Celtics (42-17) at Pacers (26-34) Game #60 2/23/23

[Indocelts]

 I guarantee a  Tatum’s  superb game next against the Sixers.

[slamtheking]

ugly win but will gladly take it.  Turner just unreal tonight

[jpotter33]

Great win! Played like garbage - particularly our bigs defensively and all of our turnovers - but still came out with the win.

Huge free throws, rebounds, and buckets by Smart and JT down the stretch.

[radiohead]

TPs all!! Well deserved win.

[Silas]

20-10 on offensive rebounds makes a huge difference.

[Goldstar88]

How about Brogdon with 24/7/5 off the bench. His shooting percentages were excellent too.

[csfansince60s]

Tough win!

Nice to see Crash shine on that 3 point play without ultimately hurting us!

[Phantom255x]

I'm going to take the optimistic view and say, we played very sloppy, turned it over too much, made a lot of uncharacteristic mistakes, all while IND seemed to shoot lights out from 3, and we still got a road win in OT. Really shows how deep we are and that the margin for error is pretty big for us.

Granted, we want to clean up stuff as we face tougher competition, but Jokic said it spot on:

"I think the good teams win even when they play bad, and bad teams always find a way to lose games, even when they’re up."

[SCeltic34]

Smart had a shaky game, too many turnovers.  But I honestly thought that the tech he picked up was a great one (not that I'm a proponent for surrendering free points).  We actually played more steadily after a mostly terrible 3rd quarter.  And he was great in OT.  Those 7 straight points were huge.

[Kuberski33]

They basically got one big stop when they needed it and Tatum took advantage of no one boxing him out. But they did beat a Pacer team having a good night and Turner was a beast.  As the Cooz would have said had be been doing the game - 'not exactly an artistic success'. But a good road win nonetheless.

[Silas]

Sam with another solid 13min and +14.  with 3blocks btw.

[#1P4P]

Maybe Timelord's worst defensive game of his career. Letting Turner get a 40 piece is ridiculous. Evidence of his limited lateral mobility it seems.

Turner goes 8-10 from 3 with 0 dribble drives while Rob was playing in our switching defense where he ended up defending a different player and this is your observation?

[Phantom255x]

I'm going to take the optimistic view and say, we played very sloppy, turned it over too much, made a lot of uncharacteristic mistakes, all while IND seemed to shoot lights out from 3, and we still got a road win in OT. Really shows how deep we are and that the margin for error is pretty big for us.

Granted, we want to clean up stuff as we face tougher competition, but Jokic said it spot on:

"I think the good teams win even when they play bad, and bad teams always find a way to lose games, even when they’re up."

Also want to add, the C's haven't been this healthy for a while so they haven't run their "ideal starting 5" much, and I think there was a bit of rust from the ASB. I'm assuming it'll get better. Smart just came back recently too and Timelord is also hanging in there for the time being.

[Silas]

This team is lucky to have Brogdon and White on the bench and ready.

[Silas]

TPs for those still hanging around.