Celtics (3-0) at Bulls (1-2) Game #4 10/24/22

[CelticSooner]

Defense is mostly effort, wouldn’t worry about that at this stage of the season.

[ozgod]

Wow, I've watched two minutes and the C's look shell-shocked and soft. What happened?

We were leading by 19 shooting 9-10 from 3 and since then the bulls have gone on a 47-11 run with us 1-16 from 3 since. Our defense was bad all game but they were making 3s so it wasn’t noticed but then Chicago started to take us apart and we couldn’t buy one

The Chicago run started when our vaunted bench came on, Vonleh, Brogdon, Hauser, GWill

Yeah, the defense thing is concerning. I know we're minus Timelord, but our D hasn't been consistently good at all in the first few games. Hopefully that's just an issue of cleaning off the rust and also getting Timelord back.

Did we have an extended run of non-Jay minutes? From reading the posts that's what it looks like. Joe has been a bit too reliant on that in the first few games. Don't think at this point you can have a non-Jay lineup for more than 30 seconds or so at a time.

Yes it was as soon as we had the non jay lineup with Malcolm, Hauser, Vonleh and GWill thst we started to lose control of the game

[celticinorlando]

Yes Rob out hurts massively. But they can’t wobble along until January like this until he comes back

[slamtheking]

great beginning p---ed away by lazy basketball and a new coach that's not smart enough to call a TO when the team is performing like crap.   waaaayyyyy too many bricks tossed up from 3 without any attempt to get better, makable shots.  just absolutely disgusted with that second quarter.

bench has really sucked badly tonight too.  Vonleh's looking like a player that wasn't in the league last year.

[ozgod]

Vucevic has 13 rebounds at the half 

6 of them were offensive…Nobody was boxing him out and we were too small

[slamtheking]

Wow, I've watched two minutes and the C's look shell-shocked and soft. What happened?

We were leading by 19 shooting 9-10 from 3 and since then the bulls have gone on a 47-11 run with us 1-16 from 3 since. Our defense was bad all game but they were making 3s so it wasn’t noticed but then Chicago started to take us apart and we couldn’t buy one

The Chicago run started when our vaunted bench came on, Vonleh, Brogdon, Hauser, GWill

Yeah, the defense thing is concerning. I know we're minus Timelord, but our D hasn't been consistently good at all in the first few games. Hopefully that's just an issue of cleaning off the rust and also getting Timelord back.

Did we have an extended run of non-Jay minutes? From reading the posts that's what it looks like. Joe has been a bit too reliant on that in the first few games. Don't think at this point you can have a non-Jay lineup for more than 30 seconds or so at a time.

Yes it was as soon as we had the non jay lineup with Malcolm, Hauser, Vonleh and GWill thst we started to lose control of the game

yeah, got comfy with that lead and pulled the starters and it just went to hell from there.

[angryguy77]

Defense is mostly effort, wouldn’t worry about that at this stage of the season.

It's also a habit and mindset. I don't like what I'm seeing

[celticinorlando]

The hockey line change with the bench was no bueno

[ozgod]

We have 3 free throws to their 19…shows we haven’t been going to the rim hardly at all

[RJ87]

Yes Rob out hurts massively. But they can’t wobble along until January like this until he comes back

We're 3-0 to start, so we're not exactly wobbling. At some point, an NBA team was going to make a strong run against us. We just have to respond.

[radiohead]

Yes Rob out hurts massively. But they can’t wobble along until January like this until he comes back

We're 3-0 to start, so we're not exactly wobbling. At some point, an NBA team was going to make a strong run against us. We just have to respond.

Big test for JT and JB in the second half.

[slamtheking]

Yes Rob out hurts massively. But they can’t wobble along until January like this until he comes back

We're 3-0 to start, so we're not exactly wobbling. At some point, an NBA team was going to make a strong run against us. We just have to respond.

Big test for JT and JB in the second half.

big test for the whole team and the coach to get it together. 

[celticinorlando]

Yes Rob out hurts massively. But they can’t wobble along until January like this until he comes back

We're 3-0 to start, so we're not exactly wobbling. At some point, an NBA team was going to make a strong run against us. We just have to respond.

They have been wobbling on defense to start this season.

[slamtheking]

great, start off the second half with yet another bricked 3

[ozgod]

Good to see Tatum attacking the basket and drawing contact