It was a fight from the beginning, and Trae Young made it very hard early on, but the Celtics held on behind Marcus Smart and Malcolm Brogdon early, then rode Jaylen Brown until he and Jayson Tatum could close the door on the Hawks with a late run. John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal has all that, plus a look at the performances from Smart, Grant Williams, Al Horford, and Joe Mazzulla’s adjustments. Plus, there are no style points in winning a series, and this one might have been worth the one loss if it taught Mazzulla something.
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Dejounte Murray’s return did effect the Hawks a little he needs to get in the gym and bulk up this off season
I’m Sorry Miss Jackson I am for real
23:33 I thought we established that the Celtics do not learn. Are we back to believing that they can learn? Good luck with that.
LETS GO!
Im glad Mazzula took some level of accoutability and adjusted. I know that this is Mazzulas fitst playoff as head coach so ill give him some slack. He may make mistakes but he will adjusted and improve ans thats all i can ask for out of a coach tbh
13:04 spot on… I kept saying he wasn’t Marcus Smart last night. He was Marcus GENIUS!!
Anybody get 2008 vibes from this series? Atlanta played hard, and I think Boston needed to get pushed.
Is that socrates on your shirt? 😮 very cool :3
ARIYA elegance #36🔥☘️
Was it just me or did Rob look pretty out of it most of the game?
still no effort, no defense, no heart. Genuinely seems like this team just doesn’t care for some reason. Let’s see if they actually try against Philly
In the Phila series I think we will see at least one vintage Blake Griffin game. Can't wait to see him get under Embiids skin.
WHOSE IT THAT ON YOUR T-SHIRT MARCUS AURELIUS ? MARCUS SMART WAS GREAT – MAYBE THE HATE WILL STOP FOR AT LEAST 48 HOURS.
This game was giving me stomach turning anxiety but when I saw in the 4th that we hit that switch I knew we were going to win
Celtics advance. OK. Atlanta easily could have won this game though. If not for an untimely shooting drought they played a great game. Blown layups, missed wide open threes, missed rebounds. That's how it goes sometimes. Jaylen Brown is a beast.
Also for me I can't condemn the team for failing to execute at the end of game five and not credit them for their near perfect execution on both ends of the floor to end game 6. Clean slate for me, now we will see what team shows up for the 6ers, and the Cs have given me every reason to believe that it will be the World Beater Celtics to take out Philly.
I think the Hawks were better than people gave them credit for. I mean they did beat the Heat in the play in. In fact they dominated the Heat.
I’m waiting for Tatum’s signature game, even though he lead in scoring, rebounding and assisting in this series. That’s basic Tatum. Stay tuned 💚☘️
Muzulla made good adjustments.Y
Yeo John quick tip on the green screen. The further away you can be from the screen the better the mask will be. When you’re too close the light bouncing off the screen onto your back causes green to blend in with the coloring so that’s why you will have that kinda green aura around you in the videos lol. If you’ve further up so you control the spillage it’ll be cleaner in post production
I would have put in both Time Lord and Horford to counter all of those rebounds and follow ups that Atlanta got. It was closer than it needed to be.
The finger injury is the best thing that could've happened to Jaylen. He's a lot more focused on getting good energy transfer through his lower body on his jumper now that he's dealing with pain on his finger. I don't think it's a coincidence that he shot the ball extremely well from three after struggling during the regular season.
the inbound passing for the hawks, this offseason should be a priority 🤣🍀Let's go, Celtics! 💚☘️💪
I think philly offense not as good as hawks aside from embid
All I can take from this series is the last time the Celts won it in ‘08, they played a seven game series against Mike Woodson’s then Hawks, won it, and went on to win the chip against the Fakers. So, hopefully history will repeat itself.
Whoever said Trae is overrated is a idiot! This dude can ball! He just gassed out at the end of the game and Celtics defense was great at the end. What a block by Jb and the put back by JT was CRAZYYY!!!
Mazzulla called some timely time outs with like 4 mins left hawks scored a 3 to bring the game close by 2 and he immediately called time out and JB got the block and we went on a 11-0 run i like how he adjusted at the end and from game to game shows promise.
I knew Trae would get cold eventually. He was playing a ton of mins and the defense made him work hard for pts. That dude can ball though he is FAR from overrated
Al always hits a 3 when we need it most. That’s the wrong person to talk trash to! He is like me, when we get mad we get that laser focus just to get the last laugh! My dad used to say it all the time when I was playing soccer as a kid. “When you get mad you play so much better!” One time I got so mad I faked out the whole team and scored lol than picked the ball up and put it in the middle LETS GOOO!!! 🤬
Hey John, it's an ad but wanted to comment (Better Help): therapy is simply a must for most people; it's not about "problems." I call it mental hygiene. People didn't regularly brush their teeth 400 years ago either.
As I said in BSJ, my concern was simply the same as yours–particularly because they looked out of gas at the end of last season. No other reason.
John Collins is NOT a more athletic Grant–Grant is far stronger.
John Collins is a shorter, LESS athletic Ralph Sampson.
Give Joe credit for having Smart face guard Trae.
It shouldn't have closed them out in 5 games, but Collins and Hunter also shouldn't have played as well as he did in the last two game
IIRC it was Bogdanovic who stood up right behind Al on that three and as he turned to head up court he had something to say to the Hawks bench.
"Do one thing every day that scares you." —
Only thing that matters now is if Joel is playing , if so I would put in Al and Robert at the same time to stay a few feet back.
No way Philly wins , go Celtics!
This was a very good competitive game that was neck and neck till the better team pulled away in crunch time as they should. The Celtics finally played harder at the end of a game not softer. Still, the only team that can beat the Celtics is … the Celtics.