2024 NBA Playoffs: East Semifinals: #1 Boston Celtics vs #4 Cleveland Cavaliers (BOS WINS 4-1)

[ForeverTFC]

The salt is insane here lmaooo

Winning road playoff games are hard in general. Wasn’t a great game by the Celtics by any means but acting like they should win every game by 20+ and if they don’t they’re pretenders is such a stupid logic. Every game is different

Agree, and sometimes it's harder playing a team suddenly missing a core piece when that's what you've game planned around.

With that said, Boston fans have to admit this wasn't a great look and while the sky isn't falling, it of course creates further doubts in a team that has a reputation of underachieving.

[ChipotleWest]

Forget my hate for Porzingis, why do you hate Jaylen Brown? He's been your best player at various times, and you put this journeyman injury prone player over him? That's messed up.

He needs to convince himself that Boston really is THAT good, and the only way to do that after watching the C's in round 2 is to believe that the Zinger is anything other than a really nice role player. Instead Boston is a good team, but not dominant. They certainly aren't that 64-win team they thought they were in the regular season.

No I just happen to know what I’m talking about because I watched the team all year.

Porzingis makes this team far more potent offensively.

Did you even watch the game tonight?

If the Celtics relied on 37 year old Al Horford all season they wouldn’t have sniffed 64 wins in the regular season.

Clueless **** post.

Porzingis scored his 20 ppg like he did every year in Dallas, but he's only made the playoffs in Dallas and could only average 13 ppg. If regular season and playoffs were the same Celtics would win the title and Porzingis might even be Finals MVP, but they're not.

[Scoundreldays]

Tatum reminding me of PG taking some very questionable contested step back 3's. He has the talent to drive I don't understand why he settles for those type of shots.

[Froob]

Cavs have been kinda getting screwed ngl

Thank you. We weren't winning this series either way so it is what it is. I just want more experience for Mobley and Garland but it feels like the last few games finally hardened them against playoff nerves or whatever was getting to them

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You guys going to move Jarrett Allen? I keep thinking okc makes sense. Mobley seems like he has a higher ceiling.

[GrandTheftRondo]

Perhaps that Cleveland plays their best basketball with 1 of their bigs and 1 of their guards, making two players redundant.

If the Cavs are playing their best basketball without their best big and best guard, than that is a very weird constructed team.

Yea that's not true lol. With Mitchell and Allen and the Celtics without KP we probably take this to 7 and have a shot. With Mitchell today this would have been a W

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Based off what?

It would have been a completely different game for both teams with Mitchell there. Doesn’t necessarily mean a Cavs win. Celtics have a habit of playing lazy basketball in games they’re heavily favoured in.

[Sweet Serenity]

Tatum is DeRozan with better teammates. Boston fans so happy to cut ties with Kyrie just to bet all their chips on this soft boi, lol

Might want to change your username lol

[AussieCeltic]

Tatum is DeRozan with better teammates. Boston fans so happy to cut ties with Kyrie just to bet all their chips on this soft boi, lol

He just had 33/11/5 after having 33/13/6 with extremely good defense people are calling him Derozan or Tobias Harris.

Those guys are older and don’t even come close to producing what Tatum has in the playoffs.

You’d think Brooklyn fans of all people would know after Tatum beat KD/Kyrie in a sweep.

[MFT5]

No. I actually think the Cavs got the whistle.

That.....will lose you any and all credibility in this forum

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Tatum got a T because he bitched at the ref for not giving him the and 1 when he got smacked in the damn face on a layup

But ya bro, Celtics got the whistle.

why yu lying lol he didn’t get hit en the face at all. he actually pushed off & didn’t get called for it … at least be real yu dnt gotta lie

[California Gold]

Celtics played with their food and got away with it on the road.

Doesn’t happen very often but you would think a team that has been through similar games in the past would learn from the past. I cant imagine they'll do this against a great team in the Finals but if they do they'll be toast.

[GrandTheftRondo]

He needs to convince himself that Boston really is THAT good, and the only way to do that after watching the C's in round 2 is to believe that the Zinger is anything other than a really nice role player. Instead Boston is a good team, but not dominant. They certainly aren't that 64-win team they thought they were in the regular season.

No I just happen to know what I’m talking about because I watched the team all year.

Porzingis makes this team far more potent offensively.

Did you even watch the game tonight?

If the Celtics relied on 37 year old Al Horford all season they wouldn’t have sniffed 64 wins in the regular season.

Clueless **** post.

Porzingis scored his 20 ppg like he did every year in Dallas, but he's only made the playoffs in Dallas and could only average 13 ppg. If regular season and playoffs were the same Celtics would win the title and Porzingis might even be Finals MVP, but they're not.

I don’t give a **** what you think about Porzingis

[durden_tyler]

2.1 Caris LeVert makes 15-foot pullup jump shot

LOL Thanks Cleveland (+8.5 pregame) that was a late cover for Vegas. Good job!

[KGDirkTD_Fan]

Gotta wonder if JB started Wade instead of Okoro how this game turns out.

Would he be conditioned enough to start? I thought of this too.

[jbk1234]

Cavs badly need to get a 3 and D wing that can shoot. I know it's rare but that seems to be their biggest issue. You can't run Okoro, LeVert and Struss out there. Roster construction with two small guards and two similar centers is garbage.

Should have swapped Garland for OG but obviously hard to do that when 1) you don't know if Mitchell will stay and 2) OG won't give you a commitment to stay.

Yeah, imagine how pretty our bench would look with Allen, Mitchell, and O.G. all wearing street clothes on it.

[Zeno]

Not a criticism, just an observation. Tatum often kind of seems to have the demeanour of a baseball player more than a basketball player.

[Zaschrona]

We would lose this match last season so an improvement is there. Cavs helped us but a W is a W.

The refs helped you

A few calls possibly helped us, but maybe it would also help you to shoot less threes. Can't expect many calls around the line.

[GrandTheftRondo]

The salt is insane here lmaooo

Winning road playoff games are hard in general. Wasn’t a great game by the Celtics by any means but acting like they should win every game by 20+ and if they don’t they’re pretenders is such a stupid logic. Every game is different

Agree, and sometimes it's harder playing a team suddenly missing a core piece when that's what you've game planned around.

With that said, Boston fans have to admit this wasn't a great look and while the sky isn't falling, it of course creates further doubts in a team that has a reputation of underachieving.

All that matters in the grand scheme of things is wins.

There’s been plenty of title contending teams throughout history that have had some difficult playoff games against lesser competition.

Mitchell being out hurts the Cavs yeah but the Cavs are a very weird team in that whenever a guard misses generally the other one plays better. Garland and Mitchell together is a strange combo. Garland needs touches.

[AussieCeltic]

Minnesota isn't missing their best player. False equivalence.

You’re pretty annoying.

Like really annoying.

Celtics 71-20 this season but nah, this guy thinks they should be 91-0 because other teams have injuries.

Nice strawman you've built there.

So what do you want from them? To sweep each series and have an average winning margin higher than 20 per game?

As I said, 8-2 in the playoffs, average winning margin of 17 points per game after todays game haha.

Insane

[jbk1234]

I feel like if both Mitchell and Allen can start in Game 6, we can bring it back to Cleveland.

[DowJones]

Forget my hate for Porzingis, why do you hate Jaylen Brown? He's been your best player at various times, and you put this journeyman injury prone player over him? That's messed up.

He needs to convince himself that Boston really is THAT good, and the only way to do that after watching the C's in round 2 is to believe that the Zinger is anything other than a really nice role player. Instead Boston is a good team, but not dominant. They certainly aren't that 64-win team they thought they re the regular season.

No I just happen to know what I’m talking about because I watched the team all year.

Porzingis makes this team far more potent offensively.

Did you even watch the game tonight?

If the Celtics relied on 37 year old Al Horford all season they wouldn’t have sniffed 64 wins in the regular season.

Clueless **** post.

You are talking about the regular season as if it matters. It doesn't. The Zinger is a really nice player, and Boston would be better with him, but Cleveland was missing Mitchell and Allen tonight. Allen, at worst, is equal to Zinger. The Heat were without Butler, Rozier, and had 50% of Duncan Robinson. Stop trying to make the Zinger out to be someone he isn't. He aint that guy.

[CelticSooner]

There is something mentally dumb about this core. Mazzulla isn’t helping them much either.