On Tuesday night, the Celtics avoided the sweep and kept their season alive.
They earned another game.
Welcome to that game.
There is a LONG way to go, and tonight is just another step of that process.
it’s possible for you to’t win 4 without winning 2.
Truly one of the more confusing things in recent NBA history.
Who can’t win playoff games at home?
They’ve lost 2 games a bunch, at this point that’s expected, but 3?
Does that help you feel a little better?
Probably not, but at this point my brain is looking for any glimpse of positivity that might exist.
It says he got hurt about midway through Game 1.
Especially when his looks were wide open.
If Brogdon’s scoring is cooked, how much can he play the rest of the way?
you’ve got the option to figure that out.
At least he has decent height and actually held his own during the year on that end.
That can absolutely happen today.
This decision will be just part of the equation though.
Let’s not get too crazy.
The Celtics season staying alive starts and ends with the same thing it always does.
Their two best players.
In Game 4, both stepped up.
The formula to beat the Heat will never really change.
You have to rebound well.
You have to take away Bam in the P&R.
You have to play with pace.
Most importantly, you have to take care of the basketball.
It seems easy, yet here we are.
In the one game in this series the Celts finally did all those things, they won rather convincingly.
The same must happen tonight.
I would expect MIA to give their best punch of the series to be honest.
They know what’s at stake, they know what they let slip away in Game 4.
No 30 point quarters, no 15+ TO games, no 2nd and 3rd chance opportunities for the Heat.
You absolutely cannot screw around when it comes to the margins of tonight’s games.
When Marc Davis bones you on a call, shut up and get back.
The second this team breaks its mental focus, the season is over.
We’ve seen it time and time again.
Look, believing in this comeback is based on delusion.
That’s totally fine in my book.
Call it a 1% chance, a 0.5% chance, who cares.
The fact remains that there is a chance.
But only if they take care of business tonight in their own building.
At some point they have to win at the Garden, so why not tonight?
