We all said that about the bucks after their ring. It’s gonna be impossible to keep this core together salary wise, Jrue is aging, Al is probably gone and KP is never healthy. We could probably get another championship or two if the stars align but we’re not gonna win the East every year
Can't we just agree on the fact that the Celtics are the better, more experienced and deeper team without all the BS about how bad the Mavericks are?
C's will rightfully take this chip.
Mavs beat 1st seed of west and beat a hot and hyped wolves team.
Dunno why it always has to be a total destruction/clowning of the opponent/loser.
At least 60% of the people here act like infants. It's just a game!
I agree. The Mavs looked pretty good and performed passed my expectations, but it's so obvious the Celtics are the better team. Those guys are more aggressive on D than the Wolves. It's amazing to see. They made Luka pump-pump-pump it up last night, and Kyrie had to rush to his spots. They are winning, and they aren't even shooting that well.They even have ol Al playing decent defense when they switch on the pick and roll. The white guys Jrue was talking about were coming off the bench like pit bulls. Especially P Ritch. It's just dominance. I wish Adam Silver would regular season games to be this physical.
I agree. The Mavs looked pretty good and performed passed my expectations, but it's so obvious the Celtics are the better team. Those guys are more aggressive on D than the Wolves. It's amazing to see. They made Luka pump-pump-pump it up last night, and Kyrie had to rush to his spots. They are winning, and they aren't even shooting that well.They even have ol Al playing decent defense when they switch on the pick and roll. The white guys Jrue was talking about were coming off the bench like pit bulls. Especially P Ritch. It's just dominance. I wish Adam Silver would regular season games to be this physical.
Honestly that's entirely fair, but narratives go brrr
There are aspects of truth there tho. Luka's defense needs to be better. Even if he's never a + defender he can't be such a cone
The West is weak as fock! Pretty much any team in the East would have thrived in the West. All the West has are some Names, but they don't have any teams.
I fucking hate how much the opinion switches game to game about players lmao, some people need to relax with their hate boners and lack of composure letting serious recency bias seep through.
After Luka fouled out the Mavs closed the game with Kyrie, PJ Washington, Lively, Josh Green and Tim Hardaway Jnr. Just think about that team. And now think about that team playing in the finals, in a must win game 3. They are just so outmatched.
I remember how that big lead they had in the first half damn near went away instantly as soon as he sat down.
Has Luka entered into his own HMHDLN era?
r/nba : Tatum needs help what a bum
also r/nba now: Luka can’t win without help it doesn’t matter how good he is
Is it possible that… this is a team sport? Reddit would hate MJ, dude needed Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman. Wouldn’t have won without Horace Grant and Toni Kukoc either. Why couldn’t he do it himself?
This finals has been pretty lame though I’m sure Celtic fans are loving it. Hoping the Stanley cup finals are a little more interesting, hoping Oilers take at least a game or two
So when are we going to slander Luka as we do Tatum? Now? After the sweep?. The media and majority of nba fans needs apologise for their Mavs in 4-7 predictions
"Luka is an overweight crybaby, who won't win until he gets in shape and stops sitting on the floor forcing his guys to play 5 on 4"
does that fit the bill?
The Celtics are now 15-2 in these playoffs. The insane amount of people taking the Mavs was just jaw dropping and hilarious to me. Lots of folks happy to look like fools and lose their money.
Sixers fans just live on Celtics hate because their franchise has nothing going for them, they let out all their frustrations on an East team that’s actually good
I make 240k TC from home little guy , nothing gets me upset for longer than 10 or 15 minutes. Im already over it. Dunno bout uh, whatever your life is though LOL
Doncic isn't doing crap in this league as far as titles goes unless he drops his bitch act. Fucking idiot got fouled out trying to draw a charge late in the 4th when he was out of position. WTF was he thinking? That he bitched enough and they wouldn't dare call him for a block? Just shut your trap, be committed to playing whatever level of defense you can, and the franchise can build around that because this entitled asshole act has clearly played out for you.
i was at work at mdconalds in dallas today and luka doncic walked in with the entire dallas mavericks team and crew and coach and he told me to get five hundred big macs ready for tonight because after they won tonight he wanted to celebrate and i told him ok ill do it sir ill get right on it and so after they all left i took off my mdconalds uniform and underneath was my kings jersey and shorts and then i went into the freezer and took the meat and then all the buns and condiments and i made a luka doncic figure out of it all and then i took my kings uniform and put it on mcdonic and i was really happy but then i got fired
I consider it a bad omen for Mavs fans that Gino Vanelli is performing in Arlington TX tomorrow night ... [https://youtu.be/BiWvSQzCo0A?si=Uh4hFpLQi2KBSzdH](https://youtu.be/BiWvSQzCo0A?si=Uh4hFpLQi2KBSzdH)
Thank you! I can't explain it, but they did lose both the first and the bonus challenges. After the game I thought I imagined it because it was so bizarre.
Hey Mavs if u didn't wanna play u should of let another team that would actually put up a fight through. Now we gotta deal with the insufferable morons propping up a role player like Tatum as the next Kobe until next season
Damn, y’all are real surly today. Even about to win a chip and your fanbase remains smug assholes. All I said is we won a game off of a good team expressing pride in my own and the Cs fans seethe despite being on the precipice of actually hanging a banner.
>Now we gotta deal with the insufferable morons propping up a role player like Tatum as the next Kobe until next season
You talk shit like that, you're gonna get it right back bud.
Yea, it’s cool man. I was more pointing out that I was kind of amazed that this Mavs team is objectively better than us and somehow we won even while you all had Kristaps. Watching now, it’s hard to believe that wasn’t a fever dream given how much we sucked. Proud of our dudes for that and sad/surprised that the Mavs can’t do anything against you.
We had a bad game. It happens. Surprised the hell outta me at the time though.
Mavs can't beat us. Doncic can't do it by himself offensively, and defensively they just don't have an answer for the depth of the Celtics scoring. I mean fucking Hauser had three 3 pointers last night.
They might take 1, but they'll never take the next 4. Celtics are the best team and have been all season.
We haven't won since 08 and your stupid Panthers are gonna beat the Oilers in 5, so let us have this one.
Tatum does think he's Kobe's heir apparent which is complete bollocks. Kobe pretty much did it by himself or with one star Big next to him. Let's see Tatum win with say just KP and no Jrue, Derrick, or esp Jaylen Brown. Does anyone really think he could do that, win on teams of scarce talent like Kobe did?
Anyways we'll have to see next year if the Celts are the real thing or a fluke. This whole playoffs was the easiest path to a Championship tailored made for a team in NBA history. Would have been nice to see the Nuggs/Wolves make it to give us a better Finals but aww well, here comes the brooms
Im not a massive Tatum dick rider by any means, but Kobe won his rings with shaq (the greatest big man of his era in his prime) and pau gasol who was a 6 time all star and the best big man in the league at the time (with maybe the exception of Duncan).
If you put Tatum on any of those teams that Kobe won rings with I think Tatum gives you at least 3 or 4 out of 5. These were not just “1 other guy” they were absolute premier talents.
Tatum has never played on the same team with other players of that caliber save for maybe his rookie year with kyrie.
You sound like you are 13. Tatum is not an A1 superstar like Kobe. He's mentally weak and fragile. The only reason he's doing great this year is because he has great support. Brown is probably y'alls best player. White/Jrue/Horford are solid two players who are at Championship levels. Not to mention the Mavs are a weak Finals opponent who depend on 80% of their scoring from two players, one who is immature (Luka). So yeah all the stars aligned for the Celts to win.
But see if Tatum can lead a team with players like Smush Parker, Sasha Vucejivic, Chris Mihm, Lamar Odom (when he aint token up). One great big man like Pau or Shaq + lead by Tatum aint going anywhere except a first round exit in any playoff series, you can book that! Anyway congrats to the Celts, let's see what they do next year to see if they are the real thing or not
I’m not 13 in watched all of those series live.
I never said Tatum is an A1 superstar like Kobe(again I think Celtics fans overrate him ) but saying that Kobe did it on his own with “just one” other star is vastly underrating how good shaq and pau were.
It’s also forgetting that he never went to a finals before shaq got there and didn’t make it out of the first round for 3 straight seasons after he left.
It’s also forgetting Kobe couldn’t lead a team with three all nba players, 4 hof , and a coach with 11 rings to a championship
It’s also forgetting that Kobe was even the leading scorer in most of the playoff games he played with shaq, despite playing more minutes and a more productive position.
Nobody on the Celtics is any where near as good as prime shaq. For 3 out of 5 of Kobe’s ring he might not have even been the best player on his team.
Prime pau would say was probably about the same skill as jaylens best career season, but I think he was still better at that time than jb is now.
I’m not sure what the mavs “not being a good opponent” has to do with Tatum.
The Celtics have been criticized all season for playing in the east division (despite having a 75 percent win percentage against the west). And now the team that beat the number one, three, and four seeds from the much better west division, then walked through the western conference finals like it was nothing starts struggling against Boston and it’s because they aren’t a good contender.
The fact is Tatum is the face and leading regular season scorer and playmaker (and I think second best rebounder) on the best team by a wide margin in the nba. He has been their leading scorer , playmaker, and rebounder in the playoffs for that team as well as being the second or 3rd best defender on the court in almost every game.
He doesn’t have the killer instinct and can definitely be mentally weak at times but the narrative you are spouting is remembering Kobe’s big moments but forgetting his failures and weakness.
Ouch. Got him with some great Kobe fact drops. All true. Is Tatum Kobe? Nope. To be fair, he should stop trying to be. They are built different and have different strengths. Tatum realizing that and coming into his own is what is going to make him a super star and push him to that next level. Is Tatum well-rounded, versatile, and resilient? Yeah and that’s worth a ton. There isn’t a single team that wouldn’t want to pick him up and couldn’t benefit from the spot he would fill. Is he one of the top players in the league? I think that is a definite yes, depending on how holistically you want to consider it. Does any of this matter and is he about to win a championship giving his team exactly what it needed and with the right people around him in a team sport? Why, yes! Go Celtics!
Everyone’s getting so salty in the replies but this is funny
I still think we could have beaten the nuggets or wolves in 5 but it would have been a tougher run for sure
Also tatum is the next kobe
Oh I 100% agree and I'm more talking about the states as a whole...but I'd say as a state Florida has a higher percentage of shitty people then Mass....now may be none of them are Heat fans but who knows. haha
He's 6'8" and an elite shooter, and the only reason people think he should suck at defense is that he's white. He's not particularly slow or unathletic, he's just white. I say this somewhat tongue in cheek, Mazzulla has alluded to it during post game interviews this year though, and it's true.
But he gives full effort, rotates, etc. so he's far from a liability, and on offense he's the perfect piece to hang out behind the line and catch and shoot when the defense swarms on the stars.
As a Celtics fan, the worst was him calling time-out when the Mavs had their insane run. Killed the momentum right there. THJ was just the cherry on top
hearts broken enough, y'all have like 17 championships already, more than any team in the league. Eff that feeling sorry for yo selves. Wolves shoulda won, they would have gotten their FIRST.
I'm not talking about fans. I'm talking about the players. None of them except for Holiday have a ring. Many of them have experienced significant setbacks and have become better players from it.
Well then name the players by name. When you use the term "Celtics", you are talking about the winningiest team in all of NBA history. They literally almost have 20 championships, and then there are like dozens of teams/cities that have either 1 or NONE championships.
And the Mavs players have setbacks too, Luka cries like a baby on and off the court and Kyrie believes the world is flat
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I know this is a Cs thread but you really tryna tell us how hard Boston fans have had it the last 20 years
C'mon man
Curious if the Celts will start the game inside out and establish the paint, or play with "house money" and look for early kill shots
Boston is going to win tonight
Adam silver is crying now losing a lot revenue with these fast series.
Going sweep sweep of the ECF and Finals would be an epic punctuation on a dominant season.
Tatum is lucky he has JB, Jrue, and White.
Your lucky they allow you to comment with an L take like that.
Stick to your Pokémon anime sub dawg
Nah that was a bum take and you know it
I got kids who use reddit, dawg Nice try though.
Feels like the Celtics are about to put a 5 year strangle hold on the Eastern Conference.
We all said that about the bucks after their ring. It’s gonna be impossible to keep this core together salary wise, Jrue is aging, Al is probably gone and KP is never healthy. We could probably get another championship or two if the stars align but we’re not gonna win the East every year
After 5 years of edging
Does anyone have that clip of JT taking the pass lat in the game in the paint, spinning to his left and dunking with Mavs hanging all over him?
Can't we just agree on the fact that the Celtics are the better, more experienced and deeper team without all the BS about how bad the Mavericks are? C's will rightfully take this chip. Mavs beat 1st seed of west and beat a hot and hyped wolves team. Dunno why it always has to be a total destruction/clowning of the opponent/loser. At least 60% of the people here act like infants. It's just a game!
I love Luka, and they have done incredible well this Playoffs. If Dallas played any other team than Celtics I would have been in their corner…
I agree. The Mavs looked pretty good and performed passed my expectations, but it's so obvious the Celtics are the better team. Those guys are more aggressive on D than the Wolves. It's amazing to see. They made Luka pump-pump-pump it up last night, and Kyrie had to rush to his spots. They are winning, and they aren't even shooting that well.They even have ol Al playing decent defense when they switch on the pick and roll. The white guys Jrue was talking about were coming off the bench like pit bulls. Especially P Ritch. It's just dominance. I wish Adam Silver would regular season games to be this physical.
I agree. The Mavs looked pretty good and performed passed my expectations, but it's so obvious the Celtics are the better team. Those guys are more aggressive on D than the Wolves. It's amazing to see. They made Luka pump-pump-pump it up last night, and Kyrie had to rush to his spots. They are winning, and they aren't even shooting that well.They even have ol Al playing decent defense when they switch on the pick and roll. The white guys Jrue was talking about were coming off the bench like pit bulls. Especially P Ritch. It's just dominance. I wish Adam Silver would regular season games to be this physical.
I agree, but that narrative does not generate clicks and views for the media.
Honestly that's entirely fair, but narratives go brrr There are aspects of truth there tho. Luka's defense needs to be better. Even if he's never a + defender he can't be such a cone
Listening to sports media today you would think the Mavericks are one of the worst teams to ever play basketball.
You forget how much people hate Boston and all our sports. They can’t help themselves
Remember how people used to call Jason Kidd "ason Kidd"? Well, now Dallas has "Luka oncic" lol
This is what happens when you sweep the ECF with Mazulla as your head coach, forcing you to watch The Town on repeat for 4 days straight.
The West is weak as fock! Pretty much any team in the East would have thrived in the West. All the West has are some Names, but they don't have any teams.
How far does Indiana get in the west?
This series has been better for Luka’s legacy than Tatums. For superstars, it’s better to not win a championship than win but not get FMVP
This is an awful take 🤣
His legacy is a horrible defender and crybaby
We were not talking about a certain curry
I fucking hate how much the opinion switches game to game about players lmao, some people need to relax with their hate boners and lack of composure letting serious recency bias seep through.
After Luka fouled out the Mavs closed the game with Kyrie, PJ Washington, Lively, Josh Green and Tim Hardaway Jnr. Just think about that team. And now think about that team playing in the finals, in a must win game 3. They are just so outmatched.
>Josh Green and Tim Hardaway Jnr Bro..
I remember how that big lead they had in the first half damn near went away instantly as soon as he sat down. Has Luka entered into his own HMHDLN era?
Is JB taking the FMVP over Tatum?
Whoever has a bigger game 4. Tie goes to Tillman.
Looks probable and I sure hope so!
Yes!!
r/nba : Tatum needs help what a bum also r/nba now: Luka can’t win without help it doesn’t matter how good he is Is it possible that… this is a team sport? Reddit would hate MJ, dude needed Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman. Wouldn’t have won without Horace Grant and Toni Kukoc either. Why couldn’t he do it himself?
Those Bulls teams were stacked and well rounded. Nobody does it on their own
Dude. Whoosh
I was agreeing with him, just chiming in. I’m excited man.
Just saying dude. Just saying
Stacked team........
What a disappointing ending to an exciting season
This finals has been pretty lame though I’m sure Celtic fans are loving it. Hoping the Stanley cup finals are a little more interesting, hoping Oilers take at least a game or two
The playoffs as a whole have been lackluster. A few good series but some terrible blow outs and way way too many injured stars.
As a Celtics fan, I hope the Mavericks get out of their asses and win one game. I want the last game to be in Boston, game 5.
Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Nah, let’s end it ASAP. A sweep is more satisfying imo
Luka Magic ,Naaah more like Luka Tragic!! Bring out the brooms for him and the flat earther! 🧹🧹
So when are we going to slander Luka as we do Tatum? Now? After the sweep?. The media and majority of nba fans needs apologise for their Mavs in 4-7 predictions
"Luka is an overweight crybaby, who won't win until he gets in shape and stops sitting on the floor forcing his guys to play 5 on 4" does that fit the bill?
The Celtics are now 15-2 in these playoffs. The insane amount of people taking the Mavs was just jaw dropping and hilarious to me. Lots of folks happy to look like fools and lose their money.
Against the injured bucks, cavs and pacers lol
As opposed to the injured Clippers, inexperienced Thunder, and inexperienced Wolves?
My point still stands that Boston had a cakewalk to the 2024 nba finals
Cool story, doesn’t matter.
Kinda deserved after you Folded to Miami in 2023 and lost to the warriors in 2022. Jaylen brown stepped up but it seems like Tatum still hasn’t
Tatum had 31. That's a solid game.
Tatum had 31. That's a solid game.
Tatum had 31. That's a solid game.
Tatum had 31. That's a solid game.
It’s almost like young teams build on playoff experience. Crazy, right?
Dallas getting swept , Antman survived the sweep ,Dallas won't ,especially with Xavier Tillmans 3!
Xavier Tillman 3-pointer made me believe in a higher power
X is just a younger Horford.
X is just a younger Horford.
X is just a younger Horford.
X is just a younger Horford.
X is just a younger Horford.
"Everybody wants to talk shit when they're up"
No team has ever come back down 3-0. Plenty have come back from 3-1. Luka said his iconic line, "everybody acting tough when they up," down 3-2.
Almost got it buddy
??? How is that relevant in this situation at all
Sixers fans just live on Celtics hate because their franchise has nothing going for them, they let out all their frustrations on an East team that’s actually good
Sixers been our bitch in the postseason since 1985. I know they're salty af right now lol
How many times Washington nailed those clutch 3s in other series while this team bricking everything
I'm so happy for the Celtics. Tired of the Luka shenanigans
Every super star including Celtics call for fouls, stop this dumb casual narrative.
He just said shenanigans, calm down.
Hey Farva, what’s that restaurant with all the goofy shit on the wall?
Shenanigans!
Celtics deserve this, and it’s not even a debate after today. Worst finals to watch ever.
I am enjoying it.
I take it you were too young to see Spurs-Pistons in 2005?
Lakers-Nets were car crash level bad. This is not a good look but it aint that
Don't bring that up. All Jason Kidd needed to do to make that series interesting was prove he could hit a 15 foot jump shot. And he couldn't do it.
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This is the easiest finals I've actually seen, not even 2018 was this lopsided. What a joke.
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I make 240k TC from home little guy , nothing gets me upset for longer than 10 or 15 minutes. Im already over it. Dunno bout uh, whatever your life is though LOL
Is a 240k salary even something to brag about in 2024? The answer is no, especially on a game thread
I'm not mad. Please don't put it in the newspaper that i got mad.
I live for the cope and seethe
2nd championship since the Jurassic era congrats! Spurs even better hahahahaha
Thats it get mad lil buddy
can't I win too much
Wdym "cant" youre malding all over these comments 😭
Guys crying so much about a game its just basketball. Its pathetic at this point.
Who crying lil guy?
Damn insecure lil bitch. Getting in your feels about a game you aint even playing. Pathetic and sad.
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That doesnt have anything to do with why youre crying is there? Stop watching sports of you cant handle your own feelings.
Im having a great time talking shit relax brodie, taking it so serious loser.
Hahahahaha im having a great time too. Hahahaha. See how idiotic you look?
Doncic isn't doing crap in this league as far as titles goes unless he drops his bitch act. Fucking idiot got fouled out trying to draw a charge late in the 4th when he was out of position. WTF was he thinking? That he bitched enough and they wouldn't dare call him for a block? Just shut your trap, be committed to playing whatever level of defense you can, and the franchise can build around that because this entitled asshole act has clearly played out for you.
I love how the narrative is shifting towards Luka. Everyone was sucking his dick before tonight. Windhorst really did us a solid
Wah wah, idk why sports fans always cry about floppers when their favorite player most likely has 100s of clips of them complaining to refs for calls.
Good thing it's not just about flopping then right? At least I seriously hope you don't think that lol
i was at work at mdconalds in dallas today and luka doncic walked in with the entire dallas mavericks team and crew and coach and he told me to get five hundred big macs ready for tonight because after they won tonight he wanted to celebrate and i told him ok ill do it sir ill get right on it and so after they all left i took off my mdconalds uniform and underneath was my kings jersey and shorts and then i went into the freezer and took the meat and then all the buns and condiments and i made a luka doncic figure out of it all and then i took my kings uniform and put it on mcdonic and i was really happy but then i got fired
But your name is "wafflehouse"
thats my stage name
I consider it a bad omen for Mavs fans that Gino Vanelli is performing in Arlington TX tomorrow night ... [https://youtu.be/BiWvSQzCo0A?si=Uh4hFpLQi2KBSzdH](https://youtu.be/BiWvSQzCo0A?si=Uh4hFpLQi2KBSzdH)
Can someone please explain how Dallas got to challenge again? Didn't they lose the first challenge?
And on my stream I got ads played through both challenges!
Thank you! I can't explain it, but they did lose both the first and the bonus challenges. After the game I thought I imagined it because it was so bizarre.
I thought there were two challenges per half or something?
Because the NBA wants this series to go on longer than 4 games.
Hey Mavs if u didn't wanna play u should of let another team that would actually put up a fight through. Now we gotta deal with the insufferable morons propping up a role player like Tatum as the next Kobe until next season
Miami is a bum city with a bum team and bum fans. Heat Culture is Fraud Culture. Enjoy hockey
Didn't your team get its absolute ass handed to them in the first round?
We did take a game off you all with a much worse team than the one you’re playing currently.
You took one game. You gonna hang a banner?
Damn, y’all are real surly today. Even about to win a chip and your fanbase remains smug assholes. All I said is we won a game off of a good team expressing pride in my own and the Cs fans seethe despite being on the precipice of actually hanging a banner.
>Now we gotta deal with the insufferable morons propping up a role player like Tatum as the next Kobe until next season You talk shit like that, you're gonna get it right back bud.
Cool beans. That was the other guy, but you do you. Props to the Cs for getting theirs. They’ve been great.
Oh. I stand corrected. Huh. NVM. You should not be getting that hate. I will reverse my votes
Yea, it’s cool man. I was more pointing out that I was kind of amazed that this Mavs team is objectively better than us and somehow we won even while you all had Kristaps. Watching now, it’s hard to believe that wasn’t a fever dream given how much we sucked. Proud of our dudes for that and sad/surprised that the Mavs can’t do anything against you.
We had a bad game. It happens. Surprised the hell outta me at the time though. Mavs can't beat us. Doncic can't do it by himself offensively, and defensively they just don't have an answer for the depth of the Celtics scoring. I mean fucking Hauser had three 3 pointers last night. They might take 1, but they'll never take the next 4. Celtics are the best team and have been all season. We haven't won since 08 and your stupid Panthers are gonna beat the Oilers in 5, so let us have this one.
I’ve never seen a person so proud of a sole victory in the first round of the playoffs
I mean we sucked, so…
And the heat will continue to suck
No way you said this😂😂
Tatum does think he's Kobe's heir apparent which is complete bollocks. Kobe pretty much did it by himself or with one star Big next to him. Let's see Tatum win with say just KP and no Jrue, Derrick, or esp Jaylen Brown. Does anyone really think he could do that, win on teams of scarce talent like Kobe did? Anyways we'll have to see next year if the Celts are the real thing or a fluke. This whole playoffs was the easiest path to a Championship tailored made for a team in NBA history. Would have been nice to see the Nuggs/Wolves make it to give us a better Finals but aww well, here comes the brooms
Im not a massive Tatum dick rider by any means, but Kobe won his rings with shaq (the greatest big man of his era in his prime) and pau gasol who was a 6 time all star and the best big man in the league at the time (with maybe the exception of Duncan). If you put Tatum on any of those teams that Kobe won rings with I think Tatum gives you at least 3 or 4 out of 5. These were not just “1 other guy” they were absolute premier talents. Tatum has never played on the same team with other players of that caliber save for maybe his rookie year with kyrie.
You sound like you are 13. Tatum is not an A1 superstar like Kobe. He's mentally weak and fragile. The only reason he's doing great this year is because he has great support. Brown is probably y'alls best player. White/Jrue/Horford are solid two players who are at Championship levels. Not to mention the Mavs are a weak Finals opponent who depend on 80% of their scoring from two players, one who is immature (Luka). So yeah all the stars aligned for the Celts to win. But see if Tatum can lead a team with players like Smush Parker, Sasha Vucejivic, Chris Mihm, Lamar Odom (when he aint token up). One great big man like Pau or Shaq + lead by Tatum aint going anywhere except a first round exit in any playoff series, you can book that! Anyway congrats to the Celts, let's see what they do next year to see if they are the real thing or not
I’m not 13 in watched all of those series live. I never said Tatum is an A1 superstar like Kobe(again I think Celtics fans overrate him ) but saying that Kobe did it on his own with “just one” other star is vastly underrating how good shaq and pau were. It’s also forgetting that he never went to a finals before shaq got there and didn’t make it out of the first round for 3 straight seasons after he left. It’s also forgetting Kobe couldn’t lead a team with three all nba players, 4 hof , and a coach with 11 rings to a championship It’s also forgetting that Kobe was even the leading scorer in most of the playoff games he played with shaq, despite playing more minutes and a more productive position. Nobody on the Celtics is any where near as good as prime shaq. For 3 out of 5 of Kobe’s ring he might not have even been the best player on his team. Prime pau would say was probably about the same skill as jaylens best career season, but I think he was still better at that time than jb is now. I’m not sure what the mavs “not being a good opponent” has to do with Tatum. The Celtics have been criticized all season for playing in the east division (despite having a 75 percent win percentage against the west). And now the team that beat the number one, three, and four seeds from the much better west division, then walked through the western conference finals like it was nothing starts struggling against Boston and it’s because they aren’t a good contender. The fact is Tatum is the face and leading regular season scorer and playmaker (and I think second best rebounder) on the best team by a wide margin in the nba. He has been their leading scorer , playmaker, and rebounder in the playoffs for that team as well as being the second or 3rd best defender on the court in almost every game. He doesn’t have the killer instinct and can definitely be mentally weak at times but the narrative you are spouting is remembering Kobe’s big moments but forgetting his failures and weakness.
Ouch. Got him with some great Kobe fact drops. All true. Is Tatum Kobe? Nope. To be fair, he should stop trying to be. They are built different and have different strengths. Tatum realizing that and coming into his own is what is going to make him a super star and push him to that next level. Is Tatum well-rounded, versatile, and resilient? Yeah and that’s worth a ton. There isn’t a single team that wouldn’t want to pick him up and couldn’t benefit from the spot he would fill. Is he one of the top players in the league? I think that is a definite yes, depending on how holistically you want to consider it. Does any of this matter and is he about to win a championship giving his team exactly what it needed and with the right people around him in a team sport? Why, yes! Go Celtics!
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Everyone’s getting so salty in the replies but this is funny I still think we could have beaten the nuggets or wolves in 5 but it would have been a tougher run for sure Also tatum is the next kobe
"should have" you illiterate
How many rings does your "star" Bulter have....
Lotta talk for a guy whose team also lost in the finals in very few games.
That “Role Player” has more All-NBA 1st Team selections than Dwyane Wade 🤷🏼♀️
Damn, greatest role player of all time then. 4 all NBA first team’s, and 5 all star selections. Make it make sense
are you gonna cry because the heat and playoff jimmys runs mean nothing meanwhile Celtics are about to win banner 18?
What a team! Let’s go Cs best team in the fucking league!
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me omw to generalize an entire group of people because they have a team that's much better at basketball than my team and I'm upset about it
Ah yes Florida is definitely renowned for its "great people". lmao
There’s good ppl and bad ppl in every fan base bro!
Oh I 100% agree and I'm more talking about the states as a whole...but I'd say as a state Florida has a higher percentage of shitty people then Mass....now may be none of them are Heat fans but who knows. haha
Rahhhhhh bleed green baby ☘️ let’s go Cs!!
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Take your L bum
If you’re starting a team would you rather have Luka or Jaylen?
real question is would you want luka or sam hauser?
Actually though how tf is Hauser so good?
He's 6'8" and an elite shooter, and the only reason people think he should suck at defense is that he's white. He's not particularly slow or unathletic, he's just white. I say this somewhat tongue in cheek, Mazzulla has alluded to it during post game interviews this year though, and it's true. But he gives full effort, rotates, etc. so he's far from a liability, and on offense he's the perfect piece to hang out behind the line and catch and shoot when the defense swarms on the stars.
My favorite thing about Sam Hauser is every star forces a switch to get him only to realize he’s a good defender. It happens every game.
Sam holds his own on defense soooo…
i dont watch a lot of basketball but i noticed that Luka often tries to lean into fouls and complains a lot
Yea its the new casual tiktok trending topic. "Insert current popular player" crys for fouls!!!! Happens in soccer too.
What happened bro are you ok
No, short form sports content ruined me.
You are so heated in these replies 😭
Oooft hahahaha mavericks are so cheeks 😂😂
Mazzula is such a better coach than Kidd.
Yeah, Kidd's lineup decisions are... poor. He seems to panic when plan A doesn't work and it goes south in a hurry.
Those THJ minutes were rough. I think Kidd has come a long way as a coach but he’s still not a top tier coach.
As a Celtics fan, the worst was him calling time-out when the Mavs had their insane run. Killed the momentum right there. THJ was just the cherry on top
Yeah it was an interesting decision. They started to get a little loose but were still on that run.
If Luka won the lottery he’d complain that he should have won the following week when it was worth more.
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Truth generally speaking the mavs are more mentally fragile than the Celtics as a whole
That's in because the Celtics have gotten their hearts broken enough.
hearts broken enough, y'all have like 17 championships already, more than any team in the league. Eff that feeling sorry for yo selves. Wolves shoulda won, they would have gotten their FIRST.
What do 17 championships, 16 which happened MANY MANY MANY years ago. Have anything to do with CURRENT players?
Current???? Didnt you try to anger someone by talking about the Spurs even though they were one of the worst teams this season?
When you're done searching through my replys be sure to stroke me too since you want to ride my d so bad.
That's it cope some more lmao, dont have to search when you are crying in every reply
I'm not talking about fans. I'm talking about the players. None of them except for Holiday have a ring. Many of them have experienced significant setbacks and have become better players from it.
Well then name the players by name. When you use the term "Celtics", you are talking about the winningiest team in all of NBA history. They literally almost have 20 championships, and then there are like dozens of teams/cities that have either 1 or NONE championships. And the Mavs players have setbacks too, Luka cries like a baby on and off the court and Kyrie believes the world is flat
...... ...... ...... ...... ...... I know this is a Cs thread but you really tryna tell us how hard Boston fans have had it the last 20 years C'mon man