they're ****ed

Welp, I had the Bulls winning the series >50% of the time before it started, too bad I rarely bet on sports.
Now, it looks like 80%+++ the Bulls will win

Jazz look ready to get back to Utah.

nope, checked this stat a few days ago, its never been done before, but seems certainly possible here.

on the bright side, issiah thomas only turned it over 5 times this game as compared to 6 last game.

Bulls will be a lot higher than -150

Probably like -225

LOLBOSTON

How often does a former player (still active) come back to watch his old team play in the playoffs?

LOL Ainge

lol drafting Olynyk
lol signing Horford
lol not making any moves for a big man at the deadline

Coach/GM lebron goat again. Strategic tanking to avoid this bulls JUGGERNAUT

Ugh too slow typing sweet things about jingles

Ainge should have dumped Isaiah Thomas, a 1st round pick, and Jae Crowder for Jimmy Butler.

Celtics are losing every single quarter of basketball.


Does Brad Stevens get any blame here?

clips-yazz is a fun game to watch for the neutral

More like 2.-10 Brad

No, he gets credit for getting 53 wins out of this team.

Why would he get blame for overachieving? That's what your supposed to do.

clipps getting all of the calls, natch

Why are the Celtics a better regular season team? Is it because they are elite at beating the trash but struggle against the better teams?

listen we can all lol celts but I'll fight any BRAD hater meet me outside how bout dat

Teams don't gameplan to attack their 5'9 player on defense as much. Their other perimeter players are really good defenders which makes hiding him easier. Teams just run their regular stuff a lot of times, even if going at IT makes sense, they still don't do it as much as they would in a 7 game series. Don't get me wrong, he still gets abused but playoffs it's a different level.

This same player can get his shot off a lot easier when defenses aren't as dialed in. Bulls aren't exactly the Spurs defensively and they're taking away a lot of the easiest ways he would score this year. Considering based on #'s he was a top 10 offensive player in the league this year, this isn't a small thing.

So basically a ton of it just has to do with IT being a fraud. Not really his fault, no other 5'9 guys dropping 30 in the NBA but it's reality.

lol speights if anyone saw that

how is two hand shoving a guy in the chest a regular foul?

While I was driving tonight I caught some hot take sports talk radio and the host say's he'll break down the Celtics. He says everyone's been saying all year they are going to beat the Cavs in the playoffs (they have?). Then goes on to say that he knows they won't because while the Celts have a top 5 player in the league, the Cavs have three top 15 players in the league so they will win. I wanted to listen to more of these fire takes but alas I had reached my destination.

I would close with joeJ over Ingles here. I think with CP on Hill you need that 3rd creator on the court.

Crawford much more of a D liability if he has to cover Joe.

Utah is a surprisingly fun team to watch. They have excellent ball movement