Durant, Booker, Beal and E Gordon have 54 of the Suns 64 points. I thought this was a bit strange and then I looked at the other 4 players in the Suns rotation = Nurkic, Eubanks, Bol Bol and Royce O'Neale. Not exactly a lot of offensive talent in that supporting group.

Definitely missing Grayson Allen. 

Quote from: SparzWizard on Today at 12:09:06 AM

Quote from: tenn_smoothie on Yesterday at 11:51:54 PM

What bothers me as much as anything is the lack of push-back when there is a confrontation on the court.

Scooby mentioned a couple,
Draymond Green during finals taunting Tatum with no response.
Draymond Green during finals walking into the middle of our huddle during a timeout.
"Oh well, that's just Dray, he always like that, he cool." Of course, Cedric Maxwell was the only Celtic to come back on Green.
Maybe the worst Celtic villain since John Y. Brown, Kyrie Irving, walks around the Boston Garden blowing incense to "purify" the place.
Then after the game and a win over the Celts, Irving makes a special trip back out to the center circle to step on our hallowed logo, designed by Red's brother, no less to show his disdain for the franchise he damaged.
Caleb Martin makes what should have been called a flagrant, dirty foul knocking Tatum down hard and somehow Jayson thinks acting cool about it is the best way to handle it. "They'll know better next time, I'll really be non-chalant then. I might even just run back on defense to show how little I care".
All three of these opponents should have been knocked on their ass at some point by a Celtics player.

Can you imagine .......... how Garnett, Posey, Bird, Max, DJ, Cowens, Silas, Russell, Satch, Heinhson would have responded ?

Garnett would have whooped the other team and take 'em to the dumpster fire. Remember him nailing Zaza Pachulia during that Hawks/Celtics 2008 playoff series? Set that hard pick and yanked Zaza out. Those two kept going at each other in that series.

The Jays, the Kristaps, the Holidays, the Whites they all missing that Celtic culture. They need a little franchise history lesson.

These players don't care as they are more concerned on their individual brand then the front of their jerseys. At least KG lived the Celtics way when he was here. These kids are just players who wore Celtic jerseys. They doesn't scream "Celtic pride". Smart was the last player I can relate with it.

Yup. This was the mental and physical toughness that we all missed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQFRnOAcG-0&t=64s - KG/Zaza scuffle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T99aL8j4yyc - KG decked Zaza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrJQREnRkMI - KG elbowing Q-Rich by the sideline (ironically, Heat/Celtics playoff game)

What bothers me as much as anything is the lack of push-back when there is a confrontation on the court.

Scooby mentioned a couple,
Draymond Green during finals taunting Tatum with no response.
Draymond Green during finals walking into the middle of our huddle during a timeout.
"Oh well, that's just Dray, he always like that, he cool." Of course, Cedric Maxwell was the only Celtic to come back on Green.
Maybe the worst Celtic villain since John Y. Brown, Kyrie Irving, walks around the Boston Garden blowing incense to "purify" the place.
Then after the game and a win over the Celts, Irving makes a special trip back out to the center circle to step on our hallowed logo, designed by Red's brother, no less to show his disdain for the franchise he damaged.
Caleb Martin makes what should have been called a flagrant, dirty foul knocking Tatum down hard and somehow Jayson thinks acting cool about it is the best way to handle it. "They'll know better next time, I'll really be non-chalant then. I might even just run back on defense to show how little I care".
All three of these opponents should have been knocked on their ass at some point by a Celtics player.

Can you imagine .......... how Garnett, Posey, Bird, Max, DJ, Cowens, Silas, Russell, Satch, Heinhson would have responded ?

Garnett would have whooped the other team and take 'em to the dumpster fire. Remember him nailing Zaza Pachulia during that Hawks/Celtics 2008 playoff series? Set that hard pick and yanked Zaza out. Those two kept going at each other in that series.

The Jays, the Kristaps, the Holidays, the Whites they all missing that Celtic culture. They need a little franchise history lesson.

Do or die for the Suns….

Quote from: SCeltic34 on Yesterday at 11:31:10 PM

Quote from: SparzWizard on Yesterday at 10:19:15 PM

This is must-win game for the Celtics.

I wouldn't characterize this as a "must-win" game for the C's.  The C's can definitely win even if they somehow fall down 2-1 in the series.  I'd characterize losing two games in a row against a depleted and inferior Miami team as unacceptable, however.

I'm wondering what adjustments Joe will make for game 3.  Game 2 was atrocious.

Agreed. Not a "must win".

It would be laughably sad if they lost though.

I know folks think "must-win" games are if a team is facing elimination...but seeing that the Celtics just laid an egg at home in Game 2 (where they've been so dominant at this season) against the depleted inferior Miami Heat team plus their history in these typa games with them, this certainly spells "must-win" for Boston. It's to avoid trailing 2-1.

Being down 2-1 would be a disaster.