76ers (3-3) at Celtics (3-3) Round 1 Game 7 5/2/26

[Kernewek]

This is kind of a random and more broader question, but outside of the final two series of 2024, how is it that the Celtics are just so bad at home???

Idk the record but it can't be good in the past decade. 1-3 this round, 1-2 last year in the Knicks series. Some bad ones in crucial moments like 2018 and 2023 ECF Game 7 + 2022 Finals Game 6. Even went like 1-3 in the 2023 ECF series to Miami in a series they lost in 7.

You see teams and fanbases clamoring for higher seeding for HCA and to make an impact in the postseason, yet TD Garden is just cursed. And the fans here are passionate, but it doesn't translate to the product. Seriously, 1-3 this round, and they lost Game 2 by double digits without Embiid too. Embarassing. Also even 2024, lose Game 2s in the first two rounds to MIA + CLE. Crazy.

And they BARELY beat the pacers at home in 2024.
Lost 3 straight home games in this series...there was time when nobody won in Boston in the playoffs multiple games

I miss the days of watching the Celtics with Avery Bradley, Keeyong Dooling and Marquis Daniels. 

That team was outmatched on talent every single night they stepped on the floor, but every single night they played hard and played to win.  This team looked like that for large stetches of the regular season only to throw it all down the toilet when it mattered most. 

Image a Celtics team that plays so poorly in key playoff moments that they made Joe Embiid and the Sixers look clutch by comparison.  I'm having a very difficult time dealing with that.

It seems very weird to mention this team without noting that the squad in question (2011-2012) still had Pierce, Ray, and - most importantly for this distinction - KG.

The 'Rondo, Bradley, and some assorted other guys coached by Brad Stevens' season was two seasons after that - and it didn't have Dooling or Daniels.

[Celtics4ever]

I think our lads gave a good effort and almost pulled it off.  Could we have played better absolutely, Could we have been coached better, absolutely.

Embiid gets away with murder and fouls are called if our guys looked at him.   At the end of the day the hero ball caused us to play zero bell.   The Sixers used the knicks tactics from last playoff and beat us.   This is a big problem moving forward, as it is a recipe to beat us.   Play hard, press the ball, play fast and rush the three point line.

Guys have a lot of soul searching this off season, what they could have done differently.   Should Tatum have come back?  We sure did not tank but now we have a low pick.

White may be in decline, Vooch was not a good fit.  isn't Walsh a free agent?

[hodgy03038]

According to JB novody told him that JT wasn't playing!!!!! Really? What kind of an organization does that? Mazulla should be fired, JT what is wrong with you not telling your supposed partner that you wasn't playing? I do not get this.

[scaryjerry]

This is kind of a random and more broader question, but outside of the final two series of 2024, how is it that the Celtics are just so bad at home???

Idk the record but it can't be good in the past decade. 1-3 this round, 1-2 last year in the Knicks series. Some bad ones in crucial moments like 2018 and 2023 ECF Game 7 + 2022 Finals Game 6. Even went like 1-3 in the 2023 ECF series to Miami in a series they lost in 7.

You see teams and fanbases clamoring for higher seeding for HCA and to make an impact in the postseason, yet TD Garden is just cursed. And the fans here are passionate, but it doesn't translate to the product. Seriously, 1-3 this round, and they lost Game 2 by double digits without Embiid too. Embarassing. Also even 2024, lose Game 2s in the first two rounds to MIA + CLE. Crazy.

And they BARELY beat the pacers at home in 2024.
Lost 3 straight home games in this series...there was time when nobody won in Boston in the playoffs multiple games

I miss the days of watching the Celtics with Avery Bradley, Keeyong Dooling and Marquis Daniels. 

That team was outmatched on talent every single night they stepped on the floor, but every single night they played hard and played to win.  This team looked like that for large stetches of the regular season only to throw it all down the toilet when it mattered most. 

Image a Celtics team that plays so poorly in key playoff moments that they made Joe Embiid and the Sixers look clutch by comparison.  I'm having a very difficult time dealing with that.

Uh what are you on about? This years team was the definition of playing hard every night even though they were outmatched based on talent so much so that they got the 2 seed and made entitled fans like you think they were some sort of juggernaut contender.
This was a gap year where they sold off much of their talent to get under the salary cap lol.
Keyon dooling and marquis Daniel?s were actual bums and nothing Celtics.