#Cleveland Cavaliers at Boston Celtics
TD Garden- Boston, MA
[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401658225/cavaliers-celtics)
[TV/Radio](https://reddit.com/r/bostonceltics/comments/1co99pq/game_thread_cleveland_cavaliers_01_at_boston/l3ch84o/)
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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|
||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|CLE |30|24|36|28|118|
|BOS |24|30|24|16|94|
###Player Stats
**Cleveland Cavaliers**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|M. Strus|40:00|12|5-10|2-7|0-0|2|4|6|1|0|0|0|3|23
|I. Okoro|21:20|12|5-6|1-1|1-2|0|1|1|0|1|0|3|4|15
|E. Mobley|33:03|21|9-15|1-2|2-2|1|9|10|5|1|2|0|4|35
|D. Mitchell|39:27|29|10-19|5-7|4-6|0|7|7|8|0|0|1|2|38
|D. Garland|34:04|14|5-8|4-5|0-0|0|7|7|4|1|0|2|2|20
|C. LeVert|26:56|21|9-17|0-3|3-4|2|4|6|3|0|0|3|2|14
|G. Niang|13:47|4|2-4|0-1|0-0|1|2|3|1|0|0|1|2|-5
|M. Morris Sr.|15:41|4|2-4|0-1|0-0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|1|-14
|T. Thompson|10:19|1|0-2|0-0|1-2|1|2|3|2|0|1|0|0|0
|S. Merrill|3:12|0|0-1|0-1|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|-3
|D. Jones|2:10|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|-3
**Boston Celtics**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|J. Brown|31:17|19|7-17|0-6|5-5|0|4|4|1|0|0|1|2|-29
|J. Tatum|37:32|25|7-17|2-5|9-11|0|7|7|6|1|0|1|3|-22
|A. Horford|28:47|11|4-9|3-7|0-0|1|1|2|1|0|1|1|3|-6
|D. White|30:17|10|3-11|1-8|3-4|0|4|4|5|0|1|1|3|-27
|J. Holiday|34:52|4|2-7|0-2|0-0|1|1|2|3|2|0|0|2|-21
|S. Hauser|9:26|2|1-2|0-1|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|2|-10
|L. Kornet|12:09|3|0-1|0-0|3-4|2|1|3|0|0|0|0|0|-12
|P. Pritchard|19:44|13|6-10|1-4|0-0|2|0|2|4|1|0|0|0|-4
|X. Tillman|11:05|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|2|2|1|1|0|0|0|6
|O. Brissett|4:58|3|1-2|1-1|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|1|0|1
|J. Walsh|4:58|2|1-1|0-0|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|1
|J. Springer|4:58|2|1-1|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|1|0|1|1|0|1
|S. Mykhailiuk|4:58|0|0-1|0-1|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|1|0|1
|N. Queta|4:58|0|0-1|0-0|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|1
###Team Stats
|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|CLE|47-86|13-28|11-16|24|20|4|10|3|7|37|54|
|BOS|33-80|8-35|20-24|22|15|5|7|3|6|25|41|
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Fucking horrid. Lots of attention on the other issues but Jrue Holiday being a complete non factor pisses me off.
NOW can we admit JT not playing like a star should?!? People with their head in the sand bending over backwards to make excuses. Not even a matter of making shots. The issue is the inability to get easy shots, which is why you get hot and cold.
1 game above 50% from Tatum since march 30th. The fans making excuses for Tatum aren’t Helping. He’s supposed to be the best player and he’s been massively disappointing. Look at the best player on all the remaining teams they are all balling and Tatum is shrinking. Again
An almost exact replica of the Heat G2 loss, humiliating stuff.. we likely close this one out in 5 yet again, but this team has real issues staying locked in.
What will make or break this playoffs for the Celtics is how they respond when they’re not hitting their threes. It won’t be often but it can easily change momentum in a series in later rounds against teams that are in rhythm and just as hungry as Boston.
What I do like is that in both of the Game 2s they’ve recognized early on when they’re not hitting shots and immediately started pushing the paint, but it’s clear that strategy only works if you’re locked the fuck in on defense. Gotta fight through screens and take away the open 3 better when you’re fighting to keep the game close.
Bring said, sometimes these games just don’t bounce your way. Still think it’s a very tall order winning 4 games against this team, but let’s see how they respond in Game 3. Go Cs!
I already know shits about to get crazy here😭
20% from 3 vs 50% from 3, i mean, theres your game.
If we cant hit from 3 the Cavs can just crowd the glass and get boards/blocks/buckets in transition. And thats their ONE THING theyre good at.
Mazz made a decent adjustment by upping the tempo of our offense to give the cavs less time to crowd the paint but then our guys got clearly gassed. And stopping to attempt the 3s is what the cavs want. So it really just boils down to making your damn shots.
Flukey ass game, starting to think we just suck at game 2s if you look at the last few years. Celtics in 5.
Just use the PGT from game 2 vs Miami lol
The 37-4 at home in the regular season team should not already have 2 losses at home in the playoffs against far worse teams
Celtics in 5 idgaf
I’m cool with every series going the way the Miami series went, but my god are these 3pt variance games painful
Tatum needs to be more aggressive
Game 2 Celtics are the worst Celtics. Please dump them in the trash and set the trash on fire
Didn’t know we had a game 2 curse
I ask this every year: why even play for home court advantage if you choke home court every series
Home court hasn’t helped this team in 6 years
The Celtics are allergic to winning on my birthday
Treat that like game 2 of the Heat series, flush it, get it done for games 3-5. Embarrassing effort, but we are the better team
Sad. Please make me happy tomorrow Bruins.
Do the Celtics know that we’re in the playoffs, every other series are playing like it’s the playoffs and we look like we’re playing February regular season games.
Why Tillman always play with Al ?
Joe dosen’t trust him or smth ?
Really pathetic effort all around tonight. No one, minus Pritchard, showed up to play.
Now yall see what we talking about jrue holiday
Derrick White was off. The tram couldn’t get any 3 going. Not a good night but the Celtics are fine
Game 3 can’t be a loss
again not extremely worried, gonna be similar to the heat series. BUT you look at teams like NY OKC and Minny and you start to wonder why we dont look as complete. these “off” games. heat game 2 gets a pass because they shot at the most unrealistic clip. but this? this was just awful. everyone down the line was terrible from tatum and brown all the way down.
Absolutely atrocious game. I’m not gonna hit the panic button but Cleveland is a real home environment unlike Miami.
I wish I could truly, deep down, believe in this team
Should be ashamed of themselves. At this point the “but he’s still contributing” bullshit about Tatum doesn’t count. He needs to step up when no one else can.
Embarrassing loss. Still confident that we take the series. It is what it is. Have to play way better in Cleveland.
Tatum has to be better. He isn’t the only reason we lost or anything, but he’s getting paid way too much money to be shooting this poorly. He can do everything else well, but at the end of the day, he’s supposed to be THE guy to keep us in the game when the rest of the team is struggling (especially when Brown is off the court). I couldn’t tell you why he’s been struggling to score as much as he has. Maybe it’s deferring so much at the beginning of games and it’s affecting him later when he’s asked to do more. But if he doesn’t start playing better, we have no chance vs any team coming out of the West, and I wouldn’t be too confident against the Knicks either because that team is going to punch us in the fuckin mouth no matter who they have on the court, and he can’t shy away from scoring when they do. I fully believe in him to up his game but it HAS to start sooner rather than later
What’s worse after every loss is Tatum’s story the next day with his outfit
Mobley had more 3s than JB
Are we low key Front runners
Me 3 hours ago- oh boy I can’t wait to watch the celtics play tonight 😀
Me now- 💀
Oh great. Now we get two days of equally deluded sky-is-falling people and nothing-to-worry-about people arguing over how to properly root for the Celtics.
Tatum complaining after everything is making it very hard to root for him. More than half the time he doesn’t even get touched. A part of me wanted the ref to t him up a second time so maybe he’d shut the fuck up.
I’m not a doomer but you usually don’t see the team with the best record in the league lose by 25 at home in the playoffs
Tatum is what he is at this point
Talented? Absolutely.
But He’s just not THAT guy.
Tatum likes Kobe but he is not even close to that guy.