Keep moving
Don’t look down
Keep moving
Don’t look down
In most of the first four games in the series, Celtics They seemed to belong to the finals and they seemed to be a better team.
I’m here to tell you that the look didn’t fool you. The proof of pudding is eating — this is a vague English way of saying it. To do What is that team teeth. A good team plays good and a bad team plays bad. If one team shows almost complete proficiency with another team for eight quarters out of eleven that is A better team in that range.
So what happened in Game 4?
Submit to you what the Boston Celtics looked down on.
By that time, they were (mostly) playing basketball brands. Despite the occasional Jaylen Brown and Robert Williams dunk shoots, it’s not a basketball brand designed to bring out oohs and ahs. It’s an orderly, professional, team-oriented basketball. It’s a very old-fashioned Boston Celtics basketball.
And it was working. Everyone was in favor of the idea that they could wait for the Golden State to run from time to time and bend the Golden State to play their type of game.
Then came the fourth quarter of Game 4.
Ironically, what the Celtics should have noticed was that the car surrendered to the game plan. Benching Draymond in most of the fourth and benching Curry in the third part proved to be Boston’s redo.
When the Celtics lost their fourth quarter, they stopped moving and began to look down.I’m not a fan of color commentator in general, so ESPN 2 The color commentator made me crazy because of the size of the opportunity. If he knew the beans on the subject, I wouldn’t need to hear another Mark Jackson soliloquy on border defense, as he’s probably coaching somewhere.
Also, I don’t want to hear Jeff Van Gundy tired of the player going to the right. Between the two, they rode those hobby horses long enough to distract me, even when the Celtics were easily winning.
However, Jeff Van Gundy made useful observations in the middle of the first quarter of Game 5 as blind squirrels find nuts.
He pointed out that the Celtics still had a hangover from the end of Game 4.
He was right, and I think we all knew he was right.
GM should always think about the next season and the following seasons. Coaches need to focus on this game, the next game, and the games that follow.
Players need to focus on this possession, the next possession, and subsequent possessions. When the ball is in play, they need to have a short memory and can’t stick to the outcome of winning or losing.
now Golden State Warriors Fans may disagree here and say that Golden State won games 5 and 6 as much as Boston lost, and it’s fair. However, Golden State did not change the way games were played from 4 to 5. Other than starting Otto Porter Jr. at Kevon Looney, there weren’t any major adjustments in games 5 and 6, and that wasn’t a major change. Porter started 15 games during the regular season.
So, to be precise, what did Golden State do? conduct Did it promote such different results?
So if you say GSW has adapted to Boston, you can argue that the Warriors’ victory in Games 5 and 6 is due to their aggressive action, but if you’re going to say that, back it up. You need to provide some proof to do so. And to be honest, I can’t see anything. At least, nothing explains such a dramatic reversal.
On the other hand, it’s very easy to claim that Boston showed much less discipline in games 5 and 6. They gave up a 21-0 run in Game 6 because they yelled, and lack of discipline if that’s not evidence, then I don’t know what. Boston played the ball more than 40 times in the last two games, compared to 47 in the first four games. Boston’s 22 sales in Game 6 were almost a quarter of the series’ total sales.
And the fact that Golden State is “responsible” for the lack of discipline on the Boston side is equivalent to a bully telling the victim “see what you did to me.” If Boston rattles, it’s 100%.
In the last two games of the series, Boston was arguably the worst team, worse than the Golden State, as the Celtics continued to play calmly while the Celtics were completely defeated.
The Celtics realized they were on the brightest stage the NBA had to offer and began to wonder if they really belonged to it.
For fans of other teams, the stock reaction may be “well, maybe they didn’t belong there.”
It’s ridiculous.Celtics belonged to the final Because they were in the finals. It’s not like the NBA chooses a team from hats in the final.There are 3 rounds of playoffs Previous The finals, and each round is a series of seven games.
Of course, this is done to maximize the league’s bottom line, but the side benefit is that the two standing teams are two teams that deserve to be standing.
And that’s what these guys need to understand when the off-season begins …
They belonged to the finals.they Worth Being there.
But they didn’t do enough to be a champion, and that’s what they need to work on.
The team has grown into a habit towards the end of the Brad Stevens era of playing undisciplined balls because of the reasons they have to reflect. Whatever Brad was telling them, they didn’t want to hear. And it has been carried over to much of this past season. They had no discipline and apparently it was okay.
Then suddenly something was clicked around the end of January and the team started playing much better. But when the pressure was ratcheted to the highest levels available in the NBA, the Celtics returned to what they were familiar with and comfortable, the undisciplined play.
And there is no magical spell that Ime Udoka can speak. It will motivate you to play better. If these people aren’t willing to invest their efforts in themselves, they’ll soon start adjusting Udoka in the same way they adjusted Stevens.
But that doesn’t have to happen.As I said, this team Worth It’s in the place it was, and the effort required to win it all is minimal compared to the work they had to do so far. These guys have come a long way since they entered the league. They need to stretch a little more.
They need to keep moving.
And don’t look down.
