CELTICS 2010

Auspicious beginning to the offs with Tatum's first career buzzer beater. Final possession was 12 seconds - saw in the AP write-up that all 5 Celtics on the floor touched the ball. Pretty sweet.

pretty crazy they couldnt get their signature ball movement going all game then the final play they did

which is the opposite of what usually happens in basketball

angle

unbelievable pic.twitter.com/5VUix4ttlt

— Boston Celtics (@celtics) April 17, 2022

lol

“Get that fucking shit outa here!!”#Celtics | #BleedGreen
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— Boston Sports Gordo (@BOSSportsGordo) April 18, 2022

seems crazy to me to be on yr phone instead of watching the game but i do appreciate the fan views

🚨 @jaytatum0 AT THE BUZZER 🚨 pic.twitter.com/hLY0SMusm6

— Boston Celtics (@celtics) April 17, 2022

hell yes

Le HUSTLE de Jaylen Brown, magnifique.pic.twitter.com/Js8Xhm3DGI

— TrashTalk (@TrashTalk_fr) April 17, 2022

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kd clock watching while tatum starts his cut

aww

A special moment today celebrating the heart and soul of our team, @smart_MS3 ☘️ pic.twitter.com/OPcgYbMmxt

— Boston Celtics (@celtics) April 18, 2022

this is so cool.

oh man love that moment for marcus.

kd clock watching while tatum starts his cut

and all five nets with their backs to the celtics' #1 option with 3.3 seconds left in a one-point game. not calling that timeout was a great call.

For the season, Boston scored 1.4 points per possession on any trip featuring the Tatum-Smart pick-and-roll -- No. 1 among 426 two-man combinations with at least 100 reps, per Second Spectrum.

seems good

marcus' decision making this year has taken a quantum leap forward. it doesn't exactly feel like he's seeing and doing things he couldn't before, so much as he's finally learned when to check his irrational confidence and let the game come to him

Jaylen Brown asked what he saw in Marcus Smart’s hand: “I don’t know. That was a play. I taught Marcus everything he knows. He may be defensive player of the year, but he got that from me.” https://t.co/vIg2BVG4mM

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) April 21, 2022

Marcus is like something out of the Matrix pic.twitter.com/AxLFrJJAec

— Cameron Tabatabaie (@CTabatabaie) April 21, 2022

Presented without comment pic.twitter.com/9YwXFZetmP

— Chris Grenham (@chrisgrenham) April 21, 2022

i figured out the hand thing

today is the marijuana “holiday” of 4/20

need I say more

in the gothenburg airport today

https://i.imgur.com/QvXtLzm.jpg

more like Daniel Ties pic.twitter.com/ZIZGV1OvLb

— Taylor Snow (@taylorcsnow) April 21, 2022

Hey @KlayThompson, I can dig it. https://t.co/Q5WIjUuqoA

— Booker T. Huffman (@BookerT5x) December 30, 2018

good stuff

With the Celtics facing a five-point deficit early in the fourth quarter Wednesday night, Udoka dialed up likely the most significant in-game adjustment of his young coaching career, given the circumstances. Partly to change Boston’s spacing, he called on a lineup full of his team’s best shooters: Payton Pritchard, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Grant Williams and Al Horford. The group had only played six minutes together during the regular season. It did not include either Marcus Smart or Derrick White. Still, Udoka felt comfortable turning to the unit with a playoff game on the line. He had a vision.

Over the next several minutes, the Celtics ran some variation of the same look on almost every possession. They stationed Horford and Williams in the two corners, knowing the Nets would not want to leave either of them alone. The placement of the two Boston big men dragged their defenders, usually Kevin Durant and either Andre Drummond or Nicolas Claxton, out of the paint. By taking the Nets’ two longest players away from the action, the Celtics also took advantage of Brooklyn’s lack of defensive depth. The Nets simply don’t have much perimeter size or length. Udoka’s decision left his own team’s three best shooters — Tatum, Brown and Pritchard — essentially playing three-on-three against small defenders in space.

The strategy set up Boston’s best offensive stretch of the game, a string of five straight scores that flipped a five-point deficit into a 99-94 lead.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQ37AouVgAQTG2z?format=jpg&name=medium

in game adjustments that work out perfectly are so satisfying

otm

I think they’re going to the finals

middleton injury def makes it more likely, lotta good teams out there tho

My brother in Christ you must change your pick and roll coverage immediately https://t.co/QXNMkZzuRP

— Riffs Man (@Riffs_Man) April 23, 2022

.@Money23Green breaking down the Celtics D on KD is the perfect teaser for game 3 pic.twitter.com/WnCQ9dBrAk

— The Volume (@TheVolumeSports) April 23, 2022

draymond like everyone else assumes that the nets will eventually run a play lol

youd think they could at leaast figure out a pindown but alas

one thing he mentions that the celtics have been doing is having two guys contesting his shots like not just raising a hand being nearby or whatever but two actually jumping at his shot, cant recall ever seeing a team do that this much, theyre coming at him from multiple angles

they sent him to the line 20 times in game two and just kept coming lol

2016 dubs did some similar stuff iirc. they had iggy dray klay harrison livingston to throw at him and they had him flustered espcially in those last few games

lol

Rob Williams with the most unsurprising story about starting his surgery rehab: "The first time I was out on the court, I tried to dunk, but they wouldn't let me."

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) April 24, 2022

so many big guys are self-conscious for one reason or another but rob is absolutely fearless and i hope he's able to stay that way.

Rob rehab vmic

lol

Rob Williams on when he felt like he'd be back in time for the playoffs: "Shit, right after surgery if you ask me."

— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) April 24, 2022

just thinking about how the celtics are playing nine guys in the playoffs seven of whom they drafted (or in the case of theis found just hanging out in germany), pretty cool, salute to danny ainge

and then horf is really an honorary celtics lifer even tho he hasnt played in boston that long and left in free agency to play for a rival lol

pretty cool how horf and theis were drawn back into the fold, the celtics mindtype was too powerful

white totally fits in too and seems like a guy theyll want to have around long term

good stuff nice team

salute to brad too for pushing all the right buttons pretty crazy performance for a rookie gm, same with udoka rookie coach

white totally fits in too and seems like a guy theyll want to have around long term

― lag∞n, Sunday, April 24, 2022 9:53 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

his dad is a sawx fan and raised him as such iirc, it was meant to be

it’s funny that after all the angst about kyrie, gordon, and kemba this team has found itself with the homegrown guys plus al.

just read that long piece on Ime Udoka and his portland roots in the athletic, great article

BOSTON — It was Day One of the Ime Udoka era in Boston when the new coach first stood before his team and outlined how the Celtics would now operate.

It wasn’t a long speech, because really, Udoka wanted to cover just two topics: Punctuality and accountability.

“I’m not a big rules guy,” Udoka remembered telling his team. “So the main thing with me is to be on time.”

On to topic two: accountability.

On the big screen, a video began to play. It was a string of post-fight interviews of Adrien Broner, the braggadocious professional boxer. The clips highlighted Broner’s self-proclaimed nickname of being the “Can Man.”

“Listen, man, they call me ‘The Problem’ but you can call me the ‘Can Man,”’ Broner said on the video. “Because anybody can get it: AfriCANs. AmeriCANs. DominiCANs. MexiCANs. Anybody CAN get it.”

The video stopped and Udoka looked at his new team.

“And Ime says to them: ‘I just want to let you all know: I am the Can Man,”’ Celtics assistant coach Aaron Miles said. “He said, ‘Any and all y’all Can — and will — get it.”’

The message was clear: From stars Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown on down, Udoka would hold the Celtics to a standard. Udoka calls it an “equal opportunity” to be called out.

it’s funny that after all the angst about kyrie, gordon, and kemba this team has found itself with the homegrown guys plus al.

― call all destroyer, Sunday, April 24, 2022 12:32 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yup

The message was clear: From stars Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown on down, Udoka would hold the Celtics to a standard. Udoka calls it an “equal opportunity” to be called out.

― symsymsym, Sunday, April 24, 2022 11:35 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the spread of gregg popovich thought