2019-20 Boston Celtics Season

It’s also funny that Marcus was yelling at teammates in the locker room after Game 2 when he’s straight up stunk all series. But when you’re allowed to take bad shots without being held accountable, that will continue to happen.

Unfortunate because we could have swept the Heat. Herro with 35+ is laughable lol credit to him but you don't deserve to win if you let a 20 year old do that to you. The refs even tried to hand us this game at the end.

Love Smart but dang that silly offense can be annoying.

Would be pleasantly surprised if we could pull this off but not expecting much. Am I crazy for wanting 20-25 Grant Williams minutes instead of 12-12-4 of Wanamaker/Timelord/Semi? Feel like he would be a way better fit defensively against Bam/Herro...

Or maybe even cutting Theis Minutes by 10 if you want to keep Timelords

Whatever happens we have the brightest future in the East and this season exceeded expectations for me.

I wasn't able to watch the game, yet the box score kinda shows the same old issues TOs 19 vs 8, cost us the game. We out rebounded them in the game with Theis and Williams having 13 boards in 42 minutes to Bam's 12 in 41 minutes. What am I missing?

Don the box score doesn't show that, we out rebounded them 10 to 8 in the fourth, Theis only played seven minutes and Bam had four points. We shot 52.6% vs 48% for the Heat, yet we had seven TOs, they had one and Herro went off for 17 points on 6 for 9 shooting.

On a side note Robert Williams was plus ten in that game.

It kinda looks like the series we just keep turning it over and they don't. We play like crap in the 4th, they play awesome.

Don't know if it's approbate to make a comment in here about the other series, but man, this is why I despise NBA officials, and why it so weakens my desire to follow the NBA. The refs are trying so hard to give this game to LA. It's ridiculous.

Yeah its absolutely shameless...they don't even try to hide it anymore. The refs were trying to give us the last game and I don't even like that. Not only can it change the outcome, but it can completely unnecessarily change the flow of a game and those types of games are much less watchable. 

The Celtics just need to play better, I still believe they are the more talented team. They just have to cut the turnovers.

We just ran into a team playing perfect and better than there parts and we are doing the opposite. We've seen the Nuggets come back from 3-1 already this year.

I'd buy that in the Raptors series, I don't see it last game. Tatum 39 minutes Butler 39 minutes, Dragic 39 minutes Brown 40 minutes, Walker 34 minutes Herro 36 minutes, Smart 36 Crowder 31, Theis 30 minutes Bam 41. Hayward gives you good depth and the Heat's main players played about equal minutes.

I also don't buy it because Tatum and Brown are much younger than Butler and Dragic. If anything you should have the advantage given the minutes last game.

The biggest issue? Easy coaching, ever since the brilliant Nick Nurse starting using zone and other types of usually not used D to stop the Celtics normal offense things haven't been good.

It's not even a huge dig at Stevens because he's going against two great coaches that have won Championship's. Yet the Heat coach is getting his players to play at the 99% mark, Steven's is getting his guys to play at the 90% mark.

I didn't watch the game, yet I'm going to assume the Heat switched between zone, cover two and having two guys at the tree point line pressuring our ball handlers. It takes away our normal offense and Steven's doesn't have his team ready to handle it. He makes a switch and the Heat switch it up again. He's always reacting to what the other team does. He tries zone and the Heat are 100% ready and destroy it. That's just coaching, one team seems to be able to run different offenses and defenses flawlessly, and we can't.

I have a very hard time blaming experience when we have more or young players when a rookie just dominated the 4th quarter for the Heat.

You could say we don't have clutch players, yet I don't buy that for one second. It's much more what the other teams are doing than our guys just not being good enough. They aren't ready for it and don't have experience using an offense to beat it. Steven's needs to spend all next year getting his team ready to attack multiple different defenses and not be trying to teach them on the fly in the playoffs. He needs to get his players to play under control and cut down the TOs.

Stat of the day, the Heat had two TOs in the second half last game, Smart had three in the 4th quarter. The type of crap were you tip your hat to the Heat coach because he's been darn near perfect. With a ton of praise going to Nurse who gave the league a blue print of how to really mess with us. Yet it's still the Heat coach saving that for critical spots, not using it too much so the Celtics learn how to beat it. Brilliant coaching by the Heat, I really can't say enough about how good it has been and how ready he has those guys for everything you throw at them.

Who wants to fire him? Coaches can grow and get better, just look at the Heat coach. He's much better now than he was during the LeBron era in my opinion. You can have Stevens needs to be better and he's still one of the better coaches that I want around long-term. The Great Bill took years and years to become the coach he is. I don't see why if we think Stevens is being out coached by a great coach it means we have to fire him or the it's not the coach it's 100% the players.

Who has the more talented roster? Don you make it sound like you think this is mostly because the Heat just have better players. For me it's just the Heat coach has his guys playing darn near perfect and we aren't coming close to that.

Lol stick a fork in this team. Zero fight.