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game 1 - third quarter celtics letting a team close in on their 20-pt lead just to lose a game, a classic. the first half of the game had me so excited because i was like, whoa celtics are performing great! and then boom … letting the knicks close the lead AND losing in overtime because they were just losing steam

game 2 - honestly how do you let a team close in on your 20-pt lead TWICE and BACK-TO-BACK?? what an atrocious game. i was watching the first half, went to make dinner, came back for q3 and my best friend went "this feels like game 1 all over again." i said i would blame him if they lost

game 3 - if i had written this right after the game, i would've called it a must-win. it still is a must-win b/c it looks so bad to be down 0-3. historically improbable to come back up from something like that, so i'm really happy that they won this game in MSG with everyone shooting lights out :)

game 4 - probably the most devastating game of the series. literally nothing could ever come close to this loss. tatum was absolutely crazy here. he dropped 40+ pts, only to be hit with an achilles tear. everyone else was SHIT. JB stood out terribly with his poor performance, and it was so frustrating to watch in general b/c tatum was the only one that showed up in this game

game 5 - THE must-win. i guess you can have more than one must-win game, given the circumstances. /i/ wouldn't want to be a second-round exit finishing a series 1-4, but i'm saying that as if i didn't witness Celtics vs Bucks back in … 2019? lol. anyway this game … dwhite was the MVP by far!! he just did so good that game. made my day honestly

game 6 - a basketball game may be 48 minutes, and you could totally get a reggie miller situation where he's putting up so many shots to turn the tide, but i feel like there are also times where you can tell right away that a game will go wrong … this is one of those. too many turnovers, bad shots. less ISO than we've seen from their shittier games I think, but it was still brutal to watch because they would make plays and the shots wouldn't fall in. drive to the basket and the ball would just rim out. JB was the only one playing well, but then he got fouled out, and not a minute later, it looked like joe had emptied out the bench. IN THE THIRD QUARTER. in a way, it made sense since JB was the only one with a good performance, but it was so frustrating that we were getting like … 15 minutes of garbage time, and i was watching celtics third stringers play the knicks starters. gross

welp, and that's wraps for the celtics' 2024-25 season … am not looking forward to what might happen because i'm 90% sure celtics are like. 500 million dollars into luxury tax??? so a lot of contracts they might be letting go of, on top of two injured (supers)stars, who both have max contracts. i guess we'll cross that bridge when we get there, though i wouldn't have anything substantial to say b/c i rarely pay attention to the league as a whole nowadays…

i've been following the celtics for 7 seasons, but have never done a write-up. this is not all that weird b/c all i do is yell in my best friend's dms. he is unfortunately so busy with grad school that i have no one to talk to, so i might as well speak into the void. that being said, i am only covering the Cs games because uhhhh i watch the other matchups very inconsistently

game 1 - the one game i didn't watch oopsie. i saved the date, but had not looked at the time, so i slept through the realtime broadcast of this game. i did see the highlights and got annoyed when i saw the tatum injury. the magic were getting on my nerves here already

game 2 - flagrant central methinks. i'm glad horford didn't get injured here, but KP's bleeding forehead? what the hell! it's pretty easy to bleed in that area, but also kinda gross to watch streaks of bleed on someone's forehead like that. the magic are pissing me off at this point. the game is not so fun when watching them play …

game 3 - the game the Cs lost. just sloppy af omg idk what these players' obsession with ISO is. if you want to go solo go play another sport! not basketball! a couple of plays where they actually had ball movement, then bam, back to ISO. constantly! i don't get it

game 4 - kp with some good looks though his 3s (was it this game …) looked really ugly. they had kind of a lead but let the magic close that which is such a them thing, but annoying to watch. it's not like you're in the last 3 minutes of the game, i don't understand why you're letting loose like that in the first 3 quarters? thank god they won, i would've been yelling

game 5 - other than being the game to close this series, i was just happy in general because team sports! maybe a bit too much of garbage time that killed the excitement. recency bias might be at play here but i think they had the best plays this game …

anyway fuck kcp! also glad to see the lakers eliminated woohoo