Warriors (6-1) at Celtics (7-1) Game #9 11/6/24

[scaryjerry]

Imagine posting this in game 1 of a historically dominant championship winning season:

This team blows, shocker

I know what game it is More of the same of the last 3 seasons. They blow.

Who wrote it I wonder?

Aww poor little baby going back a year of posts to find something negative that was said when the team was playing poorly and had choked in the playoffs/finals 3 years in a row?
Good job champ!

And all for what? Because you can?t handle me saying that Kerr and the warriors came out on top tonight despite the Celtics being the better team and having an mvp candidate?
Awe

[CelticSooner]

Kornet has become a problem. He?s not giving you anything now. Throw in Tillman being a dud and beating playoff teams becomes much harder. It puts even more pressure on your offense when you continuously give up layups and put backs.

[Adelaide Celt]

Imagine posting this in game 1 of a historically dominant championship winning season:

This team blows, shocker

I know what game it is More of the same of the last 3 seasons. They blow.

Who wrote it I wonder?

Aww poor little baby going back a year of posts to find something negative that was said when the team was playing poorly and had choked in the playoffs/finals 3 years in a row?
Good job champ!

And all for what? Because you can?t handle me saying that Kerr and the warriors came out on top tonight despite the Celtics being the better team and having an mvp candidate?
Awe

I didn't have to go back to find it, I simply remembered it. If I really wanted to trawl through your constant negative Nancy whingeing I'm sure I could find plenty more embarrassing examples.

I don't really care what you say about the whole Kerr/Tatum stuff, I can actually 'handle' it. I posted it as it seemed like a pertinent time to point out there are some people who are so determined to hang crap on the Celtics they will take any opportunity they can get, no matter how early it is and how little justification there is for it.

Your infantile response solidifies my point. Good luck achieving some level of emotional maturity in the future, 'champ'

[scaryjerry]

Imagine posting this in game 1 of a historically dominant championship winning season:

This team blows, shocker

I know what game it is More of the same of the last 3 seasons. They blow.

Who wrote it I wonder?

Aww poor little baby going back a year of posts to find something negative that was said when the team was playing poorly and had choked in the playoffs/finals 3 years in a row?
Good job champ!

And all for what? Because you can?t handle me saying that Kerr and the warriors came out on top tonight despite the Celtics being the better team and having an mvp candidate?
Awe

I didn't have to go back to find it, I simply remembered it. If I really wanted to trawl through your constant negative Nancy whingeing I'm sure I could find plenty more embarrassing examples.

I don't really care what you say about the whole Kerr/Tatum stuff, I can actually 'handle' it. I posted it as it seemed like a pertinent time to point out there are some people who are so determined to hang crap on the Celtics they will take any opportunity they can get, no matter how early it is and how little justification there is for it.

Your infantile response solidifies my point. Good luck achieving some level of emotional maturity in the future, 'champ'

The Celtics simply deserved the criticism after choking in the playoffs several years in a row. Last season was championship or bust and they did it! They proved anything negative I said wrong and I?ve been through this time and time again. All I?ve said this season is they?re the best team in the league and should be without a doubt heavy favorites to repeat and Tatum should be top 3 mvp. Tonight results mean absolutely nothing to me other then maybe the warriors will be legit in the west. We played a good game while being short handed and frankly the difference in the game was Steve Kerr and as usual Steph curry. Tatum did not get his ?revenge? me simply pointing that out for whatever reason has caused a problem and has caused you to bring up past comments in past seasons when I?ve already been proven wrong and admitted it.
Let it go champ

[Adelaide Celt]

Well I can agree with most of that. Though I would argue writing "Tatum sure did teach that big bad Kerr a lesson" isn't 'simply pointing that out'. It's you hanging crap on Jayson Tatum and people here love Jayson Tatum so I don't see why you'd be surprised that anybody would push back on this.

[tenn_smoothie]

Banner 18 or not, we are taking this 3-point attempts philosophy too far.
Averaging 50+ 3's per game is bad basketball.
Also, the mentality of trying to just outscore everybody may be causing our defensive effort to suffer.

[ozgod]

I feel this whole Tatum revenge thing has been so overblown. It's just a media narrative created to drum up interest that fans ran with. I'm sure Tatum was having a good chuckle reading it.

[scaryjerry]

I feel this whole Tatum revenge thing has been so overblown. It's just a media narrative created to drum up interest that fans ran with. I'm sure Tatum was having a good chuckle reading it.

Tatum is such a good dude he?s never going to publicly feed into any of these narratives.
I?d bet my house he wanted his ?revenge? in this game, and while he had a good second half he simply didn?t get it and the warriors as they often do against us had the last laugh and clearly wanted that game as bad as we did

[scaryjerry]

Well I can agree with most of that. Though I would argue writing "Tatum sure did teach that big bad Kerr a lesson" isn't 'simply pointing that out'. It's you hanging crap on Jayson Tatum and people here love Jayson Tatum so I don't see why you'd be surprised that anybody would push back on this.

I didn?t hang anything on Tatum. After having a bad first half and not being able to figure out kerrs blitzing him he had a fantastic second half which was largely the reason we had a chance, if he shot like he did tonight he may have gotten more minutes on team USA.

[mobilija]

Well I can agree with most of that. Though I would argue writing "Tatum sure did teach that big bad Kerr a lesson" isn't 'simply pointing that out'. It's you hanging crap on Jayson Tatum and people here love Jayson Tatum so I don't see why you'd be surprised that anybody would push back on this.

I didn?t hang anything on Tatum. After having a bad first half and not being able to figure out kerrs blitzing him he had a fantastic second half which was largely the reason we had a chance, if he shot like he did tonight he may have gotten more minutes on team USA.

[Roy H.]

I'm not sweating last night.  It was a very ugly first half, but that's to be expected when two starters are out, you're working an inexperienced guy into the rotation, and only only player (White) is shooting well.

I worry about the interior defense, particularly when Queta isn't in there.  But, I think we knew that without KP it would be an issue.

What I don't understand is the hand-wringing.  73 games left, guys.  Chill.  And, with my mod voice, please knock it off with the insults toward one another.  There's no need for things to become personal.  We're defending champions, and we're at or near the top of the NBA early.  Losses are going to happen.  Enjoy the ebbs and flows of the season.

[Redz]

I'm not sweating last night.  It was a very ugly first half, but that's to be expected when two starters are out, you're working an inexperienced guy into the rotation, and only only player (White) is shooting well.

I worry about the interior defense, particularly when Queta isn't in there.  But, I think we knew that without KP it would be an issue.

What I don't understand is the hand-wringing.  73 games left, guys.  Chill.  And, with my mod voice, please knock it off with the insults toward one another.  There's no need for things to become personal.  We're defending champions, and we're at or near the top of the NBA early.  Losses are going to happen.  Enjoy the ebbs and flows of the season.

I enjoyed last night's game.  It was good to see how the Celtics reacted to a different approach.  They showed a lot fo fight, but were outplayed.  Obviously having Brown would have helped, but the guys we had stayed competitive.  Having Porzingis shooting ten footers in the key over anyone would have freed up a lot of that high trapping,  Warriors did a nice job and will be a fun team to see develop.

Queta turning into a playable player is fascinating to see.  If he can bulk up a bit and work on a few low post moves and soften up his shot he can be a starter.  I like his mobility and effort and he seems to be a good learner.

[Amonkey]

I'm not sweating last night.  It was a very ugly first half, but that's to be expected when two starters are out, you're working an inexperienced guy into the rotation, and only only player (White) is shooting well.

I worry about the interior defense, particularly when Queta isn't in there.  But, I think we knew that without KP it would be an issue.

What I don't understand is the hand-wringing.  73 games left, guys.  Chill.  And, with my mod voice, please knock it off with the insults toward one another.  There's no need for things to become personal.  We're defending champions, and we're at or near the top of the NBA early.  Losses are going to happen.  Enjoy the ebbs and flows of the season.

I enjoyed last night's game.  It was good to see how the Celtics reacted to a different approach.  They showed a lot fo fight, but were outplayed.  Obviously having Brown would have helped, but the guys we had stayed competitive.  Having Porzingis shooting ten footers in the key over anyone would have freed up a lot of that high trapping,  Warriors did a nice job and will be a fun team to see develop.

Queta turning into a playable player is fascinating to see.  If he can bulk up a bit and work on a few low post moves and soften up his shot he can be a starter.  I like his mobility and effort and he seems to be a good learner.

I think the Celtics as the defending champions will have a lot of teams that will be gunning for them and Warriors were definitely one of them. The Celtics seemed to match the energy right from the first game of the season but I can imagine that being challenging to maintain that type of intensity and focus for an entire season. Warriors definitely seemed to be that team last night (which I remember the Celtics being the team with nothing to lose against them a few years back with the Brad Stevens team). Overall, if there are some good takeaways in developing some of our bench players while resting our starters, it may not be bad to lose some of these games.

Last night what I saw was they played against a locked in team that played very physical defense (sometimes too physical but apparently not for the refs) and the Celtics just didnt match the energy. If that becomes a constant theme I will be worried.

[Donoghus]

I'm not sweating last night.  It was a very ugly first half, but that's to be expected when two starters are out, you're working an inexperienced guy into the rotation, and only only player (White) is shooting well.

I worry about the interior defense, particularly when Queta isn't in there.  But, I think we knew that without KP it would be an issue.

What I don't understand is the hand-wringing.  73 games left, guys.  Chill.  And, with my mod voice, please knock it off with the insults toward one another.  There's no need for things to become personal.  We're defending champions, and we're at or near the top of the NBA early.  Losses are going to happen.  Enjoy the ebbs and flows of the season.

I enjoyed last night's game.  It was good to see how the Celtics reacted to a different approach.  They showed a lot fo fight, but were outplayed.  Obviously having Brown would have helped, but the guys we had stayed competitive.  Having Porzingis shooting ten footers in the key over anyone would have freed up a lot of that high trapping,  Warriors did a nice job and will be a fun team to see develop.

Queta turning into a playable player is fascinating to see.  If he can bulk up a bit and work on a few low post moves and soften up his shot he can be a starter.  I like his mobility and effort and he seems to be a good learner.

Yeah, it was one of those rare high intensity early regular season games.  Fun to watch.  Obviously, the W would've been nice but I'm not getting negative about it.  Golden State just played better and did what they needed to do down stretch while the Celtics' defensive lapses ending up costing them.  Queta is still raw but you're seeing growth there which is exciting.  You want to see bench guys grow. Especially this time of year.   

Entertaining game to watch.

[Redz]

I'm not sweating last night.  It was a very ugly first half, but that's to be expected when two starters are out, you're working an inexperienced guy into the rotation, and only only player (White) is shooting well.

I worry about the interior defense, particularly when Queta isn't in there.  But, I think we knew that without KP it would be an issue.

What I don't understand is the hand-wringing.  73 games left, guys.  Chill.  And, with my mod voice, please knock it off with the insults toward one another.  There's no need for things to become personal.  We're defending champions, and we're at or near the top of the NBA early.  Losses are going to happen.  Enjoy the ebbs and flows of the season.

I enjoyed last night's game.  It was good to see how the Celtics reacted to a different approach.  They showed a lot fo fight, but were outplayed.  Obviously having Brown would have helped, but the guys we had stayed competitive.  Having Porzingis shooting ten footers in the key over anyone would have freed up a lot of that high trapping,  Warriors did a nice job and will be a fun team to see develop.

Queta turning into a playable player is fascinating to see.  If he can bulk up a bit and work on a few low post moves and soften up his shot he can be a starter.  I like his mobility and effort and he seems to be a good learner.

I think the Celtics as the defending champions will have a lot of teams that will be gunning for them and Warriors were definitely one of them. The Celtics seemed to match the energy right from the first game of the season but I can imagine that being challenging to maintain that type of intensity and focus for an entire season. Warriors definitely seemed to be that team last night (which I remember the Celtics being the team with nothing to lose against them a few years back with the Brad Stevens team). Overall, if there are some good takeaways in developing some of our bench players while resting our starters, it may not be bad to lose some of these games.

Last night what I saw was they played against a locked in team that played very physical defense (sometimes too physical but apparently not for the refs) and the Celtics just didnt match the energy. If that becomes a constant theme I will be worried.

I wasn't on here last night and haven't read through the whole thread, so pardon me if it was mentioned, but Tatum definitely tried his best at responding to the overly physical stuff.  He was really banging hard on one possession (surprised he didn't get called for anything - he did get called on the next possession).  What I was encouraged about was that he didn't then cower and disappear.  He came back down and hit a tough three in their face.  The more he does of this sort of thing, the more comfortable he'll be with it.  They're going to keep coming at him hard - especially with no JB.