It was realy a mess of basketball, one of the most uggly basketball match of the year, after the Knicks one but with similitude with this one. At least we avoided the blowout and were almost able to make one of the worst hold up win of the year... If Tatum hitted his shot it would have made min 2 within min to go... Whatever we didn't deserved it at all, we survived only with the abuse of 3s, not loosing the ball and fighting for rebound. And Suns inconsitence. It was not a pleasure to watch and the time of the match isn't an excuse.
I was always believing Kemba would wake up at one time in the match, but he have a hard time to come back mentally, if not physically. His first match were encouraging from an quick look. Now his strong frustration is contagieous.
But not only Kemba must interogate himself. CBS should do also (where is Celtics and usual Stevens basketball with offensive teamwork and tactical game ? why sometimes this strange starting and closing lineups ?). Danny should also (agree to wait until the deadline if needed but we need at least 2 players with TPE at this time). Even Tatum should ask himself about his game (being more agressive when the shoot doesn't fall, progress on clutch moments -Booker learned it end halftime and end game how to do just after he missed...).
The positiv is that even without Brown (we really saw what it was as a BB team without him tonight) and Smart, and with a putrid colectiv offense we were still quiet close from an OK Phoenix team. And more important : the bench and role players tryout shows some answers : Grant, Rob, TT, Pritchard are players on who we can count for some good minutes, even in PO rotation. But we lack scoring/playmaking options behind our stars and need it if we want to find some regularity in our results and play better basketball. Not possible Brad has to titularise Edwards or Theis TT Grant at the same time. It is like if he brings a message to Danny, hey how this roster is built ? Hope Danny is already begining to take phonecall arod the league, even if I understand we could have to wait until deadline or so. Time to cut/trade some of Waters, Edwards or Green, maybe Teague and find a real offensive 4th (complementary of Grant) and a sub PG or SG.
Frustrating because we can still see some potential even in this horrible, barely unwatchable kind of games... Need a reaction in Utah. Hope Brown come soon, hope to play some match this year with our duo...
Topic: Celtics (12-9) at Suns (12-9) Game #22 2/7/21 (Read 31937 times)