Celtics (3-1) at Cavs (4-0) Game #5 11/3/16

[max215]

Pacers getting whooped by a lousy Bucks team. I'm feeling very good about my prediction of them as a 6-10 seed.

[LarBrd33]

Thomas has an uncanny ability to finish at the hoop.  It's incredible.

[tomrod]

Smart is Tony Allen lite

[mctyson]

C's hanging tough. Still in it.

Best feature of this team.  They will NEVER quit.

[dreamgreen]

Smart is Tony Allen lite

He's Smart-er than TA!

[blink]

C's hanging tough. Still in it.

Best feature of this team.  They will NEVER quit.

I agree.  we can blow leads with the best of them, but we don't quit.  Even when we are outsized and getting pounded.

[Phantom255x]

Good lord LBJ...

[Kuberski33]

How long before Marcus delivers an extra hard foul to someone?

[LarBrd33]

We are playing really solid considering Horford and crowder are out. 

[jpotter33]

We are playing really solid considering Horford and crowder are out.

Getting ready to say the same thing.

[Phantom255x]

Yeah I tried guys.

Muted TNT finally lol.

[LarBrd33]

We are playing really solid considering Horford and crowder are out.

Getting ready to say the same thing.

yeah hopefully they don't blow us out now, but really the cavs are on another level from
us and to even keep this close without Horford and crowder is nice.

[Phantom255x]

Lebron drives for an easy 2.

Celtics come back and throw up a miracle 3.

That's why CLE is up 20 even though the C's are fighting back at times..

[jpotter33]

Smart is playing James how he is supposed to, but he's just unstoppable when he's hitting his shots like that.

Also, does anyone else notice that he doesn't want to drive on Smart, he's only shooting over him? He keeps going for switches to drive, but he doesn't like driving on the smaller Smart.

Something to keep in mind for the playoffs. Small guys are sometimes most effective at discouraging bigger guys in these kinds of situations.

[JOMVP]

I'm not convinced if we had our full compliment of players if this game would be going any differently. The defense and rebounding is just really poor. Cavs hitting on all their shots as well. We need a rebounding presence in this starting lineup really bad. We should have tried harder at Festus Ezili.

Why wouldn't it be going differently if we had our best overall player and two of the better defensive players in the league in the line up?

Because we've already seen the perimeter defense look this poor already this season and AL Horford doesn't fix our rebounding issues.