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Brown's a future all-star who had an unusually s***** game (typically when his shot isn't falling he reels it in but not tonight for some reason, guess he panicked) but can still be productive if his shot isn't falling. Can't say the same for the guys I posted about. Rozier is trash if his shot isn't falling, as seen tonight. Gives you literally nothing. He can't come off the bench next year because Kyrie is coming back and a role demotion would stunt his development. Trading him is the only option. Quite frankly he deserves a seat in the Boston sports choker hall of fame after that. I already said why I want to trade Smart. He's a terrible shooter who thinks he's Stephen Curry. He hurts us badly enough on offense to negate every other good thing he does. Confidence of Manny Ramirez, ability of Darnell McDonald. We don't need those wasted possessions anymore. As long as guys like that are on our team sabotaging us with their ********, we're not going to make the leap to true title contender.

Celtics kicked the game away with sloppy shooting and selfish play. Smart, Rozier, and Morris should all be traded. You cannot win with guys who are that bad at shooting yet that insistent that they be the ones to take the shot. I don't care what we get back, our team will be better for subtracting them outright.

I'm not overly optimistic about tonight. Love has been empty numbers for much of this series and him being out means Nance will get more playing time, and Nance is a much better defender than Love and does not need the ball to have an impact. Cleveland's due for one of their role players to have one of those random 20-25 point games on the road. Probably going to be J.R. Smith or George Hill. An outing like that from one of them plus Nance's defensive intensity would cover Love's production and then some. The Celtics players are all talking about the TD Garden atmosphere in a game seven, I'm worried about them coming out flat because they think home court will do all the work for them. Anyone else remember 2009? They entered game seven against Orlando thinking the Garden itself would win the game for them and that Orlando's young team had no chance in that kind of atmosphere. What happened? They got their s*** handed to them. I'm worried about Brad pulling a Grady Little and not making adjustments to flaws in our game plan. He sat on his hands in game six and did nothing to address the Cavs constantly pulling Rozier onto LeBron and other bigger men and then feasting. If Morris comes out firing 0-5 from the field, sit his ass down. I'd say the same for Rozier if we weren't so thin at guard. This is not the time for faith or loyalty, Morris can and will shoot the other team right back into a ball game if you give him a sliver of a chance, then he'll shoot them into a healthy lead while crying to the refs to make it seem like it's not his fault. He did it in game six, he's done it in previous playoff games, he did it plenty of times in the regular season. He can't help himself. Play Ojeleye.

The refs claim another one! The Rockets could not attack the basket in the second because the Warriors kept beating the s*** out of them when they went to the hoop and not getting called. The officiating crew literally took that option away from them in a calculated move. Houston has to settle for outside shots, they don't go, the refs apply the reverse treatment on the other end, and before you know it the Warriors are up 25. This is the dream scenario for the NBA. When their refs' actions are the first push down the hill toward the game becoming a blowout. Then it can't be traced back to them at all!

Tatum always starts out tentative. For the game he had 15 points on a solid percentage. He did fine. He isn't a star yet, regardless of the billing ESPN gave him in their intro.

Brad Stevens and Marcus Morris single-handedly cost us the game. Morris with his usual brain dead heroball ********, while Brad didn't lift a finger to stop the bleeding in the 2nd quarter, get on their case about not boxing out the defensive glass, or make any adjustments to get Horford some daylight on offense or hide Rozier from LeBron the other bigs on defense. He spent the entire game picking his ass on the sideline. Coach of the year my nutsack.

Bad management too. From 2004-2010 they did a f***ing awful job running the team. They bombed every single draft pick they had and made a series of ill-advised trades that failed to net them either draft picks or players that moved the needle. They could have had LeBron's Scottie Pippen - look at the amount of good players that changed hands during the mid-late 2000s - but they never had anything to trade. f***ing J.J. Hickson was being thrown around in 2009-10 as the *centerpiece* of last minute trade packages to try and get LeBron a #2 and entice him to stick around. How sad is that.

Well, somehow we are up 3-2 and one win away from the Finals. LeBron looked completely gassed last night. His numbers were okay, but his defense left a lot to be desired. The fact that he's clearly fatigued and the Cavs have no more room for error being on the brink of elimination makes me think the Celtics might actually pull this off. But it's just as likely that they blow a winnable game in Cleveland tomorrow night and then LeBron gets it together for game seven and one of their role players wakes up has a random 25 point game and thanks to that they steal the series. Just avoid getting blown out in Cleveland. Make them play LeBron 36+ minutes.

Brad completely mindf***ed LeBron and Lue. They had no idea what hit them. I'm still not going to be confident about this series until we have 4 wins.

Cleveland will almost certainly be the end of the line. I don't know if it will be a slaughter like last year, since they don't have Kyrie anymore and compared to last time our team is much more unselfish, has fewer guys who need the ball in their hands to have a positive impact on the game (just Morris), and has no defensive liabilities for them to exploit. But I'd be floored if we won this series.

You mean thank you Sixers for giving us an extra lottery pick so they could take Markelle Fultz. Who didn't play once in this series, by the way.

Embiid loves to talk inane s*** until he loses the series, then he slunks off to the locker room to go chew on his cum rags the second the clock hits 0. f*** him.

Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown are both in some pretty elite company with their performance in these playoffs. Tatum is the first Celtics rookie ever to score 20+ points in 5 straight playoff games. They both have some s*** they need to work on (passing and ball handling), but that will come. Don't trade either of them for ANYBODY. Rozier is good but we have a decision to make with him this summer. If we're expecting Kyrie back healthy next year, that means that Rozier has to go from playoff star to settling back onto the bench next season. I don't think he would be happy with being relegated to such a role after he's shown what he can do in these playoffs, but more than that, it would stunt his development. I think the best thing for both sides would be to trade him off this summer while his stock is as high as it's ever going to be in a Boston uniform. 6-2 trigger-happy scoring guards are among the most replaceable commodities in the NBA. Danny could probably find his replacement at #27 in the upcoming draft. Remember that him taking Rozier at #16 in 2015 was considered a huge reach. Nader looked completely lost on the court this season. I can't recall a single instance where I thought he helped us win a game or helped keep us in one. I'm ready to write him off. Yabusele is very raw but has his moments, I could take him or leave him. Can't see him getting many minutes on next year's roster, he might find himself headed elsewhere in a package with Rozier. Jabari Bird is the guy I'd like to take another look at. In limited minutes toward the end of the season (after playoff seeding was secured) he showed some real speed, athleticism, and intensity, particularly on the defensive side. Definitely want to bring him back next season and see what he can do.

If the Sixers come back in this series, the officiating in that game 4 will be looked back on as another moment of NBA ref infamy, on par with Lakers/Kings in 2002. That was absolute 100% pure ******** concentrate. First they call two ticky-tack fouls on Tatum in the first five minutes of the game (get the other team's star in foul trouble as early as possible - straight from the Dick Bavetta/corrupt ref playbook that Tim Donaghy went over in his autobiography). That's bad enough, but THEN the second quarter rolls and they rapid-fire pretty much all of our important players into having 3 fouls before the half. We literally can't commit any more fouls or we'll lose our entire team. The Sixers go on a run because it's been established, thanks to the refs, that the Celtics aren't allowed to play defense. Same s*** in the 3rd quarter, but now they call a flurry of technicals on anyone who even looks at them sideways. It was one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen in a sporting event. You cannot be more blatant about fixing a game than that, unless you stood on the scorer's table and announced your intentions to the crowd with a megaphone. But, of course, like clockwork, those disgusting sewer rat Philly fans who should have all been bulldozed in the womb are tarding it up saying "THERE WAS ONLY A FIVE FOUL DIFFERENCE LOL STOP BEING SALTY". Because they either didn't watch the game at all or only caught whatever glimpses they could while Alshon Jeffrey's ballsack was pounding against their chin. The refs made a bunch of ticky-tack foul calls against the Sixers once the game was locked up, for the sole purpose of evening things out for the box score. There is literally no other reason to stop play as many times as they did in the closing minutes of a decided game. You really think these bottom-feeders would just rig a game and leave the evidence lying around in plain sight? Yes, I am mad. Thank you for noticing. P.S. Joel Embiid deserves to have his nose broken into a million pieces.

Fred lives! I had to look this guy up, and on his Wiki page someone already put "last time the Red Sox were no-hit until Sean Manaea in 2018". The internet is quick.

Dammit Hanley.

Okay I don't know if swinging at the first pitch is the way to go here.

Swihart looked like he was trying to hit a bowling ball.

Bunt for a base hit, just to be a twat.

Okay that's enough of this guy.

That'll lift my mood after the Celtics game!

The Angels won't be able to sit down for a week.

And now Hembree with the airball. Who are we, the Milwaukee Bucks?

Devers with the airball.

Devers got a little greedy. I guess it's good to keep the pressure turned up though.