INSTANT REACTION: Lakers hot shooting, Celtics costly turnovers lead to tough loss at home

INSTANT REACTION: Lakers hot shooting, Celtics costly turnovers lead to tough loss at home

Welcome in Celtics postgame live Scout Eddie House Amina Smith here with you the Celtics losing to the Lakers tonight inside of TD Garden 114 to 105 and this is without Anthony Davis and LeBron James on the floor for this Lakers team and Eddie going into tonight’s matchup I

Did not think that this would be the case especially without ad and LeBron on the floor for the Lakers but what’s your biggest takeway after this loss for Boston I I just feel like the the the team came out at the in the beginning of

The game and you know you set the tone early you know and and that’s with any team any game any sport you set the tone earlier on how you want to play and how you going to try to dictate your you going to impose your will one way or the

Other and I I thought that the Lakers came out full force they came out downhill we came out kind of on our heels and tiptoeing and walking into things and really though all all all game I don’t think our offense our offense was kind of kind of out of sorts

Yeah I mean we couldn’t drive the ball get to where we wanted to like to my opinion I don’t think we played bad in the second half I thought the first half we messed around with the game and the Lakers got a ton of confidence and from

There like let’s just say let’s say we played 48 minutes the ball kind of bounced their way we got a few weird whistles but the fact that we only played 24 minutes that’s you that could happen so we mess around the first half who knows how that could go and then all

Of a sudden even when we were trying we were defending we were trying to get downhill like everything broke for them which you know like that could happen in the NBA game it’s weird that that happens for 48 minutes but when we were giving our full effort when we were

Defending when we were trying everything Lakers got all the breaks and that’s why we lost this game and we but we still had a couple mishaps and I I think at the beginning of the game the the start of the game that first half in particular that was awful it it’s awful

So now you put yourself behind the a ball now you’re trying to check you’re chasing stops you’re chasing points you’re chasing everything you’re chasing effort all those things that you’re chasing now and it’s hard to catch that those guys are Pros too and the more confidence you get you know you come in

You getting opportunities Haim MO is getting more looks than he you know normally has he’s knocking them down so now his confidence is rising D’s confidence is rising Austin Reeves is out there feeling like he’s the man you know what I mean and I’m going to stop talking about people before games cuz

Every time I do they come out they kill second most points in his career time in this building so I’m stop doing that I’m going stop doing that man you just talking about up before the the game and then he goes out there drops 32 what what you said was not like factually

Inaccurate you’re saying Austin Reeves is a good player very hard to carry a but not a franchise player no but tonight he was right he was their franchise player tonight and the Lakers they led by 14 in this first half or at the end of that first half and we talked

About about how this they came out slow in this game but Scout what allowed the Lakers to really have their way I think Eddie said it best when when a team has like a 10 to 12o lead right and let’s just say you go let’s say you go stop

Score three and you’re feeling good and you got momentum right you cut that thing to five and they go 32 next thing you know back at 10 you’re like man we thought we had some momentum and then we’re still down 10 we’re still down 12

So it just means like on this night we had to play Perfect to beat this team and that’s because we messed around with the game at the beginning giving guys wide open looks and turning the ball over and then those you got to think also with with that with the runs that

Happen you get fouls uh you talk about the free throws if you look at the free throw discrepancy it was massive it was massive and the reason being is you know this who is the aggressors the referees usually tend to call the those those fouls for the team that’s the aggressor

Whoever is the one that’s playing with Forest that’s getting downhill they feel that just like how we were feeling it we watching that we looking like man why are we kind of passive and why we not playing as hard as they are right now

And this team had a lot to prove I mean they still got a the the Lakers still got a lot to prove I mean by any means this doesn’t mean like oh Celtic we not pressing the panic button on the Celtics but it is a eyebrow Razer like hey man

What why you don’t come out here and take care of this business especially against a team that has their two Superstar so I think they went in the shoot around today talked about LeBron talked about how Austin Reeds plays off LeBron talked about the Twan game of LeBron and AD maybe mentioned that

D’Angelo Russell has had some good games but they’re not running through plays that D’Angelo Russell does and all of a sudden you scrap everything you’ve learned everything you’ve watched all the video for because Anthony Davis and and LeBron James are out so you’re not prepared to play this team but it

Doesn’t mean you can’t play hard and that it doesn’t mean you can’t take care of the ball but that’s my question okay so if you know that LeBron James and Anthony Davis aren’t out there on the floor wouldn’t you go harder as a player because then I feel like it’s not as big

Of a challenge even though the result tonight does not say that it’s not as big of a challenge as if you do have those two superstars for the Lakers on on the floor playing the more I’m thinking about it I don’t think that they they in particular said H since

They not out we’re not going to we don’t have to it’s going to be an easy night and I I I think it was just one of those nights to where sometimes it does take a little time for you to get going you ran into a team that was coming through

Humming running as fast as they can playing hard and intensity and all those things so when when I look at it and your point where you were talking about you know the first half if you if you don’t allow them to get going right they had different game they had we had a

Game plan for LeBron and AD right okay they’re not out there no more our defensive game plan and offensive game plan shouldn’t change that much their game plan our offense game plan should be the same and then if you don’t have ad out there or Lebron you will feel

That the offensive game plan should be a little bit more simplistic and a little easier for him but at the same time you know those are Pros on the other end you’re but you’re right about this no Anthony Davis no Rim protection we should have been attacking all night you

Know moving around Jackson Hayes with porzingis out if they switch put porzingis on the Block it was like too little too late and we’ve been going through this first we have the like we need to make a adjustments then we have the entitlement this game is we need to

Make adjustments and the players play like they were entitled you want to know something though what it’s hard to play solid defense it’s hard to attack offensively when you’re constantly taking the ball out the net because you’re turning it over and you allowing teams to get out in transition and you

Know out you know have uh numbers on the other end so when when you look at it that first half especially that first quarter they put themselves in a bad position because they didn’t play their brand of basketball and they allowed the Lakers to get a ton of confidence early

And again like I said everybody that’s plays this game of basketball is capable the scallenge right remember they was coming at you like oh man well you was yeah I watched that out here dogging that’s what you’re supposed to do you know what what’s funny about that I

Didn’t know none of those guys right but they always hit me up for either one or two buckets early after that once I know him over in the Celtics they allowed 19 tonight in this loss to the want some of that on the on the scallenge basketball

You one on one after after the Super Bowl defensive backs got man they they Play Def crazy want none of that tell physic all of it uncomfortable little bit difference you want that smoke I’m like the Celtics I didn’t want that smoke in the first half how are the threes working for this

Lakers team who’s actually one of the worst three-point shooting teams in the NBA right now because I thought we were getting cracked off the dribble all night long and that led to me the open three one time Jaylen Brown didn’t hustle back we got a wide open Corner

Three I mean I know he hit the deck and one of the foul but I just felt like we were not containing the ball these guys are just moving it getting wide open looks yeah now I think it was a a lot of miscommunication once and once they

Start getting it going there’s some shots up here that we seen where Austin uh Reeves hit some deep threes that’s a tough three but once you see a few of them that’s another tough one right there I mean you do got to get your hand

Up but that’s a deep one I think there’s a crack off the dribble but the fact that we had a lot of miscommunication Earl on if you locked watched uh that highlight we had two guys running back instead of two guys run I much rather

Have two guys run to the ball than two guys running away from the ball sure where was that defense though on that three-point line I just feel like the defense that we typically see from this Celtics team just wasn’t there tonight so so once again I think it was in the

Second half not in the first half I just thought and then once the guy starts going it’s hard to turn it you know you know like these guys were remember like you got to understand what they go through I think I mentioned it at halftime if they lose a game it’s the

Player’s fault it’s it’s not LeBron James fault right if there’s something wrong they need to be traded if if if they write stories about how this bench is no good they write stories about how this team is not as good but LeBron and AD are amazing so there’s a lot there’s

A lot of chips on their shoulders when they have to when they get a chance to play this way when they get a chance to make a few shots early and play the whole game so this is what you expect why why we weren’t prepared for that that’s probably more of the question

Than why are the Lakers ready to go because if you ask a bunch of Player NBA players that are finally getting the chance to rock right they’re going to be pretty excited about there’s a lot of sub story lines with the Lakers and LeBron James and and you got guys that

Want to be out there on the court

Scal, Eddie House and Amina Smith break down the Celtics’ 114-105 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers

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