Warriors (45-11) at Boston Celtics (23-33) Game #57 3/1/15

[34truth]

If we had someone that could score, when IT was on the bench, we would have had a better chance of winning.

That would be... Isaiah Thomas, who has no business spending 20 minutes of the game  on the pine.

(thanks, Brad S)

you are killing stevens too much. Check our roster out. I disagree with a lot of his decisions, but his philosophy has this Celtics playing together and being very competitive night in night out

Of course I'm killing him. Kindly check how many minutes the best players on the GS roster played tonight. News flash: you have to play your best players to get the best result.

You can tell I'm a bit bitter tonight, can't you?

Crowder shouldve knocked down that 3.

Which one of the six? By the way, Crowder has no business taking 7 threes and 17 shots; he's not that good. And even if your 24-year-old player is somewhat inexperienced, your blue chip coach should have known better.

who else u want taking them shots tho, bradley? Smart? Bass? Zeller? Same [dang] crap. He's gotta take it if hes open, forced a few, other than that keep firing

[kozlodoev]

theres no perfect coach. Ask me, I wouldn't think kerr would be doing a whole lot better than Brad with our team

Kerr won the game from 26 down. With actual adjustments. And by playing Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry 39 minutes. Brad S lost by Isaiah Thomas 28 minutes and Jae Crowder 26 minutes.

I think Brad doesnt make enough adjustments. He does make some, but not too many. That's a big reason why we always give up big leads. Other coaches make them.

I keep hoping Brad S (and Bradley) have turned the page, and then comes a game like this one.

SMH

[MarcusStart]

We lost this game because, for some reason, the defense was not communicating as well as they were in the 1st half. IT's scoring was important to the lead going into halftime but the defensive end is where we got the lead.

[SHAQATTACK]

Oh well.....

Better luck next time.

I figured ...the fourth would be what it was .

[kozlodoev]

If we had someone that could score, when IT was on the bench, we would have had a better chance of winning.

That would be... Isaiah Thomas, who has no business spending 20 minutes of the game  on the pine.

(thanks, Brad S)

you are killing stevens too much. Check our roster out. I disagree with a lot of his decisions, but his philosophy has this Celtics playing together and being very competitive night in night out

Of course I'm killing him. Kindly check how many minutes the best players on the GS roster played tonight. News flash: you have to play your best players to get the best result.

You can tell I'm a bit bitter tonight, can't you?

Crowder shouldve knocked down that 3.

Which one of the six? By the way, Crowder has no business taking 7 threes and 17 shots; he's not that good. And even if your 24-year-old player is somewhat inexperienced, your blue chip coach should have known better.

who else u want taking them shots tho, bradley? Smart? Bass? Zeller? Same [dang] crap. He's gotta take it if hes open, forced a few, other than that keep firing

If you can't count 5 scoring options better than Jae Crowder on this team then... you probably can't count?

[34truth]

theres no perfect coach. Ask me, I wouldn't think kerr would be doing a whole lot better than Brad with our team

Kerr won the game from 26 down. With actual adjustments. And by playing Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry 39 minutes. Brad S lost by Isaiah Thomas 28 minutes and Jae Crowder 26 minutes.

I think Brad doesnt make enough adjustments. He does make some, but not too many. That's a big reason why we always give up big leads. Other coaches make them.

I keep hoping Brad S (and Bradley) have turned the page, and then comes a game like this one.

SMH

You are partially right. Stevens could have helped the celtics win. Bradley too, could have done somewhat of a better job. But again, we are supposed to lose. And we had a pretty f u cking good chance to win this crap

[Sketch5]

bla bla bla. Is it nice that the cs are competitive and just sized the nbas best team up? yeah. Are we fighting and putting in effort? yeah. Are we expected to lose? yeah. Still, 26 up. Win the game

"Sized", really? One adjustment on defense (moving an extra guy on the box to stop IT's penetration), and we go from up 26 to losing the game (thanks, Brad S). If there were a 5th quarter, we may have _lost_ by 26.

I disagree. The celtics may have not played much better, and I thought they were really lucky in the first quarter cause they were giving up open shots. But GSW didnt play that much better either. And they had some doubtful calls going their way

Sorry, I could literally see how the offense fizzled towards the end of the second quarter as a result of GS going to a quasi-box defense. This team has absolutely no idea how to make adjustments, which is entirely on the coach.

It's Stevens second year, he has not seen everything teams can throw at him, so maybe he didn't know how to adjust correctly, but I bet he watches the tape and figures it out tonight. Kerr has an advantage with playing for two of the best teams in the last 20 years, and best coaches to boot. He's got the upper hand a bit with the coaching, oh and players.

Maybe Stevens had an adjustment, but our players couldn't pull it off. There is a big talent gap between GSW and the C's, the fact they were in the game at all was impressive.

[kozlodoev]

Tsk, tsk. Language, please.

[34truth]

If we had someone that could score, when IT was on the bench, we would have had a better chance of winning.

That would be... Isaiah Thomas, who has no business spending 20 minutes of the game  on the pine.

(thanks, Brad S)

you are killing stevens too much. Check our roster out. I disagree with a lot of his decisions, but his philosophy has this Celtics playing together and being very competitive night in night out

Of course I'm killing him. Kindly check how many minutes the best players on the GS roster played tonight. News flash: you have to play your best players to get the best result.

You can tell I'm a bit bitter tonight, can't you?

Crowder shouldve knocked down that 3.

Which one of the six? By the way, Crowder has no business taking 7 threes and 17 shots; he's not that good. And even if your 24-year-old player is somewhat inexperienced, your blue chip coach should have known better.

who else u want taking them shots tho, bradley? Smart? Bass? Zeller? Same [dang] crap. He's gotta take it if hes open, forced a few, other than that keep firing

If you can't count 5 scoring options better than Jae Crowder on this team then... you probably can't count?

I dont think any of them are way better. He was wide open on most of them. They all suck the same, accept it, move on

[kozlodoev]

It's Stevens second year, he has not seen everything teams can throw at him, so maybe he didn't know how to adjust correctly, but I bet he watches the tape and figures it out tonight.

He hasn't seen box zones in college? Really...

[34truth]

bla bla bla. Is it nice that the cs are competitive and just sized the nbas best team up? yeah. Are we fighting and putting in effort? yeah. Are we expected to lose? yeah. Still, 26 up. Win the game

"Sized", really? One adjustment on defense (moving an extra guy on the box to stop IT's penetration), and we go from up 26 to losing the game (thanks, Brad S). If there were a 5th quarter, we may have _lost_ by 26.

I disagree. The celtics may have not played much better, and I thought they were really lucky in the first quarter cause they were giving up open shots. But GSW didnt play that much better either. And they had some doubtful calls going their way

Sorry, I could literally see how the offense fizzled towards the end of the second quarter as a result of GS going to a quasi-box defense. This team has absolutely no idea how to make adjustments, which is entirely on the coach.

It's Stevens second year, he has not seen everything teams can throw at him, so maybe he didn't know how to adjust correctly, but I bet he watches the tape and figures it out tonight. Kerr has an advantage with playing for two of the best teams in the last 20 years, and best coaches to boot. He's got the upper hand a bit with the coaching, oh and players.

Maybe Stevens had an adjustment, but our players couldn't pull it off. There is a big talent gap between GSW and the C's, the fact they were in the game at all was impressive.

Exactly! Took the words out of my mind. This guy thinks stevens is coaching the 96 bulls mixed wit  the showtime lakers

[ImShakHeIsShaq]

theres no perfect coach. Ask me, I wouldn't think kerr would be doing a whole lot better than Brad with our team

Kerr won the game from 26 down. With actual adjustments. And by playing Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry 39 minutes. Brad S lost by playing Isaiah Thomas 28 minutes and Jae Crowder 26 minutes.

How many adjustment do you really need to make when your players are Klay Thompson and Steph friggen Curry??!!! Hell, CBS could make the "adjustment" and play them 39 minutes too... wow, huge adjustment. The only adjustment Kerr made was taking Curry off of Isaiah and putting  longer guards on him. So, he took a sieve off of Thomas and hid him on others.

If we hit some of those wide open shots, you wouldn't be talking right now. That's not an adjustment, that's just not hitting shots! If they were contested shots, you would have a point but a lot of them were wide open.

[kozlodoev]

Exactly! Took the words out of my mind. This guy thinks stevens is coaching the 96 bulls mixed wit  the showtime lakers

This guy thinks that Brad S needs to show at least basic competency at this stage of his NBA career. So far, no cigar.

[34truth]

theres no perfect coach. Ask me, I wouldn't think kerr would be doing a whole lot better than Brad with our team

Kerr won the game from 26 down. With actual adjustments. And by playing Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry 39 minutes. Brad S lost by playing Isaiah Thomas 28 minutes and Jae Crowder 26 minutes.

How many adjustment do you really need to make when your players are Klay Thompson and Steph friggen Curry??!!! Hell, CBS could make the "adjustment" and play them 39 minutes too... wow, huge adjustment. The only adjustment Kerr made was taking Curry off of Isaiah and putting  longer guards on him. So, he took a sieve off of Thomas and hid him on others.

If we hit some of those wide open shots, you wouldn't be talking right now. That's not an adjustment, that's just not hitting shots! If they were contested shots, you would have a point but a lot of them were wide open.

Yep. Right again. Basketball is game played by the players. They have better players. We lost. Could have win if we made more shots. Move on

[kozlodoev]

theres no perfect coach. Ask me, I wouldn't think kerr would be doing a whole lot better than Brad with our team

Kerr won the game from 26 down. With actual adjustments. And by playing Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry 39 minutes. Brad S lost by playing Isaiah Thomas 28 minutes and Jae Crowder 26 minutes.

How many adjustment do you really need to make when your players are Klay Thompson and Steph friggen Curry??!!! Hell, CBS could make the "adjustment" and play them 39 minutes too... wow, huge adjustment. The only adjustment Kerr made was taking Curry off of Isaiah and putting  longer guards on him. So, he took a sieve off of Thomas and hid him on others.

If we hit some of those wide open shots, you wouldn't be talking right now. That's not an adjustment, that's just not hitting shots! If they were contested shots, you would have a point but a lot of them were wide open.

No, the actual adjustment Kerr made was packing the middle. As in, taking a guy off the man defense to play free safety at the top of the key, so that Thomas can't drive at will. And just like that, our offence went from titanic to ... Atlantic. Forgive the bad pun.

And yes, keeping his best players in for 35+ minutes may look rudimentary, but appears to be beyond Brad S's grasp. Which is absolutely infuriating.