I Owe The Boston Celtics An Apology….. 

Was thinking the same thing. They have choked far worse than any team other than maybe the clippers, in the past half-decade to decade. Anyone who thinks they could beat the celtics is just wrong, the celtics have owned philly the entire "process" era.

The fact Embiid hasn't gotten even half of the criticism that Giannis, Jokic and Tatum got for not being able to win a championship is wild to me. Giannis, Jokic and Tatum all got SLANDERED for it and Embiid hasn't faced 1/5th of the criticism and he hasn't even been in an ECF yet The last time Philly was even in the ECF the Twin Towers were still standings

Especially considering the Celtics, no matter how bad they are usually end up finishing later in the season than the sizer.

​@@devinberry4472I think that's the issue. The more you advance further into the playoffs like conference finals or the finals and not get it done, you will get scrutinized for it but if you don't advance further, ppl strangely seem to let it go more often than not.

They must not watch the playoffs 🤦🏽‍♂️ Philly hasn’t done anything since A.I.

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I might make a playlist

@@josephalcindor61 Great idea, please do :)

I’m thinking a playlist would be glorious.

It feels nice that we finally proved the world wrong and silenced our doubters.

Facts 🤣🤣

Well said, Sir. 👏🏾

Definitely. Boston was the Mavs worst possible match up. Assuming Luka and Kyrie were going to overcome that was pure FOMO.

What "catastrophes" exactly? Lol

@@SabLew-yh2or losing as a 1 seed to the 8 seed Heat. Committing the most turnovers in the history of the finals against the warriors.

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If Hauser is your 8th guy, you're doing pretty well in the depth department.

Not only that, but everyone in their starting 5 is a number 1 or 2 on alot of NBA rosters.

Warriors made the Celtics into monsters after those 2022 Finals. I also believed they had a chance to overcome a 3-0 lead last year but the Heats were shooting lights out that game 7 just to no show against the Nuggets. lol

Most people on the internet, the average users had it wrong too

It seems it was only Boston fans and the bookies that knew the Celtics would win it. Most people were clouded by their hatred of Boston. Pathetic really.

@@StuTheDon17I agree. Such a dominating finals. People really thought the mavs would come back 3-0 after winning 1 game lol

​@@StuTheDon17A select few had the Celtics. It was almost always the few who actually understood the game on a deeper level, ironically I think JJ Reddick has been the one the most right on them all season long. He's said again and again they were dominant and that they were going to be a team to watch out for.

I don't consider Stephen A Smith an expert (along with most of that ESPN crew).

They were being gentlemen... For the gentleman's sweep. 🧹☘️

Feels like they went into that game knowing the refs were going to do their best to extend the series, they literally brought in “the extender” for game 4, so they just wanted to go out there and rest up for game 5 😂

I'm a Celtics fan and Nobody believes that!

@@patriciaaznavourian3014 as a Celtics fan, why would they wanna win in Dallas when they can win it at home for their crowd? Game 4 didn't look winnable so they saved all their energy for Game 5. It's been a good 16 years since their last championship and it made sense that Celtics won it on their home floor.

I have no idea anything you just said. But no, I’ll keep the channel and do my thing, thanks

@@And.One.Hoops1 lmao. No hard feelings dude. Keep doing your thing. I’m just having fun scroll through these Boston Celtics apology videos

He seriously thought the Sixers would beat this team is hilariously bad. They couldn’t beat the J’s without Jrue and KP. SMH. Bucks are trash compared to the J’s too.

@@robertkelley198 I don’t get what else caused typically rational basketball fans to go against this Boston squad other than blind hatred or unchecked bias. Even the argument that this was the “same old celtics” doesn’t make any real sense once you poke at it since aside from Al, White, JB & JT it was a completely new squad with an actual assistant coaching staff.

yeah - and the choker thing was idiotic. Jaylen and Jayson were 10-5 in playoff series they played together before this year. They lost only two series as favorites (Miami in 2020 and 2023). And won 4 series as underdogs. What am I missing besides slander?

​@mezzb Exactly. It's the mob mentality that occurs over the internet. A few people say they don't like someone, then people jump on that bandwagon and before you know it, we've got a group of clowns who are believing a certain team is garbage because of their hatred of a player. Low iq people fall for this trap.

@@mezzbyeah, bro. People that called us chokers shouldn’t even be allowed to watch basketball lol let alone talk it. I had people saying we choked against the Warriors…like, huh??? How??? Cause we lost to a team that has one of the top 10 players of all time?? And even in the 2 series against Miami, one was in the bubble which I darn help but look at differently cause it was some random court in Florida with everyone stuck together in a bubble and no fans cheering in the arena. And then last year, we literally came back from down 3-0, granted we shouldn’t have been down like that, then Tatum rolled his ankle at the very start of the game…and now that I think about it, weren’t we dealing with other injuries as well? With Robert Williams and Smart? Regardless, it’s absolutely insane to call a team with two stars that arguably hadn’t even hit their prime yet, chokers because they lost one series that they should’ve won. It’s funny cause they called us chokers yet we have far and away the best record in elimination games. How many times have we been down 3-2 then went on the road in the biggest moments, won, then closed out the series at home? We did it to the defending champion bucks and to the Sixers(which btw after we beat them in Philly in game 6 Tatum set the record for most points ever in a game 7 lol) and obviously we won 3 elimination games against Miami just last season…so it’s just incredibly disingenuous to say that bs about the Cs.

@@jordancave3089 The W series is so annoying. I think part of it is that a lot of the media picked us to win in the same spirit that Dallas was picked this year. We had a knock-down, drag-out trip to the finals playing the #1 and #3 teams in 7-game series. They ignored the fact that we were a 51-win team that only got hot when our center started playing like a hall-of-famer in the second half of the season (and was a shell of himself in the playoffs). We were playing a healthy Warriors team that not only had Steph Klay and Draymond, but two talented upstarts, and was playing its best hoops of the season. Meanwhile our third offensive option was Marcus Smart. I'll give the haters that we choked last year against the Heat (though the choking was in the first 3 games). That's fine. We were kind of a mess last season - started off scorching, then were inconsistent the rest of the way. It never felt like our year. I honestly thought they might not make it past the first round.

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I think it's just what happens when you don't have the cycles to closely follow every single team. I am usually very nervous about my Celtics. This playoffs I was not. All year they played with a huge margin for error. They won when KP was out. They won when both Jaylen and Jayson were having bad games. They won close games. They won a lot of blowouts. But most importantly, they always bounced back very quickly from bad games. They never lost more than two in a row, and didn't have a single extended rough patch in the entire season. It was all that stuff that told me I had every right to be confident in them winning it all. They just had way too much resilience and way to much margin-for-error. You kind of had to follow them closely to see all that.

​@@mezzbthank you someone with some sense wasnt rocket science picking the Ca they were the best team all year by a very big margin.. if you didnt see their dominance you were not paying attention

@@mezzbexactly. As a diehard C’s fan, I followed this team the whole year, and wasn’t worried at all after game 4. The only time I wasn’t even close to being worried was after game 2 vs Miami with the “here we go again” mindset but knew we’d bounce back. My only problem with this season was stepping on the gas like against Dallas game 3 and vs Cleveland and Milwaukee in the regular season. But besides that we were flawless this year.

80-21 overall. 64-18 in the regular season. 16-3 in the playoffs. 46-6 at home. 34-15 on the road. 57-13 vs the east. 23-8 vs the west. They dominated everyone, everywhere.

Lol. I kept bringing up that fact to everybody discounting celtics. You know how it is, people were dismissive with the typical "ReGulAr SeAsOn iS dIfFeRenT sO DoEsN't cOuNt" narrative. Most people didn't care about the facts and just blinded by their hate for Boston.

Mike Green did a run down of their record against the western conference.(27-8)

I’ll take Holiday any day over Dame

I would take Holiday over Dame as well because he's a better teammate, but side by side, in a vacuum, Dame is the better player

@@And.One.Hoops1 exactly better player not teammate

Ride or die with Jrue!

I look at it like this. Dame is 9/10 offensive player and a 3/10 defensive player. Jrue is a 6.5/10 offensive player and an 8.5/10 defensive player. Jrue wins 15-12. maths.

Lol, yes sir

ha! I do think it's important to avoid two specific narratives. One is "battle tested" - it's not a real thing that has actual data to back it up. The last three finals losers all had tougher paths to the finals. The other one is "which team has the better Best Player" - it's also not supported by data. Almost all of the top players exited the tournament before the conference finals. Best to focus on overall team quality, health, and matchups. And to remember that it's a 7-game series, which is enough time for the truth to work its way out. Serious underdogs can take a game or two based on X-factors, but they rarely take 4 of 7.

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Agreed. Indiana trouble Boston more than anyone else in the East. The pace they play at can be chaotic for Boston to deal with. Which is why the Pacers had some good results against Boston in the regular season and pushed them in each game in the playoffs. As a Boston fan, I'm watching our for the Pacers next season, not Milwaukee. We know what to expect from the Bucks. Indiana could be anything.

@@StuTheDon17 Facts. They have the length and shooting - from Turner to Hali and their hardnosed bench mob. Nesmith just has another gear he goes to whenever it's a Boston game lol. When the Cs lost in the IST they was one of the teams to be reckoned with. Honestly thought it'd go 6 games not a sweep. Anyway with Mathurin back in the lineup next year we can expect them to be formidable even if they don't move any pieces this offseason.

@@StuTheDon17 after this season, the only other teams I want to watch besides the Celtics are OKC and the Pacers, and moreso the latter. The Pacers have so much potential and if they can develop a good defensive scheme they can become legitimate contenders

Ouch. I remember when he was the Greatest Coach back when DVDs were something people would rent.

The Sixers do have the cap space to sign a free agent now (see ya Tobias Harris) but you might be right about Milwaukee. Everyone is just getting older or injury prone. Doc Rivers being there doesn’t help either

Embiid is a Sixer for life. He’s not leaving.

to be fair to the 1986 Celtics, our draft pick literally died two days after the draft, which completely botched all future plans. then our next big prospect also died just as he was about to hit his prime, so there was just an extraordinary amount of bad luck involved. that said, considering the state of our front office at the time we probably wouldn't have made much noise anyway, but we might've not been as trash as we were in the 90's

Lol, still waiting on that from them

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Come on. Luka is great. If he was on the Celtics and JT or JB on Dallas. Luka would have a ring.

​@@willaerley7140That's BS... Stop trying to save Luka by switching teams... You A$$-holes pick Dallas to win with the current roster don't try and and change up now.. Cs was dominating the Mavs before they pick up Jrue

@@willaerley7140 Luka is a great scorer. With other Celtics covering him on defense, of course he'd have a ring.

@@GB-ez6ge All I’m saying is he needs some help. He did a lot with a mediocre squad.

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Two years ago he could not miss. Get in the gym Tatum this summer and perfect the shot.

I was the dope for sure

Jrue is not way better than Dame. He's a way better defensive player, but that alone does not make him better than Dame, and it never has. Dame is not just a better scorer; he's a better offensive player overall: better gravity, better range, better on-ball creator, better at getting to and finishing at the rim, better shooter, better playmaker, etc. There is a reason why Dame was the best player on his own team for around a decade years and is currently the second-best player on the Bucks, while Jrue has moved around quite a bit during his time in the league despite his great impact. You can't be a better player as a 3rd or 4th option than a guy who was a 1st option for many years and is currently the 2nd option on an opposing team in the same conference as you. Btw, Dame is a team player, too. If you're implying that he isn't, you're wrong.

@@urbaindelva7869 Dame is a team player? A bit, yeah! But he always takes matters on his own 'cause he don't trust his teammates more (talking 'bout his time in Portland). Then you people saying his teammates are not good enough so he doing the takeover thing ... but how would they be good if not given more chances? (Sorry for my English, not that good!)

Lol calm down

Your loss

@@And.One.Hoops1 im not losing anything from anyone who honestly thinks the sixers and bucks would beat the celtics💀

Cool story bro, thanks for the engagement!

@@And.One.Hoops1 wtv

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You sure about that?

@@And.One.Hoops1 1000% dont let the FMVP skew that. Tatum was the best player throughout the playoffs. Only difference was his inefficient scoring but the only reason we were able to play Dallas the way we did was cause of Tatums ability to play 1-5 on defense and draw all of Dallas defensive attention.