Celtics (47-21) at Rockets (15-52) Game #69 3/13/23

[Roy H.]

Tied with Philly in the loss column.

[Indocelts]

Losers. This is what you get for only deciding to play consistently hard for 1.5 quarters.

What a joke. Have every opportunity to regain the one seed, and we play lazy, entitled ball for most of the game.

I need a break from this team.

Yeah I need a vacation from this team too

Can you take Marus with you?

Marcus is already on a vacation mode.

[SparzWizard]

I'm more concerned about this team getting waxed in the first round than these reg season games thanks to their lack of discipline and playing lazy ball throughout post ASB. Feels like Ime's Oct - Dec games again.

[SCeltic34]

A few decent play calls aside, another subpar game from Joe.  Just guesswork with his substitution pattern.  Every time we started doing things that were working (drive the ball to the hoop *cough*) we went away from it.

[angryguy77]

Joe needs to start benching guys playing with low effort. He won't, but he needs to. They look more undisciplined than under Brad.

All the talent going to waste.

[jpotter33]

We shot 12-42 for a whopping 28.6% from three tonight, but I guarantee you if someone brings it up to Joe he'll point to the missed layup at the end as "proof" of his argument that there's no difference in layups and threes.

[Roy H.]

I'm more concerned about this team getting waxed in the first round than these reg season games thanks to their lack of discipline and playing lazy ball throughout post ASB. Feels like Ime's Oct - Dec games again.

Except Ime was teaching and the team was building toward something.

Joe isn’t an NBA level head coach, and the team doesn’t care about effort or winning.

[liam]

Losers. This is what you get for only deciding to play consistently hard for 1.5 quarters.

What a joke. Have every opportunity to regain the one seed, and we play lazy, entitled ball for most of the game.

I need a break from this team.

Yeah I need a vacation from this team too

Can you take Marus with you?

Marcus is already on a vacation mode.

TP

[jpotter33]

Joe needs to start benching guys playing with low effort. He won't, but he needs to. They look more undisciplined than under Brad.

All the talent going to waste.

This is *absolutely* reminiscent of what the team looked like in Brad's last year. No accountability, inconsistent effort, and just inability to consistently do the things needed to win consistently.

But, hey, we got up 42 threes! That's a winner in Joe's book.

[SparzWizard]

I'm more concerned about this team getting waxed in the first round than these reg season games thanks to their lack of discipline and playing lazy ball throughout post ASB. Feels like Ime's Oct - Dec games again.

Except Ime was teaching and the team was building toward something.

Joe isn’t an NBA level head coach, and the team doesn’t care about effort or winning.

Agreed. I miss Ime.

[CelticSooner]

I told myself before the season to just enjoy the ride. I cannot do it anymore though, watching a team that doesn’t care to match the opponent’s energy half the time is not fun.

They have basically turned this season into championship or bust simply by not showing up against these up and coming teams. Skating by simply on talent is a joke. Don’t think they have matured mentally enough yet, if ever.

[celts55]

Biggest problem to me is they don’t learn from these crappy games. It’s the same thing again and again. Poor shot selection, giving up key rebounds, and letting Smart play

[86MaxwellSmart]

Tatum was absolutely 100% fouled on that last drive...Smith Jr had his right hand on his back/ribs all the way, then got the final push and it threw Tatum off.

[slamtheking]

Joe needs to start benching guys playing with low effort. He won't, but he needs to. They look more undisciplined than under Brad.

All the talent going to waste.

This is *absolutely* reminiscent of what the team looked like in Brad's last year. No accountability, inconsistent effort, and just inability to consistently do the things needed to win consistently.

But, hey, we got up 42 threes! That's a winner in Joe's book.

Joe doesn't consider it a win.  we took 87 shots.  a 'win' would have been at least 44 3 point attempts

[celts55]

Tatum was absolutely 100% fouled on that last drive...Smith Jr had his right hand on his back/ribs all the way, then got the final push and it threw Tatum off.

I don’t think so. Tatum didn’t even complain, and he always complains