2019-20 Boston Celtics Season

Now that my friends was a FCKING HALF OF BASKETBALL!

Don that's what good coaching looks like, Stevens actually adjusting the offense to include cuts and it killed the Heat. Ugly first Quarter, yet after that they actually played Celtics Basketball! Smart, Tatum and Walker passing was very good. That's why I say they have the better talent, they can semi blow them out. The Heat can't do that to us.

Yeah, he had his guys constantly attacking the weakside of the Miami zone where they can be exploited. I feel like the idea was to do it last game as well, but guys just couldn't execute. I thought the players were finally playing loose again. Stevens used Kanter beautifully tonight. All around great stuff save from the nightmarish first quarter.

If we lose this series it will be frustrating, but there are worse things in life than an off-season of still maturing Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum knowing damn well they should have gone to the Finals.

The Celtics have Brown, Tatum, Walker, Smart and Hayward that can create and pass. They need to remember that. Like I almost forgot how good Smart can be passing the ball given how he was playing. That's how they need to play, that's how you beat the zone and crazy defenses.

I still can't believe what happened given how they started, which was about as bad as they could. No passing, no driving, just jacking up three's.

Finally Steven's added cutting to the offense, when added to great passing it kills zone D and the Heat had no idea how to adjust. First time this series that happened, first time we really throw something at them they weren't ready for.

Slight worry that towards the end they stopped that and went back to jacking up three's. They need to stop that, attack, pass, cut and take your three point shots off of that. No creating three's off the dribble.

I also loved Steven's basically telling Brown to just score. The Heat focus the D to stop Tatum and Walker, so he's the guy who should be just looking to score. As long as it's like last night or game three with him driving all night long. They can't stop that.

Last two minutes they took three straight three's, Brown than Tatum took two straight. Then you had the Brown layup. It wasn't huge, maybe they didn't care because of the score. Yet they stopped moving, cutting passing and just took three's as the clock was winding down. We've seen that all playoffs and it cost us a few games. Even last game they can't come close to just playing a full good game. They need to work on plays to kill clock, because I'd rather a good shot over just killing time and taking bad shots. Iso Tatum, Walker or Brown threes aren't good shots. 

If they play 48 minutes of ball movement and good not even great D, they are almost impossible to beat. It might seem small, yet I want those guys in the mindset of always moving the ball and driving 24/7.

A big part of that is getting guys in foul trouble, which makes them less aggressive on D or they foul out. Most likely Dragic isn't going to be as aggressive next game after he gets a few fouls.

I don’t have a problem with those 3 pointers - they were up 13 with the ball under 2 minute left. They’d be dumb to start up 13 with the ball, 1:57 on the clock and start running plays to get “better shots” earlier in the shot clock. On top of it, Browns started it at the end of the clock and that was off of ball movement. So the real questionable ones would be Tatum but his first one was the Celtics up 13 with 1:32 left on the clock... no issues just milking the shot clock... worst case is you give them back the ball, up 13 with under 1:10... is rather that than a potential turn over... Tatum ended up with his own rebound so standing there with 1:07 left milking more clock isn’t a bad play either. I understand the argument that you’d rather Tatum take it to the basket on his first 3 point attempt and I won’t argue it would have been more ideal. However, too much action, cutting and getting overly aggressive could have easily backfired with turn overs early in the shot clock.

The problem wasn't last game, but if you do that up 3 or 6 like we've seen all Playoff long. I'd rather good shots over just running the clock out and taking a three. If you can't not turn it over, you need to work on that.

Smart’s bricks and turnovers are absolutely killing this team. And yet he hasn’t seen the bench yet.

I hope Rob Will can become a smart defender because his impact can be huge

The Celtics are puking all over themselves right now. Embarrassing to watch.

What a soft basketball team.