Celtics (26-10) at Nuggets (20-14) Game #37 1/7/25

[keevsnick]

Brown was 0-7 and 0 points in the second half vs the Thunder. 0-4 with 2 points in the firts half vs the Nuggets. That's 0-11 with 2 points in his last 4 quarters, granted he did have 5 assists in the first half which is nice.

I don't even care about the 2 points; I care about the 11 total shots. Thats too few shots. Jaylen is best when he's aggressive, right now he's playing passive on offense.

[SCeltic34]

What a dumb Edited.  Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline.ing shot.  Forget the 2 for 1.  Get a better shot.

Two bad shots are not better than one good one.

Agreed.  We ended up with a terrible shot by Jrue, and then we didn't even get a shot off the end the half.  Essentially we got nothing.  0 for 1.

[liam]

Springer in 1 minute had as many rebounds as Queta 8 minutes...

[Surferdad]

Missing DWhite big time

[liam]

Pritchard and PP 2-4 from 3, and the starting 5 are 3-12...

[jpotter33]

One other thing - why do we continue to go to the two big lineup? I simply don't understand why we need to rotate two of KP, Al, Kornet, and Queta out there when our starters aren't in, as it seems like we're constantly having a big get in mismatches or getting taken advantage of by passing and our defensive rotations being slower on the perimeter due to slower big guys.

Tonight might be due to both White and Walsh being out, but even last game we were running out two big lineups against a super small OKC lineup. Not a fan.

[liam]

Missing DWhite big time

Absolutely!

[Phantom255x]

Hopefully the Jays can just take this over in the 2nd half

Maybe this is the anti-OKC where Jaylen?s useless half is done and now he goes off this half. A man can dream 

[Indocelts]

This is a weird game. So far, we only took 16 3ptA so, but our average 3pt shooter (Tatum) is 0-6.
Our best 3pt shooter (PP, Al, Hauser, missing DW) combined for only 6 shots.

Clearly in this game the reduction of 3pt shooting is detrimental to our game.

[jpotter33]

I'm sorry - this is just not a focused team right now.

At least JB looks more aggressive, but it's a failure that it's even tied right now.

[Silas]

JB woke up...

[jpotter33]

KP has to stop trying to get the foul on the free throw line takes. They're simply not calling that foul this year ever since they loosened up the officiating standard (appropriately) last year after the All Star Game.

[SCeltic34]

Our defense is just not good.  Not enough resistance containing the ball, and we're not defending the 3 point line.

[SCeltic34]

This is the JB we need.  There's no one that can guard him straight up.  Great dish off to Zinger.

[keevsnick]

7'3 Kristaps, 6'9 Tatum and 6'10 Horford all right at the rim and Christian Braun gets the rebound. Not great.

At least Brown has woken up. 3/3 all in the paint, great drop off to Kristaps off another drive.