Will We Win the Series?

[soulman]

I love the optimism, but we just wasted a huge chance. It s not east to win two in a row against Giannis for sure.

[pokeKingCurtis]

I love the optimism, but we just wasted a huge chance. It s not east to win two in a row against Giannis for sure.

I'm so bummed about this but the Bucks had trouble winning 2 in a row against us too I guess.

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

We’ve largely been the better team for 4 out of 5 games. I think we can win the series because the better team usually wins the series. C’s need to maintain focus throughout the game though and not let game 6 slip thru their fingers

better team means nothing when we p---ed away two games and now have lost two at home. you simply cannot do this against a team like the bucks. you have to win home games and you cannot give games away, we are out of mulligans. now we have to win 2 straight. i do not see it happening. we will screw up again and play stupid again enough to cost us. this team cannot play sound ball for 24 minutes much less 48. it bites them every time. this series should be over.
the jays have been in alot of playoff games now and multiple ECF's. you would think this team could play smarter after all these years of experience. it is like they have learned absolutely nothing.

[kraidstar]

Well.... the Bucks gagged in game 4 and came back clutch in game 5. Time for us to do the same.

Pressure is on them. Come out loose and crush them.

[colincb]

Yes.

[Goldstar88]

50/50 chance. If Foster is officiating, the calls should be slanted towards the C’s since I’m sure the league wants the series to go 7. I’d give the C’s a 40% chance to win the next game and if they do, a 60% chance to win the last game at home. If Timelord plays, Those odds go up for the C’s.

[kraidstar]

So much went wrong last night. Hero ball. Refs gifting the Bucks 3FTs on phantom fouls on layups. (Ime should have challenged the Portis one early in the 4th btw). White's fingertip.

Bucks get an Oreb at the end and convert - we get an Oreb in game 3 and can't convert.

The good news - we really have been the better team. Need to step up like champions here. These are the defining moments. Brady, Papi, even LeBron know this.

Bounce back, counterpunch, don't give up. This team is loaded. Our success is not a fluke. Put the egos aside. Learn from mistakes,  shake it off and just win.

[SparzWizard]

50/50 chance. If Foster is officiating, the calls should be slanted towards the C’s since I’m sure the league wants the series to go 7. I’d give the C’s a 40% chance to win the next game and if they do, a 60% chance to win the last game at home. If Timelord plays, Those odds go up for the C’s.

We haven't played particularly well at home in these playoffs, so I'm skeptical. Timelord needs to play, no if. This is the Celtics' season, Friday the 13th.

[seancally]

If the Celtics can learn how to play the right way for 48 minutes they’ll win both games handily. But most teams don’t know how to do that. The Bucks don’t either. Game 5 was the inverse of Game 4.

Tatum will still have a decorated career regardless of tomorrow’s outcome, but a big performance in Game 6 is the kind of thing the legends do. Is he there yet?

I think they’ll do it.

[G-Bones]

Probably not, the NBA wants Giannis to keep playing.  But, I am convinced that we are the better team.  The cream should rise to the top.  Come on, Tatum! Get the eye of the tiger!!!

[kraidstar]

Tatum has been 5/27 shooting 3s in games 3-5. If he goes 10/27 we would have closed out this series already.

Time to heat up!!!

[angryguy77]

Don't think so. The concerning thing to me is these guys have a good deal of high stakes playoff level experience, yet they still have the mindset of young rookies. I don't get it. I wonder if it will ever change.

[angryguy77]

Tatum has been 5/27 shooting 3s in games 3-5. If he goes 10/27 we would have closed out this series already.

Time to heat up!!!

Or if he trades 6-7 of those attempts for assists, we win.

[#1P4P]

Last night was backbreaking, the prior seasons’ Celtics returned. In contrast, this team has responded well to adversity so I’m expecting us to rebound from a terrible collapse.

We digressed from the TEAM mentality that this team thrives in. Milwaukee’s best shooting game would’ve been all for naught and they would’ve quit in game 6. Instead the loss serves as a reminder that this TEAM wins nothing unless it’s all hands on deck.

That extra slow paced, one pass Tatum isolation offense, Smart’s “I got this” turnovers, and Jaylen and Marcus fumbling the rebound to Portis for the go ahead put back were microcosms of the unsuccessful me first attitude that plagued this team in the first half of the season. That is not how the season was turned around.

These Bucks are not better than our best. Will this team realize it and play TEAM first before it’s too late? I think so, time to show our mettle.

[Phantom255x]

It'd be nice if any of the Jays (ideally Tatum) could actually dominate a game from start to finish and actually look like "the best player on the court". We saw it from Jaylen in Game 2.

And no, having 1 good quarter isn't always going to be enough. We've seen Giannis do it a few times this series, yet we haven't seen Tatum do it. Tatum was fantastic late in Game 4 but the 7 quarters before that was terrible. Need more consistency from him.

It's not even just the stats/points, but also the decision-making. Jaylen and Tatum may have had great numbers last night, but they also made a lot of boneheaded decisions and Jaylen's ball-handling is atrocious. Some of those things contributed to the Bucks coming back each time from a double-digit deficit.

Margin for error is now very, very slim for the Jays. And I single them out here because those two guys are our bonafide stars. They need to play like it otherwise it's over Friday night.