Celtics (1-0) at Bucks (0-1) Round 2 Game 2 4/30/19

[Ogaju]

Charles just said it ...Cs beat this team in the half court. Stop running with them. Play half court!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[liam]

Whole team fell asleep on that last three but otherwise it's close and Milwaukee is only in the game because they hit 11 threes. That won't happen in the second half.

Except Jaylen. He kept us in this.

Yeah he did!  that was some serious scrappy play by Brown...

He just missed that half court heave at the half!

[Atzar]

Only down four and we’re getting nothing from Kyrie, Tatum, Hayward on offense.

Just keep playing.  Need better shot selection from Kyrie and we need to stick to Middleton.  Aside from that, I like what we’re doing.

[slamtheking]

Barkley's at least right about the Bucks having horrible half court offense.  the 3's are saving their bacon tonight

[hpantazo]

Tatum has been very disappointing so far this series.

[KGs Knee]

That might have been Kyrie's worst half of basketball all season, and yet we're down single digits.  I'm not scared by the Bucks team even a slight bit.

[nickagneta]

Not sure how often this has ever happened but Jaylen Brown is tied for team lead with 2 assists. What that tells me is our ball movement is bad.

[KGs Knee]

Tatum has been very disappointing so far this series.

unfortunately so

[ozgod]

C's 6-16 on 3's.  Bucks 11-26. 

Bucks can't reasonably stay that hot but C's have notoriously been that cold for entire games.  they need to get better shots in the paint and closer to the hoop. 

Kyrie 2-12 and Tatum 2-6 isn't going to get it done.  Brown, Al and Morris keeping us in the game.  also need more than 5 points and 2 shots from Hayward to pull this out.

Those 3s are really why Milwaukee is ahead. We’re protecting the lane from Giannis but he’s passing the ball to the perimeter earlier where they’ve made some shots.

[tenn_smoothie]

Tatum and Irving, our two explosive scorers are 4-18 at the half, total of 10 points between them. Irving needs to stop with the horrible shot selection, especially when he is cold. I know he is a scorer and they keep shooting, but limit the shots to very good looks. Tatum, I don't know. He seems to have decided to model his game this season after Irving & Bryant - and the results have not been good.

We don't seem to be running much offense - very ragged on that end.

[CelticSooner]

Charles just said it ...Cs beat this team in the half court. Stop running with them. Play half court!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bad habits have already reared their ugly head in this game. I don't like the flow on offense to this point, settling too much.

[ozgod]

Charles just said it ...Cs beat this team in the half court. Stop running with them. Play half court!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What that really means is miss fewer shots or give up offensive rebounds to make sure everyone is back  to force them to walk the ball up.

[Neurotic Guy]

Middleton is 8-11 from 3 in the series.

[Ogaju]

CBS needs to rim this team at the half...they are not moving the ball, and Tatum needs to be shooting his spot up threes and stop the Kobe Bryant turn around jumpers. And mix in some steaks PEDS or whatever you need to get some meat on dem bones.

[alt]

Brown is playing well but out of his 3 made shots, 2 were putbacks off O rebounds. Out of those, he's 1-5, or rather 1-4 not counting that end of half heave. Then he has 5 fts, 3+2.

As someone said, he's playing scrappy. He's better this way. Opportunistic scorer. Trying to make him an offensive dynamo would probably hurt his performance and the team.

It's Irving and Hayward that need to step up as shotmakers.