kyrie and Horford, what do you expect?

I expect at least a good effort. Chucking jumpers and jogging on transition is not a good effort.

I thought the effort was fine in the 1st half, then they got worked.  2nd night of a back-to-back, on the road, with
their 2 best players out...

again, what do you expect?

[ozgod]

Magic up 7 with 30 sec to go, the Magic might yet save our 4th spot in the standings

[footey]

3rd quarter we got unhinged. Didn’t defend Russell and let his spurt hurt our offense. It’s either panic or selfishness or immaturity. Or all 3.

[ozgod]

We've hung on to 4th seed thanks mainly to Aaron Gordon and Jonathan Isaac of the Magic leading their team to a 121-116 win against the Pacers in Indiana, great game fellas. Check's in the mail!

[tstorey_97]

Magic brings Pacers down.

Good news. Not that much lately.

Nets are too much like last year's Celtics for my tastes.

[SparzWizard]

And people say the Celtics could beat Brooklyn without Kyrie Irving 

[MNLCelts]

Is Brad letting the Pacers take the 4th seed so they get to play in Indiana more?

[ozgod]

And people say the Celtics could beat Brooklyn without Kyrie Irving 

They also said the ball moves better without Kyrie. 19 assists total tonight 

[ozgod]

Brad was interviewed after the game and said he was really frustrated with (presumably Terry's) defense on DLo in the 3rd.

BROOKLYN -- D’Angelo Russell pulled up and drilled a 3 about 20 seconds in to the third quarter. Two minutes later, he did the same thing, and Brad Stevens angrily called a timeout. He looked to the floor and swung his fist in frustration.

It was happening again.

“He talked about DeAngelo Russell coming out and being super aggressive, and obviously we put our finger on it before it happened and we wanted to cut his water off, and we didn’t do a good job of that,” Marcus Morris said of that timeout. “And I can understand it because you talk about something, and then go out and it happens exactly as he said. It can be frustrating.”

“Yeah I was really frustrated with the -- I don’t think we value possessions at the level that we need to to be a good team,” Stevens said after the game. "And I get it, we played really hard last night, last night was a tough game but every possession all year matters. And we haven’t been great at that. That’s one of the things that if we’re going to make it anywhere significant, they all have to matter equally. Offensively, defensively, moving it, all of those things.”

https://www.masslive.com/celtics/2019/03/brad-stevens-frustrated-with-his-boston-celtics-i-dont-think-we-value-possessions-at-the-level-that-we-need-to-to-be-a-good-team.html

I guess that was the sequence early in the 3rd where Terry threw up an airball on a drive, then failed to fight around a screen to contest DLo's 3 which he made, then he bricked a 3 on the other end and then didn't run back in transition and allowed DLo to hit a wide open 3.

[Fierce1]

Can't understand why the Lakers gave up so soon on D'Angelo Russell.

It's very clear now the Lakers organization is incompetent.