Matt Moore: Boston is 17-8 in clutch time, games within five points in the final five minutes this season, the third best win percentage in clutch time. Those are the facts. It does not FEEL like it.
February 11, 2024
Matt Moore: Boston is 17-8 in clutch time, games within five points in the final five minutes this season, the third best win percentage in clutch time. Those are the facts. It does not FEEL like it.
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It absolutely does feel like it.
It’s probably because our 12 points games become 4 point games, and therefore clutch games lol
Matt Moore is a dumbass
We should not have been in the clutch time today tbh
It definitely feels like it?? Thats the biggest difference between this team and all the past iterations
It does feel like it. Dude is a clown
Likely because I bet over half of these qualifying “clutch time” games come when we held a 15+ point lead at some point in the game.
This is a huge turnaround because werent we pretty badstatistically for this over the last couple of seasons?
This guy is an idiot
I think it’s fair to say we’ve made good progress in clutch time over last season. But it’s also fair to say we’ve blown some games in the clutch and those tend to get remembered the most.
It really does feel like it. People just have goldfish memories. Newsflash, the reason most of our losses are in close games is cos we’re a really good team and hardly ever get blown out. I wish people would use common sense about this.
Problem is half of those games should have been within 5 point in clutch to begin with.
I’ve noticed a huge change in how this team looks down the stretch.
Seems like when an opponent comes storming back they know how to win ugly vs. just blowing it like in recent years. That’s a big difference.
We’ve won a lot more close games than we’ve lost (obviously) but the “feels like it” part might be that it seems like we’re usually up in clutch time, often from blowing a 9-12 pt lead, and rarely have to come back, just make enough plays to hold on.
It’s because we allow more games to become clutch than we should, if that makes sense. Double digit 4th quarter leads should not routinely turn into a one possession lead with the talent level on this team. Yet here we are after another instance of that.
Well the refs interfered in 2 of those games…
That cannot happen again, especially in the playoffs
C’s are waayyyy better in crunch time this season compared to last season, and it’s beautiful to watch. Gotta give credit to Jrue and Kristaps for settling things down and looking for the best shot. Those KP post-ups, while not the prettiest thing in the world, offer a new dimension that makes the offense so much harder to guard.
All that being said, history tells us you need the bus driver to take you home. You can’t win a title relying on post-ups from KP or transition buckets from JB or great shooting from White and Holiday. At the end of the day, Tatum’s gotta be that dude. That’s the only pathway to Banner 18. He’s gotta be an all-world superstar in the last five minutes of games.
41-12 “it does not feel like it” lmao
I hate to agree with him but he does have a point. Sometimes the C’a clutch wins come despite them getting in their own way.
BUT: winning ugly is still winning. If anything, being able to secure victories despite their clutch time struggles shows this group’s resilience AND at the same time, they’re getting the reps they need.
I hate seeing teams just dominate in the regular season and not face adversity then struggle mightily in the playoffs because they never faced adversity in racking up their victories.
Who is one and two?
Doomer af take
According to NBA.com we’re 18-8, second in the association
Matt Moore has always been an idiot
If you actually watch the games it feels like it. If you listen to talking heads and scroll through r/nba it does not
You can tell it feels like it cuz this subs mostly been roses this year save a few bad games
Don’t worry, Heat don’t care about regular season games 🤪
It doesn’t FEEL like it because you don’t watch the sport and you’re a child.
This stat also tells me there were only 4 games all season the Celtics did not have a shot at winning. Think they were against Milwaukee Orlando Clippers and Lakers. Every other game they were in it until the end.
I agree with other posters here. Both are true–the Celtics HAVE executed well down the stretches of games, only really faltering twice this season (CHA and GSW), as well as falling apart in IND at the end of the tournament game. That has to be the lowest amount of “late blown wins” in the league. They’ve usually executed very well, and some of the 8 losses are games where they were down 15 with 4 minutes left and almost came back (PHI, OKC). But the reason it FEELS like they’re not as clutch is that a lot of these games feature the Celtics going cold in the 3rd or 4th, losing the lead they have, and then doing just enough at the end to hang on, which makes it feel like they lack a killer instinct and shrink from the pressure.
During the Pistons win, the Celtics made enough plays in the last 90 seconds to justify it as a very solid “clutch win.” The pass inside to White for the layup, the steal, the dunk by Porzingis are all winning plays. But they also were in a mortal battle with a team that was 2-29, and every Piston basket screamed “this Celtics team is soft.”
30 comments
It absolutely does feel like it.
It’s probably because our 12 points games become 4 point games, and therefore clutch games lol
Matt Moore is a dumbass
We should not have been in the clutch time today tbh
It definitely feels like it?? Thats the biggest difference between this team and all the past iterations
It does feel like it. Dude is a clown
Likely because I bet over half of these qualifying “clutch time” games come when we held a 15+ point lead at some point in the game.
This is a huge turnaround because werent we pretty badstatistically for this over the last couple of seasons?
This guy is an idiot
I think it’s fair to say we’ve made good progress in clutch time over last season. But it’s also fair to say we’ve blown some games in the clutch and those tend to get remembered the most.
It really does feel like it. People just have goldfish memories. Newsflash, the reason most of our losses are in close games is cos we’re a really good team and hardly ever get blown out. I wish people would use common sense about this.
Problem is half of those games should have been within 5 point in clutch to begin with.
I’ve noticed a huge change in how this team looks down the stretch.
Seems like when an opponent comes storming back they know how to win ugly vs. just blowing it like in recent years. That’s a big difference.
We’ve won a lot more close games than we’ve lost (obviously) but the “feels like it” part might be that it seems like we’re usually up in clutch time, often from blowing a 9-12 pt lead, and rarely have to come back, just make enough plays to hold on.
It’s because we allow more games to become clutch than we should, if that makes sense. Double digit 4th quarter leads should not routinely turn into a one possession lead with the talent level on this team. Yet here we are after another instance of that.
Well the refs interfered in 2 of those games…
That cannot happen again, especially in the playoffs
C’s are waayyyy better in crunch time this season compared to last season, and it’s beautiful to watch. Gotta give credit to Jrue and Kristaps for settling things down and looking for the best shot. Those KP post-ups, while not the prettiest thing in the world, offer a new dimension that makes the offense so much harder to guard.
All that being said, history tells us you need the bus driver to take you home. You can’t win a title relying on post-ups from KP or transition buckets from JB or great shooting from White and Holiday. At the end of the day, Tatum’s gotta be that dude. That’s the only pathway to Banner 18. He’s gotta be an all-world superstar in the last five minutes of games.
41-12 “it does not feel like it” lmao
I hate to agree with him but he does have a point. Sometimes the C’a clutch wins come despite them getting in their own way.
BUT: winning ugly is still winning. If anything, being able to secure victories despite their clutch time struggles shows this group’s resilience AND at the same time, they’re getting the reps they need.
I hate seeing teams just dominate in the regular season and not face adversity then struggle mightily in the playoffs because they never faced adversity in racking up their victories.
Who is one and two?
Doomer af take
According to NBA.com we’re 18-8, second in the association
Matt Moore has always been an idiot
If you actually watch the games it feels like it. If you listen to talking heads and scroll through r/nba it does not
You can tell it feels like it cuz this subs mostly been roses this year save a few bad games
Don’t worry, Heat don’t care about regular season games 🤪
It doesn’t FEEL like it because you don’t watch the sport and you’re a child.
This stat also tells me there were only 4 games all season the Celtics did not have a shot at winning. Think they were against Milwaukee Orlando Clippers and Lakers. Every other game they were in it until the end.
I agree with other posters here. Both are true–the Celtics HAVE executed well down the stretches of games, only really faltering twice this season (CHA and GSW), as well as falling apart in IND at the end of the tournament game. That has to be the lowest amount of “late blown wins” in the league. They’ve usually executed very well, and some of the 8 losses are games where they were down 15 with 4 minutes left and almost came back (PHI, OKC). But the reason it FEELS like they’re not as clutch is that a lot of these games feature the Celtics going cold in the 3rd or 4th, losing the lead they have, and then doing just enough at the end to hang on, which makes it feel like they lack a killer instinct and shrink from the pressure.
During the Pistons win, the Celtics made enough plays in the last 90 seconds to justify it as a very solid “clutch win.” The pass inside to White for the layup, the steal, the dunk by Porzingis are all winning plays. But they also were in a mortal battle with a team that was 2-29, and every Piston basket screamed “this Celtics team is soft.”