It can be stressful watching the best team in the NBA, I get it.
There’s nothing on the planet like it.
This is why we love them.
How do I know this to be true?
Because I survived the 142-138 OT win against the Pacers.
I’ll tell ya, I missed this feeling over the past week.
To put it simply…
I’m addicted to all of it.
The dominance, the terrible late game decision making, Joe being a psycho, all of it.
That’s not to say I wouldn’t have been annoyed had they lost, but they didn’t.
They made enough plays to win the game and frankly, that’s all that matters.
So for the first time in 9 days, let’s dive in.
That’s just what legit depth does.
Since the calendar turned to 2023, Malcolm Brogdon is shooting 50% from deep on 5.1 3PA night.
If you were curious, that’s a 21 game stretch.
If you’re not a huge math guy, that’s 35% of the Celts season.
Read that shit again hey and let it sink in.
I’m still working on that theory, but I think it has legs.
How did the rest of the league allow him to do this?
What I loved most about Jaylen’s night was that he in no way playted hesitant.
That also seems pretty good in my humble opinion.
- It goes without saying that offensive rebounding won the Celtics this game.
Their lack of size is an issue.
The talent disparity with second units is going to be an issue.
How many other teams can say that right now?
I love the fact that NBA players are still tricked by Hauser’s whiteness.
He got his ass on the block and abused his defenders with his size.
Smart finished with 15/5/3 on 5-11, but his impact came in two areas for me.
Just clean up the turnovers and we’re golden.
I can’t tell you that 4 TOs is good or Tatum’s -8 in his 41 minutes.
- What was with Grant only played 6 minutes?
Is his elbow fucked up or something?
I just found that to be very strange.
- I don’t think you need me to tell you that allowing 138 points is way too many.
Given the entire Celts roster was available, there’s no real excuse for being so poor defensively.
Yeah it was awesome watching them score 140, but’s going to come and go.
I mean that has to be so deflating.
It just goes to show how hard it is to actually beat this team.
They all go in.
Every last one of them and I do not get it.
Look, I love Scal and like him on the broadcast, but this shit has to stop.
My heart can only take so much.
The Ugly
- I don’t ask for much.
It started with Jaylen missing 2 of his 3 FTA.
With Tatum’s turnover, I have no idea what he saw or what he was trying to do.
With Jaylen’s, I would say it was a good idea but horrific execution.
The Celts had a break and an advantage, Jaylen just ran the worst fastbreak of all time.
- 15 TOs that led to 17 points.
The Celts contiue to find themselves in these close games because they can’t stop committing live ball turnovers.
In fact, the first 8 points the Pacers scored in this game were ALL off turnovers.
A win is a win and those are what we need right now.
Find a way to play some defense and take care of the ball and they should be just fine.
