Devastating Loss?

[Goldstar88]

Least it wasn’t another knee injury…

Boston Celtics center Robert Williams III felt under the weather for Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat.

Per The Athletic's Jared Weiss, Williams "was dealing with an illness" since early Monday morning before the game tipped off at 8:30 p.m. ET.

[Who]

What really bothered me was Al and Smart both talking after the game about how proud they are of the team.

Yeah, I don't get that either.

They underachieved. Why are they proud?

Loser attitude.

[gouki88]

What really bothered me was Al and Smart both talking after the game about how proud they are of the team.

Yeah, I don't get that either.

They underachieved. Why are they proud?

Loser attitude.

And they are supposedly the vocal leaders of the team. Explains a lot!

[DocomoCelts]

This was probably the worst outcome, with the team doing just enough to get Brad to run it back. With sleepy Joe at the helm, so much money locked into 2 no.2’s and other teams retooling over the summer, the path ahead looks a bit grim.

[liam]

Least it wasn’t another knee injury…

Boston Celtics center Robert Williams III felt under the weather for Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat.

Per The Athletic's Jared Weiss, Williams "was dealing with an illness" since early Monday morning before the game tipped off at 8:30 p.m. ET.

He looked good in the small minutes he played.

[RJ87]

Least it wasn’t another knee injury…

Boston Celtics center Robert Williams III felt under the weather for Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat.

Per The Athletic's Jared Weiss, Williams "was dealing with an illness" since early Monday morning before the game tipped off at 8:30 p.m. ET.

He looked good in the small minutes he played.

Shams said he was throwing up throughout the game and that's why he disappeared to the locker room a few times and why his minutes were limited.

[Surferdad]

Least it wasn’t another knee injury…

Boston Celtics center Robert Williams III felt under the weather for Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat.

Per The Athletic's Jared Weiss, Williams "was dealing with an illness" since early Monday morning before the game tipped off at 8:30 p.m. ET.

He looked good in the small minutes he played.

Shams said he was throwing up throughout the game and that's why he disappeared to the locker room a few times and why his minutes were limited.

So JT, Timelord and Brogdon all disabled

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

Least it wasn’t another knee injury…

Boston Celtics center Robert Williams III felt under the weather for Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat.

Per The Athletic's Jared Weiss, Williams "was dealing with an illness" since early Monday morning before the game tipped off at 8:30 p.m. ET.

He looked good in the small minutes he played.

Shams said he was throwing up throughout the game and that's why he disappeared to the locker room a few times and why his minutes were limited.

So JT, Timelord and Brogdon all disabled

So once again injuries (plus the terrible shooting) derailed the Celtics. Shocker.

[SparzWizard]

Least it wasn’t another knee injury…

Boston Celtics center Robert Williams III felt under the weather for Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat.

Per The Athletic's Jared Weiss, Williams "was dealing with an illness" since early Monday morning before the game tipped off at 8:30 p.m. ET.

He looked good in the small minutes he played.

Shams said he was throwing up throughout the game and that's why he disappeared to the locker room a few times and why his minutes were limited.

So JT, Timelord and Brogdon all disabled

All excuses tbh. Tyler Herro, Victor Oladipo were out, and Gabe Vincent was out in Game 5. This team should've played like how they're supposed to play as a #2 seed defending games 1 and 2. See what happens when you prolong a series against lesser foes? You start wearing out and get exhausted!

[jpotter33]

Yeah, I’m similarly relieved. Had no faith they’d beat Denver, and felt like another Finals achievement would lead to more of the same, which unfortunately looks like we’re going to get regardless.

Did not enjoy this team like last year or other years. This team felt more like the last Kyrie year and last Brad year. They were a chore to watch, and didn’t feel deserving of a championship.

Now at least this team will stop stressing me out and consistently underachieving.

[Atzar]

On a personal level, I’m disappointed but not devastated.  I mentioned elsewhere that I never really bought in on this team.  The loss is an end to a source of frustration for me, and it’s not entirely unwelcome.

From a more objective viewpoint, we’re in a pickle.  The upcoming CBA almost feels tailored specifically to scuttle the team we’ve built.  I don’t know what Mazzulla’s ceiling is as a coach (and I have no interest in debating it), but whatever it is, it seems reasonable to expect that he’ll take significant time to reach it.  But we likely won’t have a team nearly as talented as this one.  So this theoretical Experienced Mazzulla won’t have as much to work with.  We have a win-later coach on a win-now team in a win-now climate.

We had all the pieces we needed.  It just never came together.  And I’m concerned we’re about to find out how precious these opportunities are. 

[Phantom255x]

What really bothered me was Al and Smart both talking after the game about how proud they are of the team.

Yeah, I don't get that either.

They underachieved. Why are they proud?

Loser attitude.

And they are supposedly the vocal leaders of the team. Explains a lot!

I think it was either Game 2 or Game 3, but Smart literally told Butler on the court to stop acting cocky because the C’s beat them last year. That was a terrible look IMO but also pretty much summed it up sadly. These guys act like they’ve won something before when they haven’t. Who cares about last year’s results now?

And hell, Butler told everyone last year after Game 7 they’d be back and taking vengeance, and guess what. They did. Miami’s just way more mentally tougher than us

[SparzWizard]

What really bothered me was Al and Smart both talking after the game about how proud they are of the team.

Yeah, I don't get that either.

They underachieved. Why are they proud?

Loser attitude.

And they are supposedly the vocal leaders of the team. Explains a lot!

I think it was either Game 2 or Game 3, but Smart literally told Butler on the court to stop acting cocky because the C’s beat them last year. That was a terrible look IMO but also pretty much summed it up sadly. These guys act like they’ve won something before when they haven’t. Who cares about last year’s results now?

And hell, Butler told everyone last year after Game 7 they’d be back and taking vengeance, and guess what. They did. Miami’s just way more mentally tougher than us

Their coach disciplines them well. And what do we have, a coach who sits on his hands 24/7...might as well put a cone out there coaching these guys.

[gouki88]

Least it wasn’t another knee injury…

Boston Celtics center Robert Williams III felt under the weather for Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat.

Per The Athletic's Jared Weiss, Williams "was dealing with an illness" since early Monday morning before the game tipped off at 8:30 p.m. ET.

He looked good in the small minutes he played.

Shams said he was throwing up throughout the game and that's why he disappeared to the locker room a few times and why his minutes were limited.

So JT, Timelord and Brogdon all disabled

So once again injuries (plus the terrible shooting) derailed the Celtics. Shocker.

It's almost as if we muck around too much in the early rounds and beat up our own guys, when we should dispatch teams much quicker