Celtics (3-0) at Bulls (1-2) Game #4 10/24/22

[Kuberski33]

This no longer a young team. It's a veteran team both and as such there will be games all season where they just won't feel like making the effort required to win - like tonight.  Especially on the road.
So get used to it. 

But, come playoff time, we'll be glad it is a veteran team.

[Kuberski33]

Eddie House saying that Tatum is getting a rep with the officials as a whiner and they are on the lookout for him waving his arm in a dismissive gesture and will T him up when they see him do it

One thing Udoka was pretty good at - I thought anyway - was limiting this stuff. This could be a test for Mazzulla. He took one for the team getting himself tossed tonight. Let's see if the histrionics with Tatum and Grant especially, continue.

[tenn_smoothie]

Weird:  NBA teams need more than one or two big men to win.

Thank You.

And why is it that you and I and some others here have been saying that the entire off-season, but supposed basketball experts like Stevens and our coaching staff can't figure it out ? Or is the problem the owners unwillingness to spend money. Either way, if true, that is a fundamental problem with the organization and will prevent us from winning titles.

[ozgod]

Weird:  NBA teams need more than one or two big men to win.

they also need to play defense to win.

Those usually go hand-in-hand.

A better big can’t clean up everything they did tonight. The Bulls would go right by their perimeter defender like he wasn’t there - even Smart was blown by a few times. On the other end, the Bulls didn’t hold the Cs down because Vucevic is a great defensive center; drives stalled on the perimeter and went nowhere.

Yes the perimeter defense and particularly the pick and roll has been an issue these first four games,

[Birdman]

Got to have bigs inside which Celtics do not have