Celtics (2-0) at Nets (0-2) Round 1 Game 3 4/23/22

[Neurotic Guy]

PP is alert -- love what he brings.  Even on defense -- energy and toughness.  Never gives up on a play - sneaky little rebounder.

[Surferdad]

PP is always ready off the bench.

Why does he suddenly seem like a great ball-handler and shot creator in the lane?

[jpotter33]

To be honest, we just look in another league from this Nets team. They look deflated, with Boston looking much more composed.

Several of us called this, suspecting that they were a little too amped up in Boston's atmosphere, which is so much more energetic than in Brooklyn. That plus the fact that they've been a stellar road team all year, and it seemed clear that they would do better in Brooklyn than they did in Boston thus far.

[Silas]

PP alert -- love what he brings.  Even on defense -- energy and toughness.  Never gives up on a play - sneaky little rebounder.

and I like the way he pushes the ball up court.

[pokeKingCurtis]

I love that set play where Grant bobbles the ball and Pritchard picks it up. Brilliant play designing, Ime.

Does grant get an assist

[Atzar]

I know some of these fouls are NOT on White and he's getting screwed. But so far he's had a really disappointing series

Tough matchup for him.  He's a decent defender but he's more of a finesse defender compared to the rest of our guys.  And that doesn't work against Kyrie and KD as well as brute force. 

I'm hoping he has one of his 15/5 kinda offensive games at some point, though.  We could use him to take a little bit of the defensive pressure off of Tatum. 

[BringToughnessBack]

God our D is Deadly!! This is amazing.

Love the block and D by Williams.

PP playing role of Herro during Heat run. He looks great.

[gouki88]

PP is always ready off the bench.

Why does he suddenly seem like a great ball-handler and shot creator in the lane?

Confidence methinks

[RPGenerate]

Nash claps like he's Jason Garrett's long lost brother.

[SCeltic34]

So far Kyrie is pretty much only playing hero ball.  The Nets can't win this series with that.  Keep hogging that ball Kyrie.

[gouki88]

Did you guys notice Rob's hops?

Dude's insane

He is a preposterous athlete. In a league of freakish human beings, he is a freak

[Neurotic Guy]

I love that set play where Grant bobbles the ball and Pritchard picks it up. Brilliant play designing, Ime.

Does grant get an assist

They work that to perfection.

[gouki88]

Nash claps like he's Jason Garrett's long lost brother.

Hahahahah

[Surferdad]

To be honest, we just look in another league from this Nets team. They look deflated, with Boston looking much more composed.

Several of us called this, suspecting that they were a little too amped up in Boston's atmosphere, which is so much more energetic than in Brooklyn. That plus the fact that they've been a stellar road team all year, and it seemed clear that they would do better in Brooklyn than they did in Boston thus far.

Kyrie glances at the Barclay’s door

[jpotter33]

KD 12 minutes, Kyrie 11 minutes. Looks like they'll be playing very heavy minutes tonight but hopefully they tire out a bit in the 2nd half?

I think that bothers KD especially.  It's hard for a guy like that to have a wrestling match with these Celtics defenders for 40+ minutes.  Smart, Brown, Tatum, Horford, Grant.  All five of those guys are strong and very physical with him.

That, and he played heavy, heavy minutes after coming back from the injury in order to just get the Nets to stay in the play-in game.