| 128 – 133 |
| Box Scores: NBA – Yahoo |
| GAME SUMMARY |
| Location: TD Garden (19156), Clock: END OT |
| Officials: Tony Brothers, David Guthrie, and Tyler Ford |
| Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | OT | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Pacers | 31 | 33 | 29 | 24 | 11 | 128 |
| Boston Celtics | 34 | 30 | 30 | 23 | 16 | 133 |
| TEAM STATS |
| Team | PTS | FG | FG% | 3P | 3P% | FT | FT% | OREB | TREB | AST | PF | STL | TO | BLK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Pacers | 128 | 53-99 | 53.5% | 13-35 | 37.1% | 9-10 | 90.0% | 10 | 53 | 38 | 23 | 8 | 21 | 4 |
| Boston Celtics | 133 | 47-99 | 47.5% | 15-45 | 33.3% | 24-30 | 80.0% | 13 | 52 | 30 | 15 | 11 | 14 | 5 |
| PLAYER STATS |
by ItsN0tTheB0at
41 Comments
This game is the personification of “bad basketball”. So many braindead turnovers, missing WIDE open shots, horrid officiating and coaching. Just embarrassing stuff from both teams lol
Aye man if I’m a Pacers fan tears are flooding down my face.
The Celtics simultaneously showing us all why they’ve been beatable and why they’re favorites for the championship all in one game
I can’t believe the pacers fucking couldn’t inbound the ball up 3. Unreal choke job
rick carlisle do you have 35k more to spare
Free throw disparity be damned, the Pacers fucked themselves
Commentators: “It would be a good idea to immediately foul when up 3 and Celtics don’t have a time out.”
Pacers: [*does not foul immediately, lets JB hit a game tying shot, loses*](https://donaldearlcollins.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/reggiechoke.jpg)
Pacers shot themselves in the foot, in their leg, and in their head in the last minute of the fourth.
https://i.imgur.com/SFelLGW.jpeg
So much choking in this game, even I started choking
Tatum and Haliburton going blow for blow to see who can be less clutch in this series
**Round One: Haliburton**
Blame the refs all you want but the pacers blew it
Rick Carlisle is a good coach but his stubbornness cost Indiana. Not fouling while up 3, with less than ten seconds remaining, doesn’t make any sense. Especially considering Boston had no timeouts. Also he should have taken a timeout to advance the ball on the previous possession before Siakam lost it.
OT was essentially a battle of who can attain oxygen first between Tatum and Haliburton, and Tatum prevailed.
**Brutal** loss for Indiana. I get that it’s his first ECF game but Haliburton had some unbelievably costly errors. Losing his handle at the end of regulation which was the first gift they gave Boston before the later inbound error. Then down 123-124, getting clamped by Jrue and letting it slip out of bounds *again*.
The fact they almost won this despite the FT/turnover disparity is gut-wrenching.
Congratulations to the paces for grabbing the defeat from Jaws of the victory.
Celtics also tried to compete with them to throw away the game but Pacers came out on top 😤
For the love of god Tatum. Don’t get bored attacking the rim.
Unbelievable choke job from Indiana. I’d be absolutely livid if I was a Pacers fan
Pacers had every chance to seal that game in the final minute of regulation.
Instead, they turned it over twice in the final 30 seconds of regulation, didn’t take a single shot in the final minute of it and didn’t foul a single time in that span. This loss is going to sting them hard.
Pacers with a disasterclass on how to close a game out
Pacers did everything in their power to snatch defeat from the jaws off victory. Haliburton really channeled his inner JR smith
It truly blows my mind that in the year 2024, with the mountains of analytics we have driving professional sports, there are still teams that don’t foul while up 3 in the final seconds
I lost brain cells watching the last 30 seconds of that 4th quarter
If you put a finger in my butthole during that 4Q/OT, you weren’t getting it back
*“Somehow, the Celtics have won.”*
Pacers fans can rest easy knowing the Celtics seem incapable of winning a game 2
Dread it. Run from it. The Siakim spin cycle turnover arrives all the same. Also neither of these teams wanted to win lol.
Rick Carlisle you’re a fucking idiot
taking away 2 pts from Indiana early made all the difference
Hear me and rejoice!
You PACERS have had the privilege of being saved by the Great Forehead.
You may think this is suffering, No… it is salvation.
The universal scales tip toward balance because of your sacrifice.
Smile… for even in death, you have become children of DERRICK WHITE.
That’s the exact kind of game the Celtics lose every time the last couple of years
Jaylen Brown
gg boston, you guys played hard
If I was a Indiana pacers fan I would be so mad right now. The biggest chance of winning game 1, it would’ve been massive, and you blew it
Tyrese Haliburton with the dumbest turnovers I’ve ever seen. Was he drunk tonight?
Tatum’s OT performance saved him from some massive slander, now he’ll just get the regular slander
people see rick Carlisle offenses and wonder why he’s so underrated then you see how he coaches defenses and you realize “ohhh yeah there’s another part to basketball”
Pacers’ last minute of the fourth:
Haliburton takes a dumb 3 with 14 seconds on the shot clock
Pacers immediately commit a loose ball foul with the Celtics in the bonus
Haliburton dribbles off his foot
Pacers fail to inbound with a timeout (plus Siakam going after a ball that would’ve been the Pacers’)
With less than 8 seconds, Pacers don’t foul when the Celtics are down 3 and out of timeouts
Bro literally forgot how to dribble… now THAT is a choke.
Terrible loss
For all the (rightful) complaints about the refs this game, Pacers lost it with just an absurd throw. Hali turnover, into getting a clutch stop, into Siakam chasing the ball out of bounds in what probably would have been called off Brown, not fouling up 3, and then not getting up a good shot with 5 seconds left on an ATO. Not to mention the travesty that was the OT, from the terrible defense, the bland iso play, and of course the costly TOs.
That felt like a Raptors Lebronto Era choke job.
The game was right there, and a dumb inbounds and a brain dead decision not to intentionally foul when up by 3. Unreal.
Pacers outchoked Tatum so hard he started playing better
This sub losing their mind about FT disparity when the Pacers have the most fouls in the NBA and the Celtics have the second least lmao. What did you expect?
Did the Pacers really have 3 turnovers in the last 25 seconds while up 3? Deserved to lose.