Wizards (18-15) at Celtics (27-9) Game #37 12/25/17

[GratefulCs]

giving up all those O rebounds is so effing annoying

[apc]

Can’t believe that can such bad D with 2 min left.
Open layup after another .

[BlastFromThePast]

Officially on the “Kyrie plays hero ball down the stretch and it hurts us” train

hero ball, hero ball?  seriously.  KI had the layup that just barely rolled off the rim.  that just after draining a long 3.   

He's a -13.  We are hiding him on Oubre,  and Oubre keeps scoring.  He has sucked,. But hey, 20 pts

Since when are the C's hiding KI on D?  He's been at the top of the defense guarding Beal or Wall.

[trickybilly]

Pretty good L.

[SaCaCh]

Man we look so tired....crawling to January right now.

[SparzWizard]

The worst thing that can happen on Christmas is watching my Celtics lose at home to the freaking Wizards.

[esel1000]

Can’t believe that can such bad D with 2 min left.
Open layup after another .

Open layups, not securing boards... all around terrible play

[mr. dee]

Teams have come to pound the Celtics after the hot streak. Now the schedule is taking the toll on their legs. I just wish they could make it to 30 wins at the end of the year, but it looks impossible now.

Let's move along and hope for a better performance next month.

[jpotter33]

Officially on the “Kyrie plays hero ball down the stretch and it hurts us” train

hero ball, hero ball?  seriously.  KI had the layup that just barely rolled off the rim.  that just after draining a long 3.   

He's a -13.  We are hiding him on Oubre,  and Oubre keeps scoring.  He has sucked,. But hey, 20 pts

Tarheels, your arguments would hold more weight if you weren't simultaneously a huge IT fanboy, who is objectively an even worse defender than Kyrie and who legitimately was emasculated last playoffs by this very Wizards team due to his terrible D and lack of size.

[GratefulCs]

Officially on the “Kyrie plays hero ball down the stretch and it hurts us” train

hero ball, hero ball?  seriously.  KI had the layup that just barely rolled off the rim.  that just after draining a long 3.   

He's a -13.  We are hiding him on Oubre,  and Oubre keeps scoring.  He has sucked,. But hey, 20 pts

Since when are the C's hiding KI on D?  He's been at the top of the defense guarding Beal or Wall.

don't engage

he has an agenda

[SCeltic34]

Let's just stand around and watch the ball come off the rim.  No need to rebound, it's not important.

[esel1000]

Absolutely pathetic play down the stretch from everyone

[Rosco917]

Horford is a -19.

Is Baynes hurt?

[keevsnick]

Can we have like a "designated free throw shooter" for Brown? Hell, Theis will do just fine for that role. He's a much better free throw shooter than Brown.

We should also have designated defensive player for Irving. Him and Smart could just switch off!

smh

KI isn't the problem defensively tonight or any other night.  It's the scheme.  As I mentioned earlier, he got caught downlow in the paint having to guard Drummond 3 times in 1 game.  It occurs game in, game out, just change the guard having the other teams' big.  Sheesh.

Tonight, it's been hard picks set by Gortat et al that are killing the C's.

I'm not saying Irving is the problem tonight. But he has in the past been a massive liability defensively. One of his biggest weaknesses is he dies, completely, on screens. He started out the year very god defensively and since then has regressed which is part of our defensive problems right now.

[tarheelsxxiii]

Officially on the “Kyrie plays hero ball down the stretch and it hurts us” train

hero ball, hero ball?  seriously.  KI had the layup that just barely rolled off the rim.  that just after draining a long 3.   

ON SWITCHES!  Are you even watching the game?

He's a -13.  We are hiding him on Oubre,  and Oubre keeps scoring.  He has sucked,. But hey, 20 pts

Absolutely.  Yuo're right, all switches.  Great defender.  Celtics were better with him off the court tonight.  Tough loss.  Hopefully we find better ways to hide his anemic defense.  He's really, really bad.

If any one knows how to create clips into shareable video format, I'll be happy to illustrate.  I get that it's difficult to notice with his sneakers, movie, etc.  Cool lay-ups, but tough loss.