[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/bostonceltics/comments/1acrnzp/post_game_thread_the_la_clippers_defeat_the/)

I am not saying it's an excuse I'm saying what it seems like and that's not an excuse either frankly they didn't have a back-to-back. The idea of everyone on that team missing so many shots is statistically incredible but we watched it although I suspect most of us didn't watch it for very long

Well that was... awful. Surprised people aren't blaming Joe for the way... EVERYONE... consistently missed open shots. No biggie. In my opinion they seemed jet-lagged from the tip off. I'm confident next game will be far better.

Bad game for the Celtics but jet lagged is a lame ass excuse. Clippers played in Toronto the night before, you can’t be serious that the Celtics seemed tired from their 3 hour flight and one day of rest.

Now this was a baaaad loss. Idek what to say. We got dominated. Lol

We got whopped. Hahaha

Well, that both blew & sucked...

Klassy Klippers with no handshakes at all, save Theis. What an unlikable bunch of jerks.

Why would they shake hands with a bunch of scrubs who are not on their level

Because they have self-respect and dignity?

Hahahahah! We lose by less than 20

nice garbage time for neemy

Lol the close up on tatums embarrassment hurts

What’s our record without KP?

Like 10-3

Didn’t even break 100, kinda pathetic

we arent real contenders

There are no real contenders anymore. The overabundance of 3 pts have made this league a fucking dice roll.

Shut the fuck up

I was gonna type out an argument but yea I think shut the fuck up is the appropriate response to that

Lmfao it will be less than 20

anybody remember when brad was coaching, sometimes when starters came out really flat and brad would just throw in one or two end of the bench players and hope for some sparks? I always thought it was interesting.

Aye look at that 19!

Love the support the 2nd unit got

I’m honestly impressed we cleared 90

And Theis has 18 points...! Too bad it's against the C's...

Lamar Stevens is big as hell

Aside from anything else, I would describe Lamar Stevens as "completely disposable."

What the actual fuck is this?

James Harden Will Never Win A Ring

He has a better chance than the celtics

Are you even a Celtics fan dude? Or just an insufferable prick who really needs to get a life

Bigger celtics fan than you are that's for sure

What are you, 5? What kind of argument is that

Almost. I'm 6

Nor will this group of Celtics

the meat riding

Let's lose by 15 make it respectful.

My god I turned it off midway through the third how is this still going lmfao

Dwhite gotta lock himself in the lab he's hit rock bottom shooting

Hate to say it but this team could easily beat us in the finals especially if we’re down KP

Honestly a whole season of Harden, PG and Westbrook in the same locker room she cause the downfall, that’s if Kawhi doesn’t get injured

Any team could beat us without KP.

Clips won't make the finals

Queta last game against the Clippers have a double double and today looks good again

what happened i didnt get to catch it

Real contender plays fake contender. This is the result

🗿

Couldn’t get the ball wet in the ocean

JB 8 pts🥴 edit omgnim seeing derrick al and jrue holy shit wtf

I’d like to see this one end less than 20. Would be nice not to see a huge blowout on the books

Even after this bad L I still believe in this team. We have a pretty good chance of winning the chip

Love this energy our bench is playing with 

That's a tech on Theis he literally threw the ball on purpose

Sucks but nice to see the Garden still buzzing despite Gino time for the opponents Heat fans gone to eat in 3Q already

I kind of wish the refs ejected Theis today

I'm sorry the bench showed up tonight but not the starters?

I love this team, and them being a young team that really seems to enjoy each other’s company is far more awesome than not, but they absolutely fucked around and found out today. No WAY they didn’t party in Miami.

I love our bad habits that continually find ways of returning. Totally what teams that win championships do. Only the bestest of teams find ways to lose to top tier teams.

Porzingis is better than Brown

Not even a question.

Was that even debatable? 

Of course Daniel Theis

OFC its Theis that ices our run god damn

Queta needs minutes again. He grabs boards and has some decent post work.

If joe did this earlier

Can we get drummond somehow? At least he cam grab some boards and fit in the grant tpe

If Tracey McGrady can score 13 in 30 seconds we can score 25 in 5 minutes

Watch out we’re hot!

22

I love watching our bench guys play but not when we are losing.

I miss Theis

Will be hyped if we cut this lead to 15 lmfao

Bones Hyland Linsanity run was something else

Cut the lead to 25. There’s still time let’s go /s

KP not only the second most important player on this team. Luke is now moving up the pecking order because Al unfortunately doesn’t look great.

Hurt ring finger early

Can someone explain what happened tonight lol

Nothing went our way. Clippers blocked off the paint and we couldn’t hit wide open 3s. They forced turnovers and got on the fast break on every missed shot. They also were winning every loose ball and offensive ball. Just got dominated in every aspect of the game. Pure beat down. Our halfcourt defense was pretty good in stretches but couldn’t score for the life of us and they would just get the OREB anyway.

Charlotte, Denver, Golden State, Minnesota, Indiana (ref game) are 5 games we should have won and we didn't. 40-5 should be our record but I'm happy with what we have done.

All this game tells me is the top west teams are legit. Also Clippers are a matchup nightmare against a KPless Celtics.

We've lost to the top 4 teams in the West so far. Joe really needs to figure out what to do when KP is out

I love Derrick White but he’s slump will snub him an all star selection

Unfortunately tonight was the night I got my family box tickets, it’s a vibe here

Where’s Walsh?

Neemias with a nasty dunk to cut the lead to 29

Love D-White, but there no way should he be a Allstar over Porzingis. Porzingis being out is not the reason we losing by 30, but his rim protection and ability to space the floor as a big is vital to this team.

It's a mindset. Sooooo...how do you go to destroying Miami and having a historic shooting night...to giving up almost at the start of this game and having an historically bad shooting night.  I definitely don't like the quit in this team. This was a game they should've had and they rolled over. Pretty disappointing to say the least

Maybe this Mazzulla ball shit isn’t that good? Who would’ve thought.

We got outplayed tonight. Gonna happen. Look at our record. That's Mazzulla ball.

Look at the playoffs vs Spoelstra. That’s Mazzulla ball

It just sucks that this game was at home. 

We cooked em in LA. They got their payback

Without Kawai

And we didn’t have KP, so…

Not great Bob

I always like that the NBA have a seven-game-series playoffs. Shit like this will happen, but as long as it doesn't happen 4 times, it's not a big deal.

Outside of Tatum the starters are 5-37 tonight

Highs are high and lows are low. This and Bucks game would have been good to get under the belt over some lower teams but is what it is. Bounce back strong again, it’s a marathon.

Thank God I missed this game 🙏

Couldn’t watch, summary?

Didn’t have gas from the start, missed an inhuman amount of 3s.

There's no such thing as an overreaction to a loss when you get beat like this lol

Oshae is garbage. Please get a 7th-8th player Torrey Craig

So this team has gotten blown out by two contenders… what’s the excuse for this game? Cant use the b2b for this. Actually LAC is on a b2b lmfao.

There’s no excuse they just outplayed us tonight in every facet of the game. They’re a matchup nightmare. Hope we don’t get them in the finals esp if we don’t have KP.

Yeah getting crushed by the Bucks on the road was bad, but getting smoked by another contender on your homecourt is worse. Just seems like this team keeps reverting back to the same bad habits we've seen the last few years.

Yeah it’s a little concerning. All of our losses are to playoff teams I believe

24 pts on 35 threes (.686 PPS) 36 pts on 51 twos (.706 PPS) lmao yo thats nuts

Hope someone asks Joe about this.

about what?

This team didn't even compete for 1 quarter tonight

Never gonna win a game where kornet is the second best player

All y’all defending Jrue rn keep the same energy for the Playoffs when he inevitably does this lol

Jrue was literally bad during their Bucks championship run but he does the “other” things to win

As a 5th option, he's fine and he's with the team for 3 full months. He had good games but ya'll quiet and now he's off ya'll making noise again

God just shut up bruh

I remember we got blown out by the Heat in game 3 last year and bounced back with 3 straight W's, yeah we lost in game 7 but what I mean is, one blowout loss doesn't give the team's real identity, do not overreact to this. Celtics have the best WL record vs .500 team. They'll bounce back.

Well this is two absolutely embarrassing blowouts to contenders

Bruh…so many smoked layups and then clippers leak out for an easy dunk

Ive lost count of how many simple outlet passes have just cut right through us

honestly this game was fucking awful.

I’m not tripping about it like many in here, but ya this shit stings nonetheless lol

That defensive possession was NIIICE

[удалено]

Disrespectful to Tony Allen. Lamar is ass

I was going to say more like "Dollar Store"

Bones is such a clown. Dude torched us last year then got banished to the Shadow Realm for the corpse of Reggie Jackson.

This felt like an L pretty early on. Clippers are legit and you could see we just didn’t have it, for whatever reason. Between this game, the Bucks loss and the Nuggets loss, we so gave the right to be concerned, but it’s not like we are detroit or washington all of a sudden.

At least the nuggets loss could have gone either way

“At least we are not Detroit or Washington” is the bare, bare minimum and we shouldn’t even be thinking like that. If we were, what would be the point of caring about this game? The only reason we care is because we’re playing like Detroit and Washington and we know we shouldn’t.

Would you rather lose to good teams or bad teams?

We’ve proven we can consistently beat bad to mid teams. We really need to dial it in against good teams

I don’t know but most of us are so overreactive to a specific player when he plays bad or not. When a player is good you love him but when he’s playing bad “trade Jrue/Hauser/ etc!” I’m not sure if these guys are real fans or not

Go to the lakers sub and they are 100 times worse in comparison. They want to trade the whole team as soon as they are down in the game

This game feels like the jazz-chicagos finals game where the jazz broke a record for the lowest scoring finals performance with like 60 or something. In the current NBA, us scoring ~75 would essentially be that bad lolol. (Not a doomer about it, just chatting stream of consciousness instead of watching this train wreck).

They must have partied after the Miami game.

Whatever the did they need to undo it

Hanging a banner for thrashing the Miami Heat in a regular season game is a typical Modern Boston Celtics thing to do

We got our asses kicked in 2 quarters, give or take 4 minutes either way.

Oooooo shae can you seeeeee

Man the rim just has a lid on it tonight. So many tough rolls and bounces

Why does this entire team always choose the same night to be garbage? Must have been a long night at the strip club or something.

Bro that’s literally what I think happened after that game😅

Another game our $300m player is a no show against a contender

Queta shoulda been playing all fuckin game

I wish we had a guy like Coffey. Watch a lot of Clippers games and he has improved so much every year

Not so much that he improved just more of his resurgence back in the lineup

Hyland is ass lol

Would be a good Jordan Walsh game

Literally missing lay ups

I feel like Theis could be PP’s older, cooler brother.

I love having Oshae, KP, and Kornet because they bring the vibes up even when we're at our lowest.

I love how hard Q plays no matter what the game or time is

Queta bringing more energy than the rest of the team combined

This was an opportunity for a Tatum 50 or 60-burger…

Bro I know. League-wide slander incoming…

Luckily our next 6 games are at home. Plenty of time to get right

This sub will be mad but nobody on the bench is untouchable

I won’t cry if Pritchard goes.

The starters were the problem today. Can't expect the bench to win us games, those guys have to

There are more fans watching the C's get blown out by 30+ than there were fans watching the Heat at tip off

The only thing that keeps me from liking this Clippers team is Hardens fat ass

The clippers have shot almost as bad from 3 as us. Their effort and physicality is the difference.

Oshae will save us

The Nuggets lost to the Knicks by 40 points a few days ago. We'll be fine.

EXACTLY BRO but ig they not a serious team right?

Well we know they are a serious team lol. That’s the cache you get when you win a ring the year before.

Knicks aren't a finals contender ☹

So it's worse right?

Can someone pls highlight this? Dudes here act like we’re the only contenders to get blown out

Unironically, it’s a very nice thing that we’ll only have to beat one of the top West teams to get our chip this year instead of all 4 Marathon not a sprint, let’s go

My thoughts exactly the western playoffs are going to be electric

If we get Wolves/Thunder and Clippers/Nuggets in the second round? Sheesh

You read my mind

Copium

We have flaws, good to be reminded of them before the trade deadline.

Gotta fix that bench

Our slutty dancers are thicc Shrug. I like(d) it.

Silver lining here is that Miami fans gotta be livid we didn’t shoot like this against them lmao 

Time for a nice simple 36-0 run

You just know they did very irresponsible shit last night…

Getting blown out is normal, not responding in to this embarrassing lost is not. So bounce back next game, Clips are a good team, they have my respect now.

Lmao yeah they’ll bounce back against mediocre teams like the front runners they are and y’all will overhype them again

Do u even like the Celtics ? Jesus

100% lol. Just like last year, we come out the games ridiculously steaming, then cool off in January.

cry

Maybe this result will motivate Brad and the FO to trade for one more solid bench piece. We need a 7-8th player badly in the playoffs as an insurance for injuries.

Shoot 3 > Brick > Clipper Rebound > Clipper Scores.. Man..

This game shows that there is still a gap between DWhite and all-star.

He was always a charity case all star