Celtics (10-9) at Mavericks (8-9) Game #20 11/24/18

[CF033]

Not much you could do tonight, Mavs were on fire all night long and were playing with peak intensity.

I'm not too upset with how we played, maybe there were some bad lineups in for too long at times.

JB looked like his old self with GH out.

[Banner18now!]

I just don’t see how this team gets better. It’s going to be a long season they just aren’t good enough. Dallas punked the Celtics getting chippy and taking. The Celts tried and wanted this game they just weren’t good enough. I think we are going to keep seeing this. It’s 20 games into the season we are seeing pretty much what they are. Young players who bought into their hype. Hayward who may take a year to get back to himself. Horford getting older. This is going to take a year to sort out. Maybe a little roster changes. Bu this  group of guys just simply isn’t good enough.

[Rosco917]

honestly I'm sick of this ****-the hell was Brad Stevens doing when he benched the starters at the start of the fourth? Now we're getting blown out-**** the Celtics

It the journey fella...It's the journey.

[jpotter33]

Tatum is 9-13, yet I only remember him shooting a couple of times lately. He simply has to be more involved in the offense, especially when he's so on like he is tonight. Kyrie is 9-24 right now, but it's hard to blame him because he's also the only one who is aggressive in getting his shot.

There's definitely chemistry issues with this team and a lack of understanding of roles. And that is on the coaching staff to fix. That we have not improved in this chemistry/clarifying of roles regard in 20 games is such a failure by the coaching staff.

[CelticSooner]

I’m losing patience. This team is not improving.

Not sure how you can watch the last 2 games and conclude no improvement.  They clearly played better last night and tonight.  Obviously, not well enough tonight.

These games shouldn’t be close. Playing .500 ball and this is the easy part of the schedule. The standard for this team is much different this year.

[blink]

For those saying that the "Mavs just can't miss"...the teams are basically shooting with identical % for 2 and 3

but the mavs have 16 made 3s and we have 9.

[mctyson]

Not much you could do tonight, Mavs were on fire all night long and were playing with peak intensity.

I'm not too upset with how we played, maybe there were some bad lineups in for too long at times.

JB looked like his old self with GH out.

LOL no they were not

[Vox_Populi]

Can we get Larkin back?

[jpotter33]

I've never really been fond of Barea. He's soft and such a flopper.

[mctyson]

For those saying that the "Mavs just can't miss"...the teams are basically shooting with identical % for 2 and 3

but the mavs have 16 made 3s and we have 9.

Yeah they shot more 3s too...you know how percentages work right?

[ozgod]

And that’s game

Definitely had our chances especially after the Luka dive but it all fell away when they got separation with Barea killing us

[slamtheking]

that group on the floor in the third into the fourth killed us -- not enough offense to keep up with Dallas in that stretch.  that and Rozier was awful on both sides of the ball.

[keevsnick]

Tatum is 9-13, yet I only remember him shooting a couple of times lately. He simply has to be more involved in the offense, especially when he's so on like he is tonight. Kyrie is 9-24 right now, but it's hard to blame him because he's also the only one who is aggressive in getting his shot.

There's definitely chemistry issues with this team and a lack of understanding of roles. And that is on the coaching staff to fix. That we have not improved in this chemistry/clarifying of roles regard in 20 games is such a failure by the coaching staff.

I think Tatum could have gtten more shots. The proble is right now you cant run an offense through him because he's not a good dsitrubutor. This limits him somewhat to off ball stuff and puts a natural cap on hw much  he can score. Unless you start running him off screens like JJ  reddick, and i think his efficiency plummets when you start doing that, then he has to become a better passer.

[slamtheking]

I've never really been fond of Barea. He's soft and such a flopper.

um, wrong time to say that's why he never made it in the p0rn business?

[blink]

For those saying that the "Mavs just can't miss"...the teams are basically shooting with identical % for 2 and 3

but the mavs have 16 made 3s and we have 9.

Yeah they shot more 3s too...you know how percentages work right?

yeah I think I do.  Maybe you don't understand that those 7 3s mean more points for the mavs.