Pistons (14-27) at Celtics (27-11) Game #39 1/15/20

[ETNCeltics]

Sooner or later Stevens will have to realize that he cannot count on his bench.

Thats more on DA to get Stevens guys for the bench. He might need to suck it up and move Smart(which I’d hate to see leave) and get a couple guys that will help off the bench.

Do the stats show the bench is actually bad?  I’d be surprised.

No, they haven't done a whole lot, but they haven't lost much ground either.

Walker and Brown 7-26 on a night where Rose is on fire is the biggest difference offensively.

Just a bad all around defensive night from almost everyone. Not a lot of effort, most everyone out of position. I thought the Spurs & Wizards loses were terrible, but tonight is just so bad on defense.

[slamtheking]

Team has issues. Even without Tatum, they should have won, easily.  No hope tomorrow in Milwaukee

actually, if Tatum plays tomorrow, I think the C's come to play and quite possibly win.  I think a big problem with this game is that they didn't come to play tonight and only Jaylen and Hayward were able to get it going at some point.  Smart and Kemba are still checked out

[ozgod]

Technical foul which we didn’t need to commit

[slamtheking]

Sooner or later Stevens will have to realize that he cannot count on his bench.

Thats more on DA to get Stevens guys for the bench. He might need to suck it up and move Smart(which I’d hate to see leave) and get a couple guys that will help off the bench.

Do the stats show the bench is actually bad?  I’d be surprised.

No, they haven't done a whole lot, but they haven't lost much ground either.

Walker and Brown 7-26 on a night where Rose is on fire is the biggest difference offensively.

Just a bad all around defensive night from almost everyone. Not a lot of effort, most everyone out of position. I thought the Spurs & Wizards loses were terrible, but tonight is just so bad on defense.

Brown's 10-16.  I'm guessing you meant Smart instead

[jpotter33]

Not really sure what we're doing with our guys still in there at this point, Brad... The way they've played all night long, we probably should've waived the white flag at about 10 minutes left in the fourth...

[SCeltic34]

Just one of those nights.

[Celtic Fan Forever]

I really don’t like Hayward’s effort and body language right now

[CelticSooner]

I'd say this is the worst loss of the season considering they are at home with a game tomorrow in Milwaukee.

[RockinRyA]

Remember just a couple years ago we were legit 12 deep

No, because it never happened.

Agreed. Also your bench tends to look very thin when you have starters missing time almost every other game.

We need bench help, but its not as bad as others are making it sound. The problem is the bench lacks scorers, they have reliable guys off the bench but all of them are defenders.

[Donoghus]

Hopefully they saved their effort for tomorrow night.

[Surferdad]

Team has issues. Even without Tatum, they should have won, easily.  No hope tomorrow in Milwaukee

actually, if Tatum plays tomorrow, I think the C's come to play and quite possibly win.  I think a big problem with this game is that they didn't come to play tonight and only Jaylen and Hayward were able to get it going at some point.  Smart and Kemba are still checked out

Checked out yes. So why will they win in Milwaukee?

[nickagneta]

Smart gets a stupid T, then steals the ball and turns it over with a horrid pass and starts squawking at Brown? Marcus, that was all on you.

[blink]

Technical foul which we didn’t need to commit

was that on Smart? nevermind Q answered lol

[RJD1974]

Smart gets a stupid T, then steals the ball and turns it over with a horrid pass and starts squawking at Brown? Marcus, that was all on you.

Yeah, that's not a very good look.

[blink]

Smart gets a stupid T, then steals the ball and turns it over with a horrid pass and starts squawking at Brown? Marcus, that was all on you.

yeah I was thinking the same thing.  Smart you threw it right to the other team, how can that be on Jaylen?