Warriors (45-11) at Boston Celtics (23-33) Game #57 3/1/15

[hwangjini_1]

If we had someone that could score, when IT was on the bench, we would have had a better chance of winning.

That would be... Isaiah Thomas, who has no business spending 20 minutes of the game  on the pine.

(thanks, Brad S)

you are killing stevens too much. Check our roster out. I disagree with a lot of his decisions, but his philosophy has this Celtics playing together and being very competitive night in night out

Of course I'm killing him. Kindly check how many minutes the best players on the GS roster played tonight. News flash: you have to play your best players to get the best result.

You can tell I'm a bit bitter tonight, can't you?

Crowder shouldve knocked down that 3.

Which one of the six? By the way, Crowder has no business taking 7 threes and 17 shots; he's not that good. And even if your 24-year-old player is somewhat inexperienced, your blue chip coach should have known better.

who else u want taking them shots tho, bradley? Smart? Bass? Zeller? Same [dang] crap. He's gotta take it if hes open, forced a few, other than that keep firing

If you can't count 5 scoring options better than Jae Crowder on this team then... you probably can't count?

if you would check the game logs, in the four games prior to tonight, crowder scored:
14
18
12, and,
22  points.

during those 4 games his fg% was 48%. his 3 point shooting was 44.4% (and in the last three games he was 11 for 22, or 50% from 3 point land.)

that aint chopped liver. that is one good stretch for crowder.

i have said since the trade the crowder is not a good scorer, but i can understand on a team like this why CBS rolled the dice with crowder tonight. he was on scoring roll for 4 straight games, why not see if it runs to 5?

this was not a ridiculous decision by CBS given crowder's history, and the advantage he gives you on defense as well.

[hwangjini_1]

Brad Stevens faced a conundrum today.

He absolutely needed Smart out there to guard Thompson. Thompson chewed through everyone else on our team like a hot poop through wet toilet paper. As soon as Smart sat, Thompson sparked a run.

He absolutely needed IT4 out there tonight to fuel Boston's offensive efforts. With the exception of the first 10 minutes when Turner was hitting all his midrange shots, our offense was Night while IT4 was sitting and Day when IT4 was in the game.

He absolutely needed Bradley in the game to stop (slow) Curry. Smart could only stop either Thompson OR Curry, and the minute he switched, the other would score.

These three players had to be in at the same time, but Golden State is one of the few teams that can match up with us when we play small ball and make us regret it. Green killed us. Livingston killed us--Especially when he was able to nullify IT4. Bass was good on the offensive end, but he was exposed on defense. Same with Crowder. Golden State just had huge advantages at the 4 and 5, and we couldn't answer with Smart, IT4, and Bradley all in at the same time.

This game was extremely close. The refs kinda mucked it up in the 3rd and 4th, and James Young missed a few wide open shots/foul shots.

For what we have, we did very well to give ourselves a chance to win this game. It is like what Brad Stevens said at halftime: Being up by 16 might mean something against some teams, but being up 16 against Golden State is like being up 3.

We played the best team in the NBA to the wire and gave them a scare. We are a young team that let a win get away from us. We are getting better, but we still need one or two more parts. I don't fault Stevens for this loss. I fault it not being 2016 yet. We are in the 2nd year of a rebuild. Lets get some perspective.

good points and a good conclusion. indeed, you are quite...how to put it....positive? 

[Snakehead]

The reason why this team needs to have good structure on offense is because they have Crowder and Bradley. Those two guys can shoot you out of any game if you let them -- and Brad S certainly did tonight.

I'm glad Stevens let them both shoot us into a winning few games before we narrowly lost to the NBA's best team today.

Get perspective.

[ImShakHeIsShaq]

Also, AB had the clamps on Curry but had to switch off of him so IT could guard him... Curry went ballistic. Once you let Curry get hot, it's not much you can do. I'm willing to bet, if someone did a rundown, Curry was abusing IT (we had no choice b/c you can't put him on Klay). I don't care who you are, it's a rare day when someone makes Curry look okay and some of those games have been w/ AB on him. He might have had 15pts (that was around his avg against AB until recently) or more in those games but he wasn't shooting lights out.

[BDeCosta26]

The reason why this team needs to have good structure on offense is because they have Crowder and Bradley. Those two guys can shoot you out of any game if you let them -- and Brad S certainly did tonight.

I'm glad Stevens let them both shoot us into a winning few games before we narrowly lost to the NBA's best team today.

Get perspective.

TP. Not only have those guys played really well for the C's lately, which would explain CBS letting them put up those shots but honestly who else is gonna shoot? Would you rather have Turner chucking up shots? Certain players have to shoot more than others on every basketball team. Do we have better options for the 2nd and 3rd option on this team? They're clearly not ready to let Smart try his hand at 15 shots a game yet. Once KO is back it's gonna be more shots from him and less from Crowder.

[Ilikesports17]

GS..is fragile .....they rely on a frail shooting specialist to score nearly half their points in every hard fought contest.

Curry has an off night ..which is like Dirk ...almost never .......any team can have a decent shot at beating them.

We need better shooting to beat this team.....it's a scoring shoot out .....that's what GS wants ..they have the gun slingers to put up more points than you.

Just put Thompson and Curry out there and let them go.

We need a player who like LeBron can put 40 or 50 points too to offset Curry.

Good thoughts, we should definitely look into adding a player like Lebron. I think with a player  like Lebron we could score more points and then win more games.

Thoughts?

[ImShakHeIsShaq]

Man, we needed Sully to end this one. Grab a few crucial rebounds and putbacks, we take it. Sigh, the what-ifs...

[j804]

I love this team am over the loss. We played hard hustled our butts off and never gave up. I don't know how you can even blame Brad for this one, I think he knows his team better than you arm chair coaches. We just lost to a more talented team.

[positivitize]

good points and a good conclusion. indeed, you are quite...how to put it....positive? 

I look at what our team has done and the chances for improvement that are headed our way (draft picks/cap space) and there is absolutely no reason not to be positive. =D

[Celtics4ever]

Man, we needed Sully to end this one. Grab a few crucial rebounds and putbacks, we take it. Sigh, the what-ifs...

To give up layups, miss threes and not run up and down the court?   Yeah we needed him like we need a heart attack.

[Dino Pitino]

They had a 26 point lead on the Warriors. If they had been down 26 and clawed their way to a toss up in the last minute, we'd be glowing. The 26 point lead was too much, too fast, too good, lol, the surge of pure energy blew a fuse, flipped the script too far ahead to where the pages are blank and this team -- only a week young, basically -- lost its perspective and its cool. But, ****, they built a 26 point lead, on the Warriors, in just two quarters. That was amazing, however inevitably it leaked away.

What's great is that they have an immediate chance to regain their poise and their momentum against the Cavs, what'll be the 7th game since the deadline, the stakes rising each game like a playoff series.

[makaveli]

Man, we needed Sully to end this one. Grab a few crucial rebounds and putbacks, we take it. Sigh, the what-ifs...

right now i don't wannt to see sully-wanna be 3pt shooter near this team

[ImShakHeIsShaq]

Man, we needed Sully to end this one. Grab a few crucial rebounds and putbacks, we take it. Sigh, the what-ifs...

To give up layups, miss threes and not run up and down the court?   Yeah we needed him like we need a heart attack.

The goal is for him to give us his best, he isn't there yet but he definitely helped us. He has his problems but he is still a good player, if you don't think he is then your assessment isn't based in reality... yes, he could (probably should) be better but don't act like he isn't a good player.

[Csfan1984]

We are back on track in the losing column, yet I can't feel bad about this loss up by 26 ahhh...

[ImShakHeIsShaq]

Cavs better PRAY that Shumpert can guard IT and at least contain him because he is going to run through them!! Let's go Celtics!!! This game is over, time to make our move, starting Tuesday!