Comments From The Other Side - vs Rockets, Away

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by FLCeltsFan

MY NOTE:  My favorites are in bold.  Which are yours?



We really need this WIn

Gonna be at the game! Hopefully we can win last time I went we broke the 3 point record lol

If we blow them out I'm organizing a forum-wide fundraiser to get you tickets to every playoff game

Good matchup. They will probably go small too since their best players are guards and wings anyway

I would say the Celtics probably have the best small ball in the league besides us, so if we can comfortably handle them I think I'm not worried about the potential for other teams to try and match us by going small themselves

I’m scared that this team is gonna make us look amateur.

You don't need the luck of the Irish when you got the skill of the bearded

So, a finals preview before the All-Star break. Nice!  (MY NOTE:  They're in love with small ball)

Can't. Play. Kanter. Oh sh**. I just realized now Russ gets to abuse him Hope the Cs brought some extra ankle tape.

Tatum drops 45.

Another L

Russ needs to continue his aggressive nature by destroying Kemba with his size advantage

Another loss due to
1. missing too much 3 points and rebounds.
2. 8 man rotation
3. poor defence

Excited for this one. It's always fun to watch Tatum in action. Plus the Celtics playing a 6'8 center should bode well for us

Josh tiven tonite.... The zebra dame lollard hate the most

Wonder which Celtics bench player is going to have a career night.

Next game on the cursed season. Wonder which Celtic will hit a 40 foot buzzer beater tonight.

Whichever one is barely open you know the drill by now ... seriously we lose this on a last second shot I’m going to lose my mind lol

Tackle any opponent attempting a 3 in the last 5 seconds of game.

How many times will Marcus flop against Harden tonight? And how many offensive fouls will Harden get called for?

Rockets need to win tonight I don’t want to hang around this place or Rockets twitter if they head into the AS break on a three-game losing streak.

Celtics ‘small ball’- both LARGER, better defense, AND can hit threes at a better clip than Houston has shown itself capable of doing. A couple of facts on this, 3PT %: Kemba Walker – 39.1, Gordon Hayward – 38.7, Jayson Tatum – 38,7, Jaylen Brown – 37.7, even Marcus Smart, 35.0. All except for Hayward, more than 5 attempts per game, and Hayward is at 4.1 a game. Please feel free to correct me/talk me off the ledge – but just based on size, athleticism, defense, outside shooting – isn’t the Boston Celtics team a better small ball team than Houston, and should win going away, just based on the factual analysis?

I’ll talk you off the ledge. Rockets have the best two players on the court by FAR.

Intriguing matchup Hope they play Tacko Fall   Seriously though, looking forward to this one

I hope defense locks down Tatum. He's going to be a problem.

Why the **** are they playing a 9pm game in Houston on a Tuesday night??? It’s gonna be like 11:30 in the 4th and no one is gonna be there.

7 game winning streak about to end.

Man this crowd looks like it’s here for a WNBA game smh

Wish we had Brown

embarrassing how empty Toyota Center looks

I love kemba this matchup is conflicting for me

They gonna shoot 80% from 3 is game, arent they?...

The Celtics green leg tights look goofy

Tatum’s beard is so bad he gotta go back to that baby face man

Russ getting no love from officials

Harden is settling. No reason he shouldn’t be hunting out Kemba or Hayward and attacking the rim.

The Celtics colors look so bad on our home court

Let's make Stevens say "Can't play Kanter"

Notice they haven't been doubling Harden as much? They're scared of Westbrook now too.

Keep complaining kemba

Brown is the perfect type of defender for Westbrook.

Surprise they playing Kanter. He’s never been playable against Houston

Nooo we want to keep Heyward in. We need that defense to get some some good looks plus he doesn’t have troublesome offense to worry about

Marcus Smart dude is the king of floppers but he’s eyes level good at it

Not an offensive foul. Lol he tipped over

I tuned in and immediately see Smart take that "charge." Really makes me wish the next person would get a proper charge on him. Fling him a few rows into the seats.

Nah that was a textbook charge

Smart and Kanter got the exact same haircut?

I hate Marcus bum

Fine, it's a charge. But the ball left his hand before the charge occurred so we should get the bucket.

Late start against a great Celtics team and still so many empties in the club section. So depressing after seeing how packed Philly was

Why aren't we going at Kanter in the screen and roll? If he switches it's an easy basket!

Westbrook isn’t going to be able to bully smart like he has been doing to centres, he needs to pass out to the shooters

Smart is my least favorite player in the league.

We need to get Smart with some stiff screens when we try to switch onto Hayward or Theis. We need to get him to think about these screens

Is Mike giving them tape from 2017? Why are we playing Smart like hes Simmons from deep?

Boston’s transition defense is the best we’ve seen. Russ can’t get through

Celtics defense is good. Westbrook isn't able to push the ball like he recently has.

Smart Is annoying af

This Boston D too physical

Too dirty

Smart block on WB looked clean. But we'll TAKE IT!

Russ ain't no Steph curry

Celtics are b**ches ..you have 6’2 guarding you looking for fouls lmao

Was the theis the one who hurt Russ?

It's always some big lug like baynes or theis that injures superstars

Celtics get fouled by their own team, and get a free throws.

Whale it probably should have been an offensive foul on Theis. It looked like he was pushing PJ into Kemba. Technically he hit PJ's first but because he was being pushed in the back

Should've challenged that Kemba clothes-line..... By Theis.  (MY NOTE:  It wasn't by Theis.  Replay said it was Covington)

Well how about that. We didn’t even wait until halftime to collapse.

Why Tatum covering a perfect hairline up with a headband

Probably the best defence we have played all year and we are loosing, I mean that’s kind of scary

When's the last game where there wasn't an apparent ref bias against us? The Pelicans game maybe? When does this become actual ****ery and not just homerism  (MY NOTE:  They're complaining about the refs?!  Really?!  Harden took 18 ftas and the entire Celtic team took 25)

Harden gets hit on nearly every drive and they've been calling it maybe a 5th of the time.

Celtics driving to the rim now. Wish we would do the same

Harden is not a superstar right now. Barely even a star.

That let’s go Celtics chant hurt me in the gut. So disgusting

Kemba don’t miss

Well the defense was good we held them ... but they held us

The Rockets need more movement and attack their weaker perimeter defenders instead of Smart / Brown

Harden just ain’t very good anymore. At least by his standards. This is 1.5 month long slump. I’m at “believe it when I see it” regarding him turning it around at this point.

You people are stupid blaming Harden. He's getting double-teamed every possession, he can't get into any kind of rhythm. Anyone who knows Harden knows he's a rhythm player.

I think Westbrook and Harden just don't work together at all. Both guys are at their best when they're the main ball handler.

Kemba flopping all over

Celtics are top 5 in offense and only have 50 through 30 min. Good D

Celts travel so much

Lmao tatum looked so sheepish about biting on that

Damn. Harden really doesnt usually draw fouls like that. Tatum really got hoodwinked lmao

When is Theiss gonna get a flagrant

They need to get smart off of harden and let harden drive

Fun fact: Harden is shooting the same percentage tonight as last game when this forum was calling him garbage.

Damn Hayward balling out, frankly I'm happy for him as long as he doesn't win it for them. That injury sucked and I like the guy

I’m a fan of their whole team except Smart

I definitely would not say that, ****ing hate the Celtics and their fans too much to say I'm a fan of the whole team I like Hayward, and I like kemba a good deal, the rest can kinda go

That Langford kid gets abused every game I’ve seen the Celtics play

The Celtics have played 11 guys, we’ve played 8

Grant Williams was a flopper at Tennessee and he still is with Boston

Hayward killed us this Q

I hate the Celtics

Ngl Smart is quick moving backwards

Someone make a compilation of every player that’s gotten hit in the face this game

Hostile act??? Lmao smart ain't that important LMFAO

WOW lmfao they don't even have to challenge the refs just say 'nah we'll look at that sh** for ya Boston

Brad Stevens looks like Pete buttigeg

Refs gonna call a foul on Westbrook assaulting the air next time

what's the difference between official review and coach's challenge? Why they get official review so that they can save a coach's challenge while we didn't get that?

Cause the refs are stupid and Marcus dumb is a flopper

Lots of fun to see Russ and smart on each other

Zone is for cowards.

Jaylen Brown playing on two bad ankles but still getting it done.

I wish harden got to play with the same continuation rules as everyone else. It feels like they go out of their way to call his fouls on the floor.

Dude I swear that's smarts 7th foul

They don’t call the push off on Tatum, then go call the same push off on harden

They're getting every single foul

Come on refs. Please be less obvious with the bias.  (MY NOTE:  This is amazing.  Later in the game and they're still complaining about the refs)

Why does no one ever show up to the games. Pathetic fan base.

Old turd should just retire man give up reffing

Is it not obvious to everyone in here that they got a quick 5 on Harden because hes been the biggest threat to the Celtics tonight

Celtics get every single call and the Rockets can't get a call. Bullsh**

Can’t play defense now cause refs call foul on every possession

Why even bother play the game if the refs are just going to gift it to the higher market team?

Refs really want momentum to shift to the Celtics

Stop leaving brown in the corner

The second we used that challenge, I knew they'd call everything a foul. Nothing we can do about it.

Perhaps that's why Harden was fouling, to make a point against these refs.

Rigged game refs clearly want Boston to win

Theis kicking balls and tackling players. He joined the wrong sport!

Dirtiest team in the league **** the Celtics

oh no i hope Brown is okay. he is fun

Hes super fun, and tatum is too, this Celtics team has a brilliant future

Damn I hope jaylen is okay Respect to him for trying to play though

Why even play Brown. Honestly dumb by Stevens

It was a DIRTY play by Westbrook. He came from behind Brown and shoved him while trip tangled his legs under him. (from a Bulls Fan)

I hope Jaylen Brown is okay. One of my fav young players

Brown has been wincing all game. Those ankles are bothering him BAD. He needs to rest until after the break. Hope he’s ok.

Brown need a new pair of ankles

So Boston loves fouling jump shooters

I'm actually kinda feeling bad for the Celtics now lmao

Kemba Walker? More like Kemba Fouler

Most free throws James has gotten in a while

Russ too. For all this thread's moaning, the refs haven't been that bad to us tonight tbh.

Theis has to be one of the worst players in the league

This exposes how the Celtics can't play any other style of basketball besides their own. I love Kemba but he looks uncomfortable in this extreme up tempo pace.

y’all see kemba flopper complaining to the refs lmaoooo

Celtics still couldn't win even though the crooked refs gave them every single foul. Must be nice to have the refs on your side.

I wish we had a better crowd so bad.

So many Celtics fans there.

Heat fan here! The Celtics fans are having a major hissy fit right now and I’m loving it! Thank y’all for whooping that a**

Boston sports fans in general are the worst.


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