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this. I don't know Ramo's gonna

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1:35

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when Derek White hit that shot Inside the

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you were probably thinking very similar They're going

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you just have to win by one, they

1:59

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2:01

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and it was a big big. night for the Celtics

2:50

in terms of not being without holiday, especially

2:52

on the road. I think they could have

2:55

weathered holiday being out of the lineup. I'm

2:57

not going to put it all in

2:59

his lap with the number of turnovers that

3:01

the Celtics had. And it was certainly

3:03

a big number on the night, but Drew

3:05

Holiday missing game three was certainly huge for

3:08

the Celtics. Three players and double figures,

3:10

nothing, almost nothing from the bench. And in

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first year. The Celtics had a great second

3:43

quarter. And we'll touch on that. Celtics

3:45

up by 10 at the start of the

3:48

third quarter and Orlando did

3:50

a terrific job in that third quarter.

3:52

Got back in the game down

3:54

10 that 10 point lead going into

3:56

the third almost disappearing instantly

3:59

as The Magic had a 14-0

4:01

run during a 16-3-star 2, the third

4:03

quarter. But the Celtics were still just

4:06

down three in the third. And like

4:08

the Magic in the first two games

4:10

of the series, here's a number of

4:12

the night. There has not been a

4:15

single lead change in the fourth quarter

4:17

over the first three games of this

4:19

series. Magic up by as many as

4:22

12. Celtics tied it up late. And

4:24

we're going to get into that final

4:26

couple of minutes stretch of the fourth

4:29

quarter here in a moment before we

4:31

get to your comments. If you're with

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us on the lockdown sports Boston YouTube

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channel. But the Celtics never led at

4:38

any point in the fourth quarter similar

4:40

to the magic over the first two

4:42

games of the series at TD Garden.

4:45

But the fourth quarter, Tainem fouled on

4:47

a by Boncaro on a three, made

4:49

all three free throws. Eight points in

4:51

a row at that point in the

4:54

fourth quarter. and the Celtics down just

4:56

3.9188, about 3.46 to go. Ben Carroll

4:58

missed on a jumper out of the

5:01

timeout. Tim Leggar on ESPN, first ESPN

5:03

reference, said, hey, that's the shot he

5:05

wanted. Porsingas got a rebound there. K.P.

5:08

Offensive rebound, jump ball, and this was

5:10

a weird sequence. Nine on the clock.

5:12

On the inbounds, Joe Missoula called a

5:14

timeout, Porsingas found on the inbound, so

5:17

Tatum hits a free throw. And this

5:19

was big, not only was the foul

5:21

and the free throw in that situation

5:24

on the foul before the ball was

5:26

inbound it, you got the ball back

5:28

and they actually went from nine, I

5:30

think, to 16 seconds as well, or

5:33

14 seconds on the clock. So you

5:35

added a couple of seconds there as

5:37

well, but Porzingus had a bad miss.

5:40

Then Ben Carroll missed on the three

5:42

and white hit a bucket to tie

5:44

the game at 91. At that point

5:47

in time, 17-5 run, under two and

5:49

a half to go, Wagner came right

5:51

back. Wagner came right back. and knocked

5:53

down a three and that put Orlando

5:56

up 93 to 91. That was a

5:58

huge bucket right there. There Tatum fade

6:00

away jumper from around the free throw

6:03

line great defense by Ben Carrow Shot

6:05

no good empty trip for the Celtics

6:07

and then Wagner with a layup a

6:09

tough layup against Porzingus Wagner with 32

6:12

at that point in a four-point lead

6:14

Prichard had a turnover the Celtics now

6:16

needed another stop Wagner missed on a

6:19

three and a jump ball situation you

6:21

thought And then as Dave Pash came

6:23

back from break on ESPN, it's like,

6:26

you know what, Wendell Carter Jr. might

6:28

be called for a foul here, as

6:30

there was certainly contact right in front

6:32

of the bench. White stayed down for

6:35

a little while. You're thinking either it's

6:37

off Ben Carrow, or I'm sorry, Wendell

6:39

Carter Jr. or he's gonna be called

6:42

for a foul. Instead, they say the

6:44

ball was off white, Orlando ball. White

6:46

with a bucket again to make it

6:48

a two-point game, and then you think,

6:51

backward violation. And once they showed the

6:53

review, Tatum poked the ball away from

6:55

Bancaro, and they called it an inadvertent

6:58

whistle. Okay. And then you get the

7:00

stop, but on the miss, in the

7:02

closing seconds, the ball carimed off the

7:05

rim and came out far enough where

7:07

the Celtics got to it. But I

7:09

think Davepass said, it hit the rim

7:11

with about 2.6. and the Celtics had

7:14

it with three tenths of a second.

7:16

The inbound towards the rim hit the

7:18

rim ball game over. Frustrating, yes, but

7:21

there are a lot of things right

7:23

now that the Celtics have to be

7:25

better at going forward in this series

7:27

and it has to start Sunday because

7:30

you do not want to go back

7:32

to Boston, two two for game five

7:34

next Tuesday, because if Orlando wins and

7:37

holds serving home with a victory in

7:39

game four on Sunday, then you're going

7:41

back to Orlando for a game six.

7:44

And after winning the first two at

7:46

home, you drop the next two on

7:48

the road. You need to go home

7:50

and win game number five, or you're

7:53

going back to our land. down three

7:55

two in the series and these are

7:57

all worst case scenarios but these are

8:00

real possibilities right now the Celtics again

8:02

not a whole heck of a lot

8:04

from the three point line there are

8:06

a lot of things in this series

8:09

that the Celtics they're just not doing

8:11

like they did over the course of

8:13

82 regular season games that's now the

8:16

third loss of the season for the

8:18

Celtics in Orlando first in the playoffs

8:20

they're still up two games to one

8:23

in the series but during the day

8:25

Jaylon Brown added with that knee issue

8:27

added to the injury report and then

8:29

90 minutes or so before the game

8:32

you find out and holiday was on

8:34

the injury report hamstring issue that is

8:36

concerning to me you're never going to

8:39

know the severity of it. But that

8:41

is very concerning right now numbers of

8:43

the night usually we do it in

8:45

segment number two 19 turnover seven from

8:48

Tatum. Just too many. And what I

8:50

said over the first two games, a

8:52

lot of this game three was as

8:55

expected. Orlando played better. Now, none of

8:57

their bench players in double figures, but

8:59

much better. Aggressive, taking shots, and Anthony

9:02

Black missed on four, three point attempts,

9:04

but he had nine points. He was

9:06

active and all over the floor. They

9:08

got more production in terms of points

9:11

and activity and defense from their bench,

9:13

and they did in the previous two

9:15

games. The Celtics bench, again, you're putting

9:18

Al Horford in the starting lineup, so

9:20

your bench now becomes Prichard, Cornette, and

9:22

Hauser and Hauser's done nothing in the

9:24

series. Prichard did not take a three-point

9:27

field goal attempt. They've, I mean, they're

9:29

number two in the NBA during the

9:31

regular season of defense. So that's carried

9:34

over. The Celtics' number one and three-point

9:36

shooting during the regular season. That is

9:38

not carried over into this series, and

9:41

now it's a trend because it's three

9:43

games, because it's three games in three

9:45

games in a three games in a

9:47

three games in a row. The Celtics

9:50

were nowhere near. Nowhere near

9:52

their season average during the regular season.

9:54

Nine made three pointers in game three.

9:56

Nowhere near their season average. still they

9:59

lose by two and they had an

10:01

opportunity. If they had put seven tenths

10:03

of a second to put it a

10:05

full second on the clock, different scenario

10:07

rather than throwing the ball to the

10:10

rim and trying to get a tip

10:12

at the rim for the top. I

10:14

don't want to say there's lots to

10:16

like right now because you had a

10:18

chance to win this game and you

10:21

didn't do it. And that's concerning. Because

10:23

Orlando right now and I don't know

10:25

this, I had this thought in the

10:27

second half. The Celtics are staying in

10:30

their lane in the sense of, they're

10:32

showing poise. I mean, they're getting beat

10:34

up. Player goes to the floor, and

10:36

the first three games of the series,

10:38

chances are, it's a Celtics player. And

10:41

then often, they've been slow to get

10:43

up. Tatum took exception, as he got

10:45

tied up with contagious Caldwell Pope, who

10:47

is enemy number one right now, and

10:50

he seems to like that role. You

10:53

know you had Kendrick Perkins on ESPN

10:55

before the game and you know yeah,

10:57

it's it's not a secret Tatum's got

10:59

issue right now with his right wrist

11:01

prompted him to miss gave to at

11:03

home that you won But Perkins in

11:06

a pre game. I'm your Orlando magic.

11:08

I'm banging the heck out of that

11:10

wrist. Yeah, that makes sense. You want

11:12

to talk about oh, that's not fair

11:14

and that's that's gonna happen. I'm sure

11:17

he got bang plenty And

11:20

I don't want, you know, Orlando's playing

11:22

very physical, even more so than they

11:24

did during the regular season. But I

11:27

almost feel like in Horford's gotten, a

11:29

little bit upset, I mean, Porzingus the

11:31

other night gets bloody, there's a lot

11:34

of conversation about it, and all those

11:36

different things. But just in the sense

11:38

of, I really get the feeling there's

11:41

going to be an incident. The Celtics

11:43

are going to go a little bit

11:45

too far in terms of taking an

11:48

exception to something. Maybe it's in game

11:50

four, but I almost feel like they

11:52

need to do something. There's an old

11:54

line from, we'll do this right here,

11:57

because I think this is a great

11:59

history moment. will be talking about. Right

12:01

now, the Celtics need to be more

12:04

physical. Red Arbok, there's a great story.

12:06

Tells Bill Russell, you're getting beat up

12:08

on the inside. All you have to

12:11

do is throw one. Throw one elbow.

12:13

And right now, I do feel like

12:15

the Celtics at this point in time,

12:18

you know what? You keep knocking us

12:20

down. We're gonna knock one of your

12:22

guys down. There's some malicious intent there,

12:25

perhaps, but you got to send a

12:27

message right now. I really

12:29

feel that way. And you know, I

12:31

always make fun, you know, I watch

12:34

Celtics in the 1980 games on a

12:36

black and light TV. Well, I also

12:38

watch the physicality of the 1990s, the

12:40

bulls, the pistons, the Knicks, the Celtics

12:42

too, the Lakers. And the Lakers at

12:45

one point had to match the physicality

12:47

and go after and you know what?

12:49

Enough is enough. And I do believe

12:51

it's enough as enough in this series,

12:54

where the Celtics have to say, you

12:56

know what? You knocked one of us

12:58

down on the other end of the

13:00

floor right there. We're going to match

13:03

that number. Comments we go? Locked on

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13:09

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13:12

Man Olympics. We had so many turnovers.

13:14

The scoreboard operator started asking if we

13:16

wanted them glazed or filled. Yeah, that's

13:18

too many turnovers. You know, and again,

13:21

drew holiday out. I mean, we'll know

13:23

a little bit more on the injury.

13:25

and the severity when they get the

13:27

injury reports on Saturday, if he's still

13:30

listed as doubtful or questionable, you know,

13:32

Boston Celtics social media, Boston Celtics communications

13:34

department, putting video and putting pictures up,

13:36

still images up, of Tatum and Brown

13:38

working up before the game and about

13:41

90 minutes before the game, they were

13:43

a go in the starting lineup. But

13:45

at that point too, Drew Holiday was

13:47

ruled out. I don't know that holiday

13:50

ever made the court. I didn't see

13:52

any of those images or videos. But

13:54

Joe was all in his pre-game. That

13:56

was posted online. It was. He's going

13:59

to go. through and you know they're

14:01

going to do tests and he doesn't

14:03

pass the test he's he's out and

14:05

he wants the 19 turnover is not

14:08

all on Drew holiday being out of

14:10

the lineup you just have to take

14:12

better care of the basketball but your

14:14

your back court in a very physical

14:17

series you can overexpose you know houses

14:19

got to do something you know that

14:21

stay ready group on the bench where

14:23

they knock down threes you're not getting

14:25

any production You're not getting the consistent

14:28

production that you got during the season.

14:30

Now, were they shut down from game

14:32

to game? Yeah. And they were shut

14:34

down during the regular season against the

14:37

Orlando Magic. Ardu. That zebra is awful

14:39

tonight especially. Oh, okay. Didn't like the

14:41

officials. Joe Mazule is probably not good.

14:43

You know, in terms of trying to

14:46

get a better whistle. And jocking. For

14:48

the officials, they do it throughout the

14:50

game, they're gonna do it throughout the

14:52

series. Coaches have done that for a

14:55

long time. Red Arboc may have started

14:57

it. Pascal, turnover is killed, but more

14:59

so, they didn't rebound and didn't take

15:01

advantage of fast break opportunities. You're gonna

15:04

have limited fast break opportunities. And I

15:06

don't think Orlando did either. When the

15:08

Celtics had a great second quarter run,

15:10

Orlando had a couple of transition opportunities

15:13

and they didn't make the most of

15:15

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22:23

don't like saying back in the

22:25

day, but it's sort of back

22:27

in the day. You put one

22:29

of ours on the floor, we're

22:31

gonna put one of your guys

22:33

on the floor. And it's, you

22:35

know, it can escalate quick and

22:38

I'm not calling for that. But

22:40

you've got to let Orlando know,

22:42

enough. And the officials, it's teetered

22:44

a couple times. Where it almost

22:46

gets uncontrollable or out of hand.

22:48

But I think it speaks to

22:50

the Celtics poise. You

22:53

don't want to get too far

22:55

out of character, but you also

22:57

have to make a stand as

22:59

well to say enough of us

23:01

going to the floor. Cole Anthony,

23:03

they elevated it to a flagrant.

23:05

He had no problem doing what

23:07

he did. I thought I was

23:09

seeing his dad Greg Anthony play

23:11

there. And I pass gal, I

23:13

think there's a fine line and

23:15

I think they're right on that

23:17

line. You know, the elbow the

23:19

other night on Porsingas, he's smiling

23:21

coming back. You know, you just

23:23

got bloody by your opponent. It

23:25

was a vicious elbow. Intent, no.

23:27

He was coming through, but it

23:29

landed. And that's more to the

23:31

point of whether there was intent

23:33

or not. Len, when the three

23:35

pointers are not going down as

23:37

a team, they need to start,

23:39

they need to stop attacking the

23:41

basket, live by the three, and

23:43

they will die by the three.

23:45

I don't think you're contradicting yourself

23:47

there, but you know, they've gotten

23:49

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