Interesting take from Gabe Vincent on the Celtics in the ECF

[Roy H.]

One rolled ankle away from this comment not mattering.

One of us is misremembering that game.  I didn't see anything that made me think we'd win, even with a healthy Tatum.

Disagree on this. Tatum generally shows up to the biggest games. If anything, it showed us how this team would look if JB was our main guy. He’s an allstar and one of the best 1v1 scorers in the league but he can’t carry the load Tatum does. The handles, vision, and decision-making do him in

We got blown out, though, and Tatum still played.  A healthy Tatum turns a 19 point loss into a win?  To me, that's pretty hard to envision.

Well, C’s lost by 26 in game 3 and won by 17 in game 4. 19 points is a lot but we’re not talking about one missed basket or one missed call here. We’re talking about 47 minutes of basketball where things could’ve gone differently.

When your best perimeter defender becomes your worst perimeter defender, it’s a pretty big deal. And how many TOs did JB have? 8? That wouldn’t happen if JT could actually move and carry the load.

I guess I'm okay with "we *might* have won" comment.  I'm just surprised seeing so many stating it as a fact, though.  Pretty much after Joe called his first timeout, everything went Miami's way.  We shot 21% from 3PT in that game.  I don't think a healthy Tatum changed things *that* much.

(And, just one more anti-Joe comment.  We shot 57.5% from two, and 85% from the line.  Yet, more than half of our shots were 3PTs, of which we hit 21%.)