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Way to go celtics

when ilyasova is working you on the glass in an elimination game i think your heart might not be in it

Celtics should be up 15

by what measure...

wow horford

Well pretty ready for this cs squad to head to the offseason

yeah i'm not gonna miss these guys

rest in peace weird vibes

cusrise

cusgohome

cusgetdifferentplayers

Playoff kyrie was a hoax

I am enjoying these few minutes of Tatum and Brown attacking the rim and pushing the tempo like it was last year's playoffs.

Preseason Title favs from both conferences are gonna go out in the 2nd round it’s a wild world out here

playoff kyrie*

*lebron jame version

weird game celtics can’t come back but the bucks can’t pull away

this game is making me appreciate marcus smart

Bucks should be up by 25

Marcus Smart gonna will this team to at least go out busting ass

Yeah Celtics absolutely shouldn’t be in striking distance. Bucks are missing a ton of shots

If I’m Brad I sit kyrie and roll with anyone trying

Celtics are missing more shots.

Celtics +/- is pretty interesting

J. Tatum 	-18
A. Baynes 	-22
A. Horford	+3
K. Irving	-18
J. Brown 	-16

Wow that last 2 minutes like 8 offensive rebounds for the bucks then give up a layup to end the half too

Rough go for the celtoes

the bucks have physically dominated and completely demoralized the celtics, basically there was just nothing they cld do w giannis he owned them completely, kudos to the big man

Three players with positive +/- this game (and the only three players that averaged a positive +/- in the series):

A. Horford  +1
M. Morris   +4
M. Smart    +1

they could've sat giannis tbh

Kyrie gaf meter on zero

LOL come on, man. pic.twitter.com/0RpFoDJC9F

— :( (@NekiasNBA) May 9, 2019

Yikes, man. pic.twitter.com/JAWdCynNKa

— :( (@NekiasNBA) May 9, 2019

excellent game for kyrie to go 6-21 all things considered

he figured since hes done it the last 3 games why not keep doing it

This is exactly how I pictured this game in my wet dreams

too bad philly prob wont advance wld like to see embiid-simmons take a shot at defending giannis

i will say this--the worst thing about this celtics season was just trying to enjoy the team on a day to day basis. like, i would turn on the game on a random weeknight, set aside time or whatever (or at least tell my wife that we were not watching something together that night), and watch them get completely blown out by some team like orlando. it wasn't fun. i've seen plenty of toxic teams and probably rooted for a couple in other sports but this one really stung.

https://t.co/dLl5RF8fu3 pic.twitter.com/Iu53Fkts61

— NoTechBen (@NoTechBen) May 9, 2019

this kyrie year is one of the weirder nba things in recent memory. not quite up there with kawhi last season or the pacers implosion a few years ago but still supremely weird all around

he is a weirdo

celtics twitter pretty maudlin right now lol

🦌 Bucks 116, ☘️ Celtics 91

Kyrie Irving’s final four games of the playoffs: 25 of 83 shooting.

Mercifully, the Celtics 2018-19 season is over.

— Chris Forsberg (@ChrisForsberg_) May 9, 2019

“Go home Boston” chants raining down and the entirety of the Celtics once-hyped starters sitting there with nothing to do but watch the end of their season burn to the ground. pic.twitter.com/Qk6PNhczx4

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) May 9, 2019

What if I told you that the Celtics had more talent than just about any team in the NBA, yet couldn’t keep it together long enough to not humiliate themselves the entire season?

Presenting a 30 For 30: Love Lost in Erotic City

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) May 9, 2019

i feel like i rode pretty hard for kyrie this year when he was playing efficient offense and trying hard on defense but watching him in this series repeatedly alter the defense so he can "try" to guard giannis has me thinking that he's just an idiot.

I hated this team

hail king antetokounmpo

for the record i hope that milwaukee gets rolled because i dislike their team outside of giannis.

giannis maybe the most unfair player since shaq, like sure the celtics underachieved and whatnot but im not sure theres anything they cldve done with him under the best circumstances

doesn't explain their awful offensive performance in this series

if they went out in a competitive 6 games because giannis was transcendent that would be a different story

bucks are a really good defensive team and i think just seeing giannis at the line, dunking, dunking from the line every play is just demoralizing

but yeah they prob wldve taken another game at least if they werent so trashy in their own right

many opportunities to show character lol

Brad Stevens: "We really rode a rollercoaster a lot of the year and it was difficult. I did think we showed a lot of character at a lot of different times coming back."

— Chris Grenham (@chrisgrenham) May 9, 2019

i......do not agree

brad feeling the vibes

Brad Stevens to reporters in Milwaukee: "This has been my most trying year. I did a bad job."

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) May 9, 2019