Celtics (26-6) at Thunder (22-9) Game #33 1/2/24

[Goldstar88]

Sucks to lose, but that was a great game.

[scaryjerry]

Tatum with 30pts 13reb 8ast tonight.

Porzingis was huge with 34pts and 10reb. He was 12-18 FGA. Super efficient.

Yep fully healthy Celtics team playing well, just got beat by a team playing better right now with a slightly better superstar

[jpotter33]

Why in the hell would you go to Brown there, Joe? Not like we were going to win this anyways, but he's 4-18 and 0-8 from three tonight? Just one of several idiotic decisions by Joe tonight, along with the insistence on the double big lineup that wasn't working.

[Atzar]

Credit to the team for making it close at the end.  Unfortunate that Brown had his first stinker in a while. 

OKC is a serious problem for this league though.  They look really good, and they haven't even tapped into that cache of picks yet.  Not sure how you guard SGA. 

[hpantazo]

Tough loss but heck of a comeback tonight against a really good team on the road.

[Silas]

Interesting that PP led the team with a +11.

[Indocelts]

Good game between 2 very good teams. I am happy to see KP is more involved in the offense.
White is clutch, we don't need to see Tatum's stepback 3 in crunch time as the sole option any longer.

[blink]

PP played over Jrue in crunch time. Wow.

Yeah I noticed that too, Jrue was having a tough time with the pressure OKC was putting on him when he had the ball.  I was surprised as well.

I don't think this was a bad loss.  OKC is a top 5 team in the NBA right now.   They shot out of their mind.   JB had a bad game shooting.  Still with all of that, we battled back and if we could have gotten another stop or two, we might have won.

[CelticSooner]

Different team this year folks. Championship mentality, never throwing in the towel.

I don’t recall last years team ever throwing in the towel, in fact they almost pulled the biggest comeback in playoff series history.
A terrible 3rd quarter performance just caused them to lose to a legit contender though

I do, same team same day last year in OKC. Title teams don't get down 3-0 much less 3-1.

[Silas]

Even though we lost it was a fun game to watch, especially in the 4th.

[blink]

Interesting that PP led the team with a +11.

he got a lot of run down the stretch with the starters....it was interesting

[hpantazo]

Interesting that PP led the team with a +11.

Pritchard was great, and credit to Mazzulla for going with him over Holliday down the stretch. That turned the game around. Holliday and Horford were hurting us tonight.

[mobilija]

Why in the hell would you go to Brown there, Joe? Not like we were going to win this anyways, but he's 4-18 and 0-8 from three tonight? Just one of several idiotic decisions by Joe tonight, along with the insistence on the double big lineup that wasn't working.

Hahaha Joe didn’t pass the ball

Tatum was open at the top of the key, missed him

[scaryjerry]

Different team this year folks. Championship mentality, never throwing in the towel.

I don’t recall last years team ever throwing in the towel, in fact they almost pulled the biggest comeback in playoff series history.
A terrible 3rd quarter performance just caused them to lose to a legit contender though

This same okc - it's best player blew their doors off.

This team is different by miles.

Id like to think this years Celtics are better too, I just happen to think they’re slightly overrated and still have a long way to go before we can definitely say they’re better than last years team.

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

Hooray for near-wins.