Pacers (26-20) at Celtics (36-11) Game #48 1/30/24

[celticinorlando]

This is a game that should be long over

[jambr380]

I don’t even care if we win at this point, we suck and are mentally weak.

[celticinorlando]

Indiana gets several shots each possession and capitalizes

Boston gets one and done.

Team plays too entitled and mentally weak

[Atzar]

Either KP needs to start playing some defense or we need to change our coverage to protect him some.  He's getting destroyed tonight.  Unfortunately we're kind of stuck trying to make it work because our next two bigs are out and our fourth one sucked too.

Good Lord what has happened to our unicorn?

I'm sure that ankle still isn't right.  But he's just not giving us anything on that end.  Can't guard Turner or Siakam in the post, can't guard anybody on the perimeter, not providing any help defense.  Just having a brutal defensive game.  And Indy is going right at him time after time.

He's still contributing some on offense but I kinda question whether he should even be out there with the way he looks.  Might have been better to ask Al to suit up twice in a row for this one.  I know we avoid that to keep him healthy but I think he could handle that once.

[Who]

Indy running out steam. They look ready to fold.

Big push needed here by Boston. They can get this lead back to 10 before the end of the quarter.

[PAOBoston]

Hate the fact that Nesmith owns the Cs. Guy couldn’t score to save his life while in Boston and now makes it his thing to make plays against Boston every time he plays.

[jpotter33]

C's came out like they expected the Pacers to roll over lol

That's exactly what it was. We played with a ton of purpose, intensity, and pace in the first half, and we came out with none of that in the third, expecting to just cruise to a victory.

[liam]

We need more from the bench!

[celticinorlando]

Tonight shows why Boston needs a thick 4 or 5 to help defend guys like siakim and turner

[celticinorlando]

Hate the fact that Nesmith owns the Cs. Guy couldn’t score to save his life while in Boston and now makes it his thing to make plays against Boston every time he plays.

He was such a bum in Boston

[liam]

Tonight shows why Boston needs a thick 4 or 5 to help defend guys like siakim and turner

I would love that. Who do we get?

[keevsnick]

The Celtics hitting ever shot seems to have worked against them. They saw everything going in and stopped defending/rebounding with intensity and now Pacers are back in the game.

Shooting variance can change at any moment, you can't stop doing the extra stuff and rely on shooting.

[tenn_smoothie]

Starters are playing tired - they probably are exhausted from too many games. Play the bench, Joe, get some fresh legs in there and tell them to play aggressive as hell. Drive it, drive it, drive it. Crash the boards. Active on defense. Get some athletes in the game !!!!

[jambr380]

Hate the fact that Nesmith owns the Cs. Guy couldn’t score to save his life while in Boston and now makes it his thing to make plays against Boston every time he plays.

Dude was basically salary filler (along with Theis) in the Brogdon trade. A year later, Brogdon is salary filler in the Jrue trade and it’d probably take 3 1sts to get him back from Indy.

[Atzar]

Big shot, PP.