Marcus13

Soo uhh yeah. That was a hurter. Joe Johnson was a beast

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LamarButler

We gotta win Game 5 man. We gotta. If we don't, I really wouldn't know what to say.

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Avalanche

hey doc, see this dude??? hes on your team, and he might actually competently defend that guy who torched your team tonight

i dont blame TA for being ****ed about playing time, he should be out there

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mrsister

That was horrible. It was like watching two different teams. The Celtics held them to 14 points in the third quarter, only to let them score 32 in the fourth. They should have made Joe Johnson give up the ball on every possession. Let someone else beat you. They better not play that way in Boston. I don't think they will, but it should never have come to homecourt advantage being the deciding factor in this series. It better end in six. Every other team will now have even more confidence against the Celtics now that they know the Hawks can give them trouble. Or the unthinkable will happen, and the Celtics will collapse and lose.

Avalanche

This is a disastrous start to the playoffs.. do i think we will lose? no..

but this is adding an extra 80 or more minutes of basketball onto these guys, of fast paced basketball... the other elite teams are taking care of business and we've been hauled up by the hawks

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Aznboi812

this loss sucked real badly. I do not want the celtics to end up like the pats. having a great season and then losing in the playoffs

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LamarButler

I'll be sooooo happy if we win this series. This is getting ugly.

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hroz

One Allen is a good defender who needs to be out there. The other Allen cant defend and breaks down the Celtics defence.(though he is a great shooter)

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Avalanche

Wouldnt mind seeing us play small for periods of the next game with defensive match ups of

Ray/Bibby
TA/JJ
Pierce/Childress
Posey/Smith
KG/Horford

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TheATLien

I guess we have a series now, huh?

Marcus13

Wow. Ray was the only good offensive player on the floor tonight. Couldn't afford to bench him

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yeah but meanwhile he allowed JJ to go off on us in the 4th... not really his choice, but Doc shouldnt have had him guarding Johnson if he was keeping him on the floor

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ray_allen_20

You can't blame ray for the fact that Joe Johnson caught fire, alot of the times it wasn't even Ray on him.

Anyway, maybe we can look at this as a positive, the C's will be much more motivated as well as less over-confident against the more elite teams.

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ray_allen_20

Is it just me or does Doc stress ball movement too much? He insists that every play we pass the ball around a dozen times and get everyone a fairly equal amount of FGA, but I think from now on we should do what Atlanta did and 'ride the hot hand.' Let the players who've been shooting well have more attempts. Like today, Ray should've gotten way more shots, and yesterday, KG should've gotten the ball every time. Ball movement is good, but too much ball movement can be troublesome. It can cause alot of unnecessary turnovers and prevent players from getting into any real rhythm.

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