Celtics (48-12) at Cavaliers (39-21) Game #61 3/5/24

[Indocelts]

I am not concerned about the Celtics players as a team, even after this loss.

I'm more concerned about Joe as our HC handling the end game. He may cost us banner 18.

[celticinorlando]

Here comes the losing streak and where the bucks take over the Celtics for the top seed

Bro, even for you this is ridiculous and non-sensical. We are literally 8 losses up on the Bucks after this loss. It would take an absolute meltdown plus a record-setting pace for Milwaukee to catch us.

master of panic?

Can’t wait to hear the excuses Thursday. It’s not because they lost. It’s how.

Most of their loses this season follow this pattern. Good lead blown to a bad team.

Blowing a 22 point lead vs a depleted cavs team in the 4th quarter is embarrassing. Championship teams do not do this

[Larry for 3]

Reading some of these replies, you'd think this team was scrapping for a play-in spot. The entitlement of Boston fans never ceases to amaze me.

13th loss of the season. In March. Take a deep breath and a sip of water.

I honestly don’t know if I’ve ever seen a team lose up by 22 with 8-ish minutes left in the game. It’s understandable to be shocked by this loss.

And also be disappointed with the late game execution - which is literally everybody’s biggest fear with this group.

This team isn’t good in late game situations. They just aren’t, and it showed up again.

[blink]

This will henceforth be known as the Dean Wade game.

Truthfully I didn't think we played well all night.  Offense couldn't get much going unless Tatum or Brown or KP hit something difficult.  We built a lead out anyway because Cleveland had no firepower without Mitchell, but a random explosion by a random roleplayer bit us.  It is what it is. 

If you take fan allegiance out of the equation, this is one of the upsides of modern basketball.  A large lead is never safe because some nobody can hit six threes and flip the game on its head.  That unpredictability is exciting.  Sucked that it happened to us tonight but we move on.

The only thing I am ticked about is our refusal to call a timeout with 15 seconds left.   The poor execution to not get a shot up on the rim with a few seconds to give us a chance to rebound. 

But with the bolded, if we are happy about us going nuts on GS, we have to expect someone will do it to us too.

[scaryjerry]

Yup, Cavs are the team to beat us in the playoffs. Would hate to draw them early in the postseason.

Celtics having trouble closing out games, same thing as last year. Sigh

This is so not last year. Ridiculous.

That was an exact copy of last year.

What about the 11 previous games?

Been playing great but that stretch has been a tad overrated, the mavs win was good, the historic blowout against the warriors was cool and all but they were at the end of a long road trip and 3rd game in 4 days at 3 in the afternoon and Steph was questionable coming into the game. When the bucks blew us out it didn’t count because of scheduling, so just being consistent. Other than that it’s been all teams missing Stars or just straight bad teams. They’re really good but it’s going to be really tough to get to and win the finals and they’re going to be up and down in the playoffs almost guaranteed. They are not promised anything.

[Larry for 3]

Here comes the losing streak and where the bucks take over the Celtics for the top seed

Bro, even for you this is ridiculous and non-sensical. We are literally 8 losses up on the Bucks after this loss. It would take an absolute meltdown plus a record-setting pace for Milwaukee to catch us.

master of panic?

Can’t wait to hear the excuses Thursday. It’s not because they lost. It’s how.

Most of their loses this season follow this pattern. Good lead blown to a bad team.

Blowing a 22 point lead vs a depleted cavs team in the 4th quarter is embarrassing. Championship teams do not do this

So true

[blink]

I am not concerned about the Celtics players as a team, even after this loss.

I'm more concerned about Joe as our HC handling the end game. He may cost us banner 18.

+1 to the bolded

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

I am not concerned about the Celtics players as a team, even after this loss.

I'm more concerned about Joe as our HC handling the end game. He may cost us banner 18.

it was our huge concern all season.
agreed.

we win in spite of joe

he can easily derail us with his stupidity and ignorance in the playoffs

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

Here comes the losing streak and where the bucks take over the Celtics for the top seed

Bro, even for you this is ridiculous and non-sensical. We are literally 8 losses up on the Bucks after this loss. It would take an absolute meltdown plus a record-setting pace for Milwaukee to catch us.

master of panic?

Can’t wait to hear the excuses Thursday. It’s not because they lost. It’s how.

Most of their loses this season follow this pattern. Good lead blown to a bad team.

Blowing a 22 point lead vs a depleted cavs team in the 4th quarter is embarrassing. Championship teams do not do this

agreed. was about to post that. that is NOT what TITLE teams do.

[CelticSooner]

13th loss of the season, the sun will come up tomorrow. On to Denver folks. Should be another good one.

It's not the loss, it's the how they lost

No it’s the loss. There is nothing more to prove in the regular season. If this team stays healthy they will be in the Finals at worst.

[jpotter33]

Also - why was there not time put back on the clock? When the foul supposedly happened, it was like 1.5 on the clock. How does that not get reviewed?

[libermaniac]

I don’t get why we’d ever go for the last shot down 1. I don’t mind not calling the timeout but anyone who knows basketball knows you shoot as fast as you can get a good look because if you miss you can either get a rebound or foul. That’s just poor coaching or decision-making by Tatum.

[celticinorlando]

Still concerned about this team playing entitled, playing down to inferior teams, Joe being a deer in the headlights, blowing 4th quarter leads and the fact that about 7 of their loses have been like this this season. Game given away late or playing down to teams

Charlotte
GS
Cleveland
Lakers
Orlando
Minnesota

[Larry for 3]

13th loss of the season, the sun will come up tomorrow. On to Denver folks. Should be another good one.

It's not the loss, it's the how they lost

No it’s the loss. There is nothing more to prove in the regular season. If this team stays healthy they will be in the Finals at worst.

Imagine if they have to face in the Heat in round 1.  Uh oh

[RJ87]

Here comes the losing streak and where the bucks take over the Celtics for the top seed

Bro, even for you this is ridiculous and non-sensical. We are literally 8 losses up on the Bucks after this loss. It would take an absolute meltdown plus a record-setting pace for Milwaukee to catch us.

master of panic?

Can’t wait to hear the excuses Thursday. It’s not because they lost. It’s how.

Most of their loses this season follow this pattern. Good lead blown to a bad team.

Blowing a 22 point lead vs a depleted cavs team in the 4th quarter is embarrassing. Championship teams do not do this

Cleveland is 3rd in the conference with a 66% win percentage. They're not a bad team. Painting them as such is just your bias or lack of knowledge.

Good teams have bad losses sometimes. That's the nature of the modern game with the 3pt shooting being so influential. Some older posters will be better off if they just accepted that. Teams can come back quickly or go down just as quickly when certain shots fall.

A single loss shouldn't drive you to write off our entire season, but I look forward to you being here and celebrating like you've always been a believer when we win.