Cavaliers (0-1) at Celtics (1-0) Eastern Conference Semifinals Game 2 5/9/24

[liam]

Q could've been eating Thompson's lunch all night.

[Neurotic Guy]

Unhappy.  Cs still have not played a close game in the playoffs. Terrible outcome tonight. Doesn’t make me all that worried, but Cs once again have to prove themselves and I thought maybe they were over that hump. Sadly, Saturday becomes a much more important game.  Hopefully just a Game 2 thing.

[blink]

embarrassing loss. 

[jpotter33]

So, just like it took a franchise record shooting night for Miami to win Game 2, it took a near season low shooting percentage from 3 for us to lose game 2. We shot 22.9% tonight with our lowest of the season being 22.7%.

[Phantom255x]

I don't think it's worth paying all this grand money just to go watch a Celtics home playoff game when it's more likely than not you'll get this flat performance. It'd be one thing if it were a close, thrilling contest with a close loss at the end, but a lot of our home losses are just poor effort for a large stretch and losing by double digits

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

Boston continues to treat most playoff games like a preseason game. Tonight, again at home, to a tired, injured below average Cavs team is unfortunately predictable and embarrassing.

yup SOS

[Silas]

Cs will get them Saturday.  S... happens.

[perks-a-beast]

What a bunch of gutless turds continuing to lose playoff games in embarrassing fashion at home consistently.

[Silas]

Jrue, White, and JB....1/16 from 3....that hurts.

[hpantazo]

I don't think it's worth paying all this grand money just to go watch a Celtics home playoff game when it's more likely than not you'll get this flat performance. It'd be one thing if it were a close, thrilling contest with a close loss at the end, but a lot of our home losses are just poor effort for a large stretch and losing by double digits

Yeah, I feel bad for the people who paid good money to attend this game tonight

[Who]

Mitchell 29pts
Mobley 21pts on 9-15 FGA
LeVert 21pts

Garland 14pts on 5-8 FGA
Okoro 12pts on 5-6 FGA
Strus 12pts

D Mitchell got some help today. Two big scoring nights from Mobley and LeVert giving them 3 guys with 20+pts. Three more guys in double digits. Well rounded scoring effort.

[scaryjerry]

This series was never going to be easy and all the homers that said it would be and doubled down after game 1 saying “sWeEp” are no different then the team..massively overconfident

taelnt wise no reason we could not win in 5 like 1st round,

issue is we are mentally weak and soft

Yes we are mentally weak and soft which is exactly why I have no idea why anyone fell into the trap of this being an easy series.

I also think with KP out and Tatum playing like this our talent is massively overrated

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

What a bunch of gutless turds continuing to lose playoff games in embarrassing fashion at home consistently.

 

[Banner18now!]

I don't think it's worth paying all this grand money just to go watch a Celtics home playoff game when it's more likely than not you'll get this flat performance. It'd be one thing if it were a close, thrilling contest with a close loss at the end, but a lot of our home losses are just poor effort for a large stretch and losing by double digits

This is a soft gutless team at times and you take the chance of seeing this since they tend to do this. No way am I wasting my time or money on this mess. Too unpredictable.

[jpotter33]

Boston will lose game 3 also.

How many times do you guys have to make these crazy, pessimistic predictions and get proven wrong before you stop overreacting to every single loss?

Denver had a cakewalk to the championship last year, yet they still lost four games along the way, including two in the second round. Relax. We'll be fine when they're not shooting way over their head and we're not shooting way under what we usually do.

I’m not overreacting at all. Role players play better at home. Those role players now have confidence.

Combine that with the fact Boston cannot guard Mitchell and they can’t win in Cleveland I feel that they lose that one also.

This team is soft.

1) How'd all those role players for Miami play at home compared to game 2 in Boston?

2) Mitchell literally had an almost exact same stat line as last game. If Mitchell is the difference and why they blew us out tonight, how do you explain that away? The Cavs' only win against us this year was, wait for it, without Mitchell, with us beating them the other two times with Mitchell.

3) This notion that we "can't win in Cleveland" is just non-sense. We were up 22 in the fourth this year in Cleveland, and just had a brainfart and let Dean Wade kill us.

Take a deep breath and relax. If you had this series in 5 let alone 6, that means we have to lose 1-2 games for it to go that long.

Amazing how short our memories are from just a week ago in Miami.