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The Official NBA Season Thread: NBA Cup Begins | Embiid Debut | Klay Return
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dontsteponmyshoes
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After he ate up 20 seconds of the clock
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Celtics really fumbled that game last night.
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I don’t even know why the trash players always doing the most.
******* Grant Williams bro ....
Celtics lose and he will be next to D. BROOKS.
******* Grant Williams bro ....
Celtics lose and he will be next to D. BROOKS.
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they could have did better on this cover. background kinda dull. wheres dillon brooks in the hat and sunglasses? shannon sharpe in his cardigan? tee morant his redemption shirt? kyle kuzma dressed as a young female tik tok influencer?
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who thought Miami would be up 2-0 
aepps20
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He looks it to me.
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Tatum is elite; he received some time with Kobe. He should have numerous spots to get a shot off. Just step inside the 3 point line.
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Grant Williams isn't exactly trash, but I know what you mean. The problem in this regard is that the Tatums and Browns cower in these spots. Don't even need to return the fire verbally, but show some fire in your game during crunch time at least. **** is contagious and Boston is lifeless in clutch moments right now. Whole team is listless and clearly don't respond to Grant Williams.
lawdog1
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who thought Miami would be up 2-0
I said they would win at least two games in the series, but I admittedly was not thinking it would be the first two
Boston's coach is terrible and no one showed up. Tatum did his job.
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Tatum damn near 7ft and he want to look pretty shooting the shots. Same with mpj. Just shoot over the smaller defender or drive it
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Can't take just boxscore numbers and say Tatum did his job. Not in a Conference Finals. They're taking these games like it's a regular season game in December. Mazzula has his share of blame, but Tatum unable to score in the 4th quarter in back-to-back games is wild...wildy unacceptable at that. Clutch/crunch time is the main separator at this point. Stars can't just get theirs in 3 quarters, clock out and expect to win.
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Mike Malone after game 1 of nba finals vs the Heat, who will be like +30000 underdogs and nuggets are picked 17-0 by espn reporters.
“You know, nobody picked us to win this series. I everyone talks about butler and the Heat. Vegas picked them to win it all”
“You know, nobody picked us to win this series. I everyone talks about butler and the Heat. Vegas picked them to win it all”
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I hate that I'm gaining respect for the Heat
Just extremely high level coaching & execution every night. Would be doing myself a disservice as a fan of the game if I hate just to hate.
Just extremely high level coaching & execution every night. Would be doing myself a disservice as a fan of the game if I hate just to hate.
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At first, I thought the prospect of a Nuggets/Heat Finals was meh, but at this point, I'm rooting for it. At least 1 of Jokic or Butler will get a ring and you know it won't be without a fight. Both teams have demonstrated they are the hungrier of the bunch, so by all means...
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I stopped all the Jimmy Butler jokes and disrespect when he single handedly took two games from the 2020 Lakers in the Finals.
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Reposting my post from earlier
If I try to get my teammates involved and they
the bed while I'm being double teamed all game... Of course I'm gonna start chucking in the 4th. He spent the first half of the 4th trying to get the teammates involved then started shooting... Also he scored the last 5 Celtics points in 4th. Idk where it's coming from but the Tatum hate is getting corny. Man is his team's leading scorer and passer. Jaylen Brown is a all NBA player, he needs to show up. Tatum is doing his job. Also as Bill Simmons and many other Celtics fans have been echoing, the Celtics coach is terrible especially in close games/the 4th quarter. Deducing the losses to "Tatum shoots too many jumpers" is a lazy take.Edit: Let me clean up my post a bit. He isn't a terrible coach but I do think he's getting carried a lot and I stick by what I said about him being bad in the clutch.
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Yes. He's got to find a way to counter different looks. He said he figured a lot of these things out and the playoffs have shown you he has not.
You can blame Mazulla all you want and he deserves blame, but it looked this way last year with Ime Udoka. I love Tatum as a player, but he's gotta start processing things a lot faster.
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I’ll always say when your best two players don’t play off of each other, you get 4th quarter trickery. And that’s boston
This too... Brown and Tatum are both too streaky for their own good. Whenever they both go crazy together, Boston's but for some reason it's very rare that they do that. It's usually one beasting while the other takes a backseat.
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**** yes
Had to bring your post to this thread because I didn't want to derail the other thread but this is it. Dude is a significant step down in coaching from Ime. The Celtics crunch time execution may be some of the worst I've ever seen in my life. This has been a problem all year too.
