Raptors (7-4) at Celtics (11-2) Game #14 11/12/17

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

HEY HEY

HO HO

WE JUST WON

12 IN A ROW   

[Snakehead]

Celtics have won 12 straight since Kyrie Irving told a 76ers fan to "suck" one lol.

I seriously doubt this factors into winning

Nah I bet Stevens writes it on the old chalk board before tip off and underlines it a couple times.

[tarheelsxxiii]

Anyone else watching the postgame coverage see the list in the C's locker room titled "We WILL" that starts with sprinting to defensive sets? Has the whole thing been written about here or in any article?

Haven't heard about it, but would like to. 

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

Raptors fans kinda bent out of shape over on realgm.   

If ...i didn't know better .....

Why I'd say they didn't like us ....

they can cry me a river! refs tried screwing us. we still pulled it out.

we have to fix our FG% soon or we are whistling past the graveyard. we are pulling these last two games out entirely on heart and guts.

REFUSE TO LOSE!

GREEN RUNS DEEP!

[SHAQATTACK]

Dang Raptors .....loose the game....but dey gets free POPEYEs .....

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

Dang Raptors .....loose the game....but dey gets free POPEYEs .....

lol

[hwangjini_1]

Their backcourt of DeRozan, Lowry, and Powell were a combined:

15-35 (43%) with 49 points, 12 assists, 6 rebounds, 1 steal, 1 block, and 7 TOs

Smart, Brown, and Rozier were a combined:

17-40 (43%) with 48 points, 15 assists, 14 rebounds, 5 steals, 0 blocks, and 5 TOs.

Our backup backcourt was just crushed by the star-ridden backcourt in Toronto.

Smart single handedly kept those shooting numbers down.  Per usual.

It's not that Smart is bad or that he's bad all the time. It's that Rozier can do what he does and for less money

geez louis eja, how many times can you move the goalposts in one ****g thread? 

you hate smart, we get it.

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

12 in a row 

Glad we got the win, it would have been outrageous to lose on that bogus offensive foul on Tatum. It's crazy how poised he looks for a rookie in crunch time, I feel like he is going to score every time he drives to the basket and gets by his defender while extending his long arms to the basket !

Great win without Kyrie, it would be nice to secure an easy one against Brooklyn and then put the streak on the line against the Warriors.

Tatum's finger roll is straight out of the 70s highlight films
Just the stuff that ain't done anymore.
Im proud of this team

GEORGE ICEMAN GERVIN finger roll and shooting abilities.

[danglertx]

For anyone who thinks Rozier is in the same hemisphere as Smart defensively, I'd like to submit the Hawks playoff series where Smart shut down Milsap when nobody else on the team could.  Big or small.

[mctyson]

Why on earth was Smart taking that last shot...it should be Tatum.

The play was an option off of Smart in the post after some dribble handoffs at the 3 point line.  He took a bad shot - he needs to not fade away and learn a few Derozan pump fakes - but that play is usually very good offense.

He could have backed him down more but whatever.

[Dino Pitino]

Anyone else watching the postgame coverage see the list in the C's locker room titled "We WILL" that starts with sprinting to defensive sets? Has the whole thing been written about here or in any article?

Haven't heard about it, but would like to.

It was behind Tatum in his postgame interview. It wasn't written in marker on a whiteboard, it was printed by a printer pro. It had several items. The third was "Be TOUGH with the ball". I wish I had DVR so I could rewind and pause.

[Eja117]

Their backcourt of DeRozan, Lowry, and Powell were a combined:

15-35 (43%) with 49 points, 12 assists, 6 rebounds, 1 steal, 1 block, and 7 TOs

Smart, Brown, and Rozier were a combined:

17-40 (43%) with 48 points, 15 assists, 14 rebounds, 5 steals, 0 blocks, and 5 TOs.

Our backup backcourt was just crushed by the star-ridden backcourt in Toronto.

Smart single handedly kept those shooting numbers down.  Per usual.

It's not that Smart is bad or that he's bad all the time. It's that Rozier can do what he does and for less money

geez louis eja, how many times can you move the goalposts in one ****g thread? 

you hate smart, we get it.

I'm not the one showing combined stats of an entire backcourt and trying to attribute it to Smart.
I get that some people here think he's the 2nd coming of prime Gary Payton. I get it.

[Eja117]

This is a really typical Marcus Smart game. Their guards are crushing ours. No real defense to speak of. Also he's doing nothing notable on offense. The front court is doing all the work.

But the game is within a point, so all he really needs to do is in the last minute get a critical steal, then rebound and hit a three and he's the hero. Give him a huge contract.

Rozier can do what he does for less money.

Ignorant. You just simply have no idea what you're talking about, do you? Marcus and Brown have both played excellent defense, yet Lowry is hitting ridiculous shots from way downtown despite their good D. But that's somehow their fault, huh?

Let me get this straight. Lowry is making ridiculous shots. Therefore Marcus is playing great defense. That's a very interesting theory. I call it the Marcus-can-do-no-wrong Theory.

Smart forced Lowry into several difficult shots.  That's good defense. 

Lowry made several difficult shots.  That's good shotmaking.

Both statements can be true.  The fact that Lowry made some shots doesn't mean there's "no real defense to speak of."  You've just decided that you don't like Smart, and you're going to an extreme to try to argue the point. 

For the record, I'm not the biggest Smart fan on this board either.  But you do have to look at the whole picture.  You alertly point out all of the negatives while sticking your head in the sand when he does something well.

He's suuuuppppppoooooosssssseeedddd to do things well! He's supposed to do a lot of things well!   I don't understand why we give him the participation trophy and not Rozier.  I've never said he doesn't do anything well.

[mr. dee]

Anyone else watching the postgame coverage see the list in the C's locker room titled "We WILL" that starts with sprinting to defensive sets? Has the whole thing been written about here or in any article?

Haven't heard about it, but would like to.

It was behind Tatum in his postgame interview. It wasn't written in marker on a whiteboard, it was printed by a printer pro. It had several items. The third was "Be TOUGH with the ball". I wish I had DVR so I could rewind and pause.

I remember people were discussing that maybe about 2-3 years ago when we first saw it. There's even a photo of the whole list.

[tarheelsxxiii]

Anyone else watching the postgame coverage see the list in the C's locker room titled "We WILL" that starts with sprinting to defensive sets? Has the whole thing been written about here or in any article?

Haven't heard about it, but would like to.

It was behind Tatum in his postgame interview. It wasn't written in marker on a whiteboard, it was printed by a printer pro. It had several items. The third was "Be TOUGH with the ball". I wish I had DVR so I could rewind and pause.

I remember people were discussing that maybe about 2-3 years ago when we first saw it. There's even a photo of the whole list.

Can't find it.  Reminds me of the locker room scene in Rudy when the players slap the sign on their way out to the field.