How did the Celtics lose that one?

With 21 seconds to go, the Celtics had the ball up 3 and have been set to inbound after a Trae Younger technical foul.

Then, all hell broke unfastened.

Jrue Vacation had a wide-open layup to bury Atlanta and put the Celtics up 105-100 with about 16 seconds to go. Take the layup! Why is he dribbling the ball away from the basket, Particularly into the nook the place one thing dangerous will probably occur?

In any case, he does after which turns the ball over whereas trying a cross to Jaylen Brown.

The Hawks get the ball, the Celtics foul and Trae Younger makes a pair of free throws. Fouling up 3 is at all times the right choice; I don’t perceive why some coaches don’t do it.

The Celtics get the ball again and catch a break as a result of Jayson Tatum was fouled as he was falling out of bounds.

Then, Tatum stepped to the road, making the primary.

The second…

Tatum, an 80% free throw shooter, had not missed one all evening so he was probably due for a miss. Nonetheless, that doesn’t excuse it. It’s important to make your free throws. Barstool’s Dan Greenberg was able to have a breakdown.

He’s proper however okay, the Celtics have been nonetheless up 2 with 7.9 seconds left and the Hawks had no timeouts.

In probably the most surprising play of the evening, Jrue Vacation fouled Younger as he was bringing the ball up the courtroom.

He clearly grabs his wrist in what seems to be like an intentional foul. Nonetheless, Joe Mazzulla mentioned it was not after the sport.

However it positive regarded like Vacation grabbed his wrist on objective. It seems to be like Vacation didn’t know the rating, which can’t occur in that state of affairs. I’m not saying he thought the Celtics have been up 3, however I can’t consider one more reason that he would have fouled there.

After Younger made each free throws, the Celtics received the ball with 3.5 seconds to go.

They inbounded to Tatum and NBC Sports activities Boston’s Brian Scalabrine known as it out on the published that Onyeka Okongwu is ready to have an effect on Tatum’s catch as a result of he’s dishonest off of Neemias Queta who’s clearly not going to get the ball. Why is Queta even on the courtroom? Mazzulla had gone with a lineup of Pritchard, Vacation, White, Brown and Tatum for earlier possessions and if he wished a giant man on the market, however why not Luke Kornet? He’s a much better offensive participant than Queta is.

I simply don’t perceive why Joe loves Queta a lot, he continuously will get misplaced on protection and is a nasty defensive rebounder.

In any case, Tatum missed the shot and we headed to additional time, the place the Celtics misplaced.

In additional time, there was an offensive rebound that Okongwu received after of a pair of missed free throws with the C’s down one. One other mistake by the Celtics and it was Queta who was out of place on this one which allowed for Okongwu to seize the rebound.

It’s infuriating to lose a sport like this, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It has occurred an excessive amount of just lately for the Celtics.

They haven’t performed effectively sufficient within the 4th quarter of video games as of late and they should determine it out.

I believe they’ll be okay, that is nonetheless an elite staff that gained the championship final season however that doesn’t make this not irritating. We all know the Celtics can win video games like this — we noticed them do it within the playoffs a season in the past. They simply want to seek out it and determine this out.