"These Celtics are bad on the road" : now a false narrative ?

[Celtics4ever]

Until, we win more than one game on the road, it's going to be the narrative...

[Vermont Green]

This is a silly thing to be rankled about.  Every NBA team plays better at home.  But these games in Cleveland will be more about how Cleveland plays than how Boston plays.  There is a lot of upside for Cleveland between how they played in Boston and how they are capable of playing (for example as they were sweeping Toronto).  I think Boston will be fine.  They probably will not play as well as they played in Boston but I don't see them falling off cliff.

I am still not sure Cleveland has any fire left at all.

[Fafnir]

I mean its true, they've been a lot better at home in the playoffs than on the road.

They were a better road team than home team in the regular season however. I see no reason to think they will not be competitive in Cleveland. Hopefully as others have said they grow into confidence as the playoffs go on. They certainly played better in game 6 in MIL and game 3/4 in PHI than the first two road games.

[johnnygreen]

We all know the Celtics are 1-4 on the road in these playoffs. They also had the third best road record during the regular season. So what changed? Obviously not having Kyrie has made a huge difference on the road. However, most people forget that Marcus Smart missed those first two road games against Milwaukee. So I prefer to see them as being 1-2 on the road. We also have to take into account that Scott Foster was the head referee on at least one or two of those games. I forget which game(s) those were, but I thought I remember hearing a stat of them being 0-8 when he officiating a Celtics game.

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

A difference between being up 3-0, and losing Game 3 but winning Game 4 to be up 3-1.

I do not want the Celtics to become the next infamous victim of a blowing a 3-1 series lead. LeBron James has been down 3-1 in a championship game before, before winning a Game 7 on the road.

The Celtics need to go for the kill in Game 3. Treat it like a Game 7.

agreed 100%. treat game 3 like a MUST WiN for us. get them down on the mat 3-0 and then FINISH THEM!

[SHAQATTACK]

guess we see soon enugh

I think the young Celtics finish the job...

drive the STAKE though the Vampire LeS bronstat

Tatum ,Morris and Brown bury James

and plant the headstone in Cleveland.

[celticinorlando]

Let’s look at Cleveland at home:

6 games
1 loss
4 wins by 4 or less points
2 of those wins were last second buzzer beaters
1 blowout win over the raptors

Cleveland’s home court advantage is far from an advantage

[playdream]

If Smart was healthy we would have swept the Bucks though, that's one glaring weakness of Rozier, he only plays well at home

[nickagneta]

Funny thing about the road to a championship....you don't necessarily have to be good on the road if you are lights out at home. Heck, if you got the higher seeding, you don't even have to win a game on the road to win a title.

Regarding this run, in 5 games they have played extremely well in three winning one. Don't see what's so bad about that when you are 9-0 at home and have had home court in every series you played.

[celticinorlando]

Boston got jobbed in game 4 in Milwaukee

Got jobbed in game 4 in Philadelphia

Hoping to god we don’t see Foster and company tomorrow

[cman88]

we will see, but outside of Lebron I dont see this cavs team having the kind of heart to come back from 3-1 or 3-0.

Van gundy said there was tons of eye rolling going on. And their body language is just poor.

[Phantom255x]

Boston got jobbed in game 4 in Milwaukee

Got jobbed in game 4 in Philadelphia

Hoping to god we don’t see Foster and company tomorrow

Yeah that's my biggest fear.

If it's announced we get Fosters and Brothers tomorrow, it's a death sentence and series is officially 2-1... 

[Beat LA]

I just hope that the Celtics are listening to all of this crap.

https://twitter.com/celtics/status/997176837200596993?s=21

Jaylen Brown is asked what he thinks of the national media’s general perception that we can’t play well on the road. “My reaction is that I can’t wait for Game 3. I’ll leave it at that.”

Thanks for this - TP .

[celticinorlando]

Ty Lue is banking in Boston not playing well in Cleveland. He has mentioned it every time he has had an interview.

[GreenFaith1819]

Looking forward to Dr. Brown and this fine team of ours holding some free clinics in CLE.