Because they were the ones who said after the game two players. They wanna shadow me and have multiple guys on me or do they wanna be on Evan? Leonard also blocked five shots with no turnovers, becoming the first player to score at least 30 and do that in a playoff game since Shaquille O’Neal on May 20, 2000. They did some actions that were really good. No doubt is what was captured on vines and captured on TV for that matter.
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In the second quarter, Atlanta would begin to battle back. “I [had] just scored a basket and tried to go back on defense and he smacked me”. “But now I understand that it comes from hard work”.
“And there is a way that we would like our team to handle ourselves and to be ultra-competitive, but I would say ultra-classy and ultra-professional”, Budenholzer continued. In a playoff game.
The Pistons have lost 11 straight playoff games against Cleveland, and they have lost nine in a row overall in the postseason.
Celtics coach Brad Stevens said he was happy to have Thomas available for Game 4, but that he didn’t spend too much time worrying about it. The second-year National Basketball Association coach said he didn’t have the experience to know the difference between a Flagrant 1 and Flagrant 2 foul.
Atkinson has deep ties to Al Horford. Teague got a couple easy buckets on me and so did Schroder. The NBA wants an entertaining product and after Ford super performance as hit the guidance over and take them off. Off before I completely agree with you Sam I don’t think they’re gonna suspend him whatsoever but I would add. To this whole observation about Isiah and his intensity he is the man and he tells us this all the time in the locker. Stevens hasn’t shied from playing him, though.
“I’m not going to let nobody slap me in my face. I would think it’s 90-percent that he’s staying, but that means there’s 10-percent that he wouldn’t”. The best players figure it out. “For any of you that have ever run the mile, you run the first lap at breakneck speed and then about the third lap it just feels like you’re never going to make the final two laps”. The diminutive sparkplug sealed the game with a wild, J.R. Smithian three-pointer that found the net to put the Celtics up 7 with under two minutes left. If they shoot better than 9-for-36 from three-point range, they win.
After the play, Thomas had to be restrained by teammate Jared Sullinger. Andre Drummond added 17 points and seven rebounds, and Reggie Jackson was held to 13 points with 12 assists.
“I guess so. I guess that’s his job”.
Bradford Doolittle, ESPN Insider: In the larger context of the rancor brewing between those guys during those sequences, I strongly suspect it was an intentional act made to look somewhat unintentional.
Paul Millsap has to have a big game eventually, right?
– Smart committed a pretty egregious flop in the fourth quarter that caused Hawks guard Kyle Korver to pick up his fifth foul. So when you have those faster players like it turner like it to repko who can switch on everything and not give up those open shots and makes just shooting much more hard for the winter hawks so what. “It’s better than the alternative”, Stevens joked. Then the other feeling but frankly we’re here to win a playoff series and we’ve got a great team we’ve got to worry about the Celtics will try to even the series on Sunday night.
It’d also help Atlanta if Boston didn’t come out with the kind of all-encompassing excellence that kicked off Game 3.
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Back home in the TD Garden, the Celtics decided that they didn’t want their season to end just yet.
