Celtics (10-9) at Spurs (4-13) Game #20 11/26/21

[liam]

Goodnight All!!!

[CBS_Take a Report]

Perfect oppty for this team to build a culture of winning. Down by 26 and come back to be up by 7 with 3:21 to play and the team fumbles it. It seriously makes me not even want to watch them. I’ve never felt like this in 42 years as a committed fan. Even during the Dino Radja days.

[ozgod]

Ime being interviewed said that they spent too much time on iso in the first quarter and the last 3 mins when we were outscored 15-0 after taking a 7 pt lead

[tenn_smoothie]

Ime being interviewed said that they spent too much time on iso in the first quarter and the last 3 mins when we were outscored 15-0 after taking a 7 pt lead

they finished with a 15-0 run to win this ?? good lord, that is awful.

Ime keeps talking about too much iso. Do something about it, Coach.
Tell players, play the right way, with ball and player movement - or sit.

What do they work on in practice ?

[Goldstar88]

Then you look at a team like the Suns (15th straight win tonite) who were awful just a couple of years ago.
They add major upgrades at center and at point guard and they are serious contenders until Chris Paul breaks down one day.

Suns also have a very good coach. Something that the C’s desperately need.

[DocomoCelts]

Ime being interviewed said that they spent too much time on iso in the first quarter and the last 3 mins when we were outscored 15-0 after taking a 7 pt lead

You don't say, Ime?  I wonder who can help correct that.  Oh.

[ozgod]

Ime being interviewed said that they spent too much time on iso in the first quarter and the last 3 mins when we were outscored 15-0 after taking a 7 pt lead

You don't say, Ime?  I wonder who can help correct that.  Oh.

He also said that they spent too much time playing for themselves than as a team.

Also GWill has drawn the short straw and is the one sent out to explain another dismal loss.

[Ogaju]

Ime being interviewed said that they spent too much time on iso in the first quarter and the last 3 mins when we were outscored 15-0 after taking a 7 pt lead

they finished with a 15-0 run to win this ?? good lord, that is awful.

Ime keeps talking about too much iso. Do something about it, Coach.
Tell players, play the right way, with ball and player movement - or sit.

What do they work on in practice ?

ISO. Especially in their summer camps. It’s all ISO and three point shooting.

[celticsclay]

I’ve generally gotten a lot better as I have gotten older not getting upset about games/results. This team does really infuriate me though. May need to sit out a few games

[bigperm47]

This team got it handed to them 15-0 by a bunch of hacks.  They will have to trade jayson to advance this team.  Sell him while his value is good and build around team ball players.  Disgusting to watch them blow leads against inferior competition shooting 25foot fadeaways.

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

Just in case anyone thought the bad shooting against Brooklyn was a fluke, Boston just proved otherwise. No, they won't always shoot as badly as they did tonight, but make no mistake—this is a bad-shooting team, as their 20th-ranked TS%, 23rd-ranked FG%, and 24th-ranked eFG% confirm.

I'm sure some fans will focus on the near comeback and be encouraged by that, but I think that's fool's gold. Of course it's good to have the ability to pull off comebacks, and the Cs have done that at times, but comebacks, and even near comebacks, can mask significant problems, and this team has several. Why does Boston tend to start games poorly? Why do these guys often wait until their backs are against the wall before deciding to really get after it? And why do they often play down to their competition?

For the most part, they just got abused by a 4-win team. They just faced a defense ranked No. 27 in opponent FG% (46.9%) and No. 21 in opponent 3PT% (35.6%) and shot a putrid 37% and 29.4%, respectively. And most of that putridness came from Boston's starters—a.k.a. their best players. At one point they were down 24 against the team that came into this game with the fourth-worst winning % in the league.

I guess the Celtics are on the "It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better" plan?

[Birdman]

This team is a lottery team especially if tatum or brown goes down

[jambr380]

The rough start for the Cs didn't help - and that was on all of them - but Al Horford was especially horrible in this one. I don't love the +/- stat for individual games, but a -29 for Al and +28 Kanter is really incredible. Did the Cs really play 57 points better with Kanter on the floor than Al???

It became blatantly obvious at the end when the Cs went back to their switch everything ways w/ Al getting switched onto their guards and them just shooting over him. Keeping Kanter in drop coverage was clearly working - Al is a solid defender, but he can't be expected to guard the Dejounte Murrays of the world in iso. They really should just stick to their man more.

[Roy H.]

Probably the most depressing loss of the season. The way they started it was brutal, but that doesn’t compare to the way they ended.

[todd_days_41]

There’s only one player on this team who is fun to watch play ball — Bob Williams. When he’s out, I’d rather watch grass grow. This squad is going nowhere.