Heat (1-1) at Celtics (1-1) ECF Game #3 5/21/22

[Phantom255x]

Pritchard with 4 assists and 0 turnovers but only played 13 minutes.

We need a bigger rotation. Our guys are gassed!

I agree..gassed we are…

It's something Brad has to address this offseason. For one, it's becoming pretty clear they can't rely on Timelord all the time. Whether Horford stays or not, they HAVE to add better frontcourt depth. Theis isn't enough. G-Will is fine as a PF but not C. And he's already playing pretty hefty minutes as is

[Banner18now!]

Couldn’t beat the Heat at home without Jummy Butler the whole second half lol. Might be the most embarrassing loss in Celtic playoff history. Tatum outplayed by Max Struss lol

[celticinorlando]

Is this the worst loss ever? Honestly, I can't remember ever being this angry at a team before.

 Nothing tops 2010 finals game 7 blowing a double digit lead to lose the title.

[Phantom255x]

Is this the worst loss ever? Honestly, I can't remember ever being this angry at a team before.

 Nothing tops 2010 finals game 7 blowing a double digit lead to lose the title.

Fine, I was going to go to bed feeling meh but now I'll just cry myself to sleep. Thanks

 

[hpantazo]

Couldn’t beat the Heat at home without Jummy Butler the whole second half lol. Might be the most embarrassing loss in Celtic playoff history. Tatum outplayed by Max Struss lol

No Butler, Herro was sitting injured, Lowry was hobbling, and we kept throwing the ball away and getting beat by Struss and Bam. At home. Awful.

[jambr380]

How did we not shave any points off the lead in the 3rd? One of the most inexplicable things I've ever seen

We did and cut it to 9, but then for some odd reason they decided to go back to hoisting a few long 3s and then trying to get cute with the ball.

Jaylen for some odd reason decided to go at 3 Miami defenders (including Bam) AND do a spin move and predictably it ended in a jump ball but probably should have easily been a turnover. Like HUH???

I mean, if that's not considered a TO, then it should be. You win the jump ball - no TO; you lose the jump ball - TO.

There were a lot of great things from Jaylen tonight, but he showed Luke Kornet level handle out there and it cost us the game. He is a leader and an All-Star level player on this team - because of all of his TOs, his points essentially equated to empty stats.

[Phantom255x]

Couldn’t beat the Heat at home without Jummy Butler the whole second half lol. Might be the most embarrassing loss in Celtic playoff history. Tatum outplayed by Max Struss lol

No Butler, Herro was sitting injured, Lowry was hobbling, and we kept throwing the ball away and getting beat by Struss and Bam. At home. Awful.

Herro also seemed to make life difficult on Tatum when he was defending him which perplexed me. Like seriously Tatum, you can't outperform Herro?? 

[tenn_smoothie]

How did we not shave any points off the lead in the 3rd? One of the most inexplicable things I've ever seen

We did and cut it to 9, but then for some odd reason they decided to go back to hoisting a few long 3s and then trying to get cute with the ball.

Jaylen for some odd reason decided to go at 3 Miami defenders (including Bam) AND do a spin move and predictably it ended in a jump ball but probably should have easily been a turnover. Like HUH???

What do you mean, "for some odd reason" ?

Brown has been doing that his entire career and is too stupid to figure out that it doesn't work. He makes an occasional highlight drive with some contorted layup and all it does is encourage him to keep trying it. Either Ime cannot get thru to him or he is too stubborn to change.

[Kuberski33]

Winnable game - unfortunately with that many TO's and Tatum having such a bad night, you're probably losing 9 times out of 10 to a top team. The good news....no way the Heat play that kind of defense 2 games in a row.  C's get Game 4 fairly easily and this series is likely going 7.

What I really didn't like though was they got nothing from Derrick White. He needs to contribute something...anything. He's not really doing anything except passing off around the perimeter.

[Phantom255x]

I will say, even down 20 the TD Garden crowd was 1000x louder and better than Miami even when they were up big in Game 1. Just a shame the team couldn't show up for them

[hpantazo]

Celtics in 6. I'm confident on that.

[Phantom255x]

Winnable game - unfortunately with that many TO's and Tatum having such a bad night, you're probably losing 9 times out of 10 to a top team. The good news....no way the Heat play that kind of defense 2 games in a row.  C's get Game 4 fairly easily and this series is likely going 7.

What I really didn't like though was they got nothing from Derrick White. He needs to contribute something...anything. He's not really doing anything except passing off around the perimeter.

Yeah White's only had like 2 great postseason games this whole run. Sad part is, he also looks scared to shoot. Every time he caught the ball today and was dribbling you never got the sense he wanted to take a shot or even try to drive inside. He was just frantically searching for a guy to pass to

[tenn_smoothie]

Is this the worst loss ever? Honestly, I can't remember ever being this angry at a team before.

 Nothing tops 2010 finals game 7 blowing a double digit lead to lose the title.

Fine, I was going to go to bed feeling meh but now I'll just cry myself to sleep. Thanks

 

I'm hitting the Crown and ambien.

[kraidstar]

At a loss for words here. What did we just watch?

[Phantom255x]

Celtics in 6. I'm confident on that.

You and me both