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主场优势这就没有啦。
下半场凯尔特人没有把握住机会,主场以116-123告负,1-2落后。
最后垃圾时间还是比较敢打敢拼,这是下一场必须有的态度。
就算下一场能保住主场,你凯还要再雄鹿主场至少拿下一场,这难度太大了。
今天的比赛,球队向刚刚去世的传奇人物哈弗里切克致敬,举行了默哀仪式。
凯尔特人开局以10-2领先。
但是雄鹿在第三节再次接管了比赛。
凯尔特人想进东部决赛的话犯错空间已经不多了。
当然现在再谈什么东部决赛已经没有意义了。
目前的目标应该是——不计一切拿下第四场。
亮了
双探花: 虽然三分没开,但是塔图姆的表现已经回暖,本场他拿下20分11个篮板,是凯尔特人能顶住两节半的主要原因。杰伦再次隔扣字母哥提振了全队的士气,可惜...
亮你妹
欧文: 欧文在第二场18投4中的灾难表现以后,本场回暖的也有限,虽然拿下29分,但是命中率也不高,错失了不少轻松得分的机会。
罗奇儿: 罗奇儿3投0中没有得分,只有一个篮板一次抢断一次助攻,这绝对是不合格的。
转折点
伊利亚索瓦抢球被犯规,罚球两次,雄鹿82-81领先,接下来雄鹿打了一波12-0的攻击波,凯尔特人大部分时间在苦苦追赶,再也没能威胁到雄鹿队。
主场优势这就没有啦。
下半场凯尔特人没有把握住机会,主场以116-123告负,1-2落后。
最后垃圾时间还是比较敢打敢拼,这是下一场必须有的态度。
就算下一场能保住主场,你凯还要再雄鹿主场至少拿下一场,这难度太大了。
今天的比赛,球队向刚刚去世的传奇人物哈弗里切克致敬,举行了默哀仪式。
凯尔特人开局以10-2领先。
但是雄鹿在第三节再次接管了比赛。
凯尔特人想进东部决赛的话犯错空间已经不多了。
当然现在再谈什么东部决赛已经没有意义了。
目前的目标应该是——不计一切拿下第四场。
亮了
双探花: 虽然三分没开,但是塔图姆的表现已经回暖,本场他拿下20分11个篮板,是凯尔特人能顶住两节半的主要原因。杰伦再次隔扣字母哥提振了全队的士气,可惜...
亮你妹
欧文: 欧文在第二场18投4中的灾难表现以后,本场回暖的也有限,虽然拿下29分,但是命中率也不高,错失了不少轻松得分的机会。
罗奇儿: 罗奇儿3投0中没有得分,只有一个篮板一次抢断一次助攻,这绝对是不合格的。
转折点
伊利亚索瓦抢球被犯规,罚球两次,雄鹿82-81领先,接下来雄鹿打了一波12-0的攻击波,凯尔特人大部分时间在苦苦追赶,再也没能威胁到雄鹿队。
BOSTON — Kick and stomp all you want about the officiating, here’s the bigger issue for a Celtics team that now finds itself in a 2-1 hole after Friday’s whistle-heavy loss to the Milwaukee Bucks: A team that hasn’t responded well to adversity finds itself with a very uphill battle in front of it.
Through Boston’s first five games of the postseason, we were sold that this team had changed its stripes. The Celtics spent most of the season crumbling at the first sign of adversity but found a way to rally back from second-half deficits in each of its first five playoff games, including all games in a first-round sweep of the Indiana Pacers. Celtics players suggested that the playoffs had offered a reset button, a chance to hop off the regular-season roller coaster. They swore this was a new team.
But the past two games leave you wondering if much has changed. Make no mistake, the Bucks are elite opposition, and they are the No. 1 seed for a reason. Fans will understandably work themselves into a lather after watching potential league MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo shoot a career-high 22 free throws (besting his previous mark of 19) and it’s fair to look beyond the final free-throw attempt totals (Milwaukee 36, Boston 32) that don’t quite tell the disparity.
Alas, what's dictated how the past two games have played out is Boston’s inability to compose itself when things started to go sideways. The Celtics came unglued in the third quarter Friday for the second time in as many games and, suddenly, that inspiring 1-0 series lead has morphed into a 2-1 deficit with the Bucks wrestling back home-court advantage.
Now, the Celtics find themselves facing a different sort of adversity. They have to figure out how to, (1) Restore the defensive wall that frustrated Antetokounmpo throughout Game 1 while minimizing his trips to the charity stripe, (2) Get back to a ball-moving offense that hunts for mismatches and doesn’t settle for contested isolation jumpers, and (3) Find the mental resolve that has gone missing the past two games.
Kyrie Irving, who promised to be better after his Game 2 dud, scored a team-high 29 points but on an inefficient 8-of-22 shooting in nearly 42 minutes. Irving got himself to line 12 times but continues to struggle with his shot, having now missed 14 shots in each of the past two games.
Irving seemed to recognize the bigger issue in front of his team after Friday’s loss. He vented initially about the number of whistles in Game 3 — “It’s getting ridiculous at this point,” he said. "It’s just slowing the f---ing game down.” — but then admitted the Celtics need to be better about not letting the whistles affect their play.
“The refs have a difficult job, we have a difficult job. Obviously, I could sit up here and complain, we know the disparity and what it is, but I’m not going to put all the emphasis on the refereeing,” said Irving. “I think there are a lot of controllable things on our end that we can be better at. Obviously, the officiating is going to be part of it, you wish that things can go your way but they don’t.
"We have to be able to respond in a better circumstance. We just have to respond better and I think we will do that going into Game 4. I’m confident in this group, I’m confident in the talent we have here, as well as the basketball IQ. We just have to bring it to another level.”
Game 3 Friday night felt a bit like Game 2 Tuesday night. The Celtics were actually out front of the Bucks, 82-81, with 3:44 to play in the third quarter when they came unglued. After Milwaukee sneaked out front on a pair of free throws, Hayward got into the paint but misfired on a floater. Next trip down, Gordon Hayward got a decent look at a 3-pointer from the wing but front-rimmed it. George Hill got improbably hot for Milwaukee, scoring the Bucks’ next nine points as the Bucks attacked the basket relentlessly, and Milwaukee’s lead went up to 11 with 80 seconds to play in the frame.
"We’ve just got to play better. This is a part of our test,” said Jaylen Brown. "We’ve got all the tools we need in the room. We’ve just got to play better.”
Asked about the mood in a quiet Celtics locker room, Brown stayed positive.
"We’ve just got to play better. That’s it,” said Brown. "I don’t know what to say. I’m looking forward to Game 4 on Monday. I know we’re looking forward to Game 4. We’ve got too many good players, too many dogs in this locker room. So, we’re all looking forward to it, and that’s the mindset.”
Brown successfully tiptoed around a landmine about how the Celtics can defend without fouling and admitted that Boston had to get past mad with all the whistles (“We shouldn’t let it affect us as much as it has, and we’ve got to be better,” he said.)
Celtics coach Brad Stevens could have gone to the podium, wallet in hand, and dealt with the $15,000 fine that might have come down if he had lambasted the officiating. He knew better. Boston’s coach said simply, “I don’t complain about officials. We have a lot of stuff we have to do better...We focus on us and the controllables. That’s the bottom line.”
The Celtics knew they had to play better than they did against the Pacers to have any shot at winning this series. Indiana and its starless roster didn’t have the type of talent to really make Boston pay when it endured scoring lulls. The Bucks got 35 points from the bench combo of Hill (9-for-12, 21 points) and local boy Pat Connaughton (5-for-11, 14 points). That was just south of the production of Irving and Hayward (2-for-8, 10 points).
Still, the Celtics need more from everybody to regain control of this series.
It’s all about the response. And it’s another chance to see if these Celtics have changed their ways, or if they’re the same team that couldn’t get out of its own way all season long.
"We have to respond,” said C's big man Al Horford. “We have to respond and win on Monday.”
BOSTON — Kick and stomp all you want about the officiating, here’s the bigger issue for a Celtics team that now finds itself in a 2-1 hole after Friday’s whistle-heavy loss to the Milwaukee Bucks: A team that hasn’t responded well to adversity finds itself with a very uphill battle in front of it.
Through Boston’s first five games of the postseason, we were sold that this team had changed its stripes. The Celtics spent most of the season crumbling at the first sign of adversity but found a way to rally back from second-half deficits in each of its first five playoff games, including all games in a first-round sweep of the Indiana Pacers. Celtics players suggested that the playoffs had offered a reset button, a chance to hop off the regular-season roller coaster. They swore this was a new team.
But the past two games leave you wondering if much has changed. Make no mistake, the Bucks are elite opposition, and they are the No. 1 seed for a reason. Fans will understandably work themselves into a lather after watching potential league MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo shoot a career-high 22 free throws (besting his previous mark of 19) and it’s fair to look beyond the final free-throw attempt totals (Milwaukee 36, Boston 32) that don’t quite tell the disparity.
Alas, what's dictated how the past two games have played out is Boston’s inability to compose itself when things started to go sideways. The Celtics came unglued in the third quarter Friday for the second time in as many games and, suddenly, that inspiring 1-0 series lead has morphed into a 2-1 deficit with the Bucks wrestling back home-court advantage.
Now, the Celtics find themselves facing a different sort of adversity. They have to figure out how to, (1) Restore the defensive wall that frustrated Antetokounmpo throughout Game 1 while minimizing his trips to the charity stripe, (2) Get back to a ball-moving offense that hunts for mismatches and doesn’t settle for contested isolation jumpers, and (3) Find the mental resolve that has gone missing the past two games.
Kyrie Irving, who promised to be better after his Game 2 dud, scored a team-high 29 points but on an inefficient 8-of-22 shooting in nearly 42 minutes. Irving got himself to line 12 times but continues to struggle with his shot, having now missed 14 shots in each of the past two games.
Irving seemed to recognize the bigger issue in front of his team after Friday’s loss. He vented initially about the number of whistles in Game 3 — “It’s getting ridiculous at this point,” he said. "It’s just slowing the f---ing game down.” — but then admitted the Celtics need to be better about not letting the whistles affect their play.
“The refs have a difficult job, we have a difficult job. Obviously, I could sit up here and complain, we know the disparity and what it is, but I’m not going to put all the emphasis on the refereeing,” said Irving. “I think there are a lot of controllable things on our end that we can be better at. Obviously, the officiating is going to be part of it, you wish that things can go your way but they don’t.
"We have to be able to respond in a better circumstance. We just have to respond better and I think we will do that going into Game 4. I’m confident in this group, I’m confident in the talent we have here, as well as the basketball IQ. We just have to bring it to another level.”
Game 3 Friday night felt a bit like Game 2 Tuesday night. The Celtics were actually out front of the Bucks, 82-81, with 3:44 to play in the third quarter when they came unglued. After Milwaukee sneaked out front on a pair of free throws, Hayward got into the paint but misfired on a floater. Next trip down, Gordon Hayward got a decent look at a 3-pointer from the wing but front-rimmed it. George Hill got improbably hot for Milwaukee, scoring the Bucks’ next nine points as the Bucks attacked the basket relentlessly, and Milwaukee’s lead went up to 11 with 80 seconds to play in the frame.
"We’ve just got to play better. This is a part of our test,” said Jaylen Brown. "We’ve got all the tools we need in the room. We’ve just got to play better.”
Asked about the mood in a quiet Celtics locker room, Brown stayed positive.
"We’ve just got to play better. That’s it,” said Brown. "I don’t know what to say. I’m looking forward to Game 4 on Monday. I know we’re looking forward to Game 4. We’ve got too many good players, too many dogs in this locker room. So, we’re all looking forward to it, and that’s the mindset.”
Brown successfully tiptoed around a landmine about how the Celtics can defend without fouling and admitted that Boston had to get past mad with all the whistles (“We shouldn’t let it affect us as much as it has, and we’ve got to be better,” he said.)
Celtics coach Brad Stevens could have gone to the podium, wallet in hand, and dealt with the $15,000 fine that might have come down if he had lambasted the officiating. He knew better. Boston’s coach said simply, “I don’t complain about officials. We have a lot of stuff we have to do better...We focus on us and the controllables. That’s the bottom line.”
The Celtics knew they had to play better than they did against the Pacers to have any shot at winning this series. Indiana and its starless roster didn’t have the type of talent to really make Boston pay when it endured scoring lulls. The Bucks got 35 points from the bench combo of Hill (9-for-12, 21 points) and local boy Pat Connaughton (5-for-11, 14 points). That was just south of the production of Irving and Hayward (2-for-8, 10 points).
Still, the Celtics need more from everybody to regain control of this series.
It’s all about the response. And it’s another chance to see if these Celtics have changed their ways, or if they’re the same team that couldn’t get out of its own way all season long.
"We have to respond,” said C's big man Al Horford. “We have to respond and win on Monday.”
It was fairly stunning how badly the Celtics squandered the opportunity to make a series statement Friday night, how they frayed when presented with the challenge posed by Milwaukee and, in their minds, the officiating.
The truth is they had the capacity to deal properly with both, but instead they found themselves with a 123-116 loss that removed from their grip the homecourt advantage they’d secured in Game 1 and dropped them into a 2-1 deficit in this Eastern Conference semifinal.
It’d be easy to say the C’s have been done in by horrible third-quarters the last two games, but that would be missing too many points.
I wrote after the series opener that the game becomes more physical in the playoffs, and the Celts had taken wonderful advantage of that fact in Game 1. But they seemed to get thrown off that concept by a few early calls in Game 2, and by Friday the C’s were so caught up in what they believed were unfair whistles that they seemed at times to be running on egg shells instead of the hardwood.
No doubt, Brad Stevens will be giving them a detailed set of instructions before Monday’s Game 4. Here are four that might be included:
Make your own impression on the game
Red Auerbach often said he wanted instigators, not retaliators, and it seems the Celtics have backed off and become too much the latter in the past two. Control the controllables. Dictate what you can.
If the referees start calling ticky-tack stuff while trying to exert control over the proceedings, fine. Then do a full heel turn and be bold about it.
The Bucks may beat a path to the line for a while, but as long as they’re shooting free throws, they’re not outside scoring 45 points on treys as they did Friday. And after a while, it will become a matter of math as it did with the old Pat Riley Knicks, where Doc Rivers, then still playing, admitted the refs couldn’t call everything, so more slipped through and the game was played on their own terms.
Sure, as Kyrie Irving pointed out, getting called for 12 fouls in the third quarter hurt the Celts’ flow. But if they had established the game’s tone earlier and continued it into the second half, it could have been the Bucks bitching at calls while the C’s got out in transition.
Don’t try to out-Giannis Giannis
The Celtics did a good job of crowding Antetokounmpo in Game 1 and into the second meeting, as well. But they seemingly lost the will and energy to jostle him with extra bodies and still close out to shooters on the perimeter.
That left us with the sight of the Celts trying to match his athleticism in space — a foolish game if ever there was one. Fuhgeddaboutit. Or, in Greek, “xechna to.”
Aron Baynes played just two minutes Friday, and Stevens said afterward that he may be giving the large Australian more time because he’s better at taking charges. It could also be for Baynes’ famed “you may score, but it’s going to hurt” defense.
He who hesitates is … down 2-1
The slow close-outs to the 3-point line are mentioned above, but good defense is a chain of properly connected links. Stevens lamented that the Celts were looser than desired on Antetokounmpo, but he said that may have been because they were wary of how well the Bucks were hitting from the arc.
Therein lies the problem. By not being aggressive in the paint to start, the C’s were caught in no-man’s land. Hesitancy is what creates open shooters. Had the first line of defense been tighter, Milwaukee’s marksmanship may have been moot. Those perimeter people can still be open, but it won’t necessarily make a difference if the Buck with the ball is bottled up and can’t make the pass cleanly.
The Celtics can’t let Giannis with a game-high eight assists happen.
Driving in traffic
After Game 2, Irving said he would do a better job of getting into the paint and making the right reads. He said he and his team would do a better job of moving the ball from side to side and attacking the seams in the defense.
There was no reason to doubt his measured comments, and this as much as anything was cause for the belief this series was still in the Celts’ control.
But there were the C’s getting too deep on their drives, according to Stevens, and committing turnovers that led to Milwaukee getting easy opportunity buckets and free throws.
Remember how last year against the Bucks we criticized the young Celts for driving into the teeth of the defense and either turning the ball over or getting their stuff blocked? Well, there was the issue again Friday, only with veterans at the wheel.
The bottom line here is that the Celtics need to be doing less dribbling and more finishing. Their ball movement was largely exemplary as they rolled out to a 12-point second-quarter lead in Game 3 — and that margin frankly should have been greater. It was the kind of stuff that had the Bucks’ players looking at each other to wonder who left Jaylen Brown open and had Mike Budenholzer reaching for timeouts.
And then when things got tight as Milwaukee made its runs, the Celts got soggy. They lost their crisp.
If the Bucks want to load up on Irving, then picks away from the ball should yield cuts to daylight and layups — or extra passes to open shooters.
If the Celtics can do as they’ve been told by Stevens, they can even the series on Monday. That will still leave the daunting task of needing to win two out of three with just one of those games at home.
But if they don’t get their together in the next one, the offseason will be beckoning hard.
It was fairly stunning how badly the Celtics squandered the opportunity to make a series statement Friday night, how they frayed when presented with the challenge posed by Milwaukee and, in their minds, the officiating.
The truth is they had the capacity to deal properly with both, but instead they found themselves with a 123-116 loss that removed from their grip the homecourt advantage they’d secured in Game 1 and dropped them into a 2-1 deficit in this Eastern Conference semifinal.
It’d be easy to say the C’s have been done in by horrible third-quarters the last two games, but that would be missing too many points.
I wrote after the series opener that the game becomes more physical in the playoffs, and the Celts had taken wonderful advantage of that fact in Game 1. But they seemed to get thrown off that concept by a few early calls in Game 2, and by Friday the C’s were so caught up in what they believed were unfair whistles that they seemed at times to be running on egg shells instead of the hardwood.
No doubt, Brad Stevens will be giving them a detailed set of instructions before Monday’s Game 4. Here are four that might be included:
Make your own impression on the game
Red Auerbach often said he wanted instigators, not retaliators, and it seems the Celtics have backed off and become too much the latter in the past two. Control the controllables. Dictate what you can.
If the referees start calling ticky-tack stuff while trying to exert control over the proceedings, fine. Then do a full heel turn and be bold about it.
The Bucks may beat a path to the line for a while, but as long as they’re shooting free throws, they’re not outside scoring 45 points on treys as they did Friday. And after a while, it will become a matter of math as it did with the old Pat Riley Knicks, where Doc Rivers, then still playing, admitted the refs couldn’t call everything, so more slipped through and the game was played on their own terms.
Sure, as Kyrie Irving pointed out, getting called for 12 fouls in the third quarter hurt the Celts’ flow. But if they had established the game’s tone earlier and continued it into the second half, it could have been the Bucks bitching at calls while the C’s got out in transition.
Don’t try to out-Giannis Giannis
The Celtics did a good job of crowding Antetokounmpo in Game 1 and into the second meeting, as well. But they seemingly lost the will and energy to jostle him with extra bodies and still close out to shooters on the perimeter.
That left us with the sight of the Celts trying to match his athleticism in space — a foolish game if ever there was one. Fuhgeddaboutit. Or, in Greek, “xechna to.”
Aron Baynes played just two minutes Friday, and Stevens said afterward that he may be giving the large Australian more time because he’s better at taking charges. It could also be for Baynes’ famed “you may score, but it’s going to hurt” defense.
He who hesitates is … down 2-1
The slow close-outs to the 3-point line are mentioned above, but good defense is a chain of properly connected links. Stevens lamented that the Celts were looser than desired on Antetokounmpo, but he said that may have been because they were wary of how well the Bucks were hitting from the arc.
Therein lies the problem. By not being aggressive in the paint to start, the C’s were caught in no-man’s land. Hesitancy is what creates open shooters. Had the first line of defense been tighter, Milwaukee’s marksmanship may have been moot. Those perimeter people can still be open, but it won’t necessarily make a difference if the Buck with the ball is bottled up and can’t make the pass cleanly.
The Celtics can’t let Giannis with a game-high eight assists happen.
Driving in traffic
After Game 2, Irving said he would do a better job of getting into the paint and making the right reads. He said he and his team would do a better job of moving the ball from side to side and attacking the seams in the defense.
There was no reason to doubt his measured comments, and this as much as anything was cause for the belief this series was still in the Celts’ control.
But there were the C’s getting too deep on their drives, according to Stevens, and committing turnovers that led to Milwaukee getting easy opportunity buckets and free throws.
Remember how last year against the Bucks we criticized the young Celts for driving into the teeth of the defense and either turning the ball over or getting their stuff blocked? Well, there was the issue again Friday, only with veterans at the wheel.
The bottom line here is that the Celtics need to be doing less dribbling and more finishing. Their ball movement was largely exemplary as they rolled out to a 12-point second-quarter lead in Game 3 — and that margin frankly should have been greater. It was the kind of stuff that had the Bucks’ players looking at each other to wonder who left Jaylen Brown open and had Mike Budenholzer reaching for timeouts.
And then when things got tight as Milwaukee made its runs, the Celts got soggy. They lost their crisp.
If the Bucks want to load up on Irving, then picks away from the ball should yield cuts to daylight and layups — or extra passes to open shooters.
If the Celtics can do as they’ve been told by Stevens, they can even the series on Monday. That will still leave the daunting task of needing to win two out of three with just one of those games at home.
But if they don’t get their together in the next one, the offseason will be beckoning hard.
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