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Post by eja117 on Sept 27, 2020 20:52:46 GMT -5
Kemba and others just sorta shooting us out of the game. Heat are totally feeling it.
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Post by eja117 on Sept 27, 2020 20:53:33 GMT -5
4 minutes left. Of course Brad isn't challenging calls. Does he have a challenge? Mark Jackson seems to think so. Not sure what Brad is waiting for
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Post by afceltic on Sept 27, 2020 20:53:52 GMT -5
Now Brad doesn't challenge a terrible block call. Is he awake? You can't take your challenges into the offseason Brad.
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Post by eja117 on Sept 27, 2020 20:57:01 GMT -5
Wow. Even within the context of the injury the Celtics have gotten nothing even slightly resembling what we paid for out of Hayward. Not even half
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Post by eja117 on Sept 27, 2020 20:59:49 GMT -5
The Heat are basically what the Celtics are supposed to be but aren't. Athletic. Fast. Good shooting. Phenomenal coach. Plays like a team. Very smart. Hard working. Hungry. Gotta wonder if they can keep it all together.
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Post by afceltic on Sept 27, 2020 21:02:51 GMT -5
26-6 run after we got a 6 point lead. Smart and Kemba have shot us out of the game.
This game and series is over. The wonderkid in Brad just blew his first series that he has the better team and IMO it cost us a championship because the Fakers are only a two man team. We lost every close game and that is on coaching and team mentality and lack of execution.
I won't be watching the Finals but I hope Miami doesn't choke it away to ignorant !!!GREENIAC!!! LeChina and the Betabrow.
There was no excuse for losing this series.
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Post by eja117 on Sept 27, 2020 21:04:33 GMT -5
Kemba is not the same Kemba he was in UConn. Looks like the Bobcats ruined him
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Post by eja117 on Sept 27, 2020 21:06:16 GMT -5
26-6 run after we got a 6 point lead. Smart and Kemba have shot us out of the game. This game and series is over. The wonderkid in Brad just blew his first series that he has the better team and IMO it cost us a championship because the Fakers are only a two man team. We lost every close game and that is on coaching and team mentality and lack of execution. I won't be watching the Finals but I hope Miami doesn't choke it away to ignorant (censored) LeChina and the Betabrow. There was no excuse for losing this series. The Heat will be more than a match for the Lakers. This is also at least a little on Ainge. He has some hits but he has some misses too. Sometimes they're pretty costly.
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Post by afceltic on Sept 27, 2020 21:06:43 GMT -5
Brown and Tatum need to get stronger in the next few months and we need to may need to look at trading Gordon and I would still look at getting rid of Smart too so we can get a deeper more balanced team.
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Post by eja117 on Sept 27, 2020 21:10:33 GMT -5
Brown and Tatum need to get stronger in the next few months and we need to may need to look at trading Gordon and I would still look at getting rid of Smart too so we can get a deeper more balanced team. Smart is the only one that shows any competitiveness. Also he has outworked everyone on the team to go from being practically the worst shooter in the league to being one of the better shooters on the team. Without Smart we wouldn't have been playing against the Heat. The Raptors would have sent us home
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Post by afceltic on Sept 27, 2020 21:18:01 GMT -5
Brown and Tatum need to get stronger in the next few months and we need to may need to look at trading Gordon and I would still look at getting rid of Smart too so we can get a deeper more balanced team. Smart is the only one that shows any competitiveness. Also he has outworked everyone on the team to go from being practically the worst shooter in the league to being one of the better shooters on the team. Without Smart we wouldn't have been playing against the Heat. The Raptors would have sent us home Idk what you were watching but Smart is still a terrible shooter. He was 8-22 and 4-13 from 3 for 20 points. That is a net negative on the offensive end. He does play hard...but he is a very limited and dumb player. He has hit his celiing and we need to cash in on him being grossly overrated right now to get the most out of him. People call him the heart and soul of the team... a team that can't get past the ECF's and blows leads in three games that we should have won because of bad decision making om the offensive end. Tbis team's celing apparently is to lose the ECF's as contructed. Gordon's expiring contract and Smart being overrated right now with his 13M contract are our best assets to get maximum return along with the three dtaft picks that we don't need in this years draft.
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Post by jmost on Sept 27, 2020 21:20:03 GMT -5
The biggest question for me going into the offseason is why we consistently got outplayed down the stretch. I really don't think it's talent. As others have said, we resort to hero ball and wind up shooting ourselves out of the game. And at the other end, I just didn't see much pressure D by us, except for a couple of plays by Jaylen. Where was the team that played the second half of Game 5? I'd say we're young, but look at Herro.
All that said, Miami deserved to win and I hope they beat LA.
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Post by jmost on Sept 27, 2020 21:47:39 GMT -5
One other thing. I posted a stat last season about how the team's record was way better when Smart took 9 or fewer shots. In this playoff series we won every game when Smart shot 10 or fewer times and lost all 4 games when he shot more. I don't know what it is, but even when he shoots well, the team doesn't win when he shoots a lot. Maybe the other guys get out of rhythm when they don't get enough touches. Maybe they get pissed off when he becomes a chucker. I don't know.
Bill Russell tells a story about how he decided one off-season that he was going to score more, raising his average from 15 to 20 PPG. And he started scoring more, but then decided that the team was better when he passed more and scored less. Smart shot 22! times in Game 6, and had 2! assists. That as much as anything is why we lost. The guy plays his heart out, and works hard to improve, but I don't want the ball in his hands when we need the offense to run well.
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Post by afceltic on Sept 27, 2020 22:16:36 GMT -5
Exactly that is why we need to sell high on him and have a heart transplant to one that can win a championship.
Tatum and Brown should be the heart if a Championship team...not Smart.
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Post by jmost on Sept 27, 2020 22:23:00 GMT -5
I agree that JB and JT should be the core that is built around. However, I think Danny and Brad love Smart and I'd be shocked if they trade him. Smart just needs to learn his role on a team with much more talented scorers.
Also, it's easy to forget that if we had the Hayward who played so well all season we probably would have beaten Miami in no more than 5 games.
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