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Post by 112288 Thu Mar 30, 2023 9:49 pm

Celtics Wrap: Boston Punches East-Leading Bucks In Absolute Drubbing
The Bucks got wrecked at home

NESN by Keagan Stiefel

The Boston Celtics bounced back from an ugly loss to defeat the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night, leaving Fiserv Forum with a 140-99 victory.

The C’s improved to 53-24, while the Bucks fell to 55-22.

ONE BIG TAKEAWAY
This game was what we like to call a good ole fashioned butt whooping.

Boston, coming off a disgusting loss to the Washington Wizards, played this game at its own pace. The Celtics played through Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, who scored a combined 70 points. Their dominance opened things up for shooters and aided Robert Williams’ best offensive performance of the season, allowing him to roll to the rim for three easy buckets.

Milwaukee? Well, they didn’t play very well at all. The Bucks were on the second night of a back-to-back and were unable to get anything going offensively in the second quarter, missing all 11 three-point shots and being outscored by 20 points in the stanza.

Things only ballooned after halftime, when these teams were forced to play things out despite the game being over already.

You may want to remember this game when these teams inevitably face one another in the NBA playoffs.

STARS OF THE GAME
— Tatum was the best player on the court in this one, making 8-of-10 shots from three-point range. He finished with 40 points and eight rebounds.

— Brown was tremendous as well, finishing with 30 points, five rebounds and five assists.

— Malcolm Brogdon stuffed the stat sheet in 27 minutes off the bench. He finished with 14 points, five assists, three rebounds and four (4!!!) steals.

WAGER WATCH
The Celtics were even money (+100) to take home a win pregame at DraftKings Sportsbook, meanings a $100 bet would net a $200 payout.

UP NEXT
The Celtics will head back to TD Garden to play host to the Utah Jazz on Friday. Tipoff on the second night of the back-to-back is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET.

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Post by NYCelt Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:47 pm

Waiting for the sky is falling posts.

Oh wait, we won… big. So everything’s good again and we’re a lock for the finals.

Nice game.
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Post by worcester Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:06 pm

Ok. So let s hold off on firing Joe this week.
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Post by gyso Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:24 pm

What do you all think about Crowder? He looked a little slow. And fat.

Brogdon easily drove past him a couple times. No D and, apparently, no 3 either.

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Post by cowens/oldschool Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:27 pm

When J’s play like this we can beat anybody.

Tatum 8-10 from 3.

Jaylen unstoppable in first, looking like the closest thing to MJ.

RWill very active, sneaky good

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Post by worcester Fri Mar 31, 2023 12:25 am

Jaylen could be nicknamed The Punisher.
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Post by prakash Fri Mar 31, 2023 12:47 am

NYCelt wrote:Waiting for the sky is falling posts.

Oh wait, we won… big. So everything’s good again and we’re a lock for the finals.

Nice game.

You mean to say that you see a lot of the sky is falling posts here?

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Post by prakash Fri Mar 31, 2023 12:50 am

gyso wrote:What do you all think about Crowder?  He looked a little slow.  And fat.

Brogdon easily drove past him a couple times.  No D and, apparently, no 3 either.

Crowder looked done. Brad has a done a great job of putting together the core. The riff raff (Muscala, Blake and such) don't move the needle come playoffs.

The Celts played a fantastic game. It was good to see them playing with such belief. Lets just stay healthy please.

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Post by bygone Fri Mar 31, 2023 6:12 am

worcester wrote:Ok. So let s hold off on firing Joe this week.

Well taken

Brad Steven's boy scouts performed very well against the league's best team at the moment. So did Pack leader Joe Mazzulla's lack of experience and wisdom pitted against Milkwaukee's Mike Budenholzer. Abby and Scal have recently introduced us to some of Brad's girl scouts that are building and nurturing this team. I am a male but I believe the future is female and that the more slowly evolving mitochondrial RNA and DNA that is only passed on to daughters is one of humanity's brightest lights.

Congrats to the entire Celtic organization for the most important win of the season thus far.
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Post by Ktron Fri Mar 31, 2023 6:40 am

Post Game Prosperity:

Well looka here looka here… Pardon me while I dip into my Ktronic Cliche Clutch Bag and throw out a few atcha.

“They bounced back”

“They turned it around practically overnight”

“They played like their backs were against the wall”

“They came out swinging”

“The sky is falling” (C’s fan cleverly disguised as a Buck fan)

“Thats what you call a good Ole Fashioned Beatdown”

Okay okay, one more

“What can Brown do for you?”

Thank you Reggie Miller (more on you in a few) for being the laziest analyst in the NBA. Pulling out crutch phrase’s like this now appears to be your MO.

Ktron’s Confessional:

I did not watch this game “live” I went to my Thursday Water Aerobics classs and decided to stay after school. I did not want to see what my dumb a$$ thought was going to be a Buck’s slaughter of our beloved but instead the Bucks ended up being the Sheep.

Dominance from end to end. (Sorry I had to throw one more in).
I came home from my class and reluctantly turned on my TV figuring we were late in the forth quarter and getting our a$$ beat.

Lawd have mercy and Jesus in the high heavens! Is that score correct or is it a highlight from a past performance? Couldn't be. I don’t remember us evah beating the bucks by 41 points. It finally sunk in. REALITY. We did this to them?

Hallelujah!!

Needless to say but i’m going to say it anyway.
NO team in this league stands a chance against the C’s, IF we play up to our potential (Oops there goes another one) and IF Coach Joey proves that he’s the coach that Brad thinks he is and that many here, including myself doubt.

Post Game Pettiness:

Will someone please come and get Reggie Miller. His picture should be on the wall of the Basketball Broadcasters Hall of Shame.

Reggie used to be a decent analyst but the past few years has shown he is lazy, doesn't do his research (remember when he insisted during a Nets/Celtics game Mid-January that the Nets needed to remove the interim tag off of Jacque Vaughn when they actually had done just that in November)

Reggie also is seeing things out there that no one but him is seeing.
Replays glaringly showing the opposite of what he’s describing and his propensity to ride the coat tail of whoever’s winning.
I don’t know where or what Chris Webber is doing these days but I wish Reggie miller would find him and join him.

I know I know this sounds more than Petty but who cares. It’s irrelevant..just like Reggie Miller.

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Post by 112288 Fri Mar 31, 2023 9:09 am

How many times have we been down this road only to be disappointed! Milwaukee has#1 tied up, a back to back game. Do you think they went all out in an meaningless game right before the playoffs? They are keeping their powder dry, avoiding injury and coming into the playoff healthy.

Celtics, you want to prove me wrong. Like the people in Kansas always say ..........SHOW ME!

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Post by bobheckler Fri Mar 31, 2023 10:17 am

Maybe they can flip a switch. Makes me as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs but...

We could not, and I don't think we have this year, play better than this.  I also don't think the Bucks have played worse.

We shot 56% against the #2 defense in the league.  They shot 37.6% against us.  We shot 51% from 3.  They shot 33%.  We took 20 ftas on the road.  They took 13 at home.

However, they took 101 fgas vs 91 for us.  If they just shot anywhere close to what we shot, even if our numbers came back down to Earth if they were just close, those extra 10 fgas might have given us an L.  

This was a SEGABABA for them while we were rested.  That worked in our favor, I think.  We've been there ourselves, where we play a tough game last night and then go up against an even tougher opponent tonight and we struggle.  Blame the league, not the Bucks, but it is reality.

When the Js play like this we are extraordinarily difficult to beat.  They combined for 70 points on 25-38, 11-15 from 3.  Tatum was 8-10 from 3.  Their recurring weakness has been turnovers.  Last night they combined for 6 assists and only 1 turnover.  Tatum was 8-8 from the line while Giannis only took 3 ftas.  Expect a Comments From The Other Side thread that mentions that every other post, if not every post.  Personally I think Giannis gets away with murder every game he plays, and traveling on almost every play he touches the ball in, so I'm not feeling sorry for him now.  He had only 2 assists.  That has nothing to do with the refs, Bucks fans.

Sean Grande @SeanGrandePBP
about 7 hours ago
8 3's for Jayson Tatum tonight, setting a new career-high and moving to within 12 of the franchise record with five games to play.

The list is here:
https://twitter.com/SeanGrandePBP/status/1641681121632034818

ALSO, this 40 point game was Tatum's 11th of the season.  That ties him with Larry Legend's single season club record ('87-'88) with 5 games still left to play.  We all love Larry, probably and justifiably more than Jayson, but we watched Celtic history last night and have 5 more games to see something really rare.




Jayson got the big numbers, 40 points and 8-10 from 3, but Jaylen is as Worcester called him "the Punisher".  He has been playing very physical ball lately, team inconsistency notwithstanding.  He was 13-20 last night, 3-5 from 3.  That means he was 10-15 from 2 and that is punishing.  Jaylen didn't nothing to hurt his bid for his first All-NBA berth.  As I mentioned on the Game On! thread last night his shooting has slowed down quite a bit.  He finally realized that he can jump and hang better than almost everybody else in the league and that means he can take his time on his shot and not rush it.  Watch how long he holds the ball before releasing it in his mid-range shots.  He knows, now, that nobody can block him so why rush the shot?




Al was 5-8, 4-6 from 3.  We needed a bounce back game from him and we got it.

Smart with 8 assists, zero turnovers and defending everybody, as usual.  It's amazing the mentally competitive difference he adds.

Brogdon making Milwaukee sorry he left.  He played 187 games for the Bucks and started in 112 of them.  He started in all 64 of the games he played for them in his last year in Milwaukee, and now he's coming off our bench while they're pushing BobC's man, and the pride of Arlington, MA Pat Connaughton, further down the bench with the addition of the fading Jae Crowder.  I like Jae, I always have, but he looked slow last night.  Coach Bud made a mistake putting him on Brogdon, Jae doesn't have the speed.

The Time Lord was a game changer.  It wasn't just his 7 points on 3-3 and 7 rebounds that makes that true.  It's that 4 of those 7 boards were offensive.  It's that he was trying to save loose balls.  It didn't matter that maybe he didn't save them, his effort ratcheted up our energy level across the board.  When you see a player working hard, when you see Smart and Blake and others getting Tommy Points, it gins you up too and that's what RWill did for us last night.

We had 8 steals vs 4 for them.  We scored 17 points off of their 13 turnovers and only gave up 9 points off of our 9 turnovers.  We had 12 fast break points vs only 8 against a Giannis-running team.  This is how you beat the Bucks.  You stop Giannis in the full court, try not to cheat off of Middleton and Holiday too much, and force the rest of them to shoot.  Their bench shot 16-43.  Giannis, Middleton and Holiday shot a combined 18-38, which is almost 50%, it's everybody else that dragged them down to < 38%.

While Milwaukee shot poorly a lot of that was due to our defense.  I was very impressed with our rotations last night.  He had a lot of contests, a lot.  They didn't get as many wide open looks as we did.


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The Celtics have taken a fair amount of deserved criticism for losing to below .500 teams. But their win over Milwaukee makes them 30-14 against above .500 teams, passing the Bucks (30-15) for best in the NBA.


Lastly, there's the altercation between Blake and Giannis' end-of-bench-warming brother Thanassis.  Blake hard fouled him, but didn't knock him down, and Thanassis headbutted Blake and got ejected.  This film doesn't show it but the funniest part is Blake joking around, acting like he was going to put on Jaylen's mask.




Maybe this team really is built for the playoffs, where all the teams they'll face will be > .500?

And, no, I'm not going to get off of Joe's case quite yet.  Winning when you shoot 51% from 3 and play every other aspect of the game excellently is easy.  I will give him credit for firing up our defense, I credited our rotations already, now I want to see him lead us to victory against tough teams with experienced coaches when things aren't perfect because that's what we'll be facing just 6 games from now.




https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401469301


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Post by bobc33 Fri Mar 31, 2023 11:04 am

“John Karalis @John_Karalis
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The Celtics have taken a fair amount of deserved criticism for losing to below .500 teams. But their win over Milwaukee makes them 30-14 against above .500 teams, passing the Bucks (30-15) for best in the NBA.”

Well that stat helps me to relax a little bit. Every team has stinkers but it seems we have had more than our share. But if we play our best against the good teams it bodes well for the playoffs.

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Post by cowens/oldschool Fri Mar 31, 2023 11:11 am

Good point Bob, easy to look good coaching when your team and best players are all on, but a great coach has to know how to steal winnable close games too. Those are the games that decide playoff series.

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Post by Celtics17 Fri Mar 31, 2023 11:17 am

When Jaylen and JT play like this, we are almost unbeatable. If Jaylen does not make All-NBA then something is wrong. There can not possibly be 15 players having a better year.

Rob Williams was great last night. He's so important to this team. Does so many little things, sets nice screens, keeps the ball moving, keeps the ball alive for second shots, helps on defense etc.

A great win. Hopefully this puts something in the Bucks head that we can beat them the anytime, anywhere. They will probably still get the top seed, but now lets finish the season strong and gear up for the playoffs.
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Post by BingBang! Fri Mar 31, 2023 11:33 am

Hopefully last night’s high-profile game solidifies JBs all NBA status with the voters. That could likely go a long way to his staying in Boston given the SuperMax deal he can get under the current CBA. Jaylen might get caught in the is he a 2 or a 3 conundrum and see his vote split by different voters which happened to Embid last year (he had more overall votes than Tatum but they were split between 4 and 5 so he fell to second team).
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Post by bobheckler Fri Mar 31, 2023 1:39 pm

Zeke not talking so much about the game but talks about the team and, a little specifically, about Jaylen.  He is very close to Jaylen, has been for years.




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Post by bobheckler Fri Mar 31, 2023 1:52 pm

Here's the video of Blake and Jaylen joking about Blake having to wear Jaylen's face mask after being headbutted by butthead.




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Post by dbrown4 Fri Mar 31, 2023 2:26 pm

Well there are a lot of angles and discussion points that can and will come out of this game, some good some bad.  

NBA has become the League of Qualified Statements.  "If Healthy" dominates the current vernacular.  Well, everyone came into this game on both sides healthy as a horse and rested even though it was qualified as a SEGABABA for MIL to give them on out.      

Milwaukee is a 3-point allowing team.  They will leave us open for the most part out there.  We also dared them to shoot and make threes last night.  They did not show up.  We are not unique.  Despite our brickville 3-point shooting woes at times, we still have the 2nd best record in the league.  So most of the time, we're winning and hitting 3's.  Again I will reiterate.  MIL should be worried at this point.  They will not beat us head-to-head.  What the Celtics should be worried about is that gd WAS game may come back and bite them in the ass if (and more than likely will) we come up short for 1st.  I've already ruled it out.  We're finishing in 2nd.  Hope I am wrong because it would be nice to take advantage of the tiebreak.  We just won the tiebreaker vs. MIL.  It's a waste if we don't at least make an effort to get it.  

Yes, we all know what's coming tonight.  Yet another dud team coming through Boston.  This will be the nail in the coffin against nabbing 1st Place if we blow this game...also on a SEGABABA.  

Live by the 3, die by the 3.  Since Charles Barkley iterated that teams only "Die By The Three" mantra, things have changed in the NBA back to the "Live By The Three, Die By The Three" and to maybe even "Live By The Three."  That's us, fortunately or unfortunately.  While we do die by the three, we live and succeed far more than we die.

This was a great game and despite any attempt by MIL to downplay it against a SEGABABA, they wanted this game to get the monkey off their backs...Boston.  They held out Middleton and Holiday the night before in preparation.  So they were lining this one up.  Coach Bud thinks he's being cute but he's about to be handed his own ass on a platter.  

Again, this is just another regular season game, so let's not blow it all out of proportion, just take it in stride.  We have the best team in the league and in a 7-game series, we should dominate ALL those who decide to step in the octagon with us.  Period.  End of story.  It all really matter who shows up for the one game when it's 3-3.  All it takes is winning just one more game or getting to 4 first.  It's literally a game of inches.  We should have won last year.  This is the first time I recall us being in this position of having lost in the Finals the previous year and hoping to be back in the position come June since historically once we get there, we win.  We'd have to go back to the mid-60's when we hiccupped in the Finals the previous season and came back the next year to win 2-3 more to finish out the decade.  We're going to see some wild games and swings in the payoffs since the 3-ball is so dominant.      

Yeah, here it comes from ESPN Injury List for tonight

RWIII - doubtful
JT - questionable
P-Squared - questionable
Al - questionable
JB - questionable

We'll see who shows up.  It needs to be all hands on deck if 1st Place is indeed the goal, so this seems to indicate we're resigning or at least teetering with winning tonight's game and finally slamming the door shut on any hope for 1st.

Anywho, let's wait for the whites of the eyes tonight and see what shakes out.

db

First place is not happening. The real problem is Philly who we play next week. If we lose tonight Philly will be 1 game behind in the loss column and so Tuesday's games become the real test. If that is the case, we will see if they can turn the light switch on long enough to duplicate their 3 point shooting come Tuesday.

Again SHOWW ME! I cannot get emotionally or financially attached to this team as I did 2008 when KG joined the Celtics where I financially spent close to $10,000 on tickets / hotels for my family for the playoffs and finals.

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Post by cowens/oldschool Fri Mar 31, 2023 3:09 pm

dbrown4 wrote:Well there are a lot of angles and discussion points that can and will come out of this game, some good some bad.  

NBA has become the League of Qualified Statements.  "If Healthy" dominates the current vernacular.  Well, everyone came into this game on both sides healthy as a horse and rested even though it was qualified as a SEGABABA for MIL to give them on out.      

Milwaukee is a 3-point allowing team.  They will leave us open for the most part out there.  We also dared them to shoot and make threes last night.  They did not show up.  We are not unique.  Despite our brickville 3-point shooting woes at times, we still have the 2nd best record in the league.  So most of the time, we're winning and hitting 3's.  Again I will reiterate.  MIL should be worried at this point.  They will not beat us head-to-head.  What the Celtics should be worried about is that gd WAS game may come back and bite them in the ass if (and more than likely will) we come up short for 1st.  I've already ruled it out.  We're finishing in 2nd.  Hope I am wrong because it would be nice to take advantage of the tiebreak.  We just won the tiebreaker vs. MIL.  It's a waste if we don't at least make an effort to get it.  

Yes, we all know what's coming tonight.  Yet another dud team coming through Boston.  This will be the nail in the coffin against nabbing 1st Place if we blow this game...also on a SEGABABA.  

Live by the 3, die by the 3.  Since Charles Barkley iterated that teams only "Die By The Three" mantra, things have changed in the NBA back to the "Live By The Three, Die By The Three" and to maybe even "Live By The Three."  That's us, fortunately or unfortunately.  While we do die by the three, we live and succeed far more than we die.

This was a great game and despite any attempt by MIL to downplay it against a SEGABABA, they wanted this game to get the monkey off their backs...Boston.  They held out Middleton and Holiday the night before in preparation.  So they were lining this one up.  Coach Bud thinks he's being cute but he's about to be handed his own ass on a platter.  

Again, this is just another regular season game, so let's not blow it all out of proportion, just take it in stride.  We have the best team in the league and in a 7-game series, we should dominate ALL those who decide to step in the octagon with us.  Period.  End of story.  It all really matter who shows up for the one game when it's 3-3.  All it takes is winning just one more game or getting to 4 first.  It's literally a game of inches.  We should have won last year.  This is the first time I recall us being in this position of having lost in the Finals the previous year and hoping to be back in the position come June since historically once we get there, we win.  We'd have to go back to the mid-60's when we hiccupped in the Finals the previous season and came back the next year to win 2-3 more to finish out the decade.  We're going to see some wild games and swings in the payoffs since the 3-ball is so dominant.      

Yeah, here it comes from ESPN Injury List for tonight

RWIII - doubtful
JT - questionable
P-Squared - questionable
Al - questionable
JB - questionable

We'll see who shows up.  It needs to be all hands on deck if 1st Place is indeed the goal, so this seems to indicate we're resigning or at least teetering with winning tonight's game and finally slamming the door shut on any hope for 1st.

Anywho, let's wait for the whites of the eyes tonight and see what shakes out.

db              

Db hate to tell you that Holiday played the night before and went for a career high 51 points, they did hold out Middleton though.

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Post by 112288 Fri Mar 31, 2023 3:25 pm

dbrown4 wrote:Well there are a lot of angles and discussion points that can and will come out of this game, some good some bad.  

NBA has become the League of Qualified Statements.  "If Healthy" dominates the current vernacular.  Well, everyone came into this game on both sides healthy as a horse and rested even though it was qualified as a SEGABABA for MIL to give them on out.      

Milwaukee is a 3-point allowing team.  They will leave us open for the most part out there.  We also dared them to shoot and make threes last night.  They did not show up.  We are not unique.  Despite our brickville 3-point shooting woes at times, we still have the 2nd best record in the league.  So most of the time, we're winning and hitting 3's.  Again I will reiterate.  MIL should be worried at this point.  They will not beat us head-to-head.  What the Celtics should be worried about is that gd WAS game may come back and bite them in the ass if (and more than likely will) we come up short for 1st.  I've already ruled it out.  We're finishing in 2nd.  Hope I am wrong because it would be nice to take advantage of the tiebreak.  We just won the tiebreaker vs. MIL.  It's a waste if we don't at least make an effort to get it.  

Yes, we all know what's coming tonight.  Yet another dud team coming through Boston.  This will be the nail in the coffin against nabbing 1st Place if we blow this game...also on a SEGABABA.  

Live by the 3, die by the 3.  Since Charles Barkley iterated that teams only "Die By The Three" mantra, things have changed in the NBA back to the "Live By The Three, Die By The Three" and to maybe even "Live By The Three."  That's us, fortunately or unfortunately.  While we do die by the three, we live and succeed far more than we die.

This was a great game and despite any attempt by MIL to downplay it against a SEGABABA, they wanted this game to get the monkey off their backs...Boston.  They held out Middleton and Holiday the night before in preparation.  So they were lining this one up.  Coach Bud thinks he's being cute but he's about to be handed his own ass on a platter.  

Again, this is just another regular season game, so let's not blow it all out of proportion, just take it in stride.  We have the best team in the league and in a 7-game series, we should dominate ALL those who decide to step in the octagon with us.  Period.  End of story.  It all really matter who shows up for the one game when it's 3-3.  All it takes is winning just one more game or getting to 4 first.  It's literally a game of inches.  We should have won last year.  This is the first time I recall us being in this position of having lost in the Finals the previous year and hoping to be back in the position come June since historically once we get there, we win.  We'd have to go back to the mid-60's when we hiccupped in the Finals the previous season and came back the next year to win 2-3 more to finish out the decade.  We're going to see some wild games and swings in the payoffs since the 3-ball is so dominant.      

Yeah, here it comes from ESPN Injury List for tonight

RWIII - doubtful
JT - questionable
P-Squared - questionable
Al - questionable
JB - questionable

We'll see who shows up.  It needs to be all hands on deck if 1st Place is indeed the goal, so this seems to indicate we're resigning or at least teetering with winning tonight's game and finally slamming the door shut on any hope for 1st.

Anywho, let's wait for the whites of the eyes tonight and see what shakes out.

db



First place is not happening. The real problem is Philly who we play next week. If we lose tonight Philly will be 1 game behind in the loss column and so Tuesday's games become the real test.  If that is the case, we will see if they can turn the light switch on long enough to duplicate their 3 point shooting come Tuesday.

Again SHOWW ME!  I cannot get emotionally or financially attached to this team as I did 2008 when KG joined the Celtics where I financially spent close to $10,000 on tickets / hotels for my family for the playoffs and finals.

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Post by dboss Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:22 pm

NYCelt wrote:Waiting for the sky is falling posts.

Oh wait, we won… big. So everything’s good again and we’re a lock for the finals.

Nice game.

I have never seen the sky is falling posts.  

Where does the phrase the sky is falling come from?
The phrase 'the sky is falling' comes from the English folktale 'Chicken Licken'. The main character gets hit on the head by an acorn but assumes the knock was caused by the sky falling. She runs about in panic and dread, declaring, 'The sky is falling! The sky is falling!


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Post by dboss Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:42 pm

It is my opinion that there is no such thing as a good loss or a bad win.

The Celtics may have their number.  They have smoked the Bucks twice and lost in a closely contested OT game.  Both the Bucks and the Sixers have not figured out how to beat Boston.  

The Celtics appear to be unfazed about their playoff positioning and that seems to be a carry over from last year.  

Funny how things work out.  If the Bucks do not collapse they will have to play the winner of the 4/5 matchup in the 2nd round assuming they win the 8 vs 1 opening round.

Every year there are teams out there that give the Celtics fits.  For whatever reason, this year it has been the Cavs and the Knicks.
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Post by Ktron Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:09 pm

bobheckler wrote:Zeke not talking so much about the game but talks about the team and, a little specifically, about Jaylen.  He is very close to Jaylen, has been for years.




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Post by jrleftfoot Sat Apr 01, 2023 12:37 am

bobheckler wrote:Maybe they can flip a switch.  Makes me as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs but...

We could not, and I don't think we have this year, play better than this.  I also don't think the Bucks have played worse.

We shot 56% against the #2 defense in the league.  They shot 37.6% against us.  We shot 51% from 3.  They shot 33%.  We took 20 ftas on the road.  They took 13 at home.

However, they took 101 fgas vs 91 for us.  If they just shot anywhere close to what we shot, even if our numbers came back down to Earth if they were just close, those extra 10 fgas might have given us an L.  

This was a SEGABABA for them while we were rested.  That worked in our favor, I think.  We've been there ourselves, where we play a tough game last night and then go up against an even tougher opponent tonight and we struggle.  Blame the league, not the Bucks, but it is reality.

When the Js play like this we are extraordinarily difficult to beat.  They combined for 70 points on 25-38, 11-15 from 3.  Tatum was 8-10 from 3.  Their recurring weakness has been turnovers.  Last night they combined for 6 assists and only 1 turnover.  Tatum was 8-8 from the line while Giannis only took 3 ftas.  Expect a Comments From The Other Side thread that mentions that every other post, if not every post.  Personally I think Giannis gets away with murder every game he plays, and traveling on almost every play he touches the ball in, so I'm not feeling sorry for him now.  He had only 2 assists.  That has nothing to do with the refs, Bucks fans.

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8 3's for Jayson Tatum tonight, setting a new career-high and moving to within 12 of the franchise record with five games to play.

The list is here:
https://twitter.com/SeanGrandePBP/status/1641681121632034818

ALSO, this 40 point game was Tatum's 11th of the season.  That ties him with Larry Legend's single season club record ('87-'88) with 5 games still left to play.  We all love Larry, probably and justifiably more than Jayson, but we watched Celtic history last night and have 5 more games to see something really rare.




Jayson got the big numbers, 40 points and 8-10 from 3, but Jaylen is as Worcester called him "the Punisher".  He has been playing very physical ball lately, team inconsistency notwithstanding.  He was 13-20 last night, 3-5 from 3.  That means he was 10-15 from 2 and that is punishing.  Jaylen didn't nothing to hurt his bid for his first All-NBA berth.  As I mentioned on the Game On! thread last night his shooting has slowed down quite a bit.  He finally realized that he can jump and hang better than almost everybody else in the league and that means he can take his time on his shot and not rush it.  Watch how long he holds the ball before releasing it in his mid-range shots.  He knows, now, that nobody can block him so why rush the shot?




Al was 5-8, 4-6 from 3.  We needed a bounce back game from him and we got it.

Smart with 8 assists, zero turnovers and defending everybody, as usual.  It's amazing the mentally competitive difference he adds.

Brogdon making Milwaukee sorry he left.  He played 187 games for the Bucks and started in 112 of them.  He started in all 64 of the games he played for them in his last year in Milwaukee, and now he's coming off our bench while they're pushing BobC's man, and the pride of Arlington, MA Pat Connaughton, further down the bench with the addition of the fading Jae Crowder.  I like Jae, I always have, but he looked slow last night.  Coach Bud made a mistake putting him on Brogdon, Jae doesn't have the speed.

The Time Lord was a game changer.  It wasn't just his 7 points on 3-3 and 7 rebounds that makes that true.  It's that 4 of those 7 boards were offensive.  It's that he was trying to save loose balls.  It didn't matter that maybe he didn't save them, his effort ratcheted up our energy level across the board.  When you see a player working hard, when you see Smart and Blake and others getting Tommy Points, it gins you up too and that's what RWill did for us last night.

We had 8 steals vs 4 for them.  We scored 17 points off of their 13 turnovers and only gave up 9 points off of our 9 turnovers.  We had 12 fast break points vs only 8 against a Giannis-running team.  This is how you beat the Bucks.  You stop Giannis in the full court, try not to cheat off of Middleton and Holiday too much, and force the rest of them to shoot.  Their bench shot 16-43.  Giannis, Middleton and Holiday shot a combined 18-38, which is almost 50%, it's everybody else that dragged them down to < 38%.

While Milwaukee shot poorly a lot of that was due to our defense.  I was very impressed with our rotations last night.  He had a lot of contests, a lot.  They didn't get as many wide open looks as we did.


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The Celtics have taken a fair amount of deserved criticism for losing to below .500 teams. But their win over Milwaukee makes them 30-14 against above .500 teams, passing the Bucks (30-15) for best in the NBA.


Lastly, there's the altercation between Blake and Giannis' end-of-bench-warming brother Thanassis.  Blake hard fouled him, but didn't knock him down, and Thanassis headbutted Blake and got ejected.  This film doesn't show it but the funniest part is Blake joking around, acting like he was going to put on Jaylen's mask.




Maybe this team really is built for the playoffs, where all the teams they'll face will be > .500?

And, no, I'm not going to get off of Joe's case quite yet.  Winning when you shoot 51% from 3 and play every other aspect of the game excellently is easy.  I will give him credit for firing up our defense, I credited our rotations already, now I want to see him lead us to victory against tough teams with experienced coaches when things aren't perfect because that's what we'll be facing just 6 games from now.




https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401469301


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