I was VERY angry last night. This morning I’ve gone back and rewatched the second half. I highly recommend for anyone who is interested in why wins or losses happen to do that. It’s kinda crazy how much easier it is to analyze once you aren’t watching it happen for the first time. After watching , it’s actually super clear how the Celtics lost this game: they missed WAY too many good looks from 3, especially in the 3rd qtr when, after an initial hot start, the thunder could barely score from like the 8 minute to the 3 minute mark. We had SO many opportunities when the lead was arlund 9-10 to push the lead to 20. White missed a couple, Sam missed a couple GREAT looks( and then another one right after those two that maybe wasnt a shot he should have taken so early, but another clean look he makes all of the time). KP missed a few great looks, AND he got a great steal but forced up an ugly 3 after he wasn’t patient enough. Tatum missed a great look and also had a couple more misses that he didn’t need to take, especially since his shot was off last night. The thunder were ICE cold in the 3rd even though it looks like it was only us. But they were BAd. They Werner getting any good looks. SGA wasnt getting clean looks or even taking barely any shots. I would also add that a huge difference between the first and the second half were the foul calls. Idk why. But after calling almost everything in the first half, the refs all of a sudden stopped blowing the whistle. I think it was most notable by comparing a few Jaylen interior shots in the first half to the first play of the 3rd. But I think the refs didn’t want to get SGA in foul trouble. They also continued to not blow the whistle for the thunder and then started to call soft offensive fouls on us, I believe 3 of them, which was also not helpful. Despite the fouls, it still came down to the 3s. We played great defense for a LOT of possessions. And the thunder weren’t hunting great looks. But we just couldn’t capitalize! I even left out that we had two 3s back to back that rimmed in and out in the 3rd. Man we just couldn’t buy one. Al missed a WIDE open look early in the 4th. They actually let him shoot it. Hes really sort of off right now even tho 2/5 looks ok. He’s like 20 percent over the last week or so. I know I’m just going on and on, but after looking back it’s not one of those games where we are just playing a team who is just so disciplined and executes SO well or something. I’d say thats actually one of the thunders worst qualities as of now, as elite as they are. Once the Celtics poise slowly eroded, the thunder finally caught a rhythm as a team a couple times in the second half, and that was the difference. But honestly it was just the Celtics horrid shot making that cost them this game despite a few other minor details. Tatum had a terrible stretch late in the 3rd wirh Brown out, and Brown had a terrible stretch early in the 4th with Tatum out. But we STIlL win this game pretty easily if we just make some of our open 3s man. Legit just such poor shooting. And it actually started in the first half. We just were finding so mant ways to score inside, especially JB, and the thunder were really just being held in check by us enough on offense that it didn’t really matter as much. But if we never go cold, not only do we end up winning late but I think we would have been up by 20+ at half time. Ugh! And last thing I’ll say, when we were up 13 late in the first half, we had a chance to REALLY step on it. I love Jrue in a Marco way, but in a micro way the man drives me SO crazy. He has a LOT of low IQ offensive plays at times. So Tatum finds him wide open in the middle of the paint wirh a jump pass, and he has Jaylen cutting in for a layup or dunk, wide open. Jaylen isn’t pointing up for the lob, instead he is holding his hands up waiting for a quick chest pass or bounce pass. Jrue for some stupid idiotic reason tries to throw a soft alley oop. It leads to a contested missed airball layup from JB, instead of what would have been an easy dunk or layup. That leads to the Thunder going down, missing a 3, but someone grabs the rebound right out of Tatums hands and finds SGA. He is wide open from the left wing and shoots and makes his first 3 of the game, not only cutting it to 10 but sort of shaking his head and turning his palms up to the sky like “thank you God! Finally!l because he had missed mant wide open 3s up until that point. Come ON GUYS. I’ve seen this happen SO mant times this year during some close wins and losses. We get a lead and start playing WAY too casually. Not taking things seriously. Not locking in. Sort of trying to have fun instead of compete, because we are up…what? 13?!? Or 12? Come ON!!! Oh I remember! It was the end of the 3rd qtr in the Cavs loss! We got up 12 and instead of staying locked in, we had a few WIDE open 3s and fast breaks and such, and we botched all of them, wuen we had a chance to step on their necks!!! Overall, thars my final point. We are as good as we hope we are. This team can still win it all again. But they need to get that killer mentality back. Who cares if we finally went ice cold. Thars OK. We can shoot so well it’s gonna be fine. But we HAVE to stop being casual and lasee fair( idk how to spell it) when we get leads. Just look at the way they locked in once the thunder went up 9. I know we still sucked and couldn’t really score, but honestly even then we forced SO many missed shots and on offense by then our confidence was gone. But at least you cpile feel them lock on for a couple minutes and trt to cut it to 6 or so. And weve seen that vs the Pacers twice and vs the sixers recently. It’s like this team has the ability to just get fucking pissed off and LOCK IN. Play angry and focused. But for some reason, they don’t want to play that way or something? Idk. And heck! Would you look at what happened in the recent pacers and sixers games? We locked in and come allll the way back! But as soon as we relax thinking we have a chance again, we instantly get run off the floor. Idk what it is. And they’re going to eventually figure it out. But it’s going to be some sort of Emotional intelligence ttpe of growth that is needed from this team z. Idk man. Maybe it’s something Joe is doing. But they need to learn that it’s awesome to be able to lock in wuen you are down 13, but it’s like they are intentionally trying to “not worry about it, just have fun” most of the time.
If the coach never spoke on refs why is everyone using that the excuse for the defending champs. Okc gets almost the least amount of fouls calls because the way the play defense
@@zay914 hold on let me go get the data one second…ok I’m back. The thunder scored 2 points from the 8:40 mark in the 3rd to about the 4 minute mark. Overall even with their flurry in the last couple minutes they still only scored 21 points in the qtr. They went like 5 minutes scoring 1 basket. The lead was consistently about 9-10 points during most of the 3rd until the Celtics subs came in with around 4 and change left. I’m not trying to take anything away from the Thunder, I actually like the team, but if the Celtics make their average % from 3 this isn’t a close game. At all. In the 4th things got really tight and the crowd got into it and the Celtics weren’t even getting good looks most of the time, but in the 3rd during the middle portion of the qtr the thunder were still very lethargic and were leaving the door WIDE open for the Cs to make a huge lead. But hey this is how bball works! It’s not about analyzing after the fact like I’m doing, it’s about making shots in the moment. And the thunder eventually got it going a bit while the Celtics weren’t able to after their hot start. Game thunder
@@Key-j2x if you can look yourself in the mirror and say that tatum wasn't getting mauled at the rim, you're crazy. the missed 3s were why they lost but the shit officiating by fanduel sponsored, tim donaghy's closest confidant, cheating-ass scott foster made their margin for error so slim that they couldn't come back regardless of how they played besides their awful shooting
Something missing in Celtics. Particularly Against OKC and Cavs, they really have to give 110% and a high intensity. Otherwise, Cavs or OKC will steal the championship this year. Hope Celtics can figure this out. 🤞
Chill out, it’s regular season. Celtics are 1-1 vs cavs and 0-1 vs okc, also our first double digit loss of the season. Celtics, this season have shown that despite injuries can still maintain as the 2nd seed in the east. Tonight, the 3s aren’t just falling despite several uncontested, open looks. Despite this, they only lost by 13 and held J Dub to just 10 pts on terrible fg efficiency
@Darren-u8x I don't know the cavs were down five players in the first game and getting better as a team you realize their players are reaching their primes Celtics have a big cavs OKC problem interested to see cavs vs OKC on Wednesday alot will be revealed
@Darren-u8x the Celtics are losing that aura of invincibility Every game they lose is a formula to beat them, They look like a team that will lose because they rely on the 3 too much
Lets just call it what it is, they're sliding through until after All-Star break!! The long break between games after the Abu Dabi trip really put a hault on the mindset!! Add that to all the off court (Personal) problems- J.B's moms house was burglarized- D.Whites slump, Porzingus injuries, etc... They need a team meeting🍀💯
When we created good looks, the shot just wouldn't fall. Thunder are also the best defensive team in the league and they got great momentum off of our misses and from their ball pressure. It happens, but it does suck when it does. If we had just a few more makes in the third and fourth, the entire energy of that 4Q would change. Small margins.
This analysis is trash - if there was an issue with spacing, why didn't you use the timeouts to reiterate this to the team? You finished the game with unused timeouts? I'm lost and it seems the players were too.
@@ethanschwartz4088yeah no that not how basketball has ever worked when your team moral is down and the other teams on a 10+ run call a timeout and be a damn leader.
Should of kept attacking the basket! Boston was dominating the 1st half and couldn't stop Boston but then 2nd half,got away from attacking the basket and just ahot 3's, period 💯
This is coming from a thunder fan, but the Celtics shot their self out of this game in the second half taking too many threes there’s one thing if there fallen
This is very true. It’s been happening more than it used to and that’s one of our biggest thing we need to get over or push through. I think if we meet in the finals it will be legendary. We probably won’t have less than 30 points in the 2nd half if we rematch so it will be a lot closer but yall are our biggest threat in the west
I just rewatched the game. I sort of agree. But I’d actually say in the 3rd qtr almost every one of those 3s was a good look that we usually make 40 percent of. We were just ice cold. Hauser missed 3 pretty wide open 3s in a row while the lead was 9-10. The thunder honestly were pretty ice cold for the middle 6 minutes of the 3rd and if the Celtics make like 3 of the 10 3s they missed during that period it’s likely a Celtics win. They just got SO ice cold and FINALLY the thunder made a couple shots late in the 3rd and managed to build some momentum. But even still, the thunder were still not scoring great most of the 4th, it was really on a couple quick flurries that won the game. Almost every team normally has those little 5 point runs back and forth, the thunder weren’t even close to on fire. But the Celtics were just So ice cold and by that point you could tell mentally they were really messed up. I was acrisllt really impressed wirh the Celtics D and surprised that OKC doesnt have the best shot selection. I kept thinking how lucky we were that you guys weren’t scoring as we kept missing 3 after 3. And then of course a few offensive foul calls on us were tough, as well as the refs deciding to not call the same fouls in the first half that they were calling on both ends. I don’t think the thunder got any cheap FT calls or anything, but I do think the refs just swallows their whistle after doing the exact opposite in the first. And it was odd as well that they weren’t calling anything, but then randomly at the worst time they call some soft offensive foul. Idkkkk. But props to thunder. I’m a HuGE nba fan not just bosron. Been rooting for you guys like crazy vs the wolves and the Knicks lately. SGA is…man. I def been going around talking to my friends about how they need to see this man. He is already on his way to being once in a million ttpe player. And the coolest thing is that hes one of the guys who is that good because of something in his heart and his mind. BUT yeah I definitely was not super impressed with your TEaM. More so SGA and your coach. And the team is good dont get me wrong! But in our game vs the Magic for example, we just couldn’t get a single open shot late in the game cuz of their defense. Wirh you guys obviously you shut us down, but it really just felt like we missed SO many wide open 3s through 3 qtrs. Oh you know what I was really impressed with? Your extra effort ttpe plays. A couple of them swung the game. One was when you stole an offensive rebound out of Tatums hands, and the other was wheb you stole a ball out of Whites hands after Jrue had saved it to him. Both of those plays were really mind blowing. And again I don’t want to act as if I’m not giving you guys credit for the defense! It was super locked in in the 4th qtr! But I guess I’m just saying I didn’t feel like you have all of these guys that are impossible to drive by. It’s more so that your entire D was giving really good effort. But I think we were able to create good looks almost the whole game, we just couldn’t buy shit! Lemme know what you thought! And I’m DeF not trying to take credit away! It’s a make or miss league! And SGa was also obviously the best player in the game!
@@felipeb.9321 Celtics seen to think they have to shoot a lot of 3s every game as if it's a quota of 40 + plus they must shoot every game instead of making in game adjustments
People are over valuing OkC position after their win against the Celtics but what I seen was a cold Celtics get beat by a team who’s second best player is no better than our 6th best.
To be honest from the outside this team doesn't look like last year's team, it looks like they don't really care. They need to wake up, they can't think they'll beat the Cavs or OKC playing like this.
two things were obvious: Cs 3 point shot went AWOL-never a great sign-and the refs shifted the goal posts on physicality in the 2nd half. some BS calls, especially on KP. but OKC also just played harder in the 3rd and 4th, so they deserved it. something to prove when they come to Boston in mid-March!
@@johnlawson7294 Did you watch the game? Most of those free throws came in the first half and OKC HAD TO FOUL THEM or else it would have been a free bucket. People aren't talking about how dominant Celtics looked in that first half. OKC looked just as helpless as the rockets the first half. The calls were inconsistent asl in the second half but it was def not the reason the C's lost. But the Celtics deserved all they free throws.
It is a regular season game, but this was absolutely a terrible performance, in a showtime type game. IMHO and unfortunately, I don't see The Celts repeating.
I feel like JT consistently disappears when you need him most. When he went 1/3 from the line in the 3rd quarter that was the turning point of the game.
JT was the only one trying to change the energy of the game. Misses happen, look at his energy trying to sprint up the floor and fight for loose balls. He even took a push and a freak fall into the stands from it...
This guy is a horrible coach. PERIOD… “spacing” gtfo here.. “they changed matchups, they changed coverages” of course they did, its called adapting to the flow of the game, something he doesn’t know how to do. “Let them figure it out” like dawg thats what they pay you for, to coach and make changes when necessary. We dominated the paint in the first half, why would you steer away from that and start shooting threes, at one point Porzingis shot like 3 back to back to back threes missing all of them. This is EVERY single game.
.......THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PLAY THE TEAM WITH THE .........SECOND...... BEST RECORD...........O.......LEAVE THE TWO BIG MAN PLAY........TO EXPERTS.........
I don't know about the Cavs..we will find out Wednesday., okc halfway to 33 straight w/o Chet the Jet. My Pacers should've beat the Thunder. Had them on the ropes
Joe is always humble and accommodating with the media, win or lose! And, I’m a Thunder fan!!
I was VERY angry last night. This morning I’ve gone back and rewatched the second half. I highly recommend for anyone who is interested in why wins or losses happen to do that. It’s kinda crazy how much easier it is to analyze once you aren’t watching it happen for the first time.
After watching , it’s actually super clear how the Celtics lost this game: they missed WAY too many good looks from 3, especially in the 3rd qtr when, after an initial hot start, the thunder could barely score from like the 8 minute to the 3 minute mark. We had SO many opportunities when the lead was arlund 9-10 to push the lead to 20. White missed a couple, Sam missed a couple GREAT looks( and then another one right after those two that maybe wasnt a shot he should have taken so early, but another clean look he makes all of the time). KP missed a few great looks, AND he got a great steal but forced up an ugly 3 after he wasn’t patient enough. Tatum missed a great look and also had a couple more misses that he didn’t need to take, especially since his shot was off last night. The thunder were ICE cold in the 3rd even though it looks like it was only us. But they were BAd. They Werner getting any good looks. SGA wasnt getting clean looks or even taking barely any shots. I would also add that a huge difference between the first and the second half were the foul calls. Idk why. But after calling almost everything in the first half, the refs all of a sudden stopped blowing the whistle. I think it was most notable by comparing a few Jaylen interior shots in the first half to the first play of the 3rd. But I think the refs didn’t want to get SGA in foul trouble. They also continued to not blow the whistle for the thunder and then started to call soft offensive fouls on us, I believe 3 of them, which was also not helpful.
Despite the fouls, it still came down to the 3s. We played great defense for a LOT of possessions. And the thunder weren’t hunting great looks. But we just couldn’t capitalize! I even left out that we had two 3s back to back that rimmed in and out in the 3rd. Man we just couldn’t buy one. Al missed a WIDE open look early in the 4th. They actually let him shoot it. Hes really sort of off right now even tho 2/5 looks ok. He’s like 20 percent over the last week or so.
I know I’m just going on and on, but after looking back it’s not one of those games where we are just playing a team who is just so disciplined and executes SO well or something. I’d say thats actually one of the thunders worst qualities as of now, as elite as they are. Once the Celtics poise slowly eroded, the thunder finally caught a rhythm as a team a couple times in the second half, and that was the difference. But honestly it was just the Celtics horrid shot making that cost them this game despite a few other minor details.
Tatum had a terrible stretch late in the 3rd wirh Brown out, and Brown had a terrible stretch early in the 4th with Tatum out. But we STIlL win this game pretty easily if we just make some of our open 3s man. Legit just such poor shooting. And it actually started in the first half. We just were finding so mant ways to score inside, especially JB, and the thunder were really just being held in check by us enough on offense that it didn’t really matter as much. But if we never go cold, not only do we end up winning late but I think we would have been up by 20+ at half time.
Ugh! And last thing I’ll say, when we were up 13 late in the first half, we had a chance to REALLY step on it. I love Jrue in a Marco way, but in a micro way the man drives me SO crazy. He has a LOT of low IQ offensive plays at times. So Tatum finds him wide open in the middle of the paint wirh a jump pass, and he has Jaylen cutting in for a layup or dunk, wide open. Jaylen isn’t pointing up for the lob, instead he is holding his hands up waiting for a quick chest pass or bounce pass. Jrue for some stupid idiotic reason tries to throw a soft alley oop. It leads to a contested missed airball layup from JB, instead of what would have been an easy dunk or layup. That leads to the Thunder going down, missing a 3, but someone grabs the rebound right out of Tatums hands and finds SGA. He is wide open from the left wing and shoots and makes his first 3 of the game, not only cutting it to 10 but sort of shaking his head and turning his palms up to the sky like “thank you God! Finally!l because he had missed mant wide open 3s up until that point.
Come ON GUYS. I’ve seen this happen SO mant times this year during some close wins and losses. We get a lead and start playing WAY too casually. Not taking things seriously. Not locking in. Sort of trying to have fun instead of compete, because we are up…what? 13?!? Or 12? Come ON!!! Oh I remember! It was the end of the 3rd qtr in the Cavs loss! We got up 12 and instead of staying locked in, we had a few WIDE open 3s and fast breaks and such, and we botched all of them, wuen we had a chance to step on their necks!!!
Overall, thars my final point. We are as good as we hope we are. This team can still win it all again. But they need to get that killer mentality back. Who cares if we finally went ice cold. Thars OK. We can shoot so well it’s gonna be fine. But we HAVE to stop being casual and lasee fair( idk how to spell it) when we get leads. Just look at the way they locked in once the thunder went up 9. I know we still sucked and couldn’t really score, but honestly even then we forced SO many missed shots and on offense by then our confidence was gone. But at least you cpile feel them lock on for a couple minutes and trt to cut it to 6 or so. And weve seen that vs the Pacers twice and vs the sixers recently. It’s like this team has the ability to just get fucking pissed off and LOCK IN. Play angry and focused. But for some reason, they don’t want to play that way or something? Idk. And heck! Would you look at what happened in the recent pacers and sixers games? We locked in and come allll the way back! But as soon as we relax thinking we have a chance again, we instantly get run off the floor.
Idk what it is. And they’re going to eventually figure it out. But it’s going to be some sort of Emotional intelligence ttpe of growth that is needed from this team z. Idk man. Maybe it’s something Joe is doing. But they need to learn that it’s awesome to be able to lock in wuen you are down 13, but it’s like they are intentionally trying to “not worry about it, just have fun” most of the time.
They where not ice cold what are u on 😂 they brought the game back in the third and shut u down in the 4th
If the coach never spoke on refs why is everyone using that the excuse for the defending champs. Okc gets almost the least amount of fouls calls because the way the play defense
@@zay914 hold on let me go get the data one second…ok I’m back. The thunder scored 2 points from the 8:40 mark in the 3rd to about the 4 minute mark. Overall even with their flurry in the last couple minutes they still only scored 21 points in the qtr. They went like 5 minutes scoring 1 basket. The lead was consistently about 9-10 points during most of the 3rd until the Celtics subs came in with around 4 and change left. I’m not trying to take anything away from the Thunder, I actually like the team, but if the Celtics make their average % from 3 this isn’t a close game. At all. In the 4th things got really tight and the crowd got into it and the Celtics weren’t even getting good looks most of the time, but in the 3rd during the middle portion of the qtr the thunder were still very lethargic and were leaving the door WIDE open for the Cs to make a huge lead. But hey this is how bball works! It’s not about analyzing after the fact like I’m doing, it’s about making shots in the moment. And the thunder eventually got it going a bit while the Celtics weren’t able to after their hot start. Game thunder
TLDR; outmatched outclassed outcoached
@@Key-j2x if you can look yourself in the mirror and say that tatum wasn't getting mauled at the rim, you're crazy. the missed 3s were why they lost but the shit officiating by fanduel sponsored, tim donaghy's closest confidant, cheating-ass scott foster made their margin for error so slim that they couldn't come back regardless of how they played besides their awful shooting
Celtics shot only 9 threes out of 46 3-point shots. That's the main reason for the loss.
I didn't see the game, but 27 points for an entire half in an NBA game is unfathomable. Wow!
Yes they are. Cavs /OKC will be nice game coming up
Something missing in Celtics. Particularly Against OKC and Cavs, they really have to give 110% and a high intensity. Otherwise, Cavs or OKC will steal the championship this year. Hope Celtics can figure this out. 🤞
Chill out, it’s regular season. Celtics are 1-1 vs cavs and 0-1 vs okc, also our first double digit loss of the season. Celtics, this season have shown that despite injuries can still maintain as the 2nd seed in the east. Tonight, the 3s aren’t just falling despite several uncontested, open looks. Despite this, they only lost by 13 and held J Dub to just 10 pts on terrible fg efficiency
@Darren-u8x I don't know the cavs were down five players in the first game and getting better as a team you realize their players are reaching their primes Celtics have a big cavs OKC problem interested to see cavs vs OKC on Wednesday alot will be revealed
@@JokerKynG still Celtics are a team to beat in a 7 game series, they are trying to build back their chemistry
@Darren-u8x the Celtics are losing that aura of invincibility
Every game they lose is a formula to beat them,
They look like a team that will lose because they rely on the 3 too much
@Darren-u8x Celtics look very beatable
We should've kept Lonnie Walker. Jordan Walsh needs improvement baaad
Lets just call it what it is, they're sliding through until after All-Star break!! The long break between games after the Abu Dabi trip really put a hault on the mindset!! Add that to all the off court (Personal) problems- J.B's moms house was burglarized- D.Whites slump, Porzingus injuries, etc... They need a team meeting🍀💯
@@Shai-o1i apparently they actually had a team meeting back before the 3 game winning streak started
BOSTON SCORED 12 PTS IN THE 4TH QT WOW THAT IS TERRIBLE
When we created good looks, the shot just wouldn't fall. Thunder are also the best defensive team in the league and they got great momentum off of our misses and from their ball pressure. It happens, but it does suck when it does. If we had just a few more makes in the third and fourth, the entire energy of that 4Q would change. Small margins.
It won’t happen again so u can be glad about that. I put that on everyone soul but mine
I thought Joe should have mentioned bad spacing more
Celtics were playing with ego. They let their confidence get too high and came into the second half like it was sweet. OKC stole this win fairly.
His answer is to “ create more spacing ie; shoot more 3’s”?!?!?!
i wonder why he didn't use the two timeouts they ended the game with?
If you watch Celtics games, Joe barely uses his timeouts... that's his style of coaching
@@philiptolosa7822 I wonder what the philosophy is behind that "style"
Pay attention
@@BkDailylet them play and figure it out
This analysis is trash - if there was an issue with spacing, why didn't you use the timeouts to reiterate this to the team? You finished the game with unused timeouts? I'm lost and it seems the players were too.
Again let them play
@@ethanschwartz4088yeah no that not how basketball has ever worked when your team moral is down and the other teams on a 10+ run call a timeout and be a damn leader.
@@caidenf.3229 this is correct
Should of kept attacking the basket! Boston was dominating the 1st half and couldn't stop Boston but then 2nd half,got away from attacking the basket and just ahot 3's, period 💯
That's the NBA today, lazy basketball, just throw up 3s
Celtics need another big man they looked tired periods 3 and 4
Anyone dare to ask Mazzo why they changed the game plan in the 2nd half? If it aint broke...
KP admitted as much. they stopped passing, stopped driving, all the things that were working in the first half, they stopped doing.
@felipeb.9321 yeah and this wasn't the first nor 2nd/3rd/4th time they've done it. I'm just baffled why
This is coming from a thunder fan, but the Celtics shot their self out of this game in the second half taking too many threes there’s one thing if there fallen
This is very true. It’s been happening more than it used to and that’s one of our biggest thing we need to get over or push through. I think if we meet in the finals it will be legendary. We probably won’t have less than 30 points in the 2nd half if we rematch so it will be a lot closer but yall are our biggest threat in the west
I just rewatched the game. I sort of agree. But I’d actually say in the 3rd qtr almost every one of those 3s was a good look that we usually make 40 percent of. We were just ice cold. Hauser missed 3 pretty wide open 3s in a row while the lead was 9-10. The thunder honestly were pretty ice cold for the middle 6 minutes of the 3rd and if the Celtics make like 3 of the 10 3s they missed during that period it’s likely a Celtics win. They just got SO ice cold and FINALLY the thunder made a couple shots late in the 3rd and managed to build some momentum. But even still, the thunder were still not scoring great most of the 4th, it was really on a couple quick flurries that won the game. Almost every team normally has those little 5 point runs back and forth, the thunder weren’t even close to on fire. But the Celtics were just So ice cold and by that point you could tell mentally they were really messed up. I was acrisllt really impressed wirh the Celtics D and surprised that OKC doesnt have the best shot selection. I kept thinking how lucky we were that you guys weren’t scoring as we kept missing 3 after 3. And then of course a few offensive foul calls on us were tough, as well as the refs deciding to not call the same fouls in the first half that they were calling on both ends. I don’t think the thunder got any cheap FT calls or anything, but I do think the refs just swallows their whistle after doing the exact opposite in the first. And it was odd as well that they weren’t calling anything, but then randomly at the worst time they call some soft offensive foul. Idkkkk.
But props to thunder. I’m a HuGE nba fan not just bosron. Been rooting for you guys like crazy vs the wolves and the Knicks lately. SGA is…man. I def been going around talking to my friends about how they need to see this man. He is already on his way to being once in a million ttpe player. And the coolest thing is that hes one of the guys who is that good because of something in his heart and his mind.
BUT yeah I definitely was not super impressed with your TEaM. More so SGA and your coach. And the team is good dont get me wrong! But in our game vs the Magic for example, we just couldn’t get a single open shot late in the game cuz of their defense. Wirh you guys obviously you shut us down, but it really just felt like we missed SO many wide open 3s through 3 qtrs. Oh you know what I was really impressed with? Your extra effort ttpe plays. A couple of them swung the game. One was when you stole an offensive rebound out of Tatums hands, and the other was wheb you stole a ball out of Whites hands after Jrue had saved it to him. Both of those plays were really mind blowing.
And again I don’t want to act as if I’m not giving you guys credit for the defense! It was super locked in in the 4th qtr! But I guess I’m just saying I didn’t feel like you have all of these guys that are impossible to drive by. It’s more so that your entire D was giving really good effort. But I think we were able to create good looks almost the whole game, we just couldn’t buy shit!
Lemme know what you thought! And I’m DeF not trying to take credit away! It’s a make or miss league! And SGa was also obviously the best player in the game!
As a thunder fan would you say that the thunder also shot them self out of the first half by missing open 3s🤔
No@@westbrooktheory2.098
They played super smart
and as KP said, the Cs didn't. they didn't pass, they stopped driving, all the things that were working in the first half, they stopped doing.
@felipeb.9321 The driving in the 3rd.We were relying on our 3s too much.
We still played well.
@@felipeb.9321 Celtics seen to think they have to shoot a lot of 3s every game as if it's a quota of 40 + plus they must shoot every game instead of making in game adjustments
2 Big man sometimes no affected like OKC play DAMN, 27 POINTS 2nd half & 20% FG 😤😤😤
People are over valuing OkC position after their win against the Celtics but what I seen was a cold Celtics get beat by a team who’s second best player is no better than our 6th best.
Lmao yet only Tatum and brown is averaging more points than him make it make sense 😂 salty ass
To be honest from the outside this team doesn't look like last year's team, it looks like they don't really care. They need to wake up, they can't think they'll beat the Cavs or OKC playing like this.
two things were obvious: Cs 3 point shot went AWOL-never a great sign-and the refs shifted the goal posts on physicality in the 2nd half. some BS calls, especially on KP.
but OKC also just played harder in the 3rd and 4th, so they deserved it.
something to prove when they come to Boston in mid-March!
Cs shot 24 free throws, and Thunder shot 13 sounds like BS to me and Cs scored 27 points second refs caused that too.
They gave y’all the calls that mattered in the 4th
@@benjaminheadrick5320disagree
@@johnlawson7294 Did you watch the game? Most of those free throws came in the first half and OKC HAD TO FOUL THEM or else it would have been a free bucket. People aren't talking about how dominant Celtics looked in that first half. OKC looked just as helpless as the rockets the first half. The calls were inconsistent asl in the second half but it was def not the reason the C's lost. But the Celtics deserved all they free throws.
@@JansMarinaracopium
Take a shot every time he says “spacing”
I think we're at the point where, when Cs shoot 3s, whether they win by it or lose, we just want them to drive more, win or lose.
Hard to drive when the guy can stay in front of you..
@lonzfzz2323 good point. I'm glad the squad experienced this L. Tons to learn from this. Cs will bounce back and learn from this.
@lonzfzz2323 good point. I'm glad the squad experienced this L. Tons to learn from this. Cs will bounce back and learn from this.
Why are we shooting 45 threes smh.
Why they dont post them up.. SO sort team..and they shot 3S instend
Posting up OKC is not a good idea tbh.
It is a regular season game, but this was absolutely a terrible performance, in a showtime type game. IMHO and unfortunately, I don't see The Celts repeating.
OKC is insanely good
They aight
@@Marc-n5e😂😂
CAVS are better!!!
The TLDR, spacing, spacing, spacing
Thunder are going for chip.
12 PTS IN THE 4TH QT HOLY SMOKES TOTAL ASSSSZZZ
I feel like JT consistently disappears when you need him most. When he went 1/3 from the line in the 3rd quarter that was the turning point of the game.
Happens he was injured
@@thehighearners Jason Tatum plays very reckless and Jalen Brown forgets how to dribble at key moments or tries to dribble way too much
JT was the only one trying to change the energy of the game. Misses happen, look at his energy trying to sprint up the floor and fight for loose balls. He even took a push and a freak fall into the stands from it...
@richardj1319 like I said he plays reckless Jalen Brown had a great first half then JT started forcing it too much ruined the whole chemistry
This guy is a horrible coach. PERIOD… “spacing” gtfo here.. “they changed matchups, they changed coverages” of course they did, its called adapting to the flow of the game, something he doesn’t know how to do. “Let them figure it out” like dawg thats what they pay you for, to coach and make changes when necessary. We dominated the paint in the first half, why would you steer away from that and start shooting threes, at one point Porzingis shot like 3 back to back to back threes missing all of them. This is EVERY single game.
This guy won a chip last year and people are ripping him! lol, Celtics fans suck.
Fair weather fans
This coach not good only want 3s
No paint game.
.......THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PLAY THE TEAM WITH THE .........SECOND...... BEST RECORD...........O.......LEAVE THE TWO BIG MAN PLAY........TO EXPERTS.........
Nobody cares
HOW WE GONNA BEAT THE CAVS THEY ARE BETTER THEN OKC BY A MILE
We beat them before 🤷🏾♂️
@@Djohnson89yeah they forgot quickly and the Cavs beat us in the second meeting, but we see them again in February
@@tylerriley2587 And we she'll see 🤷🏾♂️
Jan 8 we will be ready for OKC
I don't know about the Cavs..we will find out Wednesday., okc halfway to 33 straight w/o Chet the Jet. My Pacers should've beat the Thunder. Had them on the ropes
Keep leaving ur best player in the corner and you’ll be fired before April buddy
Lol ok Brad 😂
hes not gettin fired btw
Yeah right 👎
Nope he won a championship last year Joe isn’t going anywhere you like it or not