Comments From The Other Side - vs Raptors, Playoff Round 2, Game 3, Home

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by FLCeltsFan

MY NOTE: An annoying loss, going from the high of the Theis dunk with .5 left to losing at the buzzer.


Just win the damn game tonight.

If we win tonight I am convinced the Bucks will win their next game as well. The fate of the Eastern Conference hinges on us.

This is what happens when 3 time champion Patrick Mccaw is out.

If the shots start falling, Raps are looking primed to be able to handle these guys. Shocking amount of their offence has relied on Smart 3’s falling.

Hopefully Smart's hot shooting fizzles out.

Its unfortunate after dropping 150 points, the Raptors start this series struggling while Smart turns into the combination of Curry, Allen and Reggie.

Well we'll see how the whole no home court advantage can workout for Raps.

I want to see some small ball lineups here of Kyle, FVV, Norm, OG, Siakam. Either run Theis of the floor or have siakam or OG guarding Robert Williams.

I want to see different refs. The tag team of Zarba and Foster spelled doom for the Raps.

Smart just got fined for THE flop, btw. NBA got its $, Celtics its W, and we still end up losing. This league is a big joke. (MY NOTE: You didn't lose because the NBA wanted its $. You lost because you didn't play as well)

Stephen A says the series is over. As far as I’m concerned, that means we have an excellent chance.

When its all said and done, Marcus Smart beat us in game 2 to go with all our other struggles we still had a chance. Such a weird series, can get swept or tie it up or lose in 5... pretty devastating

These guys just aren't into it. They aren't playing hard, they aren't making the sacrificial plays that they normally do. I take nothing away from the Celtics, but we're not playing our game and it's more on us than what they're doing.

Lowry was out there diving all over the floor for loose balls. How are they not playing hard?

Save us Scott Foster

The only adjustment worth making imo is OG on Tatum all game. No cross matching no nothing.

Yup, OG on Tatum. He's the only Raptor that was demonstrably capable of keeping up with Tatum's amazing footwork. Tatum has arrived.

Can someone please explain to me why people say Celtics's strength is their length? It looks to me like their strength is defensive quickness.

The Celtics are a tough steak to chew. But we are going to rip that meat off the bone, piece by piece.

yea we gon get 1 game thats it though hahah. these celtic boys want it more..

Think the only way to win is to force the Celtics starters to play 40 minutes. We have to be strategic in our offense when it comes against the Boston's Bench plus 1-2 starters lineups. We need to kill them with our depth. It's the only way. You gotta run it down their throats in transition and really wear out their guys.

If the raps can't score in the half court- it's over Brown Tatum Smart Walker- Raps cant match that

In NBA history, 309 teams have trailed 0-2 in a best-of-7 playoff series. Only 21 of them (less than 7%) have come back to win the series. The last to do it: the Toronto Raptors.(Disclaimer: a certain Fun Guy may have had something to do with it)

The one thing that this stat doesn't account for is home court advantage. Teams that start 2-0 either have HCA OR will have gotten destroyed for losing HCA. Here there is no HCA - thankfully down 2-0 at this point. But I am guessing Raps would not have been down 2-0 if they were playing at ScotiaBank like they should have been. Either way - I was pretty depressed this morning. it doesn't look good.

Philly fans are just known for booing Santa Claus and their own players they aren't really that obnoxious or vile to anybody else. And New Yorkers are mostly just dumb and ignorant. Bostons sports fans reputation is by far the worst of any city in North America I thought it was common knowledge by now?

You guys see our tiny guards get limited and think the answer is MORE small ball????

I'm feeling pretty confident about this. Raps win 2 straight, lose game 5, and win 6 and 7. Tonight the Celtics come out like they think the series is already over and the raptors come out hungry. Tonight we should really crush them and I swear if we don't haul a** down the court every possession I'm gonna eat a shoe.

Can we take a minute to appreciate who isn’t a referee tonight ?

No Tony Brothers, Mark Davis or Ed Molloy

Oh wow.... That's an automatic W

Raptors will lose tonight but take the remaining 4 with ease

Siakam wakes the **** up and puts up 27-12-10 leading us to a win tonight!

I'm not saying trade Pascal or whatever. I saw a few many bad shots/possessions on tight defence earlier in the game. He keeps thinking he can score on Marcus Smart. Dude has to give it up already and admit defeat.

I don't recognize any of those refs. I guess that's a good sign?

I really hope we get this one. Just noticed NBA is back to the norm and pushing the narrative away from the Raptors and more onto Boston again

We're gonna smack these Celtic boys right back to Boston. Direct flight, no lay overs.

Coach of the Year let the refs know that we see them giving games to the Celtics. They will foul every Celtics out by half time tonight.

Raps will win in double OT tonight after Tatum fouls out. Calling it now.

We are going to get swept. Terrible matchup and no bench for us. Nurse is set in his ways.

2-1 and its a series. 3-0 and its pack your bags and go home time. Zero chance this team is winning 4 in a row against these Celtics.

Need an awful Tatum game here.

Playing a drinking game tn - a shot every time Siakam bricks a lay in. Kinda worried TbH

If someone can drop 5 threes on Smart that would be good

It must be a Celtics home game im hearing Dropkick Murphys

Don't let refs get to you. FIGHT. LET'S GO

Smart bricked we winning this one

Already more FTAs than first quarter last game, excellent

That’s why nurse was bitching about officials get some earlier calls

The NBA gods only let smart drain shots in one gane

No more Marcus Smart shooting rampage!!

We need Kyle and Fred to make threes, but we also need the whistle to stop the incredible bias

We deserve the whistle this game since Boston got it last game

bruh the refs are just flat out awfuo

Lowry school Kemba he's a weak defender

THESE REFS ARE HIRRIBLE

I've never seen the refs this sweaty. The facilities AC must suck.

ojeleye better not be this game's raptor killer

Wow. Boston got a whistle blown against them. Must have been a mistake.

Boston seriously gets a different whistle

kemba walker looks skinnier than he was in charlotte last year

Ugh. So the refs are going to just foul us all the way back to canada? F*** em.

Oh look. We attack the paint and Boston is the team in the bonus

Kemba flopping man

I don't think theis even knew he was there. Got lucky that he elbowed him.

I bet they won't call it a flagrant this time, because they never do. They just so happened to elbow our best player, sure...

The NBA made their decision who was going to win this series after we won the championship last season.

Celtics frustrated with the refs, so now they know what we’ve felt for the past 2 games! Especially when we did not get any calls to the line for the first half of game 1!!!

Come on, can’t be getting blocked by Theis Ibaka

I feel like theis being in foul trouble is bad for us, seems like they play better with williams out there?

4 points left on the FT line the last 2 possessions

lmao. throwing punches in the 80s didn’t even get an ejection.... MAYBE a technical

Tatum baits fouls so much

Celtics look bad and it’s a tie game

Jaylen Brown travels a lot for someone in the covid era

When did they gave Tatum immunity to defense? Guy can't be touched without a whistle.

So yes, the refs suck, but the guys also commit a lot of dumb fouls.

Celtics' shot creation is just too much to handle

Kemba's killer crossover

Forget about their big 3, when their role players are shooting it better than our best players (Lowry, FVV, Siakam, Norm), we aren’t going to win a single game shooting like that.

we’re getting killed by some random guys

I hate how Boston always seems to score a 3 right after we do.

Give props to the Celtics. They're defense is elite and our guards can't create their own shots from the perimeter, not athletic enough

If Boston isn't scoring, they're at the line. We got multiple guys sitting on 2 or more fouls. Gotta play smarter defense and stop jumping at everything

I’m so tired of the refs controlling every game in the bubble. No fans for playoffs is a joke. The refs can do anything they want with no reaction or consequence from fans.

I’d rather lose to anyone but Boston

Kemba with 17 points in the first quarter wtf

Why don’t we get whistles!?!?

Why would Giannis want to come here? It's a team full of playoff chokers (except OG)

For the love of God, please stop playing fred and Lowry

if we had Tatum we win easy

Well, yeah. He's a top 10 player

Why are people calling Lowry a flopper when walker literally flops into people

We're barely hanging on right now with Kemba on the bench

Raptors should call their credit card company. That’s a fraudulent charge

That's an obvious charge

Imagine if the celts had Hayward we’d be blown out every game with how we’re playing

Of course Siakam makes us waste our challenge. Can’t stand him anymore

celtics playing like sh** but somehow we're playing worse

They were blowing by their defender on every possession on that run, meanwhile none of our players can beat them off the dribble. And that’s not even talking about how they make more contested 3s than we make open 3s...

Boston isnt even THAT good. We just look like a completely different team. Not because Bostons this defensive powerhouse either.

how does Kemba get to the rim so consistently, its like Tony Parker on steroids

How tf is Boston so good at their 3s

Brad Stevens studied the video tape of last year's Philly team on how to play Fred and Pascal. Nick should have saw this coming.

What kinda defence are the Raptors playing ?

the bad one

The stupidity is contagious. OG is infected

Forget about Giannis we should recruit Tatum

Celtics are going to win the title this year.

Gotta love seeing Nurse constantly complain to the refs like that's gonna somehow help us

Siakam is utterly useless against good teams and I would straight out trade him for a half slice pizza

I swear every jumpshot for the Celtics that isn't open is somehow a foul 4/5 times.

We're built to be a bucks-killing team, but Boston is built to be an us-killing team.

We are flat out losing games because of walkers buzzer beaters.

Never back up off on kemba around the 3 point line when the clock is running down.

Boston has 3 stars and 1 star injured. We have 0 stars. I see the problem clearly now.

Celtics are just better. Its simple don't @ me

can smart stop hitting 3's what is this

great marcus curry is back

The problem is probably those candles Drake got them all, poisoning their air.

Boston isn’t doing anything - we’re Just beating ourselves

Brown is an elite defender. But Pascal is terrible also.

how are celtics getting these calls

Every time they cut to Nick Nurse it looks like he just found out his car got towed

This series is 1000% over.

brown and smart were the x factors for celtics

Lmao Kanter is trash, we gotta capitalize over this

Thank god Kanter is in. Attack

Even if we get a lead i don't feel comfortable Boston is just too fluid

They really put Kanter in huh

I love how Celtics don't put their fans on the screen, when Celtics are defending. They have to put the words, "defense", as if their fans can't chant that

Tatum getting some crazy superstar calls wow, OG barely touched him

At least Boston is also bricking FTs

Boston has had an awful third, partially due to our defence but they’ve also just played bad.

Crazy how Kanter comes in and we look like ourselves.

i dont get why stevens put Kanter in? williams were killing us?

Kanter is the Raptor’s secret sauce

I can't stand Marcus Smart

I’ve heard about Kanters trash D, but didn’t expect it to be that bad lol

Please come back KANTER!!

If I was Boston I'd put Kanter on rn because I'd still secretly love the Raptors

Kanter is out - there goes our window.

we need to zone all game long...series long

Boston is just so much better in the half court than them. Without transition baskets, we're just not on their level.

All of Celtics roleplayers have been balling out this entire series. It's been painful

And now we'll have the Celtics calling Pascal a dirty player on top of everything else.

I hate Boston so much

smfh timelord kills us

What are you laughing about Wannamaker. Somebody **** up his face.

Wanamaker? More like Wanamakeourbestplayermisstherestofthegame

There is blatant bias if this isn’t called at least an offensive foul considering the last flagrant on Siakam.

I think Boston doesn't want Kyle to have a 3rd child

These refs are so bad, how is that a foul on Lowry and these guys were doing everything they can to not review it. What a joke

Refs are taking good care of the Celtics. NN was right.

BOSTONS DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO WIN, FLOP FOUL. SHOWS HOW DANGEROUS THE RAPS ARE. IF THEY PLAYED CLEAN GAME THEY WOULD GET DESTROYED.

These refs might as well put on a Celtics jersey at this point

Refs 80 - raps 76

Brad wannamaker pulls out a knife and stabs kyle...two free throws for boston

How do they not call anything there considering what Tatum gets

I feel like Boston has been shooting 100% from the midrange this series

i’m like no smart would kill us if he starts making 3s

so the refs game plan is if toronto goes up they must foul us next possession?

Brad Stevens complaining about the refs

What’s with jayson tatum and Jaylen brown hitting every part of rim on every shot

Tatum on the floor = automatic free throws

scary thing about Boston is after next season Hayward will be off the books, and they can also sign Giannis... plus that Tacko Fall guy might actually start wrecking sh** by then too who knows

Four dunks given up in the last four minutes of a game while down 2-0 is reprehensible.

How do we keep just leaving their bigs open in the paint

well that’s just the most embarrassing way we could have lost this

Our post defense can’t even guard Daniel Theis and f***ing Robert Williams. so sad

Outcoached and outplayed

Nurse has been badly out coached this series. He keeps sticking to the same things when they're not working.

Well, I will thoroughly enjoy watching the Heat crush the Celtics next round.

Why would they crush them? Bos may be the best team overall in the playoffs.

Blow this trash team up. No one even seems to care.

Wow what a way to go. We deserve this outcome tho.

What a play from Walker

I'm... this guy tice who I've never heard of is destroying us

Only we would leave an open man for a dunk

Enjoyable season boys. Painful ending....

Genius move by Stevens

They brought out the Tacko Falls

Holy they brought in Kevin Garnett’s son

Tacko is in. Now they're just f***ing with us

Going to bed a sad man tonight

OG IS THE NEW KAWHI

OG AND LOWRY NEED A STATUE

WE DID IT! WE BROKE THE CELTICS!!

I’m not watching game 4. See you next season.

KAWHI WHO???????

tacko had one job lmao

Did we just break there spirit? Hahahahaha. Holy sh** raps in 6

but how could they have possibly foiled Brad Steven's foolproof plan of putting tall man on court?

They robbed our guys of Game 2, but our guys robbed them of Game 3. Now the Raps have got to come back even stronger in Game 4. Shoot better. Let's go!

that's what Brad gets for putting Kanter in that 3rd quarter lol kept the raps in it

Man, we stole that win. Thank god for Lowry and OG!

WE GOT LUCKY

Championship is ours

Still f*** these refs, complete garbage

OG single handedly preventing a Canadian mental health crisis

Honestly who cares if we lose. We won the title last year and get this OG buzzer beater for the memory banks!



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