JJ Redick recaps Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo, Caleb Martin and The Miami Heat beating Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and The Boston Celtics in Game 7 of The 2023 Eastern Conference Finals to advance to the NBA Finals to play The Denver Nuggets. He also dives into what went wrong for Joe Mazzulla and The Celtics.
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Celts were outcoached imo
Funny thing is the Heat are now once again the underdog in the final. Looking forward to see what they will do.
Sad
When its Miami, they always make excuses for the other team. Miami has been playing hurt all season that's how they ended up in the playin position.
Does the media talk about that, no they just say " the 8th seed" a million times every 5 minutes. Like those other teams should just automatically beat them
That's why down here in Miami, we don't give AF! about what the media says.
WELL WHEN POCASTER JOHNNY MITCHELL AND, MICHEAL FRANZESE FIX THE GAME WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TO HAPPEN š¢š¢š¢š¢
id trade horford
Heat have injuries too.
Tatum injury really influenced the game. Looked like they gave up once they saw that Tatum couldn't do anything because of his ankle.
JJ STEP IT UP I NEED A 30 minute review while I eat my breakfast
If jokic play drop against heat They're going get lit up
Crazy for you to bring up the other teams injuries but not Herro, Olapido and Love
Dude they lost by double digits, definitely not a fighting end
I'm starting to think that JJ is not a Celtics fan.
I dont think anyone is shocked to be frank. Even some of us in Boston…sadly we expected this – and even if I we won, I wouldn't have liked our chances against Denver.
Absolutely nothing to overanalyze here… Whatever colors you wear-look at the first seconds of the game- first āļø possession. Jayson Tatum hurt his ankle.
Miami made him pay for it-and I'm betting they made him work that side. That's why players don't disclose injuries.
Don't want opponents to capitalize, on one side or the other.
There hasn't been any superheroic effort out of any other players, aside from White… Celts don't have the bench depth Miami did, to recover from an injured Tatum.
That was a great series!
Great high if we win. I don't lose a job or take a pay cut if we lose
For decades I've been saying… There's always next season!
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JJ cope after the loss is fun š it's so nice for us Heat fans to see critics like you and Bill Simmons feeling embarrassed after incorrect predictions
As a Boston fan Iām right with ya there JJ. But Iām also not surprised we played like this been crazy inconsistent since the all star break.
all they had to do is ball movement, open up space and then drive to the basket. not drive into congested space š
Jj has become what he hated lol
Jalen brown player of the game
When Tatum could go the game was over
Letās acknowledge Tatum hurt in 7
HEAT were Full-court PRESSING up 15 !!!!!!
The Celtics were scared and on their heels
Okay i'm not saying it needs to be non-stop excuses hour today, but let's not downplay at all Tatum getting injured less than 30 seconds into the game. Of course give the Heat their flowers, they're in the finals they'll get plenty of credit and discussion as they should. I'm not saying the Celtics responded to that adversity well either, nobody is here arguing they were the most resilient group this year. Brown didn't step up as a second star, and outside of D White everyone looked rattled form that. That Tatum injury to start the game was a MUCH greater mental hurdle to climb than the Heat getting over the way they lost game 6. A topic of discussion that got a TON of coverage in that 48 hours we had to wait between game six and seven. As well as the fact that your best player and leader is now essentially a couple possessions into the game. I'm not saying this wasn't fitting or emblematic in some ways with how this team has looked for several rounds of this playoff run now, but to not really properly acknowledge the impact of that I feel like was a miss here. Felt more like you were trying to not say anything bad about the Heat as opposed to making a real point about the game or series here. I also don't really agree with another point you made in the longer reaction form of this video which was that it's going to be a great finals. I don't like Miami matchup wise in the finals and don't like what they have to throw at Jokic. I think theres real potential we see a sweep here, as I just don't see how the heat are going to consistently stop the Murray and Jokic pick and roll. We shall see though. Either way all I know is this Celtics team has taken a lot out of me lol.
STFU JJ, all of you at ESPN have been picking the Celtics every single game and now you wanna act like this!? š¤£š¤£š¤£āļø
Maybe because half the damn team was injured tatum , brown played injured idc , rob played 13 min and Brodgen wasnāt near 100 percent
Didn't they lose because Jayson Tatum hurt his ankle on the first play. Top 5 player
JJ come coach the Celtics whether as an assistant or head coach or whatever way. I feel like you would get the most out of these guys. That team is far too talented to play the way they play
Jimmy MVP
People seem to forget that Heat have also been injured like crazy. The fact that we don't talk about how Heat have been doing this whole run without basically their 3rd best player (at least on O) every 2-3 games is proof of that. We also don't have Oladipo. Heat are doing all of this while missing about 25% of their 8 man rotation and still got it done with Bam banged up and without Jimmy and Gabe for some games.
Charles said it best when the Celtics shots dont fall they fold like sliced bread…The effort, intensity and the defense become nonexistent