Boston Celtics (28-11) at Toronto Raptors (9-31) Game #40 1/15/25

[celticinorlando]

Raptors are 2-16 in their last 18 games. Boston can't even get a stop


Celtics are getting run off the floor once again. This team is going nowhere this season.

[liam]

Can they let PP run the show and shoot more?

[keevsnick]

Derick White being 3 of his last 29 is just brutal. One of the worst shooting stretches from a high-volume lite shooter I can remember.

[Phantom255x]

I'm a few minutes late to this, but that sequence late in the 3rd where Kornet is just tapping the rebounds back and we're still jacking up and missing 3s was brutal. I counted 4 misses. I know it ended in a JT layup, but the possessions right before and after it for Toronto meanwhile were easy buckets. And then JT had like a 40-foot stepback that wasn't close either

It's just all bad basketball, and not even doing the basics right (hitting shots and playing D)

[celticinorlando]

There is no effort on defense. None. I could go out there and get a bucket.

[liam]

Raptors are 2-16 in their last 18 games. Boston can't even get a stop


Celtics are getting run off the floor once again. This team is going nowhere this season.

Put Springer in there to hawk the ball. Do something Joe!

[keevsnick]

Not sure how they're going to win the non-Tatum minutes but they're going to have to do it.

What's even more frustrating is that it's not like we're just putting Brown out there by himself. Like, the non-Tatum minutes are almost always with at least three starters out there against a mixed bench group for the other team. It's a major, major problem that we can't even hold our own against those units without Tatum.

Actually they largely have held their own in non-Tatum minutes ths season. The entire reason the won Sunday was they won those minutes. They are +11.2 in Brown/ No Tatum minutes this year. Its been more hit and miss lately.

[jpotter33]

2023 part deux.

That's exactly the feel that this team has. Lack of effort, intensity, and focus out there, but Joe will claim in postgame that all is fine because the "process" was good (even though it clearly isn't, and at some point outcomes DO matter).

[liam]

There is no effort on defense. None. I could go out there and get a bucket.

Every one of the starters except KP is running in mud. More bench, please!

[Indocelts]

Derick White being 3 of his last 29 is just brutal. One of the worst shooting stretches from a high-volume lite shooter I can remember.

Yup. This is very much worrying, too long of a stretch for  a player like him.

[celticinorlando]

This team hasn't played defense this season.

Raptors shooting 77 percent this half.

[Phantom255x]

Mood

[tenn_smoothie]

I thought this team might come out after the two bad home performances and two days off and blow Toronto out.
This is stunning.

[Phantom255x]

We're making Toronto look like the Pacers. 77% shooting this half, and quite frankly I have to admit a lot of their buckets are open. Not like it's some "voodoo", our defense has sucked

[celticinorlando]

This game is over. Body language is just so bad. Look like a team playing out the stretch