Comments From The Other Side - EC Finals, Game 2, vs Pacers, Home, 5/23/24

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by FLCeltsFan

MY NOTE: Pritch getting some hate mail from opposing fans for a change. That means he was playing well.



Game plan: don't f***ing blow it.

Don't have a good feeling about this one, not sure the Celtics played very well overall in game 1, they are the superior team

We’re gonna smash Boston tonight.   Took a miracle shot and mind boggling errors for the Celtics to win game 1.

Pacers are the better team top to bottom and they’ll show it tonight.

We’ve proved we can hang. Time to prove we can win.

if not for a couple mental lapses, the Dead-Tired pacers team beats the well-rested celtics in game 1....it's really just Tatum and 4 bums they are running out there

Of course it's scott foster...

That first game demoralized me. Sports haven’t made me feel like that in years

We are getting blown out tonight. People trying to accept like that was some lesson for the team are crazy. That’s a type of loss that completely deflates the best of teams

Loved game one except the last minute.

And the first minute


This is the game where we keep attacking horford and make them pay for playing him for 40 min a game. We need to get one game where he is dead tired before KP is back

Loving this series. Loving the civility of the Celtics forum. This is just great basketball.

Me too. I hate Boston fans in general, but this Celtics team is impossible not to like. The amount of hate they get for being awesome is such a joke.

Feeling irrationally, almost recklessly, confident about this one

Glad one of us is. Ready to be hurt again.

I’d actually feel much more confident if we got our a**es handed to us in Game 1. Now the Celtics are aware they’re going to have to try.

Scott Foster on the floor...

I don't think we've won a single game he has officiated these playoffs

He's a little pi**ed about losing 6moty to Tony Brothers, this will be a Foster revenge masterclass

The crowd sucks at the TD Garden. They are so quiet.

We can’t trade baskets all night. That favors Boston at home

I just love watching the opposing team score on every single possession

Every shot feels open

Man when Tatum is hitting that middy he's a monster

We already have foul shots? It's not even 4th quarter yet

Flop city. Population: Jaylen Brown

Celtics ain't a championship team. They are flopping live by 3 die by 3 team.

I’d let Horford shoot 3s until he makes one. Can’t get blown by and pull Myles from the paint

Throughout the playoffs we have had stretches of just not playing defense. This is one of those. Hopefully it’s not a long stretch.                            

Boston on pace for 100 second chance points  

Who would've thought we match up so well with Boston? They are 100% scared of our speed

We should just start clubbing guys in the face and see if they count as fouls for us.

these celts aren't even that good at basketball per se... just frantic effort and well-timed flopping...obnoxious try-hards lmao

Da**, Pritchard is solid

Is it me or does Prichard look like Elon Musk?

Nesmith should never take a 3 again in the playoffs

Why are we just leaving guys wide open on the three point line? Is this supposed to be some sort of defensive tactic?

Celtics are overrated team we are gonna show this today.

They are a great team. I think it’s more about us being underrated

If the commentators disappeared one day I wouldn’t feel sad

Wait - that's not Gordon Hayward?

Mazzulla lost his challenge in the first. We winning lmao

Typical behavior from Tatum. Get your sh** blocked then stop and complain at the officials instead of getting back on defense.

Didn’t close out that quarter well, but Boston looks flat.

Payton Pritchard really thinks he's sh**

Shoot 58%, turn it over 6 times, Tatum goes 1-for-10000. Up by 2

Why does Pritchard look like Sid from Toy Story?

oof this Celtics defense is tough.

Guys, protecting the ball is for chumps, just give Boston more possessions. What's the worst that can happen??

I’m admittedly not that smart about basketball. Can someone explain to me how the Indiana Pacers can allow another team to get 6 of their own rebounds in a row

Only team that can beat us is ourselves, and we’re really good at it

They’re just a lot better than us. Game 1 was the one to steal and we choked it away. Sad

Celtics have rebounded every 1 of their 7 missed 3's.

We've got Horford looking like prime Moses Malone.

Is Pascal allergic to getting a rebound?!?

You don’t rebound you can beat Precious Achooahh and Deuce McBride but you not beating a team that won 65 games

Whatever Nembhard is being paid to act like an idiot is insulting

Payton Pritchard looks like the inbred banjo player from Deliverance.

Payton Pritchard is so ugly, he makes Rudy Gobert appear handsome.

Payton Pritchard makes James White resemble Patrick Swayze.

Payton Pritchard is so ugly, The Elephant Man has confidence he can steal his girl.

Instead of flopping Hali maybe grab the rebound

Milwaukee should go straight to he** for allowing Holdiay to fall into Boston’s lap. They wouldn’t be near as threatening without him.

Once again, Rick allowing them to go on a giant run before using a timeout. Honestly tired of him

Obi is soft AF. Hate to say it.

Celtics are just the Pacers if we played defense

have any of the commentators throughout the playoffs ever mentioned Mathurin being injured? Because they sure take every chance to mention the other teams' injuries.

Bro we didn't score for 5 minutes who gives a sh**

Myles is getting his *** kicked by Al Horford's corpse
Send Myles into the locker room early to go stand in the corner.
Can’t shake Al Horford

Hali can’t even take Horford off the dribble

Hilarious that Boston has notoriously crapped the bed in game 2s and Pacers haven't scored in 5 mins

Obi just leaving their 3pt shooters open in the corner like it's his job

Please clutch up, can’t have the CeltiKKKs going to the finals

Celtics are way better than us, they may sweep, we have a better chance than everyone else in the east, but there is a huge gap between Boston and the rest of the conference

This is pathetic man. We deserve to be losing by a lot more

If Tatum wasn't having his worst game of the playoffs, we would be

Game over. At least I can go to bed early.  looks like all the haters saying we only won because of injuries were right. We have no business being here and we’re gonna max Siakam and lose in the 1st round next season. Woohoo!

All you Aaron Nesmith lovers are straight up delusional. The dude is sooooo bad. Turns the ball over so much, fouls so much, misses so many wide open threes.

Jaylen brown > Tatum

Jaylen Brown is the most confusing star. I don’t get why he’s good, but he is

Well if they started calling fouls on him pushing off, he'd be trash.

Tatum has 4 points and we’re down 13

The Pacers are so much better than America thinks. What a finish to the half!

Celtics don't have bench depth and holiday,Harford are old players. IF we will have the energy to close the game we got this.

Is it just me or is Tatem massively overrated

Two things i love playing the celtics is this. You can count on their coach to be stubborn and let them boys keep shooting threes. And jaylen brown will always miss a free throw when you need it

Bro I’m gonna say it Boston is not this unbeatable juggernaut that everyone makes them out to be. The Pacers literally were scoreless for 7 minutes + in the 2nd but only trail by 6.

I can’t stand Boston. They’re crap. They foul but u can’t breathe on them. It’s a total scam.

These dudes aren’t even good. They’re just lucky we’ve been sloppy for 2 games.  This the team that’s supposed to win the championship???

I can't believe people who talk about basketball for a living think Jayson Tatum is better than Jalen Brown

We’re lucky Tatum is having a stinker (on offense and defense)

Can't believe Jrue always plays so hard against us after we gave his bum a** brother so much money

its crazy how much jrue has taken hali out the game like entirely

Their whole team is so classless.

How is turner so bad

There's no way Tatum is asking for a push off hahahababa

Jayson Tatum is a weak sister

celtics bench talking about hali’s sh** defense… that’s a tough look lmfao

I mean. It’s pretty well known the mans is a traffic cone out there

Haliburton balancing his defensive woes by also being a zero on offense.

Brown using his arm as a weapon every time down the lane

Man, if Tatum wasn't playing like a** this game would be out of reach. Need to take advantage.

Tyrese isnt just a bad defender he is a shockingly low iq defender.

How do you make all nba when you play defense like Haliburton. He is so afraid of contact it’s almost comical. Sad thing is the other team knows it.  (MY NOTE:  EXCELLENT question.  Jaylen would LOVE to know the answer to it, as much as he denies he cares)

Hali is the worst max in the league. This guy might as well have been a bank robber, he just fleeced the Pacers.

White has such a punchable face lol

Lookin like a gnome out there

More like a face that would fly down in a saucer and abduct your whole family

They aren't afraid to use their challenges. Why can't we?

Shouldn’t even have it though since they green lit it earlier in the game and “didn’t acknowledge” it

Literally every point we are giving up is because of Tyrese

White is so good man. He always destroys us.

Mazzula challenges everything this is boring omg.

Of course they overturned this. gotta help the Celtics

Anyone else notice ESPN keeps showing Larry Bird stuff every commercial? This a jab at Indiana?

hate that ugly bald POS derrick white. Most annoying player in the league

This is definitely not true lmao I can think of many more annoying guys

Siakam is a better, more handsome Jayson Tatum tbh

I’ll tell you what. If Boston wins this series. They are getting smacked in the finals. They’re softer than we are. Tatum has all the talent in the world but plays like a straight up b**ch

Tatum has 8 points and we’re down double digits

Refs killing it

Not the refs fault we’re down 11

Hali another disappearing act and somehow Shep is allowed to just run wind sprints at will doing nothing.

If I had nickel for every time Tyrese was blatantly elbowed in the face with no foul call this game I’d have at least 2 nickels

Team can’t hit that next level until Hali stops being a total liability



Bro it's not just him. The entire team doesn't play defense.



People don't hate Boston; they hate the people



brown should have been fouled out 30 minutes ago


That should be Jaylen Brown’s 17th foul

Brown plays so dirty.

Maybe if we just played like we gave a sh** the whole game we wouldn’t have to fight back all the time?

Can't wait for the Pacers to cut the lead down to 3 again only to ultimately lose by 17. Always getting my hopes up 15 distinct times

Hali so bad he went to the back to act hurt. So embarrassing. Celtics in 4

NGL, I've faked an injury before (in practice too lol)

I usually try to save it for when the wife asks me to do chores

Doug touching the floor tells me all I need to know. Fire Rick Carlisle. This dude is a moron

I don't. see it as giving up. I see it as nothing was working so he's trying anything and everything, including Doogie.

Yep, everything but the kitchen sink (though the kitchen sink has just as many points and probably plays better defense)

McDermott guarding Jayson Tatum oh boy Rick

Is Doug Mcdermott in the make a wish foundation?

F***ing losers can’t rebound

Haliburton injury was non contact

It would have to be he has never been close enough to his man to have contact.

Will be satisfying when these scumbags get exposed in the finals by mavs/wolves

Another haliburton disappearing game

This is our franchise guy. I need a new team to be a fan of.

Man they're only winning because our best player is out.

Really could have done without the Bucks trading away Holiday so he could find his way to Boston.  Dude has wrecked this game for us.

Bucks really let the Celtics get Jrue and Pork because they wanted Dame I can’t believe it

We’re playing like the team everyone thinks we are.. a team that got lucky with favorable matchups due to injuries and is now playing a real team

Why would you double team Hauser?

Siakam with all-nba performance.
The other 9 players total crap

When you can’t stop a nosebleed as a coach the most obvious thing you can do is put in a line up that has Doug McDermott defending a MVP candidate

Joe mazulla is miles better than rick

I was hoping we could win the series, now I’m hoping we can just not embarrass ourselves

derrick white with his seventeenth wide open three on the wing

Derrick white is so annoying he just runs around off ball and then is wide open and doesn’t do anything else. Hate the Celtics a lot less than Knicks and bucks tho

White hits every 3, why do we leave him open?

Pretty sad Tyrese can’t play through leg soreness in the biggest moment of the season

ESPN would have run an obituary if Tatum or Brunson or Brown were out for a 4th quarter w an injury

It feels so rigged playing Boston at home

I also think Mazzulla is an idiot for still having JT, JB, and White in right now lol

I can’t even be mad, they’re just better. They’re older, more physical, and they want it more.

While Carlisle is giving up, Mazzula is still challenging calls. Carlisle is loser.

Pacers can easily tie this series

You’re high

just let it go Mazzoula.. why extend this farce

Guys Rick came out in the 4th playing the long game. Use our bench to force their starters to play a full game

Smart of him to throw game 1 since it made their starters play overtime too. Very smart. Genius 100000 IQ moves

Getting stuffed by doug McDermott should make you lose your roster spot in this league

Tatum the type of dude to go fishing and make someone else put a worm on his hook.

we've seen enough - Celtics are the best in the east.  It will be fun to watch the Mavs or Wolves tear them apart in the Finals though

You’re giving too much credit for these west teams, the Celtics will win in 6

I like the part where we just give up but yet they still have their starters in

Why are they playing starters?

they're trying to win a playoff game. why aren't the pacers is the actual question

they really just stat padding lmfao

They need Tatum to get to 25

I think JT and JB are having confidence issues with the fact that Mazz won't take them out

I’ve never seen a coach bench his top players when down only 13.

The Doc Rivers special

Rick has ties to Boston

Rick should rest starters in game 3 so they can be healthy for game 4, or just bench the starters the whole series so they can be healthy for next season

The celtics got their “wake up call” in game one and still won that game. Worst case scenario for us.

Jaylen Brown is what I hope bennedict mathurin becomes that dude deserves all of jason Tatum's check.

Brown is so lucky to have good roll players like Tatum.


Bob


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