Celtics blow 30-point lead, fall to Hawks in OT to Dejounte Murray’s 44 points | NBA | UNDISPUTED

Celtics blow 30-point lead, fall to Hawks in OT to Dejounte Murray’s 44 points | NBA | UNDISPUTED

Wow Kobe would be proud of hey you know what skip Kobe will be proud of him because I’m not going to forget Kobe came into the Garden in 2002 you know how many shots he took on me 47 shots for 41 points so Kobe will be

Proud of you would you remember how many he missed that night he was like 17 for 47 something like that can you imagine the pressure of him coming down every single time shooting putting pressure on you I was like that that’s what that reminded me of okay so did last night

Leave you with even a little bit of concern about your Boston Celtics you know what I I when I saw it live I was like no I’m not but then when I drove in this morning I was like you know what it did leave me a little more concerned it

Was at a level two the first loss because it was a 30-point lead but now it went it went to three as far as level up out of 10 okay as far as level of concern and and the reason why because down the stretch of the Season you want to start developing your

Mindset you don’t want to get too complacent you know yeah you guys are going to have home court for all of the Eastern Conference playoff games and so but you got to start develop your developing your mind for the big picture teams like Atlanta you should crush

Every single time absolutely and I don’t want that to creep in especially at this stage of the Season they’ve only lost back-to-back games uh theirs that they reverted to last year which I think caught them instead of you know you got Five Guys six seven guys

Who can play so if they can realize look we can’t revert to our old habits of a year ago Y and realize that and snip it in the bud right now they’ll be fine look I still would consider Boston the favorite to go to the NBA finals from the Eastern Conference this doesn’t

Change that it’s not that kind of level of concern but I do think you have to look at this and say this is a serious red flag in that you lose at the beginning of the week that’s a blip this one this tells me you’re 100 games ahead

Of Milwaukee for first place in the East that hey this team isn’t to your level you are going to play teams in the playoffs that are way below your level that you are way ahead of understandings and if you cannot focus in games like this that is a problem it also sort of

Explained a little bit about their problems at the end of games right we saw again and again their crunch time numbers overall are fine right good they’re in fact they’re better than they were when they last went to the NBA finals however when you get to the final

30 seconds of a game and the final 30 seconds of a game that’s within three points the Celtics are seven of 25 from the field two of 11 from three five of 14 from two this is a team that has trouble organizing and executing end those are good numbers games that count

That is a concern that I saw last night so I I just think that these are little indicators as you say of things that they could face in a playoff situation it’s not like oh we’re not going to play Atlanta no you’re likely not going to play Atlanta however you are going to

Play teams you are way ahead of and if you let them back into series if a game goes here or a game goes there and then all of a sudden someone gets hurt you see how these things start to unravel and Boston just doesn’t want to get

Anywhere near that and by the way if I’m Damen Lillard I watched that game last night and I saw what deante Murray did and I thought well I’m better than him I could do that got to be where about what he did against New Orleans well I agree but I’m

Just saying when you Lakers the Lakers against the Lakers but when you look at but when you look at Deon Murray and what he was able to do last night there are Shooters in this league who could make that kind of yeah but to his listen jeon Murray they going into this game

Like there’s no pressure it doesn’t matter if we win or lose he took 44 shots when you play with no pressure just like when you see the Lakers play without LeBron there’s no pressure on them it’s easier to play so you know I nip it in the butt losing to LeBron

Without what just happened yeah yeah you know so Paul I told you this the other day my first problem with the Celtics is they do live and die by the three and it wasn’t so apparent last night but it was on Monday night because second yeah because once the immortal Sam Hower has

To play and goes two of 10 from three in the starting lineup you’re probably going to lose that 30-point lead and you did all right I also told you on tues Tuesday show your two kids I know they’re becoming men right before your very eyes but they’re both supremely talented you

Know them both very well there are just moments in a season when you say okay you two you have to say no you you have to when you when you’re up 30 in Atlanta and they are playoff team so they’re they’re respectable and you just have to say

Okay that’s enough of that we’re not going to allow this to happen down the stretch of this game and if it comes to crunch time one or the they have to figure out how is it your turn or is it my turn cuz one of us have to slam the

Door shut last night they had chance after chance after chance to slam the door shut on a team that is not nearly as good as they are and it became the biggest one on five display of offensive basketball I think I’ve seen it’s been a long time since I’ve seen anything like

This because dejonte just finally said I’m just going to do it every time and Joe moula decided we’re the Boston Celtics I got Drew holiday I got Derek white we’ll switch him back and forth Drew took him in the end of the game in the overtime but they they did not try

To take the ball out of dejon’s hand because they’re better than like they’re they’re above that we’re not going to just force the rest of them to beat us should have done the Nick Nur boxing one that is correct you could you could do that I I thought about that because this

Was just dejon or bust and I’ve loved him since he was a Spur I wish he was still a Spur because I would like to see him with wimy that would be interesting to me but no they wanted to start completely over okay so the point is in

In overtime he was let’s see he took eight sh dejonte took eight shots in overtime only one other no other starter took a shot and only one other teammate took one shot so he’s just bringing it down it’s like one on five I’m just dribble dribble dribble dribble and I’m

Going to create a shot maybe make it maybe not and I’m going to miss a whole lot but I’m going to make some too and I’m going to beat you in the end well that shouldn’t happen to the Boston Celtics so I’m projecting to the top if

In fact the Lakers figure out a way to get through the west and get to the finals I would favor them over Boston because of games like this because I I still believe that ad and LeBron and with some help from Austin Reeves and DLo and ruy I think they can figure

Themselves out before this team can in those those crunch time moments that’s just me that’s why it Disturbed me to watch them last night look they didn’t play as hard as the Hawks and I give them that because it’s it’s dog days you’re just trying to get to to the end

In one week just twice in one week I give the second time not the second one too many Le lemon pepper wings do you think in Atlant Atlanta lemon pepper oh yeah get you every time get you every time yeah but no it’s one thing it’s one

Thing to have it happen once but to your point you’ve got to sit there and say great we just got embarrassed we got we gave up a 30-point lead we played it’s same team and the same building four night three nights later we’re going to

Make a stand and we’re going to make a point we on the show yesterday you had us pick whether they were going to cover a 17 something spread and we both said yeah Kean and I both said yes and and I said there is no way have done it like I

Said I am taking those points it dropped down to I think when we did it on the show was 16 at that point and I said I don’t care they’re an NBA team if you give me 16 at home I’m I’m running with it and I would have been pretty good

Last night look at look though check this out the Boston have cruised through the regular season wouldn’t you say yes they’ve had no adversity correct I look at this as a little form of adversity and on your road to the championship you have to deal with some adversity so

Maybe this is a wakeup call like look we lost to Atlanta twice this could be the first 60- win team to have a player meeting after that game team player me I like that that’s true you know what I’m saying like it’s time for that it might

Be time for that them to come together like look we two weeks away from the playoffs yep yeah we got a 57 wins 16 losses but look it’s it’s goal time and so maybe this is something that probably should have happened and I’m happy that it happened right now because we don’t

Want this to happen in the playoffs to where you just think you’re too good and you can just cruise and win so maybe this is something that should have happened I’m happy that they did lose twice to the same team in one week and I

Hope this is a wakeup call okay so I am the biggest Drew holiday fan because I love his toughness I love his backbone I I I love his leadership his physicality especially on the defensive end and he was such a great pickup and I still say Milwaukee will miss that part of his

Intangibles he’s almost he’ll be 35 in June and he’s played 15 years so so he’s not he’s not exactly in in the middle of his prime he’s sort of at the at the back end of his career so I’m thinking well is he still that guy can he still

Because the I I go way back to the playoff where it was new versus Dame and he just took Dame out of the Ser they swept him because of Drew on Dame okay I’m not sure he can do that anymore so that that was interesting to me that dejonte was getting

Him at a time when I thought Drew was the missing piece here obviously he’s replacing Marcus Smart but but I think in some ways he can be even better than Marcus Smart all told all the the everything that he brings in that circumstance you can actually put white

On him because last year white was a all defensive player too kind of similar so we have options like you could have put dere white on point you don’t need Drew to be that Defender that you’re talking about as he was with Damen Lillard that team has enough going on in enough

Different places that that that team defensive concept can be there that was one shot but I would say the true holiday is still one of the excellent defenders in the league absolutely I mean he played great deep I mean de jante Mary shoots 18 44 I mean what more

Do you want I mean come on yeah if if you look at the 19 from three if you looked at the overall numbers you’d say well there’s no way Atlanta won this game right well look again I would I would look at the end of these games the

Games that they have lost and I I do want to point out in clutch time the way the NBA defines it they’re actually doing pretty well you just have to make it even smaller and you go to the final 30 seconds and that’s where you see some

Of the issues but that’s what finals games come down to right that’s what Eastern Conference Finals games come down yeah when you got a Boston team who’s breaking all these records of points margin per game at 11 that’s gonna be historic that’s does that matter to you though yeah because now

You’re like what you’re saying Rachel is like if you can get the Boston down to 30 seconds and it’s a one or two-point game then you have a shot but if not then pretty much they’re going to run away with the game the point differential number does not matter me

That much because points are so inflated now the fact that they are now beating teams by more points than has happened in the history of X or Y or Z it just kind of goes with Point inflation to me that being said I think they have been

Historically good in a lot of other areas and to your point they will beat you and they will beat you by a lot and then the question is if you can get them at the very end of games with that small margin that is where they have shown a

Weakness and they got to clean that up because that’s what NBA finals games that’s what it is so Paul Pierce they’re still going to win it all they’re going to win it all okay it’s hard for them to get up for Atlanta you know let it be

Milwaukee let it be the you know the Lakers with LeBron you know they’re they’re up for these games I mean Atlanta Jaylen Brown’s home home he probably went out with his whole family to dinner oh you know it’s it’s you got into a relaxed type of of mood you know

That’s home he got got the guys out I think you just talked yourself back into level of concern one oh I thought a three out of 10 the three is is the level of concern thanks for watching Undisputed fans do you want more highlights from the show make sure to

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Paul Pierce joins Skip Bayless and Rachel Nichols to express his slight concern for the Boston Celtics blowing another lead, this time, to the Atlanta Hawks 123-122 in OT. Dejounte Murray scored 44 points in the Hawks’ victory.

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