Celtics (19-13) at Cavaliers (23-7) Game #33 12/29/16

[Somebody]

Edited.  Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline. happened, I thought we were close

[walker834]

There you go jae.  We should be muscling them with Brown, Horford and crowder.

[blink]

It's not about how hard we play. Sometimes, you just need an upgrade in talent. The Cavs aren't even playing on a high gear today but because they have 2-3 more talented players than us, it makes all the difference. Imagine playing this Cavs team without Lebron.

I think the announcers said that since Lebron came back to the cavs they are 4-14 in games that he doesn't play (I think that is what they said..)
either way I would like to imagine a Cavs team without Lebron, or just the Celtics not having to play Lebron anymore.

Never.  with Kobe retired, a victory against Lebron is the sweetest one of all.  never duck a challenge.

Well I still want us to play them.  We just need a talent upgrade.

[PAOBoston]

Well, the positive news tonight is I don't travel to see JR Smith's face. That dude makes me want to punch a baby in the face.

[walker834]

Jaylen needs to be more aggressive.

[mr. dee]

What happened with Smart posting up?

[jpotter33]

The Cavs remind us time and time again talent means more than anything.

Yeah, this is basically the story of tonight. To a larger extent, it's also the story of this season.

Perhaps, but we'd certainly help ourselves with size. It's not just talent that is giving them a +16 rebounding advantage.

Just been a bad game for us, too. We've shot like crap and defended like crap, which is a bad combo.

[alewilliam789]

Good take JB

[walker834]

Use your talent Jaylen.

[liam]

Jaylen needs to be more aggressive.

He does but it's hard when you keep getting yanked!

[Eja117]

Only JJ has a better +- than Jaylen.

Because JB has played 3 minutes

Score 4 points 2 rebounds 1 a.

And played bad d. Anyways you act like he has a good plus minus. It's -5

and everybody else is playing good D hence the big lead. i get it. you're a rookie you miss a couple of D assignment and you learn from the bench. hope it does work

He's not in because he would be worse than everyone else in and he's shown that!! I don't get waht you people don't understand about that. This is a Championship caliber team with superstars all over the court. If you have any chance of winning this game you put in the people that will make the least amount of mistakes as possible to win games. You people show no respect for Brad and winning basketball so at this point I'm done

We're actually supposed to have a couple all stars and 3 all-nba defensive team caliber players ourselves. The gap isn't supposed to be anywhere this big.   Question. Honestly. Are you watching the games? Are you saying he isn't enabling softness?

You are asking me whether I'm watching the game after you tried to cite play by play as accurate evidence that JB was playing good D?

Those 3 defensive stalwarts have played in the game and our all star has balled and we are still getting our asses kicked. That's why Brown wasn't in. Because the only chance we have at winning this game is in the hands of players with talent that is at this point superior to Brown and we are still losing.

He's not enabling anything. He was given a roster that isn't good at rebounding and without a defensive presence in the frontcourt and was asked to make us back into a top 10 defense. The reason we are so bad rebounding wise and defensively is because  our best defenders have regressed and our frontcourt is barren besides Al Horford. We are running the same defense we were last year we just don't have the same personel as we did last year.

See Jaylen? He just made a rebound and went all the way for the layup. He's the 19 year old on the court.

[liam]

Jaylen Brown!

[SHAQATTACK]

51 to 12 points in the front court ...maybe worse .......

We are getting Smeared in rebounds

Come on Danny use the picks and bring Boogie

But small ball though!

I like IT ......but I HATE small ball period ...fools gold ball...just because Curry existing does not make it right ...LeBron is HUGE man playing the SF position

The only way to go though these teams is with BIG BiG guys .

[tomrod]

I like this line up.

[hpantazo]

Brown nice job knocking that away from Lebron.