Celtics just clogging the paint since the Bucks can't hit a 3 to save their life.
NBA 2021-2022
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Nobody had them as contenders before season, and they basically looked like a play-in team midway through season. They have been absolutely fantastic since deadline.
Blowout.
Celtics been so good this season, bit of a shaky start but really got it together ever since..
The Bucks look like they gave up 5 minutes ago. No heart left on defense at all, lackluster on offense.
Yep. It's like something clicked for them around the turn of the year. It's really funny reading back what everyone was saying after game 1 of this series.
Except Giannis
They've stopped fighting for rebounds at either end. Boston have been doing what they want for a long while now.
Is this the coldest stretch of 3 attempts since the Rockets vs Warriors?
Milwaubrick just couldn't get it done without Middleton and any semblance of a supporting cast today. It happens, but this was their fate without Middleton. He's the running mate to Giannis.
Feck you for reminding me of that painful night.
21 of 54 from 3. 54 attempts! That's 162 potential points and Cs generated 62 points from that potential. 39%.
And now 22 of 55. Wow.
And now 22 of 55. Wow.
How can a team make 4 threes in a game in 2022
Big up to Giannis tbh. He tried hard.
Celtics always go for 3’s it’s basically in their DNA..
Great performance by Celtics. 538 gave them 40% chances to win the ring before the playoff started, which I found ridiculous, but it seems that they might have been right. They seem to be the best team in the league, having many weapons offensively, a very good balance, and being a beast defensively.
Was hoping it would be more of a nail biting ending but the Bucks just didn't show up today, and those who did got out played.
Happy for Celtics though and do hope they can make it all the way. Or the Suns. For others...The Mavs.
1 down, 1 more to go @TheMagicFoolBus
Happy for Celtics though and do hope they can make it all the way. Or the Suns. For others...The Mavs.
1 down, 1 more to go @TheMagicFoolBus
Not quite peak D'Antoni Rockets levels but yeah, they were raining 3s but they shot 40% tonight - 22 of 55. Hard to stop a team that's shooting that well from 3.
That’s it, then… and how it was meant to be if the Cs were a championship-proven team already. Of course, they are not or not yet, if you like… they are just building from within. Bring on Miami for another slugfest!
Crazy thing is that they made 40% which is kind of slightly above what you would expect but they had so many open threes that it felt like they could have actually made 50-60%. NBA is changing so fast and people can make open threes in their sleep so this scheme that Bud has is too risky
If Booker doesn't deliver Paul that ring on a platter now, I'm done 
feck Steph and his fourth and Tatum can still wait, even if he's been hooping big time in the post since his fist year when he went toe to toe with LeBron, he's a natural at this stage.
feck Steph and his fourth and Tatum can still wait, even if he's been hooping big time in the post since his fist year when he went toe to toe with LeBron, he's a natural at this stage.Heat - Celtics will be a bloodbath.
They finally got a pass first point guard rather than superstar going for glory (Kyrie, then Kemba) or a mediocre player trying to score and get his stock up (Rozier, recently Schroder). Having Smart and White out there has basically transformed their team. White and Theis trades looked like fairly small deals at the time, definitely not ones that you would have expected to turn Celtics into the best team in basketball. It goes to show that sometimes you don’t really need that much. Just having someone to move the ball may change your fortunes.
Especially as on the other side you got a team shooting 4-33.
Ridiculous to think if Bucks even went for rather mediocre 33% with 11 made threes, that game would have gone down to the wire.Overall very disappointing for game 7 because of how poor Bucks were.
Biggest thing is the Celtics can now legitimately switch almost everything on defense - it makes it impossible for unsophisticated offenses to just hunt matchups unless you have an alien like Giannis.
Agree though that the Celtics' hierarchy (e.g. Danny Ainge) always thought Smart had to be complemented with a scoring guard - credit to Brad Stevens for realizing this wasn't the case.
I think Dallas need 50 from Luka today
Terrible! Milwaukee Bricks was right there. This is like calling Westbrick “Russbrick”
We're playing so badly in this game
Bizarre. Dallas should be out of sight. I wonder will they live to regret it.
Ffs, Mavs might actually do it.
Paul, Booker, Ayton for 6 points and 1 of 13 combined. Talk about going historical in game 7.
Suns just look out of gas, congrats to the Mavs, deserving winners.
This is absolutely hilarious
Suns 27 , Luka 27
massive yikes
Yuge
Paul turned 37 and fell off a cliff.
WTF! 