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In two weeks I’ve literally gone from “Wentz can be a top 5 QB in the NFL”, to Tank For Trevor!! I’m still not sure sure how much of this to put on Wentz. He’s absolutely been awful this year, but at the same time 3/5 of his projected offensive line is out for the year and once again his top 3 wide receivers are all hurt, and his defense is awful He really has no help, but geez he’s been terrible.

I also think while Kawhi had to do what was best for him, if he stays in Toronto I think they’re coming out of the East this year and Toronto with Kawhi is better than the Lakers. None of this is the Lakers fault of course, they play who is in front of them, but this is not a great team Lakers team. It’s really an above average team in a year with no great teams.

No doubt. A couple hot takes here. 1) I’m a Celtics fan obviously, but I think Miami has a better chance against the Lakers. They’re deeper, they have Bam to try and guard AD, and they have Butler, Crowder and Iggy to throw at LeBron. The Celtics aren’t deep enough. 2) While I think the NBA is deep this year, it’s also weak at the top. This Lakers team will be one of the worst championship teams in a long time. They’re not that good. This statement is more an endictment on the entire league than just the Lakers.

Howard has been a clown this entire series and the officials have let him get away with it.

Haha, I purposely didn’t use the word “adjustments” because I hate when fans default to that every time their team loses.

Agree. This will tighten up. Frustrating that after a great 3rd quarter attacking the basket and getting to the line, the Celtics comes out Andy jack up two bad, quick 3’s to start the 4th.

After almost two series of getting out coached Stevens finally makes some defensive changes and it has a huge impact. Celtics started pressuring the ball up top and stopped switching screens, making it more difficult for Miami to seek out mismatches of the switches. They started forcing turnovers and bad decisions by Miami which resulted in 3-4 fast break, easy buckets, and now they finally have some offensive rhythm.

Exactly, and now Tatum has 3 fouls.

Agree on both. Tatum got fouled going to the basket in the last minute, no call. Then Crowder gets a similar call immediately on the other end.

I know I complained a lot about the refs in the Toronto series, but I haven’t at all this series. Tonight? These refs suck. While Boston has taken a lot of 3’s, Tatum and Brown have also attacked a lot and they’re getting zero calls, and they are getting fouled. Yet on the other end Miami is getting everything. Tatum should have 6 more free throw attempts than he does.

That was awful. Honestly, I was stunned at the initial call on Kemba, then when Brad challenged I was like “ok, no chance this doesn’t get overturned.” It was so blatantly a foul on Butler, like not even close. Seriously, how can 3refs review that and get it so glaringly wrong?

Well, the Celtics just bombing quick 3's off of one pass again. Not going to win that way.

I think he's going to be a much better NBA player than Chapman was. Seriously, watching him last night the player that most came to mind was Steph Curry. Not saying he's going to be an MVP, but Herro has a chance to be a year in and year out All-Star at some point soon.

I don't know, it was a bad call. I'll take it though, because Butler got away with an equally as bad pushoff earlier in the game that Miami scored on. Tatum has to watch that though, he does that 3-4 times a game and gets called for it a lot.

The Celtics shouldn't have turned the ball over 20+ times. I'm a Kemba fan, he's definitely a much better fit than Kyrie was, but its going to be difficult for this team to win a title with him being such a huge defensive liability. Toronto in the last series and now Miami have just abused him. Its not a lack of effort, he's just too small.

They changed it, rightfully so, to a shooting foul.

Being up 5 with under a minute to go and losing Game 1 is going to haunt the Celtics. Tough loss and not looking good for my C’s. - Kemba is a massive liability defensively. - Way too many 3’s, when they won last game by passing up 3’s and attacking the basket. - Over 20 turnovers was the difference. - While he bounced back in a big way in the second half, you can’t have your best player go 0’fer in the first half. - Tyler Herro is going to be a star in the NBA. Ugh, and that’s who Ainge wanted at #14 and Miami took him at #13.

Tyler Herro is a special player. This kid has some Steph Curry I’m him.

Great win for them. A shame they lost Game 2 with that buzzer beater. The Nuggets are so tough and skilled. Fun to watch. The bubble has been awesome! I think we’re really seeing the effect of these guys not having to travel all over the country and not having to play back-to-backs, etc. The guys are fresh, rested, and playing hard every night. It’s been great.

I thought Kenny Atkinson did a phenomenal job in Brooklyn. I’m still not sure what happened there. Is there something about him I’m missing? He’d be a good hire.

It's a shame because Denver owned the execution that 3 minutes. The Lakers were actually pretty bad the last 3 minutes and Denver played excellent defense the last possession right up until that play. Again, Malone never should have put Plumlee in there.

Ugh, bad move by Malone to go big on that last defensive possession inserting Plumlee. Immediately led to a miscommunication defensively on the last possession giving Davis a clean look at the game winner. Phenomenal job by Davis to hit a game winner 3 like that.

The Lakers have the two best players of all the teams left. In basketball the team with the best players usually wins. I'd be shocked if the Lakers lost, and I'd favor them in any series against any of the teams left. WIth that said, the officiating in game 1 was a complete joke. The refs 100% took Jokic completely out of that game. It was ridiculous. I'm not necessarily saying it's some league conspiracy or anything, but the officiating was atrocious and completely slanted in favor of the Lakers.

Good win for the Celtics. Main reason was they (primarily Brown, Tatum and Smart) attacked the basket and didn’t settle for lazy, bad 3’s. Also didn’t hurt that Hayward was back and played really, really well.