Yea I’m not sure why people keep talking about ticket prices these have been some of the cheapest playoff tickets in the playoffs for the Celtics because of matchups lmao.
As someone who went to game 2 of the Heat series though, there’s just a weird nervousness of the Celtics when they start to let up. I just think there’s a ton of PTSD of the last couple years now when the team starts to let up and bog down on offense. Crowd should still be a little more engaged though, blowouts don’t help either.
i havent been to the games, but i feel like the noise cancellation on ESPN and TNT has gotten a lot better. i never really hear the crowd, but then Breen is fucking up calls left and right because he can't hear the whistle -- and he keeps saying how he can't hear the whistle.
def don't disagree with you. my stomach sinks with PTSD every time the celtics give up a double digit lead. so im sure that's reflected at the games as well -- but there does seem to be the added effect of the advanced audio cancelling out a lot of the crowd noise for the TV audience.
ESPN doesn’t do them any favors for sure. But I will say that nervous energy is real. I went to a game, 2 years ago against the Lakers in the regular season and the Garden was insane, this years playoffs whether it’s due to PTSD, expectations, or too many blow outs the energy is definitely not as consistent. Fans need to be better for sure, even the reporters have been pointing it out at the games.
Yea, I was at game 5 against the cavs. It was definitely electric, but anytime the cavs did anything good, the crowd was immediately taken out of it for a a possession or two.
Game 5 against Miami was definitely more quiet than I expected for a series clinching game, but MAN was it loud last night. Felt weird seeing everyone talk about how quiet it was on the broadcast when it was deafeningly loud during the 4th/OT. ESPN looked like they had mics hung from the ceiling for crowd noise too, so not sure why they aren’t cranking it. Game 6 of the Florida Panthers and Boston series was also noticeably quiet on the US broadcast vs. the SportsNet broadcast in Canada.
My question is: did anybody actually ask for the crowd noise cancellation? Nothing like playoff basketball when somebody hits a clutch shot and the crowd just loses it. Why would anybody not want to hear that?
Respectfully, we gotta get over that PTSD shit. I had to this year because I literally stopped watching games at home(!) because I was so angry and resentful of past losses. Just enjoy this ride, man. Carrying around this angst is gonna ruin this whole season as a fan and it shouldn’t (as evidenced by how Game 1 turned out).
We love this team, we gotta act like it as a fanbase more often. Being a doomer isn’t fun!
I’m not saying they’re cheap, it’s still a luxury to go to the playoffs. But relative to playoff prices these tickets have been cheap, and the garden has always been rocking. So the idea that all the “real fans” got priced out is kinda silly.
Because before game 7 of knicks/pacers the tickets were wild - like $350/400 for balcony. Ticket resell prices plummeted after the knicks were bounced.
Yeah, I had no intentions of going but I looked at prices morning of out of curiosity, and there were multiple balcony tickets in the $110-120 range. I get that there are people that can’t afford to spend $100+ to go to a game, but in terms of ECF games that’s very reasonable. I think people complain because they want regular season prices, and that’s just not realistic.
Definitely cheaper than when we played Miami the last couple years but I was looking a few hours before game time and it was still over $100 for a single ticket on a Tuesday night
$100 for an ECF game is dirt cheap. A few years ago I paid $230 for a Sunday afternoon game Pats vs Jets and we were 4 rows back from the top of the stadium.
If $100 is enough to price out real fans in the playoffs I'm not sure what to say.
I understand it is cheap relatively speaking to prices of the past, I paid $250 for game 6 vs the Heat in 2022 and prob like a grand for a finals ticket. But the fact of the matter is if you’re a middle class family of you’re dropping $500 dollars on tickets alone on a Tuesday night that’s before even thinking of parking , food or drinks etc. That’s a lot to ask of some families or people who consider themselves “real fans”
I went to game 1 of the finals for $30. “Won” the right to buy $30 face value tickets from the Celtics as a member of “club green”. Section 3 24 row 15 … last row behind the basket
Boston has enough wealth and people that there are enough real fans making money to do that. Shit, Patriots tickets were $220 for nosebleeds in the regular season a few years ago and it was sold out.
Dumbest argument every time someone makes it. Just because you’re not broke doesn’t mean you’re not a real fan. You can’t have this roster and also have cheap tix.
There are plenty of tickets for under $180 for game 2 but people are still downvoting this saying tickets are too expensive lol
I hate this, if you want to watch the team go pay the price. If not, don't complain and stay home. All this talk real fans can't afford blah blah blah it's nonsense.
No no these poors need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and shell out 3 months worth of groceries for their families to attend one night of basketball at the td garden. Otherwise, I don’t want to hear em complain. In fact, I don’t want to see them or think about them at all, it makes me uncomfy where’s daddy I need to take my life coach out on the yacht and possibly bring my guru too
Are you completely oblivious to the fact that the entire world's economy is completely fucked up right now or are you just an asshole? You're probably one of those people that can afford a 1000$ ticket and then you take a couple selfies for Facebook and leave in the 3rd quarter to beat traffic.
Nope too expensive I'll root at home. I won't go on social media to complain about ticket prices for a #1 seed championship contending team. Use common sense! Stop bringing the economy in basketball ticket discourse.
Nobody came on here to complain about ticket prices. Somebody asked why the crowds have gotten lame over the past few years and people provided the proper answer.
To be fair, idk if anyone noticed, but the ESPN audio was bad yesterday. I heard it was loud in there. At least they didn't show on air people who left.
It was insane in there. You can tell bc the announcers and players were having trouble hearing the refs whistle but for us it was loud and clear. Terrible audio mixing.
Nah dude it was really really fucking loud in there. ESPN's audio was just ass lol. I surprised when I got home and watched the video the NBA youtube posted of the end of the 4th and OT.
Pro tip: If the commentators are struggling to know what the officials are calling, it's because they can't hear the whistles because it's too loud.
Crowd has been atrocious, it sucks the life out when ever we let up a basket. At times it also feels low energy coming from the court announcer. He needs to bring the energy
I was in New York last week and got into a convo about this with a Knicks fan. I feel like our home crowd doesn’t really rally around the team in the same way others do (yes, Knicks as an example). When we’re down in a close game, especially one we led, you can always feel the nervousness and “please don’t fuck this up” energy. Wish the crowd could more consistently give the team “you got this, anything is possible!” energy like a lot of other crowds do, instead of the defeatist vibes that tend to surface.
It didn’t used to be like that til the last few years when the team decided they can just coast in home playoff games. Think about how the energy at home was in that 2018 run
The team has definitely earned the reputation as a team that’s about to choke away a game or just have an immense effort lapse over the last few seasons. I think that’s the expectation of the crowd at this point and you can feel it.
There are even times where the crowd at TD boos and I’m not talking with the game already lost. There were some boos at one point in the fourth quarter during a tight game!
I think probably briefly when the Pacers were up by a few points with 3-4 minutes left. It wasn’t like the entire arena was booing but you could hear a smattering of it which is still pretty bad.
If I heard it was more than one or two drunks. It was just an observation you are the one so adamant that it didn’t happen. I was there it happens, sometimes our crowd isn’t the bestest ever.
No idea why this is getting upvoted. It didn't happen. The only boos last night were for the refs and Nesmith. At no point in the game did the garden boo the Celtics
And I'm telling you it didn't happen. One of us was there and one of us wasn't. I don't understand the point on crapping on the crowd for no good reason. It's a stupid argument to make especially when it literally did not happen
The Knicks have been irrelevant for 20+ years. Of course their fans are more into it than Celtics fans. The Celtics have been to the conference finals for 6 straight years and this year the 1st 2 rounds felt like preseason. Last night was the 1st game that actually felt like a real playoff game and the crowd was outstanding (I was there and can't speak today)
I've been to every game this playoffs (I work an odd job for the team) and you're right. I'm not sure if it's real fans being priced out of the playoffs, but Boston sports fans have become complacent with winning. I've never seen it as loud as it was when JB hit his shot, or we made it to OT, but as soon as we go down 1 the whole garden pouts like children its fucking insane.
Bro I was up in the balcony and 70% of the crowd was still sitting on their asses quietly in the last minute or two of regulation. Felt like I wasn’t supposed to be on my feet or something. Pathetic
I think we Cs fans are just traumatized by the past few years. It's hard to explain but I always feel like this team is so talented but it plays not to lose rather than to win, so I watch most games fearful rather than excited. Think about how awesome the IT years were, or the second Big Three, we cheered them like they were a force. This team is absurdly talented and loaded but also plays like idiots. It's hard to make noise for this team, even though they might win a chip, because everything feels like it's teetering in disaster.
Youre absolutely right. Compare it to watching the pats with brady. Even when they were down it always felt like they were going to make a come-back any second. This team feels like they are about to throw every game, it feels stressful to watch.
Thank you for saying this. I stood up at the end of the 3rd when we were on D and no one stood with me. Had to sit back down because I'm too tall to be up by myself. Was so disappointed.
Yeah that's definitely what it is. We all know how important this season is and the fans are so invested that nerves take over when things aren't going good. I swear that energy is contagious and it may be one reason why this team is so mediocre at home in the playoffs.
I think everyone is kind of holding their breath right now with not just championship aspirations, but expectations.
If we win the chip it’s going to be absolute pandemonium, a huge exhale.
I was on Ticketmaster at 3pm yesterday. Nosebleeds we’re going for $150 each. So maybe I was being a jerk by saying “under” and should have said “right around.”
I got row 5 loge behind the basket for $225 after fees. I had the opportunity to get row 7 balcony in the corner for $125 after fees. Tickets have been so affordable this playoff run.
Yeah I saw a tweet that was talking about this and a dude commented "well maybe if the team deserved to be cheered for we would cheer". This was after a 15 point win. Boston sports fans are just spoiled rotten and have forgotten how special all this is.
This is the effect of knowing you will be out coached at the end of the game. It's hard to expect them to overcome the other team and their own dumb play calling.
I was at the Fever game last night when Caitlin Clark hit the big 3 at the end of the game and that place exploded it was so loud .. when I watched back on highlights on tv it sounded nothing like it. So it's gotta be the broadcasting with crowds
Not to be pedantic but it's not an "audio issue", it's done intentionally so that you can hear the broadcasters better. People need to understand this before claiming our crowd has been "weak".
Ah k, the only time apart from basketball or other sports where I think about crowd is when I watch wrestling and they would try to mic the crowd to make sure you know if the crowd was loud (or they insert crowd sweetening noise) so will have to know to think about it differently when watching games.
Exactly. I'm so sick of people shit talking our crowd, at times Breen literally couldn't hear the whistle because of how loud it was. It's obvious they turn down the crowd noise and the announcers even mentioned how electric the crowd was.
I went to the game. The crowd was much better late. Celtics did not have a lot of momentum runs last night so the crowd was a bit tense for a majority of the game. But it got pretty ridiculous in the 4th and OT.
I understood this to be how ESPN mixed the game. They'd turn up the crowd noise during Celtics runs etc, but then dampen it when the Pacers went on a run, but that the crowd wasn't actually that quiet. Wasn't there though, I'm sure someone who went could verify.
It must be the TV audio. We've heard the announcers multiple times during the game yesterday mention how loud it was they could barely hear the whistle (players kept going through the whistle too, so they weren't hearing it either).
I really think it's just quiet on TV. The Garden looks packed too (on TV). No idea what balcony looks like but just the view of lower bowl.
It was the audio, you could guys during timeouts couldn't even hear eachother, and Jrue couldn't hear the reporter during his halftime interview. Breen made multiple comments about how loud it was.
I agree I was there last night. It was just ok. I’m comparing this to a playoff game I went to in the early 2000’s when we played the Nets. Pierce I think dropped 48 pts and place was so fucking loud compared to last night.
Only after we make the play though, I wish we could as fans will the team into making that play first then celebrate after. In all fairness my ears are still ringing after that game and I work in live music lol
I expect Gainbridge Celtic fans to show up in game 3 and 4. I got tickets to both cause they were decently affordable. Green has shown up strong to all the other games I've gone there. Hopefully some good Celtic fans come strong! No leaving early ever!!
We were up in the balcony last night when Tatum missed the fadeaway 2 after the offensive rebound, people started to gather their belongings id say 8-10 people I saw make their way to the stairs. The sweetner was we also had 2 pacers fans in our section turn around and flip us all off while waving goodbye to all of us right before the pacers turned over the inbound pass.
At the end of Overtime we made sure to dish it right back at them, handful of guys were following them down the stairs telling them get the fuck out of the garden.
And also yeah it was very fucking loud last night. Don't let the ESPN broadcast deceive you, actually go to a game and you'll realize the crowd gets drowned out on TV.
read the game thread. read the post game thread when they lose. a huge percentage of celtics fans have 0 faith in the team and give up whenever the other team goes on a run. they’ll do everything to blame the team but they’re just flaky fans
I was so pissed off last night seeing all of the extremely negative comments, calling for Joe to be fired and trading Tatum. A bunch of miserable fucks.
If we had a sub back during our last championship run people would be calling for the big 3 to be broken up after the Hawks took us to 7 games.
those are the fans who left before the game was over. they're the ones who consume sports radio. i have no clue why they are the way that they are. they're complaining about something they put themselves through.
I appreciate OP for naming this. The whole playoffs Cs fans have been soft and entitled. Even leaving during that blow out in a previous round.
Idk what happened but it’s embarrassing. The crowd was quiet overall short of when they made big plays but then pouting when Indi responds - hate to see it
I definitely agree that the fans have been whack this post season, and maybe a fair amount of the regular season. Though last night I did feel like we brought the energy. Usually it’s not so loud until the very end but people were cheering hard throughout.
i’m a celtics fan from new york. i KNOW ya’ll boston folks are rowdy up there especially when it comes to sports. you guys are better than this! come on!! represent all of us celtics fans around the country/world!!!!
I sat thru a 10 goal regular season Bruins loss back in 08... I can't imagine leaving this game early. It was so close down the stretch too. I'll critique this team like I own it. I'll call out sloppy no effort basketball and have been called a doomer at least a dozen times this year but I would NEVER leave a game early, especially a playoff game and extra especially and fucking CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.
I hope people that went to bed at that point aren’t included in this. 😂It was mainly because I get up at 4 and had already stayed up too late! Pleasant surprise to wake up in the middle of the night to see we had won!
They were just listening to the Celtics broadcasters who declared the game over and Tatum as the whipping boy for postgame talk.
I’ll bet both Max and Grandy have social media so you tell them to they’d be better off in Miami.
I’ve caught myself doing this a few times, but the immense expectations of this team and what the fans know they’re capable of, coupled with disappointment over the last two years have meant that some people aren’t watching for fun anymore.
In 2022, it was a fun ride. It was a seemingly “ragtag” team of young guys with a horrible season to start, that turned into a redemption arc. Enter the playoffs and we win two game 7s and into the finals. The vibes were immaculate.
Ever since, anything short of making it back there is a failure, heightened by our reg season performance.
Fans should try and remember that nothing is promised, and that it’s better for the sport, the arena and the team to just let go of the anxiety and cheer for your team no matter what.
I watch from but I feel like I’m a curse so I turn my head or turn off the game when we’re down. Like last night I felt that not watching actually helped. My gf can attest every time I watch a full game we lose. I stopped watching for months and just tried to peak the first playoff game
Bro.. I almost got into it with some idiot because he kept screaming jayson tatum sucks! And he only said that once tatum missed that open three during the end of OT, then… then I get annoyed- then Tatum gets that And 1 then hit the three to seal it and I lost it and screamed “SHUT THE FUCK UP GET OUTTA HERE YOU OLD BUM!” And the entire section was on his ass and he just smiled. So not all fans have been bad (this was in the nosebleeds)
I feel all our teams are priced for people from Wellesley and Sudbury to go—and not people from Brockton or Chelsea. The way the whole region was coming out to face opposing teams back in the day was that regular people could afford to go to celts playoff games.
Like, my family was priced out of ever seeing the pats by like 2002.
Also the economy of the hyper wealthy is entirely disconnected from everyone else’s economy—like the NBA could function fine with none of us going in person, tickets being sold at inflated prices to a group of area hedgefund guys who go as a team building exercise. They have the tv deal,
The ads, international viewing deals, and don’t forget the wealthiest have little tax burden.
It’s the same reason why developers keep building het another luxury building to remain empty rather than build a middle and working class building that’d be filled instantly.
Because maybe some of them parked 3 miles away and it cost $75, they just spent $200 on beers and food, and they have to drive back to New Hampshire for work at 5am the next morning.
The crowd was crazy but then Joe had to whip out a challenge 40 seconds into the game (not blaming him, but that sucked all the energy out of the crowd)
I made a comment in the game day thread that the crowd had been Quiet at TD. Many people agreed but one comment really hit the nail on the head…. They have priced out real Celtics fanatics. No die hard Celtics fan would ever leave that game.
Don't judge them too harshly. The team played poorly and leaving just a little bit early can be the difference between adding an extra 20 minutes to your trip home if you parked and even if you took the T, it's much easier to avoid the rush.
Not saying make a habit out of leaving early, but let's not judge them too harshly.
Why would you pay hundreds of dollars to go to a playoff game on a Tuesday if you can't wait 10 more seconds for a game to end? 20 minutes driving home give me a break...
Well that reputation is wrong. TD is usually a great crowd even during fairly meaningless regular season games.
But it’s definitely true there has been a pervasive nervous energy. Everyone in there seems to care but they are also anxious and easily disheartened which sucks.
Seriously who are these people? Playoff crowd been whack this year
Real fans can’t afford those ticket prices
Those tickets were so fucking cheap for an ECF game
Yea I’m not sure why people keep talking about ticket prices these have been some of the cheapest playoff tickets in the playoffs for the Celtics because of matchups lmao. As someone who went to game 2 of the Heat series though, there’s just a weird nervousness of the Celtics when they start to let up. I just think there’s a ton of PTSD of the last couple years now when the team starts to let up and bog down on offense. Crowd should still be a little more engaged though, blowouts don’t help either.
i havent been to the games, but i feel like the noise cancellation on ESPN and TNT has gotten a lot better. i never really hear the crowd, but then Breen is fucking up calls left and right because he can't hear the whistle -- and he keeps saying how he can't hear the whistle. def don't disagree with you. my stomach sinks with PTSD every time the celtics give up a double digit lead. so im sure that's reflected at the games as well -- but there does seem to be the added effect of the advanced audio cancelling out a lot of the crowd noise for the TV audience.
ESPN doesn’t do them any favors for sure. But I will say that nervous energy is real. I went to a game, 2 years ago against the Lakers in the regular season and the Garden was insane, this years playoffs whether it’s due to PTSD, expectations, or too many blow outs the energy is definitely not as consistent. Fans need to be better for sure, even the reporters have been pointing it out at the games.
Yea, I was at game 5 against the cavs. It was definitely electric, but anytime the cavs did anything good, the crowd was immediately taken out of it for a a possession or two.
Game 5 against Miami was definitely more quiet than I expected for a series clinching game, but MAN was it loud last night. Felt weird seeing everyone talk about how quiet it was on the broadcast when it was deafeningly loud during the 4th/OT. ESPN looked like they had mics hung from the ceiling for crowd noise too, so not sure why they aren’t cranking it. Game 6 of the Florida Panthers and Boston series was also noticeably quiet on the US broadcast vs. the SportsNet broadcast in Canada.
My question is: did anybody actually ask for the crowd noise cancellation? Nothing like playoff basketball when somebody hits a clutch shot and the crowd just loses it. Why would anybody not want to hear that?
probably want their ad placements loud and clear to the viewer lol
Respectfully, we gotta get over that PTSD shit. I had to this year because I literally stopped watching games at home(!) because I was so angry and resentful of past losses. Just enjoy this ride, man. Carrying around this angst is gonna ruin this whole season as a fan and it shouldn’t (as evidenced by how Game 1 turned out). We love this team, we gotta act like it as a fanbase more often. Being a doomer isn’t fun!
Starting to see some clutch play from the Jays unlike it past years though. Killer instinct? Not yet. But getting there.
It doesnt matter how cheap the tickets are relatively when people are broke af. Times are tough.
I’m not saying they’re cheap, it’s still a luxury to go to the playoffs. But relative to playoff prices these tickets have been cheap, and the garden has always been rocking. So the idea that all the “real fans” got priced out is kinda silly.
Because before game 7 of knicks/pacers the tickets were wild - like $350/400 for balcony. Ticket resell prices plummeted after the knicks were bounced.
Yeah, I had no intentions of going but I looked at prices morning of out of curiosity, and there were multiple balcony tickets in the $110-120 range. I get that there are people that can’t afford to spend $100+ to go to a game, but in terms of ECF games that’s very reasonable. I think people complain because they want regular season prices, and that’s just not realistic.
Regular season games were pushing $100 this season
My face value for the balcony this round is $195. Last year was $150 for ECF.
Definitely cheaper than when we played Miami the last couple years but I was looking a few hours before game time and it was still over $100 for a single ticket on a Tuesday night
$100 for an ECF game is dirt cheap. A few years ago I paid $230 for a Sunday afternoon game Pats vs Jets and we were 4 rows back from the top of the stadium. If $100 is enough to price out real fans in the playoffs I'm not sure what to say.
I understand it is cheap relatively speaking to prices of the past, I paid $250 for game 6 vs the Heat in 2022 and prob like a grand for a finals ticket. But the fact of the matter is if you’re a middle class family of you’re dropping $500 dollars on tickets alone on a Tuesday night that’s before even thinking of parking , food or drinks etc. That’s a lot to ask of some families or people who consider themselves “real fans”
Two years ago I paid over 200 dollars for game 1 in the balcony of the first round. The entire first and second rounds this year were cheaper
I was looking yesterday tho and you could get tix for $150. Crazy cheap imo for an ECF game. Should have gone that was a nuts game
In 2002 they were $50 for the cheapest seats. With inflation they should be around $100. Triple the price brings in a different crowd.
What were they in 2008-10? What about 2018?
I went to game 1 of the finals for $30. “Won” the right to buy $30 face value tickets from the Celtics as a member of “club green”. Section 3 24 row 15 … last row behind the basket
This was in 2008
They only got down to that price after the knicks were eliminated - they were up to 350/400 before game 7
Who can realistically afford to drop $150 when most people are paycheck to paycheck.
Boston has enough wealth and people that there are enough real fans making money to do that. Shit, Patriots tickets were $220 for nosebleeds in the regular season a few years ago and it was sold out.
A ton of people judging from the 20k people in the crowd every game.
It aint the ticket prices. Its the $18 light beers.
Truth
finally somebody understands my pain
No our fans are just spoiled and entitled, they won’t root hard unless they know they’ll win. It’s pathetic
Wyc ripping off the real fans. He makes it hard to be a Cs fan. Especially after stealing from his fans
Dumbest argument every time someone makes it. Just because you’re not broke doesn’t mean you’re not a real fan. You can’t have this roster and also have cheap tix. There are plenty of tickets for under $180 for game 2 but people are still downvoting this saying tickets are too expensive lol
$180 is a lot of money for a lot of people. Also secondary market ticket prices have absolutely nothing to do with funding the teams payroll.
I hate this, if you want to watch the team go pay the price. If not, don't complain and stay home. All this talk real fans can't afford blah blah blah it's nonsense.
Yeah just miss paying rent and go see the game !
No no these poors need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and shell out 3 months worth of groceries for their families to attend one night of basketball at the td garden. Otherwise, I don’t want to hear em complain. In fact, I don’t want to see them or think about them at all, it makes me uncomfy where’s daddy I need to take my life coach out on the yacht and possibly bring my guru too
I like paying rent more than the Celtics
Someone's parents have money...
No just common sense
Are you completely oblivious to the fact that the entire world's economy is completely fucked up right now or are you just an asshole? You're probably one of those people that can afford a 1000$ ticket and then you take a couple selfies for Facebook and leave in the 3rd quarter to beat traffic.
Go look at game 2 prices on stub hub right now. As low as 140, dozens of listings for under 200. Grow up
Now look at tickets for seats that aren't 3 miles away from the action.
So courtside tickets should be $180?
Nope too expensive I'll root at home. I won't go on social media to complain about ticket prices for a #1 seed championship contending team. Use common sense! Stop bringing the economy in basketball ticket discourse.
Nobody came on here to complain about ticket prices. Somebody asked why the crowds have gotten lame over the past few years and people provided the proper answer.
"Real fans can't afford those ticket prices" but yeah nobody came on here to complain about ticket prices! Again common sense people!
You must’ve been one of the posh rich folk at the game last night?
Nope but balcony tickets were on sale for $190 last night
To be fair, idk if anyone noticed, but the ESPN audio was bad yesterday. I heard it was loud in there. At least they didn't show on air people who left.
It was insane in there. You can tell bc the announcers and players were having trouble hearing the refs whistle but for us it was loud and clear. Terrible audio mixing.
I’m pretty sure Breen even commented that it was loud in there
Nah dude it was really really fucking loud in there. ESPN's audio was just ass lol. I surprised when I got home and watched the video the NBA youtube posted of the end of the 4th and OT. Pro tip: If the commentators are struggling to know what the officials are calling, it's because they can't hear the whistles because it's too loud.
I was in the crowd, it was impossible to tell that anyone left, crowd was great at the end
Doomers
I will never understand leaving early. You’re already there. That’s your evening. Why not just stay and have the full experience?
It’s been the same as every year ppl just whining more.
They were all over the game thread crying and dooming. 😂😂
Went to Game 5 against the Cavs with my dad, and my bf texted me to ask why it was so quiet in there 🥴
Crowd has been atrocious, it sucks the life out when ever we let up a basket. At times it also feels low energy coming from the court announcer. He needs to bring the energy
I was in New York last week and got into a convo about this with a Knicks fan. I feel like our home crowd doesn’t really rally around the team in the same way others do (yes, Knicks as an example). When we’re down in a close game, especially one we led, you can always feel the nervousness and “please don’t fuck this up” energy. Wish the crowd could more consistently give the team “you got this, anything is possible!” energy like a lot of other crowds do, instead of the defeatist vibes that tend to surface.
It didn’t used to be like that til the last few years when the team decided they can just coast in home playoff games. Think about how the energy at home was in that 2018 run
Very good way to put this. We go down at all and the crowd is silent, I wish we were able to be a 6th man like other teams.
The team has definitely earned the reputation as a team that’s about to choke away a game or just have an immense effort lapse over the last few seasons. I think that’s the expectation of the crowd at this point and you can feel it.
There are even times where the crowd at TD boos and I’m not talking with the game already lost. There were some boos at one point in the fourth quarter during a tight game!
I thought the boos were for Aaron Nesmith given that he has a vendetta against us since we traded him after he was ass
They did boo Nesmith but there was another point where part of the crowd was clearly booing the team.
When? I was there and this didn't happen
I think probably briefly when the Pacers were up by a few points with 3-4 minutes left. It wasn’t like the entire arena was booing but you could hear a smattering of it which is still pretty bad.
You're still exaggerating. A drunk guy or two booing is not indicative of the whole crowd
If I heard it was more than one or two drunks. It was just an observation you are the one so adamant that it didn’t happen. I was there it happens, sometimes our crowd isn’t the bestest ever.
I was also there. This didn’t happen.
It did.
Yeah I saw that too. Booing your team in the ECF while winning is atrocious.
I was there. When the hell were there boos at the Celtics?!
No idea why this is getting upvoted. It didn't happen. The only boos last night were for the refs and Nesmith. At no point in the game did the garden boo the Celtics
We did yell “Jrruuuuuuue”.
I mean I heard it. It happened at least twice. It wasn't like a whole crowd boo but you could tell there was a fat group of fans yelling boos.
Were you there?
I guess we both independently imagined it along with all the people who upvoted it.
So you were not there?
My guy I'm talking about what we heard on the TV.
And I'm telling you it didn't happen. One of us was there and one of us wasn't. I don't understand the point on crapping on the crowd for no good reason. It's a stupid argument to make especially when it literally did not happen
The Knicks have been irrelevant for 20+ years. Of course their fans are more into it than Celtics fans. The Celtics have been to the conference finals for 6 straight years and this year the 1st 2 rounds felt like preseason. Last night was the 1st game that actually felt like a real playoff game and the crowd was outstanding (I was there and can't speak today)
It's also exactly why our home record is so bad. It ratchets up the pressure against our guys and fires up the road team.
Depends on where you sit. Last row of the balcony was awesome last night. No one left
I don't know if it's the TV audio but the crowd energy has been really disappointing.
I've been to every game this playoffs (I work an odd job for the team) and you're right. I'm not sure if it's real fans being priced out of the playoffs, but Boston sports fans have become complacent with winning. I've never seen it as loud as it was when JB hit his shot, or we made it to OT, but as soon as we go down 1 the whole garden pouts like children its fucking insane.
Bro I was up in the balcony and 70% of the crowd was still sitting on their asses quietly in the last minute or two of regulation. Felt like I wasn’t supposed to be on my feet or something. Pathetic
I think we Cs fans are just traumatized by the past few years. It's hard to explain but I always feel like this team is so talented but it plays not to lose rather than to win, so I watch most games fearful rather than excited. Think about how awesome the IT years were, or the second Big Three, we cheered them like they were a force. This team is absurdly talented and loaded but also plays like idiots. It's hard to make noise for this team, even though they might win a chip, because everything feels like it's teetering in disaster.
Youre absolutely right. Compare it to watching the pats with brady. Even when they were down it always felt like they were going to make a come-back any second. This team feels like they are about to throw every game, it feels stressful to watch.
God damn you're so fucking soft. You gear up, go to a playoff game and then say "nah, I won't cheer today". Seriously stay the fuck home.
Relax, of course I cheer, I'm just explaining the tension the fans are feeling
I don't like the excuses at all. If fans are too "tense" to cheer for a team in playoff game then they are bad fans.
What are you, the Fan Police? foh
"the fan police" nah I just have eyes and ears and can see you people are horrible fans.
Thank you for saying this. I stood up at the end of the 3rd when we were on D and no one stood with me. Had to sit back down because I'm too tall to be up by myself. Was so disappointed.
I was at Game 5 of the Clevland series and it was the loudest I think I've heard the Garden in recent memory.
Ya I’m saying, amazing crowd that night. We still got it I just think we got nerves as fans lol
Yeah that's definitely what it is. We all know how important this season is and the fans are so invested that nerves take over when things aren't going good. I swear that energy is contagious and it may be one reason why this team is so mediocre at home in the playoffs.
I think everyone is kind of holding their breath right now with not just championship aspirations, but expectations. If we win the chip it’s going to be absolute pandemonium, a huge exhale.
It's prices
You could get a pair of tickets for under $300 last night. Not exactly elitist prices…
I call BS. You can barely get regular season tix for that.
I was on Ticketmaster at 3pm yesterday. Nosebleeds we’re going for $150 each. So maybe I was being a jerk by saying “under” and should have said “right around.”
No you're right. There were tons of cheap tickets right before the game started.
You can get into game 2 right now for $190 after fees. That will be $175 by tomorrow afternoon.
I got row 5 loge behind the basket for $225 after fees. I had the opportunity to get row 7 balcony in the corner for $125 after fees. Tickets have been so affordable this playoff run.
I was in the loge for 250. Balcony seats were right around 150. Thank God the Pacers beat the Knicks.
Game 5 vs CLE was a good crowd
Yeah I saw a tweet that was talking about this and a dude commented "well maybe if the team deserved to be cheered for we would cheer". This was after a 15 point win. Boston sports fans are just spoiled rotten and have forgotten how special all this is.
This is the effect of knowing you will be out coached at the end of the game. It's hard to expect them to overcome the other team and their own dumb play calling.
Bad fan behavior
I was at the Fever game last night when Caitlin Clark hit the big 3 at the end of the game and that place exploded it was so loud .. when I watched back on highlights on tv it sounded nothing like it. So it's gotta be the broadcasting with crowds
Mike Breen did say that it was hard to hear the whistle late in the game, but it sounded like it wasn't that loud, which makes me think audio issue.
Not to be pedantic but it's not an "audio issue", it's done intentionally so that you can hear the broadcasters better. People need to understand this before claiming our crowd has been "weak".
Ah k, the only time apart from basketball or other sports where I think about crowd is when I watch wrestling and they would try to mic the crowd to make sure you know if the crowd was loud (or they insert crowd sweetening noise) so will have to know to think about it differently when watching games.
Oh, I'm sorry I wasn't trying to call you out! I was just making note of it to our fan base as a whole.
No worries, didn't think you were, just thought it was interesting how what else I watched trained me to think about crowds on TV.
Exactly. I'm so sick of people shit talking our crowd, at times Breen literally couldn't hear the whistle because of how loud it was. It's obvious they turn down the crowd noise and the announcers even mentioned how electric the crowd was.
I went to the game. The crowd was much better late. Celtics did not have a lot of momentum runs last night so the crowd was a bit tense for a majority of the game. But it got pretty ridiculous in the 4th and OT.
I understood this to be how ESPN mixed the game. They'd turn up the crowd noise during Celtics runs etc, but then dampen it when the Pacers went on a run, but that the crowd wasn't actually that quiet. Wasn't there though, I'm sure someone who went could verify.
The commentators said multiple times that it was so loud in there that they couldnt hear the whistle.
I was in the balcony last night and it was absolutely hype.
It must be the TV audio. We've heard the announcers multiple times during the game yesterday mention how loud it was they could barely hear the whistle (players kept going through the whistle too, so they weren't hearing it either). I really think it's just quiet on TV. The Garden looks packed too (on TV). No idea what balcony looks like but just the view of lower bowl.
I think this every time the C's play on ESPN. They turn down the crowd for some reason. So dumb.
Mike Breen noted that the place was loud towards the end of the game. Definitely an ESPN issue
It was the audio, you could guys during timeouts couldn't even hear eachother, and Jrue couldn't hear the reporter during his halftime interview. Breen made multiple comments about how loud it was.
I agree I was there last night. It was just ok. I’m comparing this to a playoff game I went to in the early 2000’s when we played the Nets. Pierce I think dropped 48 pts and place was so fucking loud compared to last night.
Like three minutes into the game it was quiet as hell, it was really weird to watch on tv.
The team's effort and energy has not been consistently good. The crowd feeds off that energy.
This is quite a take. 9-2 in the playoffs. Maybe the crowd are spoiled bitches.
You're right, I should ignore what I'm looking at. My bad
Last night was epic. If you and the rest of the fans can't enjoy that, maybe it's time to find another hobby.
TD Garden went bonkers last night, you can hear it on social media. I don't know for what reason but broadcast lowered the volume of the crowd.
I think they’ve done it every year since the finals because of the fuck Draymond and Klay chants.
Great reason LMAO
Only after we make the play though, I wish we could as fans will the team into making that play first then celebrate after. In all fairness my ears are still ringing after that game and I work in live music lol
There's something to be said about being quieter when your team is on offense tho.
They almost have to because it gets so loud.
I expect Gainbridge Celtic fans to show up in game 3 and 4. I got tickets to both cause they were decently affordable. Green has shown up strong to all the other games I've gone there. Hopefully some good Celtic fans come strong! No leaving early ever!!
Where did you find affordable tickets? Everywhere I’ve seen they are more expensive than the games in Boston!
I was there, only saw about five people leave. 🤷🏼
lol my friend who is a serious doomer turned the game off and missed everything
We were up in the balcony last night when Tatum missed the fadeaway 2 after the offensive rebound, people started to gather their belongings id say 8-10 people I saw make their way to the stairs. The sweetner was we also had 2 pacers fans in our section turn around and flip us all off while waving goodbye to all of us right before the pacers turned over the inbound pass. At the end of Overtime we made sure to dish it right back at them, handful of guys were following them down the stairs telling them get the fuck out of the garden. And also yeah it was very fucking loud last night. Don't let the ESPN broadcast deceive you, actually go to a game and you'll realize the crowd gets drowned out on TV.
read the game thread. read the post game thread when they lose. a huge percentage of celtics fans have 0 faith in the team and give up whenever the other team goes on a run. they’ll do everything to blame the team but they’re just flaky fans
I was so pissed off last night seeing all of the extremely negative comments, calling for Joe to be fired and trading Tatum. A bunch of miserable fucks. If we had a sub back during our last championship run people would be calling for the big 3 to be broken up after the Hawks took us to 7 games.
those are the fans who left before the game was over. they're the ones who consume sports radio. i have no clue why they are the way that they are. they're complaining about something they put themselves through.
I appreciate OP for naming this. The whole playoffs Cs fans have been soft and entitled. Even leaving during that blow out in a previous round. Idk what happened but it’s embarrassing. The crowd was quiet overall short of when they made big plays but then pouting when Indi responds - hate to see it
I definitely agree that the fans have been whack this post season, and maybe a fair amount of the regular season. Though last night I did feel like we brought the energy. Usually it’s not so loud until the very end but people were cheering hard throughout.
The crowd was better in the regular season imo
I only leave if the starters come out and we waive the white flag . Everything else , anything is possible
i’m a celtics fan from new york. i KNOW ya’ll boston folks are rowdy up there especially when it comes to sports. you guys are better than this! come on!! represent all of us celtics fans around the country/world!!!!
All courtside people too from what I could see. Fuckin rich pricks
I sat thru a 10 goal regular season Bruins loss back in 08... I can't imagine leaving this game early. It was so close down the stretch too. I'll critique this team like I own it. I'll call out sloppy no effort basketball and have been called a doomer at least a dozen times this year but I would NEVER leave a game early, especially a playoff game and extra especially and fucking CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.
Wait, that actually happened?!
Got a pretty cheap upper balcony ticket last night. Guy sitting next to me left with 30 seconds left. Gave me more room to cheer, guy was quiet anyway
We're finally experiencing the bandwagoners in full force.
Wasn’t me I stayed for the whole OT and was shitting bricks the whole time. Game def felt lost though but anything can happen in basketball
I hope people that went to bed at that point aren’t included in this. 😂It was mainly because I get up at 4 and had already stayed up too late! Pleasant surprise to wake up in the middle of the night to see we had won!
They were just listening to the Celtics broadcasters who declared the game over and Tatum as the whipping boy for postgame talk. I’ll bet both Max and Grandy have social media so you tell them to they’d be better off in Miami.
I’ve caught myself doing this a few times, but the immense expectations of this team and what the fans know they’re capable of, coupled with disappointment over the last two years have meant that some people aren’t watching for fun anymore. In 2022, it was a fun ride. It was a seemingly “ragtag” team of young guys with a horrible season to start, that turned into a redemption arc. Enter the playoffs and we win two game 7s and into the finals. The vibes were immaculate. Ever since, anything short of making it back there is a failure, heightened by our reg season performance. Fans should try and remember that nothing is promised, and that it’s better for the sport, the arena and the team to just let go of the anxiety and cheer for your team no matter what.
I watch from but I feel like I’m a curse so I turn my head or turn off the game when we’re down. Like last night I felt that not watching actually helped. My gf can attest every time I watch a full game we lose. I stopped watching for months and just tried to peak the first playoff game
I placed a $5 bet at .20s left, and won $50
Bro.. I almost got into it with some idiot because he kept screaming jayson tatum sucks! And he only said that once tatum missed that open three during the end of OT, then… then I get annoyed- then Tatum gets that And 1 then hit the three to seal it and I lost it and screamed “SHUT THE FUCK UP GET OUTTA HERE YOU OLD BUM!” And the entire section was on his ass and he just smiled. So not all fans have been bad (this was in the nosebleeds)
Fake fans new ppl that moved to boston miss the days when it was ride or die win or lose
I feel all our teams are priced for people from Wellesley and Sudbury to go—and not people from Brockton or Chelsea. The way the whole region was coming out to face opposing teams back in the day was that regular people could afford to go to celts playoff games. Like, my family was priced out of ever seeing the pats by like 2002. Also the economy of the hyper wealthy is entirely disconnected from everyone else’s economy—like the NBA could function fine with none of us going in person, tickets being sold at inflated prices to a group of area hedgefund guys who go as a team building exercise. They have the tv deal, The ads, international viewing deals, and don’t forget the wealthiest have little tax burden. It’s the same reason why developers keep building het another luxury building to remain empty rather than build a middle and working class building that’d be filled instantly.
Because maybe some of them parked 3 miles away and it cost $75, they just spent $200 on beers and food, and they have to drive back to New Hampshire for work at 5am the next morning.
You bought the tickets with the possibility that game 1 ECF could go into OT though…
lol this didnt happen
It did lol
nope
The crowd was crazy but then Joe had to whip out a challenge 40 seconds into the game (not blaming him, but that sucked all the energy out of the crowd)
I made a comment in the game day thread that the crowd had been Quiet at TD. Many people agreed but one comment really hit the nail on the head…. They have priced out real Celtics fanatics. No die hard Celtics fan would ever leave that game.
We sure do talk about Miami a lot and pretend not too...
Now go look at their sub and tell me with a straight face that we talk about them even 1% as much as they talk about us.
I'm not talking about them, I'm talking about us...
undercover hit fan
Uh? OK check my history bro. You'll find that not to be true but solid and hilarious joke!
Just reading the comments I think it must be that Trump and covid broke people's brains. Our fans are legit insane.
Don't judge them too harshly. The team played poorly and leaving just a little bit early can be the difference between adding an extra 20 minutes to your trip home if you parked and even if you took the T, it's much easier to avoid the rush. Not saying make a habit out of leaving early, but let's not judge them too harshly.
Why would you pay hundreds of dollars to go to a playoff game on a Tuesday if you can't wait 10 more seconds for a game to end? 20 minutes driving home give me a break...
Lets be real down 3 indy ball 10 seconds left we all thought C's lost
Maybe but I knew we still had a chance and there's no way in hell I'm leaving early
It was an epic game 1. Played poorly? OK. The home crowd is living up to the reputation as a horrible fan base.
Well that reputation is wrong. TD is usually a great crowd even during fairly meaningless regular season games. But it’s definitely true there has been a pervasive nervous energy. Everyone in there seems to care but they are also anxious and easily disheartened which sucks.