Atlanta beat us fair and square

[Celtics4ever]

Injuries are part of the game, so yes, they beat us fair and square.  But if Korver gets hurt at the end of game one instead of Bradley, I think we sweep the Hawks.  It was a real bit of bad luck that Bradley went down.  He was an integral part of our success this season, and his loss changed our team on both ends of the court.

There were more guys that we didn't have an answer for than AB could have fixed.   Bazemore killed us.  Scott killed us off the bench.  There starting five were all in double figures.  Schrodner killed us.  I doubt AB could have stopped all those guys at once.

http://espn.go.com/nba/team/stats/_/name/atl

We absolutely had rotten luck to draw them as an opponent and injuries.   But their overall talent level was greater than ours.   Their D was great the final two games and completely exposed us as lacking scoring options, Bradley might have helped there.  But we did not have as much talent, Ainge knew it, read his comments before the series.

http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/celtics/2016/04/bulpett_danny_ainge_saw_celtics_end_coming

I don't know why so fans did not get the memo or ignore this fact.

[csfansince60s]

Injuries are part of the game, so yes, they beat us fair and square.  But if Korver gets hurt at the end of game one instead of Bradley, I think we sweep the Hawks.  It was a real bit of bad luck that Bradley went down.  He was an integral part of our success this season, and his loss changed our team on both ends of the court.

I agree. I was at a home game during the winter against the Pistons and AB was out and it was the same result for the same reasons on both ends of the court.

Bad luck again. Let's hope that bball gods remember that on the 17th and try to balance the scales.

[Moranis]

Atlanta had 3 of the 4 best players.  Talent wins.  Period.

[CoachBo]

Atlanta can shoot the basketball.

The Celtics cannot.

Case closed.