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Post by Admin on Mar 6, 2019 1:25:00 GMT -5
If we can win in sacremento, that would probably be a pretty meaningful win.
Even bigger if we beat SAC at home after this road trip is over ... 1st home game after road trips isn't usually a given.
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Post by Admin on Mar 6, 2019 1:29:51 GMT -5
SF: This is exactly what the teams of Parrish, McHale & Bird did with a 20 point lead they kept it until the end and even added to it. I’m greedy... how about a sweep out west.
and we did it with Horford & Baynes who combined for 5pts & 9rbds ... scoring from Hayward was HUGE!!!!!!! I WANT
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Post by cole on Mar 6, 2019 1:31:18 GMT -5
Candace Parker is witty
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Post by cole on Mar 6, 2019 1:31:53 GMT -5
Kinda hot too, but she would wreck me.
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Post by Admin on Mar 6, 2019 1:33:27 GMT -5
Ya mean, break your back?
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Post by cole on Mar 6, 2019 1:43:36 GMT -5
At least
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Post by sfbosfan on Mar 6, 2019 2:49:59 GMT -5
Not only do The Bucks, Toronto and Phily not want us to win but I believe GS will be a fan of theirs to knock us out and not face us . Read a comment in SF paper they didn’t have Klay. OK, granted with Thompson we might have won with 10 less points...Amen !!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 3:18:23 GMT -5
Quite an experience. To my surprise, there were a large number of Celts fans all around me. At the end of Q3 only green jersey's were standing up. Talking trash. Gesticulating. So much so that KD got up started trash talking back to us. The Warriors fans were really quiet.
It is real quiet at home as well. :-)
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Post by fierce on Mar 6, 2019 4:02:00 GMT -5
19pts and 11 assists. Thats all we need fromKyrie. All we need. We dont need 30 pts You're changing your tune again? I thought what we need was to trade Kyrie?
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Post by fierce on Mar 6, 2019 4:05:50 GMT -5
It's very clear that "the ball doesn't move" when Kyrie is playing is FALSE!
Those who can't appreciate what Kyrie does or what he's capable of doing is just a hater.
Celts are not better off without Kyrie.
The playoffs is just a few weeks away.
We will soon find out what Kyrie does in the playoffs without Lebron James.
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Post by Cabutan on Mar 6, 2019 7:22:31 GMT -5
19pts and 11 assists. Thats all we need fromKyrie. All we need. We dont need 30 pts You're changing your tune again? I thought what we need was to trade Kyrie? dude i am a celtics fan. We cant trade kyrie anymore. I want them to win period. Yes i still think kyrie should walk away at the end of the season. Comprende?
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Post by Cabutan on Mar 6, 2019 7:23:01 GMT -5
It's very clear that "the ball doesn't move" when Kyrie is playing is FALSE! Those who can't appreciate what Kyrie does or what he's capable of doing is just a hater. Celts are not better off without Kyrie. The playoffs is just a few weeks away. We will soon find out what Kyrie does in the playoffs without Lebron James. haaa were where you in the last 6 7 games?
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Post by puddin on Mar 6, 2019 8:21:16 GMT -5
From WaPo:
Analysis | To shake off swoon, Celtics’ Brad Stevens and Kyrie Irving go back to basics By Ben Golliver Ben Golliver NBA reporter
Kyrie Irving and his Boston Celtics teammates seemed to enjoy each other’s company, for once, as they trounced the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night. (Kyle Terada/USA Today)
OAKLAND — Brad Stevens sounded like a liaison from Earth in a science fiction flick, sent to space to explain human emotions to an alien race or a roving band of robots.
Such was the depth of the Boston Celtics’ despair after five losses in six games that their coach felt the need for an elemental breakdown.
“You’re going to have fun in this business if you play well,” Stevens said, before Boston’s 128-95 blowout win over the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night. “If you feel like you’ve done your job well. If you’ve left it all out there together, and you feel like you’re doing it with a group that’s playing as a group. … Winning is a big part of that equation. Sometimes that’s what fun means.”
During a maddening and inconsistent season, Boston has simmered with silent rage and occasionally boiled over. Teams as talented as the Celtics don’t usually speak so frankly about their collective shortcomings and internal turmoil. Teams with championship aspirations usually enjoy better interpersonal chemistry, or at least do a better job faking it, and they don’t usually need a refresher on happiness five weeks before the playoffs.
But these Celtics belong to Kyrie Irving, and they sway on his mood swings. When Irving is ripping off crossovers, draining tough jumpers, and keeping the ball hopping, they look an awful lot like their preseason forecast: the best team in the East. When Irving is fed up — with his supporting cast, or reporters, or social media, or the world — his team morphs into a group of hostages counting down the days to Cancun.
“The business part of [the job] is what makes it terrible for me, honestly,” Irving said. “Dealing with all this s---. The basketball part: I have to keep that fun. That’s where I’m great and that’s where I love to play, being around my teammates. That’s what makes me happy. The business part is going to be the business. The personal side being out here with my teammates is the only thing that should matter.”
The success of Boston’s season, the key parties agree, hinges on disposition.
“Our window of opportunity [in the playoffs] is going to be very small if we’re not really well connected,” Stevens said. “If we get there, we have a chance to be a pretty damn good team. If we don’t, we’ll make an early exit."
For a night, the Celtics played to their immense potential and dealt the defending champs their worst home loss since Coach Steve Kerr’s 2014 arrival. Boston delivered the type of collective excellence that screamed, “See you in June.”
Irving dazzled with 19 points and 11 assists, slithering past Kevin Durant for a pretty layup in transition. Jayson Tatum came alive, snatching the ball from Durant in an above-the-rim block and finding seams to the hoop. Jaylen Brown posed problems all night, attacking Golden State’s flimsy interior defense to finish with 18 points.
And then there was Gordon Hayward, who poured in 30 points, zipped into passing lanes for steals, and looked like a strong candidate as the upcoming postseason’s biggest X-factor. Throughout most of the season, Hayward has performed as one of the league’s most overpaid players — understandable given that he is still recovering from a gruesome 2017-18 season-ending leg injury.
On Tuesday, he looked confident and purposeful, flashing the two-way game and shooting ability that made him a hot commodity in free agency two summers ago.
“We’ve got to build off this one,” Hayward said. “When we’re moving the ball and moving bodies, it’s hard for [the defense] to catch up to us.”
There was a shared hesitancy to make too much of a single win — even one this emphatic against top competition. Stevens said the Warriors would probably write off the game as an off night. Irving noted that Klay Thompson was out injured. And Hayward admitted to ongoing mental struggles, sounding guarded against the possibility of a setback or a letdown against the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday night.
But Stevens’s back-to-the-basics message seemed to resonate, at least temporarily, with its most important target. Irving cited recent conversations with his coach and Celtics president Danny Ainge — as well as bonding time on the cross-country flight to Oakland — for refocusing his attention on his leadership role.
“It’s my job to show these guys, to be at that [same] type of level on a consistent basis,” Irving said. “With my attitude and my effort, to be able to give confidence to these guys, it’s just as important as me being who I am supposed to be. … It’s not a competition in this locker room. It’s competition out there when we’re going to war.”
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Post by pumpsiegreen on Mar 6, 2019 11:17:02 GMT -5
Great! The Celtics beat the Warriors...destroyed them. That is what this team is capable of doing every game. And its what makes this team so detestable.....the fact that they barely show up sometimes. They owe the fans more than that. They owe us EFFORT every night, and its not there. Maybe this is the start of turning around a horrible wasted season and if there is consistent effort from hereon in I will change my tune. But for now, this team remains an easy team to hate.
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Post by kyceltic on Mar 6, 2019 11:20:34 GMT -5
WE'RE BACK, BABY!!
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Post by hedleylamarr on Mar 6, 2019 11:46:14 GMT -5
What a game.
Now, let's channel this and play this way for the remaining games. If we play like this, tough to beat. Ball movement, closeouts, good defense, 16-17 from the line......NICE!!
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Post by puddin on Mar 6, 2019 12:00:03 GMT -5
What a game. Now, let's channel this and play this way for the remaining games. If we play like this, tough to beat. Ball movement, closeouts, good defense, 16-17 from the line......NICE!! Did someone mention good D??
Pud
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Post by hedleylamarr on Mar 6, 2019 12:21:11 GMT -5
What a game. Now, let's channel this and play this way for the remaining games. If we play like this, tough to beat. Ball movement, closeouts, good defense, 16-17 from the line......NICE!! Did someone mention good D??
Pud
Yes, good positional D, good timing on D and good shutdown D when we needed it. That would be me who said it...
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Post by hedleylamarr on Mar 6, 2019 12:54:28 GMT -5
And they could have had Klay AND Clay, and we'd still win...
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Post by cole on Mar 6, 2019 13:08:05 GMT -5
Yeah, but remember guys they still have bogut coming. Don't count your chickens
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Post by cole on Mar 6, 2019 13:11:11 GMT -5
We definitely focused on getting cousins in p/r. I think that's part of why we moved the ball more. Maybe at other times we are able to go right at the mismatches without needing to get switches, hence the appearance of dribbling down and shooting quickly?
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Post by hedleylamarr on Mar 6, 2019 13:17:31 GMT -5
We definitely focused on getting cousins in p/r. I think that's part of why we moved the ball more. Maybe at other times we are able to go right at the mismatches without needing to get switches, hence the appearance of dribbling down and shooting quickly? We also shut him down offensively. I think he'll be a problem in the playoffs - for them! Kerr will sub him out during close games, and at the end, and he will NOT be a happy Boogie!!
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Post by Cabutan on Mar 6, 2019 13:21:57 GMT -5
I said that once and it backfired at me but I hope so. Body language looked good throughout the game and after. They all seemed to be getting along.
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Post by kyceltic on Mar 6, 2019 13:39:07 GMT -5
If this is the Hayward we see for the rest of the year, we'll be alright!!
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Post by cole on Mar 6, 2019 14:07:28 GMT -5
We definitely focused on getting cousins in p/r. I think that's part of why we moved the ball more. Maybe at other times we are able to go right at the mismatches without needing to get switches, hence the appearance of dribbling down and shooting quickly? We also shut him down offensively. I think he'll be a problem in the playoffs - for them! Kerr will sub him out during close games, and at the end, and he will NOT be a happy Boogie!! He won't be able to play real minutes when it counts. Why do you think they're looking at bogut? He can still score and rebound, but he is so exposable defensively. And then he gets frustrated and compounds the problems. Bogut is also slow but much smarter and will play within himself.
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