Don’t forget the Celtics history is the top of the league. I don’t think they’re gonna get out reffed 7 games straight.
DWhite proving he a big game player once again. In your face threes as well as the open ones. Him and Al Horford both x factors. Celtics 4th quarter extremely good, got stops and nailed their shots. Interesting how the celts went after these 2 in trade and now they making things happen.
Tonight proves why I would let green walk
You nailed it
This is exactly how I feel. Derrick was never going to be a star player but on an elite team as a third or fourth option he then becomes a dangerous weapon. He was way too inconsistent with the Spurs and injury prone. With the Celtics he can be inconsistent, and it won't hurt them since they already have 2 established stars in Tatum and Brown but when he's on like tonight it makes them unbeatable. White would have served this same type of role with the Spurs had Kawhi not gone AWOL.
Guess you can watch this one.
Impressive 4th by the Celtics, props to DW
My man Ime, could have been the successor
Nice win!
Gonna hope derrick white can stay engaged and not disappear at any time in this series…
Tatum is bound to have a breakout game at some point…
if Ime drills the old pop - “how well do we respond to a win” mantra- the celts could really ruin the warriors parade by playing with intensity in game 2
most teams would relax and be happy to go home with a split….
cmon udoka-
dat comeback and continuing for the entire 4th.
Hahaha, you Warriors. Little gots.
"prolific offense" going 5 minutes without scoring
Meanwhile, this Celtics team is awesome. Their passing is giving me shades of the '14 Spurs.
the Warriors.
the warriors. Great job Cetics and Derrick was HUGE. Go get game 2 also but gonna be tough to beat the refs aswell who will be looking to send it back to Boston tied 1-1.
G'day mate. Also, the Warriors.
If Boston goes all the way, it'd be one of the greater playoff runs in recent memory. the durant-kyrie nets < defending champion bucks < 1 seed heat < GSW. Pretty damn impressive, and hoping they pull it off. Warriors on the other hand lucked into another relatively easy path to the finals, and I'd be happy to see them lose.
Yup. I don’t think they’ll regret those trades at all. Happy for Dwhite. He’s a new dad too… what memories f from this playoffs.
Just finished watching it now. I was amazed at how the Warriors choked towards the end of the third quarter. They had several chances to go up by 20 but couldn't do it and the Celtics played terrible also to end the third. DW was amazing he kept the Celtics in the game when they could have easily faltered. An observation I made is the Warriors did play good team defense on Tatum but Tatum also missed some shots he should have made. Warriors focusing too hard on Tatum defensively allowed Jaylen Brown to eventually go off in the 4th. The Warriors can't guard Tatum the way they did Luka and expect to get away with it due to Brown. This will cause problems for the Warriors throughout the series. The other observation I made is the Celtics got much better as the game progressed at guarding Curry off screens. Curry can still make shots when contested but the Celtics successfully contested all of his 3's off the screens late in the game. It was incredible to watch. The final observation I made is the Celtics defense is too great that whenever Steph is not on the court the Warriors fall apart. They might need Steph to play 40 plus minutes a game to win this series but I'm not sure at his age that he can do it.
Hoping the Celtics can win game 2 granted it will be hard.
Good on Whitey he’s a good guy. Poor old Golden Fake hahahaha.
I really want to see if the Warriors crumble after this game. I feel the Spurs had them in a very similar spot in the 2017 playoffs before Zaza took Kawhi out. Maybe it could have been an even worse loss as the Spurs were dominating the game until then, and Kawhi was looking like he's going for 40 plus. I wanted to see how they would have responded to a loss at home and trailing the series back then, but never got to see it due to the that happened. I think they might crumble, but we will see I guess.
Yeah, I think there is still a lot of basketball to be played. Warriors will probably come in with a vengeance game 2, and are also capable of stealing one in Boston.
I still think this series goes 6 or 7, but Boston definitely laid a haymaker on the Warriors last night. Their odds of winning definitely shot up just by having one in the books already.
These Warriors historically set the tone in the Steve Kerr era (27-2 in Game 1s before Thursday) with notable exceptions — in 2016 against Oklahoma City and the 2019 Finals against Toronto.
Horfard went all Robert Horry on that Warrior's ass
Don't underestimate the correlation of WarriorRef failing last night.
Their MVP comes back and Boston will have to win by 30 to show up on the scoreboard as a win by 2.
They are nasty AF on D when RW III plays.
i always hoped that RW III would wind up a spur; he was a beast at A&M.
Curry tweeked his ankle near the end
Any word on if it’s more than nothing
Thanks
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