Lesson for C's young stars.....It need not be fancy

[wiley]

The lesson from Jimmy Butler's game three performance verses the Lakers is the following:


IT NEED NOT BE FANCY


He basically played the whole game and although he had some poor turnovers passing back after driving under the hoop, he basically only had one play where he may have gotten a little fancy and missed in the 4th quarter...it wasn't that egregious...but it was a difficult fall away two pointer after a somewhat fancy dribble.  So just once by my count did he get outside himself in a kind of heat check I can do no wrong moment. once!  That's nothing when a guy plays the whole game. 

Our young stars go into fancy heat check mode way too fast and often.  In fact, they should save it for practice.  Why?  Simply, because they don't need it to get the job done. 

Fancy cross-over dribble iso plays with spins and whistles and bells....can get the C's out of the team flow and wreck momentum that was built on hard work and team play.  Butler made a lot of individual plays tonight, but he did it in a very quiet, methodical way that was about results and not about showtime.  He sacrificed his body, basically, and his hard work was rewarded.

[Indocelts]

Tatum needs to be ready to play the whole 4 quarters, and not only for the second half’s. He needs to be aware that driving with arm extended most likely will result in offensive fouls. Pouting and whining to the refs will not not work for him at this stage of his career.

Brown needs to keep his focus the entire game and not to foul a 3  pointer. Keep doing what works well, and if it means driving to the basket then, yeah, don’t stop.

Smart needs to  remember that he is not that young any longer so any old negative habits should have been eliminated by now.  We don’t want him to shoot 3s with reckless abandon. No fouling 3 point shooters either. As much as I remember the great block in the Toronto series, I also remember that he threw up a brick from the 3 point line while Brown was open 2 feet from the basket.

Just do what you do best.

[PhoSita]

I want the whole Celtics team to spend their off-season watching and studying the Heat's fourth quarter possessions through their entire playoff run. 

[Sophomore]

I think it’s tired legs and loss of focus that leads to those empty Q4 possessions. Movement w/out the ball stops and we get a lot of threes that don’t come in the flow of the offense.

[footey]

I want the whole Celtics team to spend their off-season watching and studying the Heat's fourth quarter possessions through their entire playoff run.

Yes, and I want Brad to study how the Heat employ off ball movement with multiple picks, instead of having guys camp in the corner sulking.