Cavaliers (0-0) at Celtics (0-0) ECF Game #1 5/17/17

[Phantom255x]

First Lopez, then Gortat, now Love/Thompson.

Celtics making these guys look like Prime Shaq and Duncan. 

[crimcartel]

Bradley is such an inconsistent outside shooter UGH

[kozlodoev]

Realize I'm going to be hated......but Brad I think is overrated. A coach should be able to get his guys to play disciplined. This team really hasn't played that way going back to the bulls series. Ill advised 3's, bad defense, poorrebounding and simply street ball play is all I've seen this team do for the whole playoffs. It would be one thing if we were just getting beat due to a gap in talent, but this doesn't need to be going down this way.

Maybe I'm just spoiled from having seen the big 3 play, but this kind of ball is nauseating to watch.

good points i feel your pain. no hate from me

Didn't the Spurs get blown out?

Pop must suck too.

Our All Star is 5'9", our big is a fineness big, and everyone else are young players or roll players. What do you expect.

Plus they've missed a ton of open shots, so it's not like what CBS draws up is crap, players just aren't executing.

The Spurs were down their best player. Also, if all you have in your pocket is drawing up plays for wide open jump shots, you're not a very good coach.

[droopdog7]

The thing I hate about LBJ is that I have to experience what every NFL fan experiences when they go against the Patriots.

Except Giants fans

Has Lebron not earned every single thing tonight.  Some of you people are just completely insane with the hate.

[RJ87]

We got the #1 pick. We're just happy to be here.

[max215]

When Markelle Fultz hits his prime, LeBron James will be 40, so there's a chance that his decline will have started.

[liam]

Celtics - 39 points

Love + Lebron - 36 points.

Lebron is the best in the world right now, but YEESH.

I think Kawhi Leonard is the best in the world but he got submarined by ZaZa!

[SHAQATTACK]

First Lopez, then Gortat, now Love/Thompson.

Celtics making these guys look like Prime Shaq and Duncan. 

we don't need good bigs .....have you lost your mind 

[hwangjini_1]

Lol 28-14 rebound disparity.

Now a lot of that is on us just missing shots and giving them more opportunities, but when you brick 14 threes that's what happens.

Maybe the C's get their head out of their arses in the second half. We're much better than what we showed in that half, and that was primarily on us playing tentative and scared, which affected both our offense and our defense, if you can even call it defense.

Well, at least th  Celtics can't play much worse. 1-15. On threes was it? Hell, I could that and save the Celtics a lot of money. 

[Ilikesports17]

The thing I hate about LBJ is that I have to experience what every NFL fan experiences when they go against the Patriots.

Except Giants fans

Has Lebron not earned every single thing tonight.  Some of you people are just completely insane with the hate.

Who are you referring to?

The Tom Brady comp is the highest comp I can imagine

[BringToughnessBack]

The thing I hate about LBJ is that I have to experience what every NFL fan experiences when they go against the Patriots.

Except Giants fans

Has Lebron not earned every single thing tonight.  Some of you people are just completely insane with the hate.

Lebron is a sick player. Year after year he continues to bring it at levels unimaginable.

[max215]

First Lopez, then Gortat, now Love/Thompson.

Celtics making these guys look like Prime Shaq and Duncan. 

To be fair, Love and Thompson are excellent rebounders, and Thompson is particularly excellent at offensive rebounding. They destroy everyone, not just us.

[MBunge]

We're missing shots but the Cavs are exposing the flaw in the defense that we, and so many other NBA teams, play.

YOU CAN'T JUST SWITCH EVERYTHING WHEN YOU'RE GUARDING ELITE SCORERS.

You have to fight through the pick or you have to aggressively trap the man with the ball.  With the rules that favor the offense, you can't simply surrender mismatches time after time after time.

Mike

[BringToughnessBack]

As far as halfttime alcohol sales in Boston ? Do you think they are breaking a record now?

[Ilikesports17]

First Lopez, then Gortat, now Love/Thompson.

Celtics making these guys look like Prime Shaq and Duncan. 

To be fair, Love and Thompson are excellent rebounders, and Thompson is particularly excellent at offensive rebounding. They destroy everyone, not just us.

Thompson is one of the 2 or 3 best offensive rebounders in the league and Love used to average like 14 a game. He's lost a little but he's still an elite rebounder