‹‹‹‹ 2022 NBA Finals ›‹ Celtics vs Warriors ›‹ The ILH Bowl ››››

Hello? Is it threes you're looking for?

is his shoulder still fucked

It would be so nice if he made some shots

I guess everyone else can score instead, I'm good with that

hes hesitating even before shooting open 3s warriors d has him confused or something

dare I say the Cs are making a run

the ball is going in the circle

Holy shit

dis game is wild

derrick white on fire

Utterly insane comeback

And all without much of anything from Tatum

yeah the Celtics FG% is like 85% when they don't involve him at all

relentless

derrick white is having an unbelievable game

i have no idea what makes him tick but may this continue for 6 more games

Jaylen Brown not too shabby either

Celtics getting Horford back was like the greatest front office move of the 21st century

amazing it was seen, from the outside at least, as purely dumping kembas contract at the time

Man this has the making of a tremendous choke job.

Horford first player in history to sink 6 threes in a Finals debut

Insurrection!

lol

the peoples comeback

Unbelievable

30 point swing

i knew they still had a shot when they were down but was not expecting this

series narratives are mostly nonsense in this high-variance era but this game should put people on notice. the celtics coming back from multiple double-digit deficits is a really important takeaway.

Draymond's face right now is like "I'm seein' double here! Four Fergies!!"

Respect to the Celtics. Their passing this quarter has been phenomenal. Defense and shooting, too, but the passing is just beautiful.

Maybe the worst draymond playoff game I’ve ever witnessed

he had the best +/- on the team though!

the passing is just beautiful.

― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Thursday, June 2, 2022 11:25 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

theyve been playing a ton of switchy paint packing defenses so far this playoffs but with the way the warriors play they might be able to get them in rotation and get back to the high level ball movement that made them the best offense for the ~second half of the season

dubs choked rip

C's aren't the Mavs.

grinders

https://i.imgur.com/7VoKxEN.png

Turns out shooting like 90% on threes and playing great d for the final quarter is a good strategy for winning

hell yea

they should just keep shooting 90% imo the rest will take care of itself

40-16 4th quarter

if the celtics can play pritchard without the warriors victimizing him like they did tonight thats good for them

The Boston Celtics are the first team in NBA history to win a Finals game by double digits after trailing by double digits entering the 4th quarter.

Their win probability fell as low as 4 percent when they were down 15 near the end of the 3rd quarter. pic.twitter.com/ce28lV5lsI

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) June 3, 2022

hard to account for that shooting but if you take a step back the fourth quarter was way harder for the warriors than it was the celtics, putting the shooting aside. the warriors had a really hard time generating offense where as the celtics did not really. even if they miss half those threes they still win. the gap in athleticism was pretty stark in the fourth esp when the warriors had the ball.

steph gave the dubs 34-5-5, might be his best game of the playoffs and he might have to be that good 3-4 more times if the dubs are gonna win the series. if you look at the celtics losses in the last 2 rounds almost all of them featured a herculean effort by someone on the other team. in five of their six losses jimmy had 40 twice, giannis had 40 twice, and bam played the best game of his life. game one vs the bucks they just kinda played like crap. dubs might need one of those

clearly the warriors are gonna need way more from poole bcuz klay is only going to be a standstill shooter in this series and they need someone else who can get buckets in one on one situations. idk if steph has it in him to do be the only one. that’s asking a lot of any player vs boston’s D, which has been borne out in the previous series

Starting the 4th with two non shooters and no Steph isn’t gonna work against this team.

omg @ horf doing draymond’s “muscle man” bicep pose after his and-1 in garbage time.

incredible comeback even more incredible that they did it without tatum scoring. i always thought the c’s best chance of winning this series was to steal game 1 in california, before the warriors had a chance to get used to their physicality.

first quarter the c’s offense felt v stagnant. how many times did we see tatum drive into a wall and kick to smart for a 3? that can’t be plan A.

one interesting thing for the rest of the series is the celtics played much better in this game with only one big, the dubs were finding too many holes in their d with two bigs trying to navigate all that movement, they had a good run with just horf in the first half then played small the whole 4th starting with rob then subbing horf, only problem is they dont have enough perimeter players to play that way all game unless they want to play nesmith who is not very good but can play some d idk, just might not be grants series its asking a lot of him to be chasing the dubs guys around screens

conversely idk if the dubs draymond at center lineups can play enough defense to be viable, they ran with him there almost the whole 4th and the celtics were getting whatever they wanted, the thing that made their old death lineups so great was that they could really defend theyd turn you over then hit a three two seconds later, now theyre putting iggy porter poole and post injury klay out there none of whom are great defenders and theyre small playing a physical team that still has good size even when theyre small, think they might need to look at some kuminga minutes or smthn

you cant run kuminga with draymond, youd have two offensive zeroes in a death lineup it just doesnt work. warriors might be out of options here

Looney plays alongside Draymond a lot though. Then again, Looney is also an MVP.

Yah but Steph plays with them.

JJJ and morant left open to shoot threes was the plan. not sure they want horford shooting those same shots