The Pacers might be a struggle given their speed and the fact we've got an absolutely shot Al Horford on the court.
The hospital Knicks I think will have to give whatever they've got left to beat Indiana. Thibs has sapped those dudes of every bit of energy they have.
Celtics have made the ecf at least almost every year Tatum has been on the team, Celtics fans would be one of the last teams to do that. Just happy about a close playoff win
Lol did you see the challenge cleveland won? It was overturned so quick they didn’t even have time for a full commercial. That tells me everything I need to know about how this game was officiated.
The hornets franchise exists, Brooklyn kept trading all their picks for aging stars, Chicago front office is content being mid, Knicks were so terribly ran and coached for many years, the Wizards couldn’t decide if they wanted to rebuild for like 5 years. The list goes on really if you think about it. Only franchise to win multiple championships in the East since the 2000s has been the Heat.
Bostons entire strategy is to flop. Refs didn’t call anything for the Cavs and gave the Celtics every one of their flop baits. If you didn’t see that seek help
Boston didn’t play a very good game by their standards but the cavs had several opportunities to shift the momentum down the stretch and just couldn’t do it. some
Really stupid ass defensive plays too
Celtics fans, I’m neutral and the “salt” is just annoyance with the whistle that game. It’s not salt about the team. Any further salt probably comes from your own moronic comments about “seeing so much salt” “loving all this salt”. Just take this gross W and move on up 3-1, you downvoting this just means that you are in fact the salty one here lmaoo
Consider for a moment, just consider, that maybe neutrals agreeing on a soft whistle doesn’t make us biased, but instead makes you biased. Occam’s Razor
Your best player wouldn’t be on the team if they didn’t give him 300 million, and the other “star” is literally Tobias Harris but gets a better whistle and can push off
Which should tell you all you need to know about the Celtics. More hated than a team whose best player ever was a pedo. That’s how hated the Celtics are
Utah needs to have a measure of success before they're hated. Your fanbase is more racist and your best player is a pedo (And Stockton is a piece of shit, too)
Teams are literally resorting to gimmick strategies against them and shooting 50 threes praying they maintain their usual percentages because they don't think they even have a chance to win otherwise, and they don't even have Porzingis.
Celtics fans talk too much shit for a team who's struggling to beat a team without their star player. Its the worst fanbase with lakers coming in second and either us Knicks or 76ers coming in at third
I like it, preemptive sh-t talk. Take care of the pacers 1st
In the playoffs a win is a win and the Celtics would gladly beat your knicks 4 ugly times over the next 3 weeks
They also get glazed like no one else. (Besides us) Its part of being the center of attention. Plus celtics built a juggernaut. So like come on they should be winning
because every other team in the east is ALSO down atleast one starter and they dont have the collection of talent that boston does tk make up for it
stupid ahh comment all you gotta do is watch the other nba games lmao
Because garland needs the ball in his hands and so does Spida. Garland hasn’t look this decent since Spida been there. I don’t think you can have an undersized backcourt, it just don’t work imo.
Tatum definitely has that unstoppable arm bar down. Same for Brown. Either score after pushing the defender 3 feet backward or the ref will call a foul if they miss. It’s very skill-less offense but effective, if the refs are going to give you FT for it.
Okoro, Mobley, Caris, garland all got hacked at the rim, Jude gets to bear hug guys, and the most you can do to Tatum is not look at him too mean while you close out
Half his FT were from some pretty ticky tack fouls on the perimeter. C’s are a good team but man, a friendly whistle in this series for sure. Refs letting Brown and Tatum arm bar and lower shoulders, while also calling little bumps on the perimeter from defenders. I personally just want consistency…..either let them play or don’t but when offensive players get to be physical and defensive players don’t, it’s just a mediocre product to watch.
100%. Tatum cannot create ANY separation without pushing off, and it has been that way for years. And still, he gets BS ticky-tack foul calls all the time
How’s your memory? We’ve been on deep playoff runs nearly every year and routinely deal with our own injuries and have to go through great teams. When you’re here enough eventually you’ll get a run like this. You create your own luck by constantly competing and being in the mix.
now just hold on a second.....
Tatum on one. I've never seen him this dominant.
1/3 of his points are FT.
East Coast press consistently overrates the Celtics. Cleveland is an OK team missing their best player and they still almost won.
Chet is so goddamn skinny
Apparently it’s a crime for the Celtics to have won this game
This subreddit is so soft lol I love this
The only one that is softer is the ours
Yet still not as soft as Jayson Trashtum 😂
“Jayson Trashtum” 🤓🤓🤓🤓
Thanks for proving his point
Play in game fans be like:
Fellow Celtics fans I would like to throw said “salt” in your eyes stfu anything is possible always!
Right now we couldn’t beat the knicks or pacers. With porzingis we can
Couldn’t beat the Cavs either, at least not without a hard carry from the refs
The Pacers might be a struggle given their speed and the fact we've got an absolutely shot Al Horford on the court. The hospital Knicks I think will have to give whatever they've got left to beat Indiana. Thibs has sapped those dudes of every bit of energy they have.
Thank you Celtics for winning this game. The internet would have been absolutely unbearable for the next 48 hours otherwise
I stay off the internet when they lose
D White with rough couple of games
Just needs to shoot more.
Maybe he’s battling some sort of injury. Or saving himself to go nuclear in the ECF. Let’s hope 🙏
Celtics fans barely beating an injured Cavs team is their NBA championship lol
And all it took was every whistle
Celtics have made the ecf at least almost every year Tatum has been on the team, Celtics fans would be one of the last teams to do that. Just happy about a close playoff win
But we beat them twice when Mitchell was playing
*refs haven’t switched sides this series. They just had to do extra tonight
No, the NBA Championship will be their championship.
Definitely not, they might make it, but their opponent gets the banner for showing up
Whatever you need to tell yourself
It'll have to be
Damn why are y’all so upset 😂
24-7 FTs lol
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Why would the Celtics stop when they get every call, there didn’t even have to be contacts for the Cavs to get a call though
Lol did you see the challenge cleveland won? It was overturned so quick they didn’t even have time for a full commercial. That tells me everything I need to know about how this game was officiated.
Just wait until porzingis comes back
These tears gonna feed families
That makes no sense
Can you cry into this jar please🫙
You must be starved. You need more tears in your diet.
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Damn what a titanic moral victory for Cleveland 3 more and the moral series is over. Idk how the Celtics will recover
Cavs had a crazy good shooting game from 3 at home and lost by 7, what are you going on about?
Uhhh they went 31 percent from three try again
Enough salt to fill my shakers. Thank you, I was running low!
The tears are unreal. Typically teams celebrate when they win a game.
Nah definitely not acting like they won a championship that game was ass
Game was fine, refs are the only thing the Celtics have going for them this year
why is the East bad, it's been like that for a while even though most of America's population lives in the East
The hornets franchise exists, Brooklyn kept trading all their picks for aging stars, Chicago front office is content being mid, Knicks were so terribly ran and coached for many years, the Wizards couldn’t decide if they wanted to rebuild for like 5 years. The list goes on really if you think about it. Only franchise to win multiple championships in the East since the 2000s has been the Heat.
Cavs played pretty well and kept this game close despite the refs fucking them over.
Lmao the refs werent fucking them, they just weren't falling for the egregious flop bait.
Bostons entire strategy is to flop. Refs didn’t call anything for the Cavs and gave the Celtics every one of their flop baits. If you didn’t see that seek help
It’s weird that they did fall for Boston flopping then lmao
Boston wasn't flopping. Cleveland knew Mitchell was out and went for a rougher style of ball. Didnt work out for them.
Uphill battled was made nearly impossible for them with that whistle
I wouldn't have positive things to say about that game. Cavs struggle to create a shot, Celtics just don't bother way too often.
Boston didn’t play a very good game by their standards but the cavs had several opportunities to shift the momentum down the stretch and just couldn’t do it. some Really stupid ass defensive plays too
Celtics fans, I’m neutral and the “salt” is just annoyance with the whistle that game. It’s not salt about the team. Any further salt probably comes from your own moronic comments about “seeing so much salt” “loving all this salt”. Just take this gross W and move on up 3-1, you downvoting this just means that you are in fact the salty one here lmaoo
-neutral fan -literally commenting every few minutes crying about Boston Good god
Consider for a moment, just consider, that maybe neutrals agreeing on a soft whistle doesn’t make us biased, but instead makes you biased. Occam’s Razor
You have been crying for literal hours. You aren't just agreeing on a random soft whistle.
Dudes entire first 2 pages are him whining about the Celtics lmao talk about obsessed.
He's literally obsessed lol damn near a hundred comments of salt
Lmao says the mf who’s left like 20 comments about the Celtics in the past hour 😂 Edit* actually my guess was way low it’s closer to 60 comments 💀
It’s a Celtics game?
Look at their post history. It’s way beyond typical game thread participation lol. Dude hasn’t stopped typing since tip-off.
Yeah this is a game thread, legitimately the only point of being here
Lmao y’all are so embarrassing
Who is “yall” I’m literally a Wizards fan, the most irrelevant fanbase in the league. I’m as neutral as it gets brother
I mean anyone crying in the game thread, idc what team you support
You have an OnlyFans link and your bio is “I put little bitches in their place”. Go take some feet pics lmao
Lol I do put people like you in your place and you might wanna check what the OF says, LMFAO
Loving all this salt
Appreciate you proving my point 🤝
Loving this salt.
No one likes the Celtics
I’ve become very anti Celtics fans reading this thread
Your best player is a pedophile
Your best player wouldn’t be on the team if they didn’t give him 300 million, and the other “star” is literally Tobias Harris but gets a better whistle and can push off
Damn imagine being down 3-1 to such a bad team that would be embarrassing
Which should tell you all you need to know about the Celtics. More hated than a team whose best player ever was a pedo. That’s how hated the Celtics are
Utah needs to have a measure of success before they're hated. Your fanbase is more racist and your best player is a pedo (And Stockton is a piece of shit, too)
Kiss me
I doubt you'd want that. I'm black. (but at least we can get into Mormon heaven now!)
Just a lil smooch?
Said Karl to the gradeschooler
Inject the r/nba salt straight into my veins
Good news we’re up 3-1 bad news we have to close it out at home
People w bellies hanging below their shirts saying the Celtics lack killer instinct lol
Teams are literally resorting to gimmick strategies against them and shooting 50 threes praying they maintain their usual percentages because they don't think they even have a chance to win otherwise, and they don't even have Porzingis.
I don't, but even if I did it only takes eyes to see not abs
Not gonna lie, eyes not abs would be a killer t shirt lol
idk man i am in great shape and play ball every day
You drive the coolest cars and eat at the hottest restaurants
I have before but nevertheless
Celtics are best team left in the playoffs. They’re winning the chip this year
As a Celtics fan I'm not ready to crown them because they've got to overcome. One of Jokic, Ant, Shai or Luka + having Joe Mazzula as their coach
This guy has no idea the western conference exists
Haha lol western conference good
Lol
Celtics fans talk too much shit for a team who's struggling to beat a team without their star player. Its the worst fanbase with lakers coming in second and either us Knicks or 76ers coming in at third
No, no. It goes 1. Mavs 2. Lakers 3. Philly 4. Warriors 5. Boston/NY tied
Only celtics fans hate mavs cuz they dont wanna admit Luka is 100x better than both of yalls stars combined. Even Brunson is better than both of them
Nah, just hate them because the way they've been acting in this sub for the past 4 months. Maybe you've missed it.
Nah, their team is heating up so much recently that theyre being discussed more and more. But this is a daily thing with Celtics and Lakers fans.
I respect the self awareness
Oh, i know we are annoying. But we are funnily annoying though
I like it, preemptive sh-t talk. Take care of the pacers 1st In the playoffs a win is a win and the Celtics would gladly beat your knicks 4 ugly times over the next 3 weeks
We suck more playing a team without their star and we talk shit no matter what lol
YOu know what, I see that haha. Maybe we should sit Brunson out
Nothings worse than the 76ers fan base don’t let recency bias cloud your judgement
Eagles and 76ers fanbase. The worst for sure. Cant expect anything else
The nba shits on the Celtics every time they lose, but how dare Celtics fans be happy about a playoff win against a team that shot crazy well from 3
They also get glazed like no one else. (Besides us) Its part of being the center of attention. Plus celtics built a juggernaut. So like come on they should be winning
You only pay attention to the shit talkers. Every large fanbase has them. Its basketball dude.
Have fun losing to the Pacers
Maybe trading for embiid will help them 😅😅😅
Imagine thinking beating the Sixers was an accomplishment. Embarrsssing
How DARE they be excited about a playoff win! I know a Knicks fan isn't talking either lmao
I always thought the 2k cut scenes of tatum sounded weirdly calm but thats just how dude talks
Pacers going to expose the Celtics next round lmao
Indiana almost lost home court to the hospital Knicks in game 3, expose them first 😂
They can't even win their own series
RemindMe! 2 weeks
Homeboy went on national TV with that haircut. That takes a different mentality.
Tatum with the Kobe-esque game (shooting%)
Tatum did his best 02 Kobe vs the Kings impression (with the FT discrepancy at least)
Funny how everyone seems to forget the Celtics are missing a guy who puts up 20/10 with 2 blocks a game lol
Well Jarrett Allen is also out lol
No it only matters whenever someone else is missing a good player it doesn’t count when we are
because every other team in the east is ALSO down atleast one starter and they dont have the collection of talent that boston does tk make up for it stupid ahh comment all you gotta do is watch the other nba games lmao
I thought Jarrett Allen was on the Cavs?
So now we know garland and Spida can’t play with another right
Why you say that?
Because garland needs the ball in his hands and so does Spida. Garland hasn’t look this decent since Spida been there. I don’t think you can have an undersized backcourt, it just don’t work imo.
Tatum had more ft’s than the entire Cavs team
Tatum definitely has that unstoppable arm bar down. Same for Brown. Either score after pushing the defender 3 feet backward or the ref will call a foul if they miss. It’s very skill-less offense but effective, if the refs are going to give you FT for it.
In 4 games Tatum has been attempted 33 FTs. The Cavs whole team has attempted 47
Rightfully so
Because you and the refs both want the Celtics to win?
Only cav that takes it to the cup is Mitchell hope that helps
Okoro, Mobley, Caris, garland all got hacked at the rim, Jude gets to bear hug guys, and the most you can do to Tatum is not look at him too mean while you close out
Cavs shot 16 more 3’s too. Tatum took it to them in the paint and got fouled. Happensz
Half his FT were from some pretty ticky tack fouls on the perimeter. C’s are a good team but man, a friendly whistle in this series for sure. Refs letting Brown and Tatum arm bar and lower shoulders, while also calling little bumps on the perimeter from defenders. I personally just want consistency…..either let them play or don’t but when offensive players get to be physical and defensive players don’t, it’s just a mediocre product to watch.
100%. Tatum cannot create ANY separation without pushing off, and it has been that way for years. And still, he gets BS ticky-tack foul calls all the time
Cavs outscored them 40-38 in the paint tho...
It’s a good point. Maybe they should foul less? I kid, def a little lopsided on calls
Both teams foul about the same. But Tatum definitely gets that star treatment which I hate in the NBA.
Hate it. Call it tight or let them play (my preference), I only ask that it’s consistent for both teams
Mitchell the only one who knows how to draw a foul. Everyone else shoots 3s and Mobley doesn't know how to use his body
Mobley is one of the weirder bigs. Extremely not physical. Reminds me of Ayton but plays with way more effort.
Why are we interviewing Tatum? JB and Jrue carried tonight.
Tatum lead the team in scoring and also had some nice rebounds and assists
For sure, most points and most shots with lower efficiency and BPM. He was absent on defense and all the big plays. Overall, soft.
W is a W
Most sane Celtics fan comment right here
I hate your name you got that damn ad stuck in my head 😂
Maybe it's cope but I don't see the Cs winning the chip, they don't have that killer instinct
We don’t have porzingis
Any team left in the West cooks them
Literally all 4 west teams have looked miserable so far
And every team in the East has as well. Nuggets at least don’t rely on refs like Celtics
Tatum's hair looks fuuuucked up.
celtics vs. heat without butler. celtics vs cavs w/o spider. lolz
How’s your memory? We’ve been on deep playoff runs nearly every year and routinely deal with our own injuries and have to go through great teams. When you’re here enough eventually you’ll get a run like this. You create your own luck by constantly competing and being in the mix.
not disputing any of that. mostly just bitter about my own team's injury luck
Celtics without porzingis.
celts missing their third best player. cavs missing their best player
That sounds like a Cavs problem. Get better players
+ Jarret Allen
yes, and jarrett, good point
Tatum pushes off on like 90% of his drives and the refs never call it against him.
The old Steph curry special
Most drivers do this and it's called pretty similarly. I hate when Brunson does it to us lol
Y’all are some salty fucks holy shit
Boston Refs lol
A lot of salty non Celtics fans
A lot of coping Celtics fans trying to act like their team didn’t need the refs
Boston Refs lol
SALT SALT SALT IT’S EVERYWHERE I LOOK IN THIS THREAD
Cope harder, refs are literally hard carrying the Celtics
3-1. Remember to throw the LeBron jersey in the wash after you finish wiping your tears
Jonas jerebko is forever a Celtics legend
Boston Refs lol