Pacers (0-0) at Celtics (0-0) Round 1 Game 1 4/14/19

[PAOBoston]

Another careless turnover. This team was not ready to play today.

[liam]

SLOPPY< SLOPPY< SLOPPY!!!!!

[jpotter33]

Where the hell is Tatum?

[gouki88]

Horford has been trash when we've had the ball in hand too. Terrible

[CelticSooner]

Chemistry sucks. Is what it is.

[blink]

Cmon Al we gotta start taking care of the ball

[liam]

FIVE SECONDS, REALLY>>>>>

[keevsnick]

Where the hell is Tatum?

Ice pack on knee, likely injured. Now he's coming back in

[BitterJim]

PACERS bring Sabonis off the bench..... now that is thinking out the box no one will accuse Brad Stevens of ever doing that.

Brad never thinks outside the box? What?

name one move outside the box.... dude could not even bench Hayward to start season.

Was starting Gerald Green against the Bulls 2 years ago "in-the-box" thinking?

moves you make when you have no choice do not count, that belongs to the Doc Rivers school of forced adjustments.

How was that a "forced" adjustment? Because we were playing poorly and had to make a change, therefore any change (no matter how out-of-the-box) is standard?

Do you only count adjustments if your team is already doing well?

I give more credit to proactive rather than reactionary moves.

It sounds like you only give credit to proactive moves (or moves made by people not named Brad Stevens)

love Brad, but come on man...so many ways he could have gone out the box with the talent he  has on this  team

Every single year he plays tons of out-of-the-box lineups to see what might work (the same lineups that have people p---ed in November/December every year because "obviously this lineup will never work", and he usually finds a few that do (like the lineup we used against the Bulls in 2017)

What else are you looking for him to do?

[SparzWizard]

A rebounded pass that became turnover. 5 second violation.

You can't let these ridiculous turnovers happen. Secure the [dang] ball!

[jpotter33]

Bout time to grow a pair and just bench Rozier, Brad. I know that's asking a lot of you, but I'm not sure what you don't grasp about this...

[Ogaju]

We're already missing Smart's playmaking and continuity with the starters.

His contributions in the Magic game were so worth it.

Can we drop the magic game already. Smart could easily have gotten hurt in the first few mins of this game.

Sure, if those two games were in any way analogous, but they're not.

Please go check what pretty EVERY other coach did in the second to last game.  And the issue is that smart got hurt.

I don't give an F what every other coach did, as their situations are all different. It didn't make any sense whatsoever to play any of our regular guys over the last two games, as there was literally no benefit to it and only risk. Amazing how people can bury their heads in the sand and put the blinders on all to absolve Brad of this clear mistake.

Um, Giannis played that game too.  Meant even less got them.  You can’t single out brad for being an idiot when he did what every other coach does.

must coaches suck that is why they get fired.

Including the guy that NBA coaches voted as coach of the year?

makes sense if you believe that most coaches suck then their choice would obviously suck.

Sure. If you start with the idea that you know better than all the coaches in the NBA, every decision by them is dumb

I love Brad but he like most coaches do not coach out the box. The fact that you could only come up with starting Green after going down 0-2 to Chicago as his Einstein moment is proof enough.

[liam]

NICE ROZIER>>>>

[gouki88]

Rozier you SUCK! LEAVE!

[SCeltic34]

I hate Rozier.  Seriously.  If you're going to foul in transition, then FOUL.

On the previous play he fell asleep and left Joseph wide open from 3 which he luckily missed.

F'ing hell Brad, grow a [dang] pair and yank his ass from the game.