Celtics (3-0) at Mavericks (0-3) NBA Finals Game #4 6/14/24

[LilRip]

Mavs are not repeating this performance 3 mote times. Relax

Why not?
Until this team actually wins the title I?m still gonna have my doubts with them. Pressure is gonna ratchet up and honestly Dallas was playing way below there level they had been in the first 3 games

Lol Boston is playing way below their level this game

[Phantom255x]

You know we got off to a 3-0 series lead by playing tough defense and not helping off the other guys for the Mavs and all of a sudden we are playing 10 feet off shooters standing in no mans land playing help defense on nobody. What kind of strategy is that??

Idk. My parents think this is rigged lol, guess the league and even Boston wanted the extra ticket + advertisement revenues. I mean this effort level is a complete 180 from previous games.

[celticinorlando]

Whole new series again. Mavs have all the momentum and feeling strongly confident going into Boston to take one in Game 5.

You are exhausting. Just stop watching them.

[Kuberski33]

I?m disappointed because on the cusp of winning a title I?d have liked to think they were so locked in this wouldn?t have happened. Instead we get what typically happens during the season to end a long winning streak- they lay an egg on the road.

[SparzWizard]

You know we got off to a 3-0 series lead by playing tough defense and not helping off the other guys for the Mavs and all of a sudden we are playing 10 feet off shooters standing in no mans land playing help defense on nobody. What kind of strategy is that??

I think that's called playing prevent defense, and it's a horrible defensive call. Whoever drew that up needs to be canned.

[Yuckabuck33]

Mavs are not repeating this performance 3 mote times. Relax

Probably not. But you know it's entirely possible that these Celtics will mentally wilt and could drop 4 games in a row.

[Surferdad]

The starters need to suffer watching on the bench for the entire 4th quarter. Knock some sense into these men.

[TheReaLPuba]

This team hasn?t played an A game all playoffs.

To lay such a massive egg in the Finals is inexcusable.

This series is going 7.

[jpotter33]

Dallas defense isn't any better.

Celtics playing with no energy. Offense looks like a mid Feb. game.

Rebounding is awful.

Rebounding and getting to loose balls. Both measures of effort are lacking tonight

Exactly. Boston looks like a team that knows they have a clinching game at home still and Dallas playing like a team that is down 0-3 at home.

Things will be different Monday.

Playing lackluster when there?s literally a title on the line because you have a clinching game at home is completely inexcusable.

I guess you should say that about the Bulls and MJ. They were up 3-0 and got pushed to a game 6 vs Seattle.

It happens.

Guys, when the Master of Panic is the voice of reason and is telling others to stop panicking, you should be able to tell that you're going overboard with the worry and panic.

It's like some of you never played sports growing up. Some nights you just don't have it, or some nights the other team just has it or has all the context to play much harder and better than you. The latter is clearly what is happening here. It's just like when Milwaukee whooped us early in the season when they were on like a five game losing streak and we were on the B2B. Sometimes context is king - the desperate team trying to avoid the sweep is clearly playing with everything on the line, which is hard to win against when any team does that.

[scaryjerry]

Title on the line after years of being mocked for coming up short.

They come out with there worst game of the season, for once virtually nothing went their way.
Way too much talk after game 3 like the title was inevitable and finals mvp talk and not a single one of our players shows up tonight

[celticinorlando]

Mavs are not repeating this performance 3 mote times. Relax

Probably not. But you know it's entirely possible that these Celtics will mentally wilt and could drop 4 games in a row.

And it could take all the pressure off of them, focus them and make them respond.

[coco]

33pt lead.  Time to rest Hofford

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

Not one run all game. Its mind boggling

GREAT COACHING! 

[cltc5]

Shut up Doris

[liam]

Isn't the lead high enough that we can stop with these one way whistles?