Comments From The Other Side - EC 2nd Round, Game 1, vs Cavaliers, Home, 5/7/24

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by FLCeltsFan




I think game 1 will actually be the Cavs best shot at stealing a game on the road

Could be, especially if the Celtics don't take us seriously, and sometimes the Cavs shoot better without a lot of rest; but I'm thinking more the physical constraints on a soon to be 34 year old Jrue and whether we can exploit him.

Jrue has been showing signs of slippage on the defensive end for years.

He's been All-Defense the past 3 seasons, so idk if I can agree with that

Hauser's shooting off the bench and the White/Jrue defensive tandem are my biggest worries

DG cannot guard anyone in Boston's starting lineup, so, that's a problem. (MY NOTE: Couldn't guard Pritchard either)

He should be able to guard 33 year old Jrue Holiday, no? Dude isn't exactly a scoring machine.

I just hate Boston so much, although the individual players they have are all likeable, outside of Horford (though I still respect his game).

For those Celtics talking heads who don't see where the Cavs have an advantage, the Cavs have the better guards, Mobley over Horford and the Cavs have the better 6th man in LeVert when it comes to Boston specific. I hope the Celtic players think this is going to be a cake walk

The Cavs have been a poor team for months. Orlando out played them. They out scored the Cavs by over 5 points a game on average. That's a mediocre team without playoff experience. No Porzingis helps I guess but the Cavs are going down in 5. The games in Boston are pretty much unwinnable.

You might be an Eeyore. Maybe check and see if you can't get that fixed.

What's going to be worse...hatred for the Wagner f***s, or hatred for Tatum using his off-arm to create space on every single possession?

Boston is 11.5 point favorites, massive spread.

Who cares? Cavs gonna win

If Dean Wade plays, and averages 20 points every 4th quarter, I like our chances.

Cavs in 6.

Who are the weaker links on offense for Boston? I would say Holiday and Horford. Hope the Cavs defense can funnel the ball to those guys as much as possible.

My heart says Cavs in 6 my brain says Celtics in 6. I do feel we will win 2 games at least.

I worry that Holiday defending DG is a big advantage for the C's.

The biggest mental block we might need to overcome is winning on the road in the playoffs. We haven't done it yet in these playoffs and we can't rely on a Game 7 at home this time.

Fun fact: Celtics fans are genuinely scared of facing Caris LeVert this series, because he's killed them out of nowhere multiple times. That's so funny to me.

Hope we can do to boston what the Wolves did to the Nuggets. Ouch!

F*** Kelly Olynyk Lunch lady lookin MFEr

Spida is gonna drop 60 points


Looks like we are getting shi**y Garland tonight. Man he is so inconsistent

Can we play Orlando again?

celtics dont need tatum to win this series. nuff said

You know garlands down bad when whites cooking him.

White has been cooking everyone these playoffs

White is their 3rd best player arguably, he is more important to them than Porzingus

The name Kelly olynyk still gives me PTSD.

We are wide open much better than Magic but we got to make shots

We look like a D league squad to start. Coach had never won a road playoff game and looks like he has no interest in changing that. We are out of synch looking like the rusty team.

Expecting ZERO help from the refs this series. The nba wants a Boston NY final and that was VERY evident by the game last night.

Celtics are regular season darlings time to let em know

I can’t stand garland.

As a Lakers fan i came here to say good luck hope y'all win this game.

Paul Revere should have left this city burn to the ground

Derrick White is going to kill us if we have DG guarding him. Unlike Orlando, Boston has shooting from Brown, White, Horford, Tatum, Jrue, Payton, Hauser

Celtics crowd is nervous....

Hey guys Knick fan here. Just here to say the refs are already favoring the Celtics. Clearly ref bias going on in beantown. Go beat those guys

Knicks fan talking about ref bias is WILD. Lmao


Celtics hit contested 3s. Cavs can't hit wide open ones. That's gonna be the story of the series.

I’m going be so sick of that announcer screaming “FOR THREE” by the end of this series


they might have some rest but cavs got momentum from a great game 7.

watching their role players be perfect all series is going to be so irritating while ours build half of boston out of bricks

Garland is such a liability

Just a quick 21-9 run to take the lead. LFG!!!

The Celts aren't as good as the Magic defensively.

We are the greatest team ever assembled

We already made as many 3s as the whole Magic series!

F*** Boston and the premature sweep calls. Tatum is a Mickey Mouse role player

I forgot what basketball looked like after that ridiculous Magic series lol. Celtics bringing zero physicality right now.

This would be a great time for LeVert to remember how much he hates the Celtics

Jaylen brown going to eat us alive

Honestly bostons defense looks way softer than what we saw against the magic

Boston's defense is bs

Does their crowd exist???

Boston can be soft. Need to keep punching them in the mouth.

Their crowd doesn't seem into it at all

Heat fan over here. Celtics get the best whistle everywhere

Hey guys Knicks fan here again. Man the refs are glazing those Leprechauns. Big market bias clearly!

No one likes you folks.

Pathetic that in 2024 we have to rely on Morris and TT in a playoff series

Yeah Garland is unplayable against this team

Darius Garland is absolute trash Can’t wait until he’s traded

What is it with officials hating Cleveland teams

Anyone blaming the refs here needs serious help

My therapist doesn’t think I should watch garland play basketball anymore

Derrick White may be the most underrated player in the game. A fine basketball player.

Who came into this season thinking Derrick White would be a significantly better player than Darius Garland?

Strus has been a major letdown all season

Ok. That was fun. We’re back to being the worst offence in nba history.

They’re so much better it’s not even funny

"We want Boston"...LMAO

If we keep this within single digits we’re gonna take a 1-0 series lead in moral victories.

Mobley is so SOFT!

Evan has the mental makeup of a sea urchin. Why did he not even look at the rim there. Get up there and dunk it

Mobley doesn’t deserve to be 7 ft tall

Why did Mobley not just went back up with it?

Because Spud Webb can block him. That's why.

Cavs bet the farm on Garland & Mobley They lost

Horford literally setting a shuffling screen, but it's a foul on Strus. Okay.

Garland getting outplayed by Pritchard?

Pritchard gives me the creeps

Pritchard looks like a white supremacist

Mobley punked by kornet… guys

I also have 0 respect for Tatum. I’ve never thought he’s good. Mickey Mouse “superstar”

Giving up plus minutes to Kornet and Pritchard in the playoffs is un-f***ing-forgivable.

Kornet being a + for the Celtics is so pathetic for the Cavaliers

Turning Kornet into primetime Shaq.

Garland is pure garbage

remember Darius against the nets a couple years ago in the playoffs where he looked like a prime kyrie and now he's looking like a gen z Eric snow

Tatum and Brown are so f***ing good, man.

Evan Mobley is getting lit up by Luke kornet

He’d get lit up by a child

Refs said “you weren’t supposed to win the last series, you ain’t sniffing conference finals”

Boston not even trying

I wish we could shoot as good as the Celtics

I looked at Celtics game thread and they’re just sh***ing all over their team right now. I’m so confused

They are really underperforming right now, which is insane since they STILL look significantly better

Boston is so soft, they are a bunch of floppers. When JA returns he is going to destroy these fakers

Wait till porzingis shows up

Scary to remember that this team usually has Porzingis.

im quite optimistic, we should be down by way more than 10.


Hey, the defense is back! Held Boston to 19!

Couldn't capitalize on Boston's poor shooting

This team has no cohesion. This roster is a grab bag of highly talented individual players that don't work when out together and have no leadership.

They're not even setting screens. Just running up to guys and pushing them to get open shots.

I need the Derrick White regression to hit

Look at the ball movement for the Celtics man we NEVER do that

We are in trouble, Celts are so much better.

Stop wasting Mitchell's talent. Send him to the Heat. You guys will love Herro and Jovic.

Boston should win this series in 4. We aren’t even close to their talent level. Derek white is 10x better than garland

I hate Mobley. I’ll cry of happiness when we trade him

They are letting Derrick White score. This is insane. He’s like their 9th best player.

Trash take. White is arguably their third best player after Brown and Tatum

D white is so good man

Underrated. No weak spots in his game

Why did Derrick White turn into tall Steph Curry

Derrick white is such a weapon for them

Absolute embarrassment of a team watching them get every single one of their own misses

Shout out to all the dumb mfs in the crowd last week chanting "we want Boston"

I kinda hate we gotta play at least 4 games against this team and look like chumps. Just let us fire JB and move on

I don't trust Boston to actually close out a game. I expect some heavy ISO from Tatum and Brown to stall their offense in the 4th

Why does garland always get hit in the face

He’s short

Derrick White is nuts, incredible shot there. No chance if he's gonna keep this up

COULD WE JUST F***ING FOUL SOMEONE HARD

Why can't we ever have a player like Derek White?

I have a feeling if we can get the game close, tatum will start chucking at the end

Who the F*** is Derrick White and why doesn't he MISS

Can we trade Strus mid game

Looks like I'll be able to go to bed early tonight! We don't have an answer for 12 pts a game Derrick White.

Not sure what you are supposed to do about Derrick White here.

I rly do feel bad for Mitchell. Celtics are only 1st because they have a team of scorers

The good news is White will never be this hot again

He literally does this every game wtf u talking about

Derrick White is what I wish Strus was

Celtics just have so much firepower. Pretty overwhelming

If I see that bald man hit one more 3…

these celtics are animals

Only chance Cavs have to win this series is if Mobely can help out on offense.

You are more likely to win the lotto

Tristan Thompson “former Celtics player” yeah that’s his relevance

All the Celtics do is shoot

Boston got so many white dudes off the bench that ball

Derrick White and Luke Kornet beat us (MY NOTE: YES!! Cavs fan giving Luke some respect)

Tatum's shooting 29% and they're up 15. Must be nice being Jayson Tatum

It's crazy to me that Tatum has been a non factor all game when he's an MVP candidate. Obviously Boston is that good but I doubt he gets any flak for basically getting shut down

They’re shooting 60% from 3…

pritchard cooking, white cooking. dg cant even take on horford.

Did everyone on the Celtics turn into steph curry

I didn’t watch Boston this season. Will the role players shoot this well from 3 the whole series? Cuz we will get swept if that’s the case

White won’t shoot this well but as a unit they’ve been better on offense than the 73 win warriors. They were dominant all season. Looked bored beating teams.

Yes. Everyone is a 40% shooter from 3

I think Don might be the best player in this series, but Boston probably has the next 5 or 6

Game 2 Mitchell will come out gassed and Tatum will actually play his usual self so that’s already an L

anyone know if strus is still playing or is he deceased?

Please don't ever force the world to watch no sh** like this again. NBA is thinking about dissolving the Cavs org behind this game.

Can we call Orlando and see if they want to take our spot ?

Getting blown out while Tatum has played like sh** and Mitchell has been elite…….. we are cooked

If old a** AL Horford is embarrassing you it's just time to call it game. This one is not ours, they have ALL the momentum.

Al horford always plays huge against us

Al Horford is a dirty piece of sh**. We should let Morris f*** him up for trying to drop an elbow on Delly’s head back in the day

We’re gonna have the largest point differential in a series ever watch we won’t ever finish a game within 20

900 year old Al Horford is clowning us.

This is who they’ve been all along. Garland is a fraud, Strus isn’t a true starter, and they always give up countless second chance baskets by not attacking the boards.

Can’t wait until Caris is off the team. I can’t stand watching him

The Cleveland Clinic should do the world’s first fat transplant with Niang as the donor and Mobley as the recipient

Hahahahahahahaha levert just got his ankles broken by Pritchard. Please get this bum to China where he belongs

Everyone but Mitchel deserves to walk back to the hotel.

Did I see Marcus Morris completely whiff a dunk in the second quarter with nobody guarding him and turning over the ball? Is this some double agent sabotage?

Give Sh**kerstaff another blowout playoff loss and another playoff offense scoring under 100 points. What an absolute f***ing idiot at head coach

We not breaking the 100 again?

If you don’t like that you don’t like Cavs basketball baby

Series is winnable, just need DM to drop 125 ppg

Boston is waaaayyy better than us That’s about it.

Not all bad guys, it wasn’t even our worst loss of the playoffs

Paul Pierce is still a clown

This was a poop sandwich

One more game closer to a new HC boys. Thats a win

Let’s doom about how bad our players are against a historically great team that didn’t trade their young max players

Yo Boston is really good. That’s my takeaway



Is he still available?

Half our team should be on the Guangdong Tigers

Even the Bostons non-rotation guys know how to create offense, unlike the JBs team

This is gonna be a short series lol

Hey we only have to watch this 3 more times!!

Boston has a better coaching staff, better talent and more playoff experience than us. We’ll be lucky to get one.

Boston has depth, Solid rotations, a coach that can draw up an offense, and immediately subs for mismatches. Everything the Cavs are not.

Garland outplayed by 3 separate PGs from Boston.


Bob


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