Feeling It Will Be a Sneaky Chippy Series

[Redz]

I can see this series going a lot of ways, as both teams can get it done in a variety of ways, but I have a suspicion it's going to get chippy by the end of Game 1, and maybe get a little nasty by the end of the series.  While I think the Celtics can get an enough to keep up with the Warriors, they've beome accustomed to all the banging they've had to do get here.  They've shown they can both give and take with a physical game, and I think it might be the best way to throw a wrench in GS's offense.  Whether or not its effective, it's likely to irritate the Warriors, and I feel like we're going to see some scraps throughout the series.

While it would be great to see two great offenses do their things on the big stage, I think we might see more of a rock fight.

We shall see.

Go Celts!

[SparzWizard]

Expect to see Draymond Green tossing our guys all over the floor like a linebacker with no foul call

[Redz]

Expect to see Draymond Green tossing our guys all over the floor like a linebacker with no foul call

Very interested to see how much contact they're allowing on screens and general movement.  Celts have become accustomed to playing with lots of it.

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

we need to POUND THEM INTO OBLIVION DOWN LOW

hopefully all the moving screens BUM adebayo got away with will be gone and called this round.

[#1P4P]

It's the NBA Finals, two top defenses, Green, Grant, and Poole are talkers, Curry's a showboat, Smart gets under opponents' skin, it'll be a competitive series with competitive games, and 2 of the best home courts, I expect the series to have its chippie moment(s).

[Phantom255x]

Expect to see Draymond Green tossing our guys all over the floor like a linebacker with no foul call

Oh it's 1000% happening. Giannis/Lopez in the Bucks series, Bam in the Heat series, now Draymond in the Warriors series. Guys who will be really physical and set "screens" but get away with a lot anyways

[gouki88]

Lots of guys in this series have their own ways of getting fired up and getting in the faces of other players. I expect nothing less

[Goldstar88]

Smart and Draymond sharing the court? Nothing sneaky about it. 

[Goldstar88]

Wrong thread

[Big333223]

I was thinking the opposite. After Milwaukee and Miami, it'll be nice to play a team that doesn't overly rely on its physicality to play defense. I think this is going to be a really fun series.

[moiso]

Expect to see Draymond Green tossing our guys all over the floor like a linebacker with no foul call

I'm kind of expecting Green to get suspended for a game, which has sealed championships for other teams in the past.

[Redz]

Warriors might be wise to try a little more bumpin tonight.

[Yuckabuck33]

Do the Warriors really ever play that way, excepting Draymond? I don't think they've ever been compared to the Bad Boy Pistons teams, like Miami was. I can only see the Warriors playing like that in an elimination game maybe, if they get frustrated and are about to lose. (Since they still think they are that dynastic one of the greatest teams ever from a few years ago.)

[ozgod]

Warriors might be wise to try a little more bumpin tonight.

And they did!

Washburn's take in the Globe:

The series is even at 1-1. The Celtics stole home-court advantage and no longer need to win in San Francisco to win the series, but they gift-wrapped the momentum right back to the Warriors, who doubted themselves, their age, their approach and their confidence after Game 1.

Brown, who scored 13 first-period points, picked up his second foul on a Gary Payton II breakaway layup where officials ruled Brown nudged him from behind. Despite it being just eight minutes into the game, Brown wanted Udoka to challenge the call. It was far too early for that, and Brown was visibly affected by the foul trouble.

Brown finished the game 1 for his final 11 shots, shaken by the officiating, frustrated by Green, who cut under him on a 3-point attempt and then left his large Converse sneakers in Brown’s face after they both fell to the floor. Brown stood up and confronted Green.

But Green had already won. He singlehandedly turned the game ugly, using physical play and trash talk to get into the Celtics’ heads. The Warriors realize they face a talented opponent, one that could easily win the series. Green took it upon himself to turn the series contentious and he got the benefit of favorable officiating when he and Brown weren’t called for double technical on that 3-point foul.

Green already had a tech after an exchange with Grant Williams. The officials knew that and didn’t want to eject him. It’s the type of advantageous calls three-time champions get and the Celtics have to learn how to win despite that.

This series is not going to be completely fair. And Brown was visibly upset with the lack of calls, what Green was able to get away with and the Celtics lack of a true response. He should be angry. The team should be angry because they blew a chance to take command of the series, allowing the Warriors to use their offensive dominance along with some sly tricks to even the series.

“We try not to get too much involved with the officiating,” Brown said. “But obviously on their home floor, so some home cooking, so we’ve just got to come out and raise our level of intensity. They raised theirs, and we kind of was looking around expecting for something to — for somebody to kind of bail us out, and on their home floor that’s not going to happen. We’ve got to raise ours and really no excuses about it, we’ve just got to be better.”

There are no excuses for this one. The Celtics got hustled by the old man at the park. They lost this game mentally, and then their execution deteriorated. It’s a harsh lesson learned but perhaps worth the education if the Celtics don’t let this happen again.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/06/sports/make-no-mistake-game-2-was-harsh-lesson-now-celtics-need-learn-it/

I agree with him 100%. Our team has to be smarter. They fell into their habit of whining about calls again and had a "woe-is-me/life is so unfair" attitude for much of the game, including most of the 2nd half. During his presser Jaylen couldn't stop complaining about how unfair it was. Suck it up and overcome it instead of complaining after each play.

[gouki88]

It’s time for our guys to respond. Green probably thinks he’s found a weakness - I don’t think so.