Celtics (15-4) at Pacers (10-8) Game #20 12/4/23

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

The pacers are shooting 46% from 3pt.

Hard to win nowadays when the opponent shoots that well from 3. Huge advantage for Indy.

Maybe if we stopped gifting them wide open threes time after time they wouldn't get into a rhythm. It's like we didn't watch any film or gameplan for this team at all. And then no in-game adjustments to boot.

thnaks joe!

[jpotter33]

Perfect way to end it - a turnover.

[celticinorlando]

Good. Get this stupid marketing stunt over with.
Give me the rest.

Pacers celebrating like they won the nba title

Stop. Clearly these games mean something. Cs like usual coming up short. This should be a massive red flag for this team tonight.

Oh please. This is just a marketing ploy to get people to watch in December. It’s meaningless.

Clearly based off the competition in all these games it is not. You can keep telling yourself that it doesn’t matter but it does.

It doesn’t. You know guys on contending teams aren’t concerned with a made up December tournament.

[scaryjerry]

Good. Get this stupid marketing stunt over with.
Give me the rest.

Pacers celebrating like they won the nba title

Stop. Clearly these games mean something. Cs like usual coming up short. This should be a massive red flag for this team tonight.

Oh please. This is just a marketing ploy to get people to watch in December. It’s meaningless.

This is the best the pacers are going to have it this season. Boston is worried about bigger things

Are you watching? This game clearly means a lot to the players dude. The Celtics were running up the score on the bulls just to get the opportunity. They then proceeded to choke against a lesser team. Common theme. Nothings changed.

[Yuckabuck33]

Tatum doesn't have much BBIQ either.  Maybe next to JB he does. Joe has zero IQ. This team ain't winning it all.

[SparzWizard]

Overpaid Jaylen. Bum coach. We may have lost the tourney, but still seeing red flags with this team. This was the Pacers team the C's crushed by 50 points a few weeks ago. Lack of intensity and sense of urgency.

[Mahk E Mahk]

36 turnovers in two games.

thirty-six.

not winning anything with such carelessness.

[jpotter33]

Did Hield really just shoot the three at the buzzer? Are you kidding me?

If the guys have any heart whatsoever they'll murder these guys when we play them again in a few weeks. Sadly, that's a big if.

[Neurotic Guy]

Great game for Indy.  Glad to be out of the tournament.

[PAOBoston]

Good. Get this stupid marketing stunt over with.
Give me the rest.

Pacers celebrating like they won the nba title

Stop. Clearly these games mean something. Cs like usual coming up short. This should be a massive red flag for this team tonight.

Oh please. This is just a marketing ploy to get people to watch in December. It’s meaningless.

Clearly based off the competition in all these games it is not. You can keep telling yourself that it doesn’t matter but it does.

It doesn’t. You know guys on contending teams aren’t concerned with a made up December tournament.

Again, that is not what us been shown so far by any of those teams. They are all going all out. Again, you can try lying to yourself but you are clearly wrong.

[ozgod]

Pacer shot 47% from 3, 19-40…we shot 12-41 for 27%, that’s 21 point differential right there

[mef730]

“But on the plus side, I knocked over the sun sphere.”

-N Muntz

[SCeltic34]

The pacers are shooting 46% from 3pt.

Hard to win nowadays when the opponent shoots that well from 3. Huge advantage for Indy.

Maybe if we stopped gifting them wide open threes time after time they wouldn't get into a rhythm. It's like we didn't watch any film or gameplan for this team at all. And then no in-game adjustments to boot.

I'm not trying to bash Kornet here.  But I don't understand why Joe keeps subbing him in at inopportune times against opponents.  In this game, we were rebounding well enough to try a more mobile "big".  Even if that's Brisett it's worth a shot.  We needed the defensive mobility since we were getting slaughtered by their 3's the entire game.  Not drop coverages with a slow big.

That's on Joe.  Kornet did some good things in his minutes, but it didn't outweigh his defensive liabilities.  I thought we should have made an adjustment much earlier.

[Silas]

Did Hield really just shoot the three at the buzzer? Are you kidding me?

If the guys have any heart whatsoever they'll murder these guys when we play them again in a few weeks. Sadly, that's a big if.

Payback from when the Cs won by 50 last time.

[Atzar]

So much for caring about this tournament, lol.  The hell did we rub it in Chicago's noses for? 

We're playground bullies.  We'll push around the smaller kid but we shut up real quick when somebody fights back.