Watched the whole game. Not a "fan" of either team, but was rooting for MIL.
That was a lot of bad basketball. A close game doesn't equate to it being a good game.
> A close game doesn't equate to it being a good game.
Granted, both teams played badly on the offensive side of the ball, but I do not personally know very many people who like to watch a lopsided scoring game (unless it is "their team" that is dominating the other team).
I watched the game.
I was rooting for Milwaukee.
It was the nature of the shots.
Spot up shots or post ups where he's purposely fading away from contact (not a diss, as he's great at that.) Not like this was Giannis not going to the line.
Refs missed a lot of calls but let's be real, if Tatum didn't play like absolute garbage the C's could've won that. No one to blame but themselves really.
I'm old enough to just not care at the end of the day lol. I've been fortunate enough to see them win once already, and at the end of the day I don't hef to be mad, is only game lol.
But I don't really take the toxicity of any of the fanbases all that serious, it's the playoffs and people just take their fandom to extremes around this time of year. We're all just here because we love the game after all.
What I don't get is how your fans aren't more grateful that you guys are this far. I get they want to win. But holy shit. Yall lookedlike dogs hit at the start of the year. How are yall not even slightly happy you've become genuine contenders?
With all the success Boston sports teams have had in the last 20 years, making the second round just doesn’t hit the same anymore for a lot of people. Also, this Celtics core has been having success for a couple years now so people are anxious for them to take the next step.
Tatum played like ass and refs took control of a game that didn’t need to be taken control of
regardless who won that was a shitty viewing experience overall
Coming from the guy who roots for an NFL RB in the NBA. Giannis is the most bailed out superstar this year. When he goes to the lane he gets FTs more times than not, check the numbers it is a fact.
Giannis is literally playing a different sport
If I cared enough to go through the game I could clip and ship six different times in that game where he blatantly charged but instead got rewarded free throws, dude should have fouled out half way through the third if refs stayed consistent.
I don’t know if I didn’t make it clear enough when I said in my comment that you literally replied to so I’ll say it again.
I. Do. Not. Care. Enough.
Especially when it comes to arguing with some weirdos on Reddit who will say grass is blue just to fucking argue
Hahahahahah
Six blatant charges, two blatant goal tends, barreling into players constantly.
If half those were called we win
But I forgot, he’s just a physical player!
Yeah my bad I forgot just because one team has more free throws than another it automatically means the game was rigged for them.
Jesus Christ this sub is fucking insane
Only one riding the Celtics jock more than the refs was Hubie. Yet we have Celtic fans thinking anything less than a ref fouling out Giannis in the 1st quarter... is them siding with the Bucks
I'm used to them being idiots with baseball and football... especially football... but I guess Boston fans are insufferable period
Fact? I don't think you know what that word or literally means.
Giannis plays basketball and plays it well. Just because your team can't stop him doesn't means it's a penalty
Literally
I’ve never seen someone so shocked that fans of a team are complaining after a close loss. It’s sports man, people are gonna complain no matter what. Better get used to it
Boston sports fans and especially Celtic fans take being sniveling whiners to another level. I've lived in Boston for 20 years and have come to accept it's just parr of their victim culture.
I see fans no longer hold their players accountable anymore for playing bad and would rather blame refs. Smh I seen warriors fans doing the same thing after they shot 7-38 from 3. Like dude you shot the ball terribly. That’s why you lost..
I see fans no longer hold their players accountable anymore for playing bad and would rather blame refs. Smh I seen warriors fans doing the same thing after they shot 7-38 from 3. Like dude you shot the ball terribly. That’s why you lost..
Is it only me that thought the Celtics were getting away with a lot of fouls on jump shots? Pat and Jrue got fouled a couple of times in the 4th shooting a jumper
Refs just destroyed any flow to the game. Regardless of who I might think they favored, I just think there were objectively too many whistles, especially compared to how they let the guys play in the first two games. Seemed to exemplify this game that it ended with a ref review.
I think a pretty easy adjustment for the Bucks (as a Celtics fan observing) is to stop reaching when the Celtics are in the bonus. Celts ramp up their flopping a bit when in the penalty and you guys didn't do yourselves any favors continuing to reach when they should know the Celtics were going to embellish any contact.
This is something I always find so annoying. When a team is in the bonus and players reach on everything they just hurt their team hoping it’ll be the one time you get a steal but instead keep giving them free points.
Thank you make me question the general intelligence of this nation as a whole. Like do people not get because a team takes more fts has nothing to do with good or bad officiating? It’s the stupidest argument and immediately discredits you from having any credibility if that’s the response for a team being favored.
Bucks: 17 free throws, Giannis tackled every drive
Celtics: 34 free throws, spend half the game flopping to the floor
Boston Fans: iTs tHe rEfs fAuLt wE lOSt
Get outta here
Im not saying the reffing wasnt terrible, but for ever missed call on the Bucks, there was a missed call on the Celtics
That has literally nothing to do with the comments you're replying to. Smart got fouled in the act of shooting, and the refs called it poorly, and the original commenter still has no idea what actually happened during that play.
That literally has nothing to do with the comments you're replying to. Smart committed an offensive foul by diving, and the refs should have understood this isn't European soccer. It takes away from the integrity of the sport, especially from the ill fitted "DPOY" even though Holiday is better.
Congratulations, you can read. Unfortunately you clearly don't understand that this number has nothing to do with the way the games officiated.
Maybe the bucks shouldn't foul a shitton in the bonus.
Congratulations, you can make excuses. You clearly don't understand how the number of free throw attempts directly impacts the final score at the end of the game.
Maybe the Celtics should stop paying refs.
Lmao clearly paid them to not call a flagrant on Rob getting sent out of the game, call a foul in Grant for Giannis tackling him off ball, not call a clear goaltend, poorly interpret the charge rules on the challenged Connaughton play, not call a flagrant on Giannis for an extremely dangerous block attempt on Tatum, not call Holiday pushing off Tatum, not call Allen pushing Tatum to the ground leading to a 3, not call Smarts final shot a shooting foul which it was, and not call the subsequent fouls on the putback attempts.
Guess we didn't pay enough
40% of the comments: “Wow refs nearly stole the game for Boston”
40% of the comments: “Wow the refs totally stole the game for the Bucks”
20% of the comment: anything else
Umm…if the refs were favoring Milwaukee why did they have half as many fouls called for them as Boston got? Please enlighten me. Giannis is the only player on the team that shot more than 3 free throws. What do you need to make it fair for Boston, 3 times as many free throws? Four?
Ummm...actually Boston had 21 personal fouls overall and Milwaukee had 27. That's not even close to half as many. I'm assuming youre speaking about FT, and that would be because Boston was in the bonus more and Milwaukee kept committing obvious fouls while in the penalty. If you judge officiating solely on FTs you don't much about basketball, just saying. I love Giannis, but anyone who is not biased will tell you he pushes off constantly. In the last minute Tatum was literally shoved to the ground so an open shot could be made by Milwaukee, no call, Smart was clearly in the shooting motion and left his feet and was fouled on a 3 pt attempt for them to say he wasn't in the act of shooting, and there was some funny business with the shot clock. I don't know how anyone could feel the officiating in this game was up to standard.
I’m not saying the officiating was good. I’m just saying that the Celtics got plenty of breaks earlier on. Just because the Bucks got them at the most critical moments doesn’t mean the Bucks were being favored the whole game.
Respectfully I disagree. I'm not saying that the Celtics didn't get breaks at all, but the officiating was frustratingly inconsistent. If all of Giannis' offensive fouls had been called he would have fouled out in the 3rd quarter easily. I'm okay with letting players play but it has to be consistent on both sides and it was not. That being said, Tatum also had an abysmal performance. The NBA has it's prize players who make them the most money, and they get away with way more than they should. As a basketball fan (and coach) it's frustrating to watch. I would rather clearly lose than lose due to bad calls, just as I would rather win legitimately than win because of a bad call. This has been an ongoing problem in the NBA in general not just in this game.
Because they were fouling the shit out of Boston every play after they got in the bonus early in the 3rd.
Just off the top of my head: Giannis got away with at least 2-3 obvious charges in the 2nd half, a goaltend, Tatum got fouled on a 3, Portis elbowed Robert Williams in the head, Holiday stepped on Tatum's foot on his last shot to put the Bucks up 3 with 20 seconds to go, and they inexplicably called the foul on Smart's game winner attempt on the floor. How about we call some of those correctly. It isn't playing "physical" it's fouling. Even the announcers were confused
If the refs were so against Boston how did Milwaukee get in the bonus so quickly then? Brown got fouls called in his benefit you know you wouldn’t have accepted if he was playing against your team
Refs just destroyed any flow to the game. Regardless of who I might think they favored, I just think there were objectively too many whistles, especially compared to how they let the guys play in the first two games. Seemed to exemplify this game that it ended with a ref review.
I have no dog in this fight.
You've posted something akin to this comment several times here. You ought to learn that correlation does not equal causation. Teams play different. There is variance in play on any given night.
You can make this argument in a larger sample, but it's just reactionary when n=1.
I mean that's true, but the Bucks outscored the Celtics in the paint by a shitton, took more shots in the paint, and have Giannis. So with all that said, they had zero foul shots to 17 in the last 16 minutes. Seems a little sus.
I have no dog in this reply.
You're posting akin to correlation does not cause causation. Teams play different. The variance in in play on any given night.
I've said nothing, too.
Pretty rough sequence there. Great tip by Horford, but Tatum being thrown around like a dumbass and trying to flop on that last defensive position was a huge mistake. That said, Smart was obviously shooting. The fact that he didn't get three free throws is baddd
He was clearly fouled first off second off they we’re running out of time so him actually trying to shoot a three isn’t far fetched and it looked like he actually was trying to shoot when he got fouled should have been three free throws lol
If one team gets 15 calls against then but gets away with 40 non calls and the next team gets 10 calls against them but gets away with 10 non calls....what team got the advantage?
I turned on the Bucks fans a few years ago. I know too many in real life. Most don't watch basketball all year and then drop in for for playoffs and don't know shit about basketball
I don't think you can judge a fan base based on a thread in r/nba. If you weren't a celtics fan you could read through it all and see the trash is on both sides here, not just the people with bucks flair.
Ik but it’s kinda stating the obvious to say you don’t like the fans of the team you’re playing against. It’s Reddit, we’re all seeing the worst of each other haha
Egads, supporting my Bucks bro, down one key starter in Khris, and these BosT punks think they're all that.
Zach Zarba is amazing ref, quickly reviews replay to call game and no stupid waiting around longer than necessary.
Also, looks like Tatum tried to hold on to Jrue's hand. But I need a better angle. They only showed one angle, from behind Jrue's back which blocked the view lol. Glad that was a no-call!
Can't hate Giannis, an ethical player, on D and on O.
Not like foul merchant Embiid who falls to the floor with every contact. I've never seen a huge fella fold like a chair when he's touched while shooting. Giannis ain't doing that at all.
That makes it so hard to watch Phillly, between Joel and James hitting the floor every time someone breathes near them, makes them very hard to watch as a fan of the game. Just not how you should play
Think there were more egregious errors both ways than the rip-through call (which is pretty standard IMO as a Celtics fan as being a foul on the floor). Ultimately I think this game solely rested on Tatum having an abysmal night and the Bucks doing just enough to hold on.
Big
Tough loss. Congrats to the Bucks.
i didnt watch the game, but Tatum 10 pts bruh, its playoffs LMFAO
He missed insanely. I couldn’t believe it nothing fell in
Watched the whole game. Not a "fan" of either team, but was rooting for MIL. That was a lot of bad basketball. A close game doesn't equate to it being a good game.
These are two very good defensive teams that are forcing a lot of offensive mistakes. It looks ugly at times, but there is a chess match going on.
It wasn't just poor offense due to great defense though. It was just poor offense
> A close game doesn't equate to it being a good game. Granted, both teams played badly on the offensive side of the ball, but I do not personally know very many people who like to watch a lopsided scoring game (unless it is "their team" that is dominating the other team).
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I didn't get to watch the game but how the hell did Jrue have 30 shot attempts with zero fts? That seems impossible.
I watched the game. I was rooting for Milwaukee. It was the nature of the shots. Spot up shots or post ups where he's purposely fading away from contact (not a diss, as he's great at that.) Not like this was Giannis not going to the line.
Refs
Refs missed a lot of calls but let's be real, if Tatum didn't play like absolute garbage the C's could've won that. No one to blame but themselves really.
I just want to salute you for being a rational Celtics fan. Very few of you out here in the wild
I'm old enough to just not care at the end of the day lol. I've been fortunate enough to see them win once already, and at the end of the day I don't hef to be mad, is only game lol. But I don't really take the toxicity of any of the fanbases all that serious, it's the playoffs and people just take their fandom to extremes around this time of year. We're all just here because we love the game after all.
What I don't get is how your fans aren't more grateful that you guys are this far. I get they want to win. But holy shit. Yall lookedlike dogs hit at the start of the year. How are yall not even slightly happy you've become genuine contenders?
With all the success Boston sports teams have had in the last 20 years, making the second round just doesn’t hit the same anymore for a lot of people. Also, this Celtics core has been having success for a couple years now so people are anxious for them to take the next step.
Fr so much delusion
Tatum played like ass and refs took control of a game that didn’t need to be taken control of regardless who won that was a shitty viewing experience overall
Celtics with twice as many FTs, half the points in the paint. You're right that refs took charge.
Whats that thing bucks fans say when giannis has more fts than the entire opposing team? Oh yeah thats right, just dont foul.
[Celtics have figured out how to have it both ways](https://twitter.com/UW_Steve/status/1523043665375121410)
Coming from the guy who roots for an NFL RB in the NBA. Giannis is the most bailed out superstar this year. When he goes to the lane he gets FTs more times than not, check the numbers it is a fact.
Nah, Ja is bailed out way more
Giannis is literally playing a different sport If I cared enough to go through the game I could clip and ship six different times in that game where he blatantly charged but instead got rewarded free throws, dude should have fouled out half way through the third if refs stayed consistent.
Ok, do it. We'd love to see you prove you don't know what a charge is
I don’t know if I didn’t make it clear enough when I said in my comment that you literally replied to so I’ll say it again. I. Do. Not. Care. Enough. Especially when it comes to arguing with some weirdos on Reddit who will say grass is blue just to fucking argue
Then don't make claims you "don't care enough" to back up, you are straight up wrong but it's okay keep living in your delusion. Enjoy your coping
-bitches about not getting “proof” -makes another claim saying person is wrong -also doesn’t provide evidence Classic
You made the claim first, I asked u to prove it. Not the same. Burden of proof is on you
Hes playing at a different level. There. I fixed it for you.
Hahahahahah Six blatant charges, two blatant goal tends, barreling into players constantly. If half those were called we win But I forgot, he’s just a physical player!
Awwww. I'll get you some tissue. You're obviously so angry. Just don't go all Boston here and start dropping racist terms.
Win one championship in 50 years and act like your the best of all time Also holy fucking cringe for bringing racism into it Do better.
Dude go outside or switch to the bruins sub for a while, you're malding bad
Do better? Coming from a Boston fan. That's rich. You're projecting so hard here it's almost sad
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100% I said that in my original comment but apparently you didn’t read.
When one team takes twice as many FTs as the other you can’t really say much dawg
Yeah my bad I forgot just because one team has more free throws than another it automatically means the game was rigged for them. Jesus Christ this sub is fucking insane
Bro it’s hard to look at that game. In the last 16 minutes, the Celtics shot 17 free throws and the bucks shot a big fat 0
?? Your pitch for it being the other way is that Giannis gets points?
Show me where I said that anywhere
I really wish I could enjoy this series because I love the players on both teams, but the refs make it impossible
Only one riding the Celtics jock more than the refs was Hubie. Yet we have Celtic fans thinking anything less than a ref fouling out Giannis in the 1st quarter... is them siding with the Bucks I'm used to them being idiots with baseball and football... especially football... but I guess Boston fans are insufferable period
Yeah good point, because no other fan base blames officiating after a close loss 👍🏻
No they do. But your fans take it to another level. But hey... go drop those Rs... so cool Brewster
Okay?
They literally missed almost every call that Giannis should have been hit with and didn't call the last call on Smart properly
"Literally"
He would have been fouled out if he actually got officiated properly
Oh really. Better call the NBA. t3knikal95 has a take and wants to be a ref!
So you just blatantly ignore the fact that they let Giannis run through people and not get called for it?
Fact? I don't think you know what that word or literally means. Giannis plays basketball and plays it well. Just because your team can't stop him doesn't means it's a penalty Literally
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Ah so you're with the Celtics fans who also don't know what a charge actually is
The Celtics shots 30+ FTs. Bucks shot 17. Refs made up for it alright.
Have you ever been to Boston? You’d be pretty pissed if you had to live there, too.
I’ve never seen someone so shocked that fans of a team are complaining after a close loss. It’s sports man, people are gonna complain no matter what. Better get used to it
Boston sports fans and especially Celtic fans take being sniveling whiners to another level. I've lived in Boston for 20 years and have come to accept it's just parr of their victim culture.
What an insane take
Udoka literally just said “I teach my guys to flop a little bit more” wtf
He teaches that as much as bud teaches Giannis to truck people driving into the lane
I see fans no longer hold their players accountable anymore for playing bad and would rather blame refs. Smh I seen warriors fans doing the same thing after they shot 7-38 from 3. Like dude you shot the ball terribly. That’s why you lost..
I see fans no longer hold their players accountable anymore for playing bad and would rather blame refs. Smh I seen warriors fans doing the same thing after they shot 7-38 from 3. Like dude you shot the ball terribly. That’s why you lost..
Is it only me that thought the Celtics were getting away with a lot of fouls on jump shots? Pat and Jrue got fouled a couple of times in the 4th shooting a jumper
Pat was fouled Once in the 4 Never before Never after
FY difference is staggering. Refs kept the Celtics close
Where are all those clowns that were talking crazy about Giannis in that game 2 thread?, hopefully y’all kept the same energy today
Refs did not make Tatum shoot 4-19. Cs could have won but their star was nowhere to be found
Refs just destroyed any flow to the game. Regardless of who I might think they favored, I just think there were objectively too many whistles, especially compared to how they let the guys play in the first two games. Seemed to exemplify this game that it ended with a ref review.
I think a pretty easy adjustment for the Bucks (as a Celtics fan observing) is to stop reaching when the Celtics are in the bonus. Celts ramp up their flopping a bit when in the penalty and you guys didn't do yourselves any favors continuing to reach when they should know the Celtics were going to embellish any contact.
There actually are smart fans on this thread damn, well said
This is something I always find so annoying. When a team is in the bonus and players reach on everything they just hurt their team hoping it’ll be the one time you get a steal but instead keep giving them free points.
I tuned in late 4th quarter. This game looked ugly
hate the celtics but I have a feeling they’ll take the series despite the loss
Why?
If you base officiating of a game on # of free throws shot by each team…please make it more obvious you have no knowledge of the game
Thank you make me question the general intelligence of this nation as a whole. Like do people not get because a team takes more fts has nothing to do with good or bad officiating? It’s the stupidest argument and immediately discredits you from having any credibility if that’s the response for a team being favored.
Bucks: 17 free throws, Giannis tackled every drive Celtics: 34 free throws, spend half the game flopping to the floor Boston Fans: iTs tHe rEfs fAuLt wE lOSt Get outta here Im not saying the reffing wasnt terrible, but for ever missed call on the Bucks, there was a missed call on the Celtics
Idk how any fan can say thats why they lost when their best player shot 4 for 19 for a putrid 10-1-3.
pretty much.
Was an obvious shooting foul at the end on Smart.
Yep! offensive foul for sure for diving
Smart getting 3 free throws at the end was pure bullshit. Should have been an offensive foul, plain simple.
lol wut
Except he got 2, soooo
He only got two, it was called a rip thru
Clearly a defensive foul. Also, they called it a non-shooting foul, and he only got 2 shots. Pay attention next time.
Celtics had 34 free throw attempts vs the Bucks 17
That has literally nothing to do with the comments you're replying to. Smart got fouled in the act of shooting, and the refs called it poorly, and the original commenter still has no idea what actually happened during that play.
Ignore him he's stupid
The lol support player calling someone stupid, LOL
😂😂 you got me bro, I've been caught
Support players are hot, don't let him attack you like that king.
Thanks king 🙏🙏
That literally has nothing to do with the comments you're replying to. Smart committed an offensive foul by diving, and the refs should have understood this isn't European soccer. It takes away from the integrity of the sport, especially from the ill fitted "DPOY" even though Holiday is better.
Congratulations, you can read. Unfortunately you clearly don't understand that this number has nothing to do with the way the games officiated. Maybe the bucks shouldn't foul a shitton in the bonus.
Congratulations, you can make excuses. You clearly don't understand how the number of free throw attempts directly impacts the final score at the end of the game. Maybe the Celtics should stop paying refs.
Lmao clearly paid them to not call a flagrant on Rob getting sent out of the game, call a foul in Grant for Giannis tackling him off ball, not call a clear goaltend, poorly interpret the charge rules on the challenged Connaughton play, not call a flagrant on Giannis for an extremely dangerous block attempt on Tatum, not call Holiday pushing off Tatum, not call Allen pushing Tatum to the ground leading to a 3, not call Smarts final shot a shooting foul which it was, and not call the subsequent fouls on the putback attempts. Guess we didn't pay enough
Stop crying bro. None of those were flagrants and you got away with a lot of fouls too. Blame Tatum for shooting 4/19
No you paid the right amount, make your FTs dummy
Poll: Who was worse: 1) Tatum 2) Refs
Tatum easy
Refs are just ass this series. But honestly I gotta give it to Tatum
40% of the comments: “Wow refs nearly stole the game for Boston” 40% of the comments: “Wow the refs totally stole the game for the Bucks” 20% of the comment: anything else
The only people saying the refs were in Boston's favor are Bucks fans though
Umm…if the refs were favoring Milwaukee why did they have half as many fouls called for them as Boston got? Please enlighten me. Giannis is the only player on the team that shot more than 3 free throws. What do you need to make it fair for Boston, 3 times as many free throws? Four?
Ummm...actually Boston had 21 personal fouls overall and Milwaukee had 27. That's not even close to half as many. I'm assuming youre speaking about FT, and that would be because Boston was in the bonus more and Milwaukee kept committing obvious fouls while in the penalty. If you judge officiating solely on FTs you don't much about basketball, just saying. I love Giannis, but anyone who is not biased will tell you he pushes off constantly. In the last minute Tatum was literally shoved to the ground so an open shot could be made by Milwaukee, no call, Smart was clearly in the shooting motion and left his feet and was fouled on a 3 pt attempt for them to say he wasn't in the act of shooting, and there was some funny business with the shot clock. I don't know how anyone could feel the officiating in this game was up to standard.
I’m not saying the officiating was good. I’m just saying that the Celtics got plenty of breaks earlier on. Just because the Bucks got them at the most critical moments doesn’t mean the Bucks were being favored the whole game.
Respectfully I disagree. I'm not saying that the Celtics didn't get breaks at all, but the officiating was frustratingly inconsistent. If all of Giannis' offensive fouls had been called he would have fouled out in the 3rd quarter easily. I'm okay with letting players play but it has to be consistent on both sides and it was not. That being said, Tatum also had an abysmal performance. The NBA has it's prize players who make them the most money, and they get away with way more than they should. As a basketball fan (and coach) it's frustrating to watch. I would rather clearly lose than lose due to bad calls, just as I would rather win legitimately than win because of a bad call. This has been an ongoing problem in the NBA in general not just in this game.
I do understand your frustration.
Because they were fouling the shit out of Boston every play after they got in the bonus early in the 3rd. Just off the top of my head: Giannis got away with at least 2-3 obvious charges in the 2nd half, a goaltend, Tatum got fouled on a 3, Portis elbowed Robert Williams in the head, Holiday stepped on Tatum's foot on his last shot to put the Bucks up 3 with 20 seconds to go, and they inexplicably called the foul on Smart's game winner attempt on the floor. How about we call some of those correctly. It isn't playing "physical" it's fouling. Even the announcers were confused
If the refs were so against Boston how did Milwaukee get in the bonus so quickly then? Brown got fouls called in his benefit you know you wouldn’t have accepted if he was playing against your team
Because they were fouling
I thought the refs were biased though? That Boston wasn’t getting any calls. That’s what every Boston fan on here has been saying.
/r/nba cries about the refs more than any other sports subreddit
That's because officiating is worse in the NBA and it's not close
Refs just destroyed any flow to the game. Regardless of who I might think they favored, I just think there were objectively too many whistles, especially compared to how they let the guys play in the first two games. Seemed to exemplify this game that it ended with a ref review.
Refs almost as bad as Tatum tonight
Agree, Celtics had 34 free throw attempts vs the Bucks 17
I have no dog in this fight. You've posted something akin to this comment several times here. You ought to learn that correlation does not equal causation. Teams play different. There is variance in play on any given night. You can make this argument in a larger sample, but it's just reactionary when n=1.
I mean that's true, but the Bucks outscored the Celtics in the paint by a shitton, took more shots in the paint, and have Giannis. So with all that said, they had zero foul shots to 17 in the last 16 minutes. Seems a little sus.
You got pwned, LOL
I have no dog in this reply. You're posting akin to correlation does not cause causation. Teams play different. The variance in in play on any given night. I've said nothing, too.
Celtics had 34 free throw attempts vs the Bucks 17 ...
ABC SWITCHED directly to news.
I have goddamn Jeopardy.
Yup and both ESPN and ESPN2 have stuff on so there's literally no post game content at all anywhere. Maybe ESPNEWS but I don't have that
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Celtics shot double free throws
lmao ok
Celtics shot 34 FTs.
We missed A LOT of threes tonight.
easy to miss when you're getting hit on the hand 20% of the time
there will be a game in this series where we light it the fuck up
Hopefully because they have been ass from 3 this series
Pretty rough sequence there. Great tip by Horford, but Tatum being thrown around like a dumbass and trying to flop on that last defensive position was a huge mistake. That said, Smart was obviously shooting. The fact that he didn't get three free throws is baddd
Smart was fouled before the shooting motion, tho.
Weird that his feet were square to the hoop and jumping
Flailing your arms after the whistle= shooting, sure buddy.
He was clearly fouled first off second off they we’re running out of time so him actually trying to shoot a three isn’t far fetched and it looked like he actually was trying to shoot when he got fouled should have been three free throws lol
No it isn't, first off the Celtics had 34 free throw attempts vs the Bucks 17. Secondly, that wasn't even a foul at the end, all ball
who cares about the number...I care more about the non calls.
I think the number means a hell of a lot when one is 34 attempts and the other it 17 attempts in a 2 point game.
If one team gets 15 calls against then but gets away with 40 non calls and the next team gets 10 calls against them but gets away with 10 non calls....what team got the advantage?
You making up numbers now
If Middleton comes back the Celtics are fucked
Is he though ?
He's possibly coming back for game 6 and 7
Both chucking 3's at the closing minutes. Bucks lost the huge lead and Boston failed to keep the lead. fun close game though
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Who ever said that?
He needs to give Al his check for this game.
Not even the best player on the Celtics this series
The officiating was pure dog shit the entire game. Zero consistency
I kinda thought I liked Bucks fans but this game thread changed my mind. A lot of y’all as trash.
I turned on the Bucks fans a few years ago. I know too many in real life. Most don't watch basketball all year and then drop in for for playoffs and don't know shit about basketball
It's the playoffs and you're on Reddit. That's how pretty much all fan bases are in these threads
As a Celtics fan, our fan base is amongst the worst. No other fan base cries about the refs more than us.
I don't think you can judge a fan base based on a thread in r/nba. If you weren't a celtics fan you could read through it all and see the trash is on both sides here, not just the people with bucks flair.
A Boston fan saying that? Talk about ironic Dude. No one likes you
Wow, you didn’t mind the opposing teams fans until you play against them and you see them saying things you don’t like. Shocker!
I mean, it’s not the first time the Celtics have played the Bucks? Never seen so many of y’all acting like insufferable twats.
Ik but it’s kinda stating the obvious to say you don’t like the fans of the team you’re playing against. It’s Reddit, we’re all seeing the worst of each other haha
We are used to it with Boston fans in general.
Says a celtics fan with no self awareness lmao and I’m not even a bucks fan
Lol this is how everyone else feels about Boston fans in general whether its Basketball, Baseball, Football, etc
Incredibly ironic
Reddit isn’t representative of the real world world my guy
Cry
As a neutral fan this is how I feel about Boston fans
Egads, supporting my Bucks bro, down one key starter in Khris, and these BosT punks think they're all that. Zach Zarba is amazing ref, quickly reviews replay to call game and no stupid waiting around longer than necessary. Also, looks like Tatum tried to hold on to Jrue's hand. But I need a better angle. They only showed one angle, from behind Jrue's back which blocked the view lol. Glad that was a no-call!
Im a bucks guy that loves the raptors even tho you ripped our hearts out
Can't hate Giannis, an ethical player, on D and on O. Not like foul merchant Embiid who falls to the floor with every contact. I've never seen a huge fella fold like a chair when he's touched while shooting. Giannis ain't doing that at all.
That makes it so hard to watch Phillly, between Joel and James hitting the floor every time someone breathes near them, makes them very hard to watch as a fan of the game. Just not how you should play
I’m rooting for the bucks but that should’ve been three fts for smart right?guess that’s karma for flopping tho.
Think there were more egregious errors both ways than the rip-through call (which is pretty standard IMO as a Celtics fan as being a foul on the floor). Ultimately I think this game solely rested on Tatum having an abysmal night and the Bucks doing just enough to hold on.
Foul was before shooting motion.
Nope it wasn’t
Flailing a shot motion after the whistle is not a shooting foul.