INSTANT REACTION: Jaylen Brown forces OT, Celtics take 1-0 series lead in ECF 

Jaylen Brown won this game for us. Down by 3 in the 4th, he came out clutch with 2 massive winning plays. 1st by stealing the ball from Pascal Siakam, allowing the ball go out of bounds with Siakam having touched the ball last. Then the epic corner 3, to tie and send the game to OT. Jaylen Brown played his heart out.

JB earned his supermax contract tonight.

This is a massive win this is the worst we are gonna play and I think pacers pace surprised us but these moments will sharpen us big time we have ourselves a championship team fellas

This should be a BIG wake up call, Celtics were very lucky to win this game. Need more from the bench, Hauser needs to stop playing scared in the playoffs. We're going to need his scoring !!!

This game gave US what we needed!! Let's go Celtics!! 🏀🏀

That was awesome but oh man high blood pressure problem. JB shot amazing. Jrue you're amazing never gets enough credit or talked about.

We thought we do gown in game 1 but not on my watch Celtics in overtime winner winner chicken dinner

Horford's mom so cute

Jaylen Brown is my favorite NBA player

Hats off to Jrue also. Major game and was locking down in the clutch

Good win C’s….please clean it up for Game 2. Those clutch moments were good for us. Go C’s 🎉

It's beyond a massive win, they were lucky But wow what a win, Thank god

Wow amazing performance by Boston Celtics and the whole team that has sacrificed so much for their team and their teammates they totally deserved this win by the way they played this game and this game one . If they keep playing like they played this series and elevating their game to adjust to their opponents they will definitely win the championship this year. And it definitely starts with winning the second round of this series Amazing and good job by the whole Celtics on the defense end and the offense end of the floor.This is what the Celtics is supposed to do if they want to keep advancing to the third round and when the NBA championship including beating who is awaiting them in the later rounds. This was a great night for several Boston players and the following were Jayson Tatum who scored 36 points 12 rebound and 5 assists. Derrick White with 15 points and 5 rebounds and 9 assists. Jaylen Brown with 26 points and Seven rebound. And he was responsible for forcing the overtime which was a great basketball playing making decision that lead to the Celtics victory. Next it was Jrue Holiday with 28 points and 8 rebounds and eight assists. And then it was the big man Al Holford the center that scores 15 points 6 rebounds and one assist. Tonight as an excellent game coming from our center tonight. The Boston Celtics totally deserved the win tonight with the way they played tonight.

With all humility this was the Game for the Pacers. Fortunate but I tell you what the Celtics aren't losing game 2. And they're good on the road. So the Pacers have got to play really hard.

I don't ever wanna hear people say that the Celtics aren't clutch and can't close out games ever again!

Great team win but we have to take them serious now they woke us up with this one lets go Cs 💪☘️☘️💪

Al... maybe don't take a dozen three-pointers next game?

Hey C’s, please DO NOT struggle in Game 2!!! #BEAGGRESSIVE #DOMINATEEFFORTPLAYS #BETOUGHWITHTHEBALL #PASSTHEBALLCAREFULLY #PLAYWITHPACE #BOXOUT #ATTACK #HUSTLE #EXECUTE #KEEPYOURHEAD(S)UP #REBOUND

Phenomenal Game

When Jason Tatum fouled Haliburton with 30 left in a game. I said the game is over, turn off the TV went to groceries. I was surprised when I saw the final score and Celtics won the game. Wow Blessing for Celtics fans and organizations.

Indiana played their absolute best and this is a soul crushing loss for them

Game 2 I'm not worry boston all day all night let's go

Jaylen Brown ENTER his 1st YEAR PRIMES 💪🔥💪

MAZZ ARE YOU HAPPY!

Tough win but it’s gonna be a sweep. Pacers opportunity to have a win was this game. It reminds me when we swept the Durant/Kyrie Nets 2 years ago: we won game 1 in this similar fashion and then we went on to sweep. My concern right now is Horford: can he sustain high intensity basketball playing heavy minutes every other day?

Take the "W" as a blessing and play better in Game 2

MANNNNNNN tht was an intense final few mins dawg... Once my boy JB hit tht 3 ii f*ckin LOST it lol , almost broke my damn 📺 🤣🤣🤣!¡! #Game1 ✅

Al Hoford cant be on defense pick n roll.

This is why you get Jru and let Marcus go!

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Go C's! ☘️

bro scal can you give us some credit??? damn. if it was tatum instead of brown making that shot he would not be saying what hes saying he would be glazing tf outta tatum

Thank God for Jaylen Brown. Celtics almost drop the game. Tatum ain’t got that dawg in him.

The bench must play better if we are going to win a championship.

I was never worried, HELLA annoyed, but not worried…. As long as it was within 1 possession… I remember what Reggie did to NY… and it only takes .2 to register a shot.

Now that sucks for pacer fans. Blew it

This was a nasty w ngl 😂 but we’ll take it

Can they just start focusing on defense? Pacers had 3 guys over 20 points, and 4 guys with 10+. And then u add in the 2 miracle hail marry 3s by Haliburton at the end of half and 3rd. It's only game 1 and these Pacers scored 128, their second highest scoring in this playoff, after coming off a 130 performance in game 7 against Knicks. The PnR defense was brutal. Whenever Al got switched to a quick guy, I would rather see double team help than waiting to see Al get eaten up. Kornet completely lost Turner so he stepped into 3s (shooting 3-4), and lastly, Hauser, OmG........what a disaster for him this playoffs.

2:40 Celtics even got NY fans lit LFG 😂😂

This is a good win for the Celtics. Now they're going to take this series seriously now and stop playing with their food.

celtics gonna have to learn how to play some defense in this series. playing against another tryhard team they got too relaxed at moments in this game

Why did they go away from the zone defense? They were blowing them out in the 3rd quarter. But they never went back to it. Indiana was confused when the Celtics were in the zone.

2 huge plays by brown but Tatum was the only reason they were in this game. He was a +20 and brown was a +4. Everytime Tatum left the floor with a big lead, the Celtics collapsed. Without Tatum the Celtics lose by double digits. Overall a very poor game by the Celtics, but they have a very long history of poor play at home in the playoffs. A win is a win though which is great, but it's time to focus. I expect them to play far better on the road which they always seem to do

We play the worst pick and roll defense in the playoffs and some stat guy just confirmed it last night and I’ve been saying it for years and it killed the Celtics in the finals a couple years ago. We need to adjust and have bigs Hedge high and if they get beat on the switch we need to rotate and help and repeat the process if needed but we get lazy on defense so I said all of that to say this… the Celtics don’t need a wake up call this is how game I’ll be with good shooting teams because of our shotty pick & roll/pop defense with bigs sagging off in the paint. We don’t need a wake up call we need a coaching philosophy adjustment on defense that isn’t happening this post season so we gotta out score our opponent because our defense can’t be trusted

We came out and punched them in the mouth with pace and gave them a taste of their own medicine, but we quickly found out that this is wha they specialize in… Celtics need to slow the game down a bit, grind it out with ball movement, but need to keep same energy and effort in game 2 and don’t let them get whatever they want. Lock them down.

Gritty win, a lil lucky ngl but a win regardless. LFG!! 🍀💪

Did JB call bank on that 3 pt shot to tie the game. Or was it just a lucky make?

When teams attacks old man Al and we just roll with it for too long, it's ugly as hell basketball. It's gonna kill us some games. So frustrating and we still do it

No more Hauser minutes please unless it's a blowout! He is trash on defense.

Relax people they were rusty and still found a way to win. 7 days off is a bit much!

The better team won period

Would like to see more Pritchard and hopefully Sam Houser can play more and little bit better

Wow almost loss but they did not give up i thought it was Tatum.play again in the end

Love seeing Donny Wahlberg at the games need mark and kg to show up

JB is our closer keep the rock in his hands down the stretch Tatum isn’t that guy in those moments

This would have been a terrible loss. We better play a lot better in game 2.

If you are a Celtic fan are you happy winning like this? Pacers are a six seed and they are really young and haven't been in the playoffs in a few years. Celtics are talking championship. You must first remove all doubt how good you are. Pacers know they can play better so watch out for Thursday.

Celtics got lucky tonight

HaliBroken

Hauser goose eggs again. Wake up Sammy!

unfortunately indi cant get the win even with C's playing this poorly they could be loose the remaining games coz of this one

The Celtics deserve to lose and should have lost the game. If Indiana takes care of the ball in the last 20 seconds or fouls JB before he hits the 3. The Celtics defense was not good. Indiana had a great game plan and outplayed the Celtics. They had 22 turnovers and off they cut them down they would've won this game by a lot

The C’s better not laid back in game 2 because the pacers are a real team to go up against. We’re gonna have to earn it to reach to the finals. They was really lucky in this game.

CRAZY that he's only 19 year old 😅🤣😂😅🤣🤣😂😂😅😅😂🤣😂😂😂😂🤣😂😅😅😅😂🤣😂😂😅😅😅😅😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😅😅😂🤣🤣😂😂😂😂

Payton Pritchard left the game in the 4th quarter with a 3pt lead and was -15 for a reason. No one else was close. Almost everyone else had a positive plus minus at that point. The Pacers offense took advantage of him needing help inside, both on and off the ball. They forced our defense into rotations that, with on time passes, put our defenders into poor positions to defend. Our starters played so well, but the Pritchard minutes negated all of it.. all game. I think Pritchard and Kornet minutes need to be staggered due to these rotations and help requirements when Pritchard is on the floor. Either have Pritchard and Horford come off the bench, or Derrick White and Kornet off the bench with Pritchard starting.

I think the celtics got a problem on their hands. Pacers never play good in game one.

One thing about Skall, Eddie and the NBC crew they’re not going to let us celebrate not for 1 minute. The Celtics can’t even get any love or appreciation on the platforms that’s supposed to be pro Celtics. I understand critical analysis but dang can it wait til the morning broadcasts and not right before a game or right after a win?! I’m going to stop watching all of these broadcasts and just enjoy the games because NBC Boston Sports, ESPN CLNS etc suck so bad. Y’all should hear Brian on the radio in the mornings, you would never guess in a million years he’s team Celtics.

We forced the errors duh! We got this! Made em choke!❤

PACERS WIN IN 7 GAMES...😅

I would have fouled brown in a ny minute !!! He can’t shoot free throws

Can Indiana play even better NOOO pacers suck Celtics cape back in overtime win Celtics in 4