Down 2-1, Do You Believe?

[Phantom255x]

Just wanted a status check around here

I still got C's in 6

[Roy H.]

No reason not to. 

[angryguy77]

They are the better team.

They should win in 6

Idk if they have the discipline to put them away however.

[GreenlyGreeny]

If they had played at least average in each of the 12 quarters so far, we’d be up 3-0. But this Heat team is well-coached and tenacious. We need to take it one game at a time. If we can win games 4-5, I think we can take them in six. What seems more likely is us winning game 4, dropping game 5, and then having to win two in a row including game 7 in Miami. We should be able to do it. Even if we go down 3-1, I think we can make a comeback. But we do not want to have three straight elimination games going into the NBA Finals.

[Who]

Of course. I'll be surprised if we lose another game.

Time to destroy them.

[SparzWizard]

If they had played at least average in each of the 12 quarters so far, we’d be up 3-0. But this Heat team is well-coached and tenacious. We need to take it one game at a time. If we can win games 4-5, I think we can take them in six. What seems more likely is us winning game 4, dropping game 5, and then having to win two in a row including game 7 in Miami. We should be able to do it. Even if we go down 3-1, I think we can make a comeback. But we do not want to have three straight elimination games going into the NBA Finals.

So following the pattern of the Bucks series. OK.

So far, we lost Game 1. Won Game 2. Lost Game 3. I anticipate us winning Game 4, but I think we'll lose Game 5 after the kids feel like they won the series in Game 4. Then it'll start to hit 'em that they're down 3-2 and need to win two straight...again.

[SCeltic34]

In games 1 and 3 the Celtics beat themselves more than anything.  Turnovers are the primary reason we lost both of those games.  The Heat's defense was certainly very good in game 3, but we were shooting ourselves in the foot the entire game.

Maybe I'm not giving the Heat enough credit.  But despite 23 whopping turnovers - many of them live turnovers - and a terrible start by the Celtics, the Heat only mustered 109 points.  That is not impressive, even if Butler missed the 2nd half.  We would have lost to the worst teams in the league yesterday with that sorry effort we had.

The Celtics are the better team, both on paper and in practice, especially when healthy.  If they take care of the ball (big if, obviously) and limit offensive rebounding for the Heat we definitely win the series.  I picked the Celtics in 6 or 7.  Probably 7 seeing as how we're having health problems and not playing great ball yet in this series.

[GreenlyGreeny]

If they had played at least average in each of the 12 quarters so far, we’d be up 3-0. But this Heat team is well-coached and tenacious. We need to take it one game at a time. If we can win games 4-5, I think we can take them in six. What seems more likely is us winning game 4, dropping game 5, and then having to win two in a row including game 7 in Miami. We should be able to do it. Even if we go down 3-1, I think we can make a comeback. But we do not want to have three straight elimination games going into the NBA Finals.

So following the pattern of the Bucks series. OK.

So far, we lost Game 1. Won Game 2. Lost Game 3. I anticipate us winning Game 4, but I think we'll lose Game 5 after the kids feel like they won the series in Game 4. Then it'll start to hit 'em that they're down 3-2 and need to win two straight...again.

Exactly. The kids are not making it easy on themselves. A game seven in Miami would be tough, but doable.

[Silas]

I believe!  Cs are a better team and they will right the ship and win in 6.

[scaryjerry]

Yes, also thought they’d beat the heat in the bubble though…Celtics shouldn’t lose another game to this garbage heat team, unfortunately something about this heat team is a bad matchup for us

[slamtheking]

I still think the C's can win this.  I also thought they'd put in the effort to win game 3 from the opening tip.

[Birdman]

Yes..hope game 3 was a wake up call

[CelticSooner]

Definitely. They beat Giannis in his house for an elimination game. This ain’t nothing.

[Kiorrik]

I believe, regardless of how hard they're making it for us to do so.

[CelticsWhat35]

Yes..hope game 3 was a wake up call

No such thing as a “wake up call” for this team.  It’s a trend now.  It’s just who they are.  Wildly inconsistent.  The frustrating thing is that they don’t need to play good to win.  They just need to avoid horrendous quarters.  That’s it.  But they haven’t been able to do that in games 1 and 3, as well as three games last series