Celtics (30-12) at Nets (27-13) Game #43 1/12/23

[Neurotic Guy]

Payton Pritchard MVP of the last minute.

[radiohead]

PP is a baller!

[liam]

Pritchard bringing the energy!

[Silas]

Nice hustle from PP.

[PAOBoston]

Feels like a game they just can’t put away. They’ll let Nets hang with them and JT will bury them in the 4th.

i fixed it for ya....

Ha! Just got a bad feeling in my stomach about the 4th. Hope I’m dead wrong!

[jpotter33]

How many airballs has Tatum shot tonight?

At least three. It's probably because it's a B2B and he's fatigued.

Of course, you'd think that he'd recognize this and stop jacking up the bad threes. But nope.

[tenn_smoothie]

We've brought it back, but I've got to tell you it wasn't due to good basketball. It was almost exclusively iso crap from Tatum and Smart.

Have to get back to the ball movement and moving off the ball.

Agree that Tatum is settling for some pretty ugly iso possessions.  The one-on-three highlight finish and the Warren bail-out foul were both bad offense with good results.  As for Smart... 2-8 from the field isn't good but I don't really mind him attacking Warren and Curry.  And eight assists to zero turnovers is very good.  Mostly he just needs to hit his shots.

I've liked a lot of our offense though tbh.  We're consistently creating good shots when we collapse the defense off the dribble.  Brooklyn is cutting off the drive but they're giving up the pass to open shooters as well as the lob to the big at the rim.  So we need to continue doing that.

Agreed.  I think Tatum is just tired.  He's settled for a lot of jumpshots against players that can't guard him.  Had it not been for that bad foul by Warren he would have had 0 free throw attempts in the half.  He's far too talented for that, and hopefully he's just been saving the fuel in his tank to attack more in the 2nd half.

Gotta agree - he looks tired.
Hope they don't play him and Brown into the ground like last season when Tatum was exhausted in the Finals.

[SCeltic34]

Fortunate to lose that quarter by only 1.  Didn't feel like we played well.

[tenn_smoothie]

Even Barkley harps on the Celtics habit of taking bad shots.
He also pointed out the lack of floor balance on offense, which results in no one being back for the opponent's runout.

Both of those are coaching , pure coaching ......... as in no coaching.

[slamtheking]

White's been awful on offense but his D has been fantastic tonight

[jpotter33]

White with another huge block!

[blink]

Great block by White!!!

[PAOBoston]

White makes amazing blocks

[slamtheking]

Even Barkley harps on the Celtics habit of taking bad shots.
He also pointed out the lack of floor balance on offense, which results in no one being back for the opponent's runout.

Both of those are coaching , pure coaching ......... as in no coaching.

he's not wrong.  been an issue for years with the 3-point-chucking mentality on offense.  we chuck 3's, miss, and no one gets back on D.  used to be a staple of the defense under Thibs when he was here

[Neurotic Guy]

Great block by White!!!

And takes the charge