'1986 Boston Celtics' Another Great Win vs Milwaukee Bucks (1986 ECF Game 2)

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9 жыл бұрын

The Boston Celtics accomplished a rarity in basketball in this game when all five starters scored 20 or more points.
With Larry Bird leading the way with 26 points, Danny Ainge collecting 23, Dennis Johnson and Robert Parish 21 each and Kevin McHale 20, the Celtics defeated the Milwaukee Bucks, 122-111, at the Boston Garden to take a 2-0 lead in best-of-seven series.
It was the 38th straight home victory for the Celtics.
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@thosrobert 9 жыл бұрын

Ball movement = Ballet. Poetry in motion. Beautiful basketball.

@Yankeeboy7504 9 жыл бұрын

Best basketball team I have ever scene play in my lifetime.

@timothyl8237 Жыл бұрын

Talk about a pro , DJ makes the long bomb in the hoop and doesn’t even react , right back to business. Gotta respect that.

@mattyowen1969 5 жыл бұрын

Greatest team ever! Still fun to watch!

@holycow7195 5 жыл бұрын

Best team I've ever seen.

@newerafrican 8 жыл бұрын

Tremendous team players. Sure, they had the superstars but they also had the supersubs that came in and maintained the pressure. Very smart assemblage (Red Auerbach) of team-oriented players.

@johncase2408 4 жыл бұрын

These Celtic plays are textbook of the highest order. Celtics team passing is still the gold standard.

@Random-rt5ec 3 жыл бұрын

I was fortunate to attend many Larry Bird games at the Boston Garden & the one thing I remember is how fast Bird & the Celtics moved, in the blink of an eye a defensive rebound turned into a basket on the other end.

@yulintsai562 9 жыл бұрын

This is how basketball games should be played. When I play pick-up games, I wanted to play with players who play like the '86 Celtics or the spurs now. I hate playing with players who thinks that they're making mix tapes

@juliangarcia1221 Жыл бұрын

It's hard to find guys that move the ball around it seems like everyone wants to shoot 3s

@jdayala-wright8875 Жыл бұрын

@@juliangarcia1221 or guys who know how to move without the ball. That's the bigger trick in the team game

@scotttyson7970 27 күн бұрын

They were the Goat of all time

@jameswells755 5 жыл бұрын

I can’t remember how many times off a score mchale was thrown a towel under the basket go back and watch most of his scoring when he got fouled he’d have someone throw him a towel it was like clockwork.

@cindyknudson2715 Жыл бұрын

Yup, he always wiped his hands before doing free throws.

@jp3813 9 жыл бұрын

1:09 That was intended as a backboard pass. DJ and Bird have done that from time to time in a half court situation.

@SteveGellerMusic 8 жыл бұрын

+jp3813 I don't think so, I think it was intended as an outlet for Bird, who was ahead of the field, and it was overthrown. They never attempted a backboard-assist pass from beyond about 25 feet in years of playing together--there was no reason to attempt an 80-foot play here.

@jp3813 8 жыл бұрын

Steve G There's a first time for everything. I think DJ was worried about the defenders near Bird. If that was a regular outlet, it would've likely been intercepted. You can see Larry box out for it, and the ball would've bounced to him if it didn't hit the rim.

@SteveGellerMusic 8 жыл бұрын

***** There's no way to know, but I perceive Bird as boxing out because he can see the trajectory of the ball, and that it is likely to hit something and ricochet back down to him, which doesn't necessarily show evidence of an intentional pass-play.

@jp3813 8 жыл бұрын

Steve G If it's any other combination than DJ to Bird, I would've seen it your way.

@shaka222 5 жыл бұрын

Bird was THE MAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW, INCREDIBLE..

@barrymorgan5104 2 жыл бұрын

The depth of talent in the NBA during this time was incredible. The Eastern conference was loaded with great teams that never made it to the finals because of the difficulty of just getting past the second round of the playoffs. In comparison, the Lakers had it easy with only one or two serious contenders in any year.

@gordon2945 Жыл бұрын

I don't think so

@LeoWhalen1933 Жыл бұрын

@@gordon2945well that's ok because the evidence says so.

@krisharkleroad8 7 ай бұрын

Don't think. It's clearly not your strong point.@@gordon2945

@FavreianVengeance 9 жыл бұрын

1:07 Celts could do no wrong in 86.

@groovyballers Жыл бұрын

Yep

@ahighhorseman 4 жыл бұрын

What a special team '86 was

@tuat.mvpformallybigd.2635 3 жыл бұрын

Wow what a shot by DJ and he acted like it was nothing. RIP When Bird was hot it was unreal. A very unselfish guy who loved his team mates scoring too. This was the perfect team and they worked so well together.

@h.p.b.2956 9 ай бұрын

he was passing it off the backboard to bird.

@googoo-gjoob Жыл бұрын

man, those Nelson coached Bucks teams were always tufff

@leechmaster21 8 жыл бұрын

Hah, Dennis didn't even smile!

@Crunchysopa52 9 жыл бұрын

Just beautiful basketball. Great post!

@googoo-gjoob Жыл бұрын

5:28 *LOOK,* Kevin passed the ball!!!

@Defender80s 7 жыл бұрын

GOAT Frontline!

@TheMimetolithman 5 жыл бұрын

Larry is witout a douth theGOAT.

@johnmcnally5307 3 жыл бұрын

Settle down. Larry is great.....but....

@johnmcnally5307 3 жыл бұрын

86 was the best ever. Lakers? No. Bulls? No.....Bird, McHale, Parish, Ainge, Johnson. Off the bench....Walton, Scott Wedman, Etc.

@irishgrl 3 жыл бұрын

@@johnmcnally5307 Nope. Larry is the GOAT. NOT MJ

@DJ-bj8ku 2 жыл бұрын

You wish Larry could play forever. He got everyone involved in the game.

@joemartin1253 5 жыл бұрын

This team would crush the Warriors.

@davidbarton1806 Жыл бұрын

Just thinking the same thing

@localwear1 6 ай бұрын

@@davidbarton1806 The warriors would get there 3s in spurts, however they’d have absolutely zero answers for Bostons front court.

@ltravail Жыл бұрын

We well never see basketball excellence like that ever again. Five men working together like they could read each other's mind.

@ironcladranchandforge7292 Ай бұрын

Don't forget about the 6th man, Bill Walton. He contributed a lot in 86. Played over 90 games that season counting the playoffs, and was given the 6th man award that year. RIP Big Red!!

@SteveGellerMusic 8 жыл бұрын

After this game, the Boston Globe wrote an article about how the Garden fans had become complacent since they won all the time so easily. They cited the Dennis Johnson 80-foot shot as "the spectacular event that the fans had to see in order to get invested in a game nowadays."

@jasoncamp483 8 жыл бұрын

That is a pretty interesting bit from the globe.

@groovyballers Жыл бұрын

Wow

@scottcarroll9201 Жыл бұрын

Clinical.

@weiqi8956 9 жыл бұрын

Awesome upload, gracias. This Celtics team combined great talent with the ultimate in team basketball, sharing the ball. For that reason I think it's the best team ever. My other fave team ever was the Laker team that won the title with West and Wilt. That Laker team won 33 in a row and 69 total games and West led the NBA in assists that year and averaged over 25 a game.

@manhbx96 5 ай бұрын

The 1986 Boston Celtics are one of my favorite teams ever

@joemartin1253 3 жыл бұрын

Now this is what you would call real basketball.

@CoreyT127 4 жыл бұрын

The longer birds hair the better he played!

@richardpeetrinpeetrin9817 Жыл бұрын

The 1985-'86 Boston Celtics I believe is the best NBA team of all-time! Larry Bird, Robert("The Chief") Parrish, Kevin McHale, Dennis("DJ")Johnson, Danny Ainge, and "Big-Bill" Walton as the "sixth-man" along with Scott Wedman, and Jerry Sichting and Greg Kite off of the bench...

@newerafrican 7 жыл бұрын

Man, McHale at 0:38!!

@guillaumea5527 5 жыл бұрын

1:07 look at Bird's court awareness, he saw before everyone that DJ's long pass was going at the basket, and he was immediately boxing out for the potential rebound

@cindyknudson2715 Жыл бұрын

He was ready for the pass off the backboard.

@tatt4music 2 ай бұрын

Best passing team of all time.

@gturcott1 5 жыл бұрын

I’d put them up vs anyone

@Head318Hunter 5 жыл бұрын

0:58 Bird to Parish to Bird to McHale to Parish and the Defense is just screwed.

@johnjenkins5854 3 жыл бұрын

DJ was trying to bounce it of the back board to Larry. It went in.

@classicsurvivor 2 жыл бұрын

The only statistic Bird cared about was a W.

@CoreyT127 4 жыл бұрын

All 5 starters had atleast 20 points !

@FavreianVengeance 4 жыл бұрын

1:08 LOL When everything is going right.

@johnmcnally5307 3 жыл бұрын

As a Bostonian. I can't deny.

@ericthomas3340 5 жыл бұрын

This time Milwaukee has home court advantage for the first time since the 1974 Finals and the Celtics won that series. Hopping the Celtics can repeat history.

@vvaradha4957 Жыл бұрын

And to add to this talent, the Celtics picked Len Bias 2 days after winning the 86 title. And 2 days later, Bias was dead. In the NCAA, he was as good as Jordan.

@charliekline3975 4 жыл бұрын

Great ball passing

@GOPMAN71 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing the difference between the 86 and 87 celtics. 86 everything came so easy and 87 was such a struggle. They actually should've lost to the bucks in 87 but manned up finally in the last 5 minutes of game 7. Shouldn't have gone past 5 games if Boston knew how to win on the road after the 2nd half of 87 Never were the same after 86.

@73Trident 5 жыл бұрын

The Celts were injured in 87 and were still in the finals. Healthy they win again.

@chuckweicha1 4 жыл бұрын

The '87 team were absolute warriors though...all the injuries, including McHale playing the playoffs on a broken foot, no depth and starters played ridiculous minutes...we swept Chicago and went up 3-1 on Bucks when injuries kicked in and epic game 7 vs Milwaukee then epic series vs Detroit, Bird steal in game 5 and game 7 down to the wire...the finals vs Lakers came down to that game 4 hook by Magic....I have always felt like if Bird hits last shot we win that series but no matter what that team was absolutely galant to get that far and went out on their shields like champions. Maybe if we're good when we die we will get to replay that series with the Celtics healthy.

@garrywilliams5777 2 жыл бұрын

87 team could have possibly been as good as 86 if Wedman and Walton had not gotten injured. Plus the death of Len Bias was a severe blow that set the franchise back many years. Reggie Lewis death a few years later hurt as well.

@cindyknudson2715 Жыл бұрын

@@garrywilliams5777 Wedman got his broken ribs in this Milwaukee series, I believe.

@krisharkleroad8 7 ай бұрын

@@garrywilliams5777and McHales broken foot, Parrish's bum ankle, etc.

@joshswicegood404 5 жыл бұрын

Honestly that shot made from across the other side of the court was just a really bad pass, but hey it work out in his favor:)

@cindyknudson2715 Жыл бұрын

It was intended to bounce off the backboard to Larry but... Oops.. it swished 😁

@camoss3724 4 жыл бұрын

Sidney Moncrief could have been one of the league's all-time great players. Unfortunately, he had knees that wouldn't cooperate.

@cindyknudson2715 Жыл бұрын

I think he was playing in this series with a bad foot problem.

@stanwebb3480 5 жыл бұрын

That's Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@jayswartzentruber7650 11 ай бұрын

I enjoyed watching the ‘86 team more than any other. You could tell that they were having fun. Walton just added another dimension. He was enjoying playing with these guys, and they loved having him. I truly think that we will never see another team as complete as this one was. It is fun to watch Bird and the rest of the guys talk about this year.

@krisharkleroad8 7 ай бұрын

The bench was great with Walton, Wedman, and Sichting.

@onlythewise1 3 жыл бұрын

bird make them all do there best

@kevinwatson4541 3 жыл бұрын

McHale had more moves than exlax

@sapphonymph8204 Жыл бұрын

Anyone know where I can find full Larry bird games

@surfshack2 Жыл бұрын

Wow

@michaeldubin8220 8 жыл бұрын

This is how basketball is supposed to be played, not the jump shooting crap you see today.

@riceyxxo7410 8 жыл бұрын

agreed

@Amick44 5 жыл бұрын

I know. Jacking 3's or tossing lobs to the rim. Seems like either or. And not enough in between.

@NitroModelsAndComics 3 ай бұрын

NBA IQ 101

@scotttyson7970 27 күн бұрын

Bill Walton blocked everything in his prime. That dude was the White Cat Daddy of B.Ball

@Head318Hunter 5 жыл бұрын

I swear they'd beat todays teams. It'd be like a gun fight between an old time western gunslinger with 2 revolvers, a shotgun and is deadly accurate and fearless VS some modern day gangbanger who sucks, is scared and is dumb as shit but has an Uzi. Give me the old timer.

@gturcott1 Жыл бұрын

Bulls would have had issues with big guys

@neponsetriver 4 жыл бұрын

Can't the commentator come up with something besides "Got It"? WTF

@Grandizer8989 4 жыл бұрын

Neponset River You must not be from Boston... that’s his signature call and 30 years later, he’s still doing it

@armandrodriguez8501 Жыл бұрын

WTF 1:10

@andybilakshow260 Жыл бұрын

Yeah I know. Was it a buzzer beater? What was DJ thinking?

@stanwebb3480 5 жыл бұрын

Everytime they score does nothing.

@timmyshore3755 2 жыл бұрын

i don’t watch this stuff . 🙈

@rmcfete Жыл бұрын

Your loss

@onlythewise1 3 жыл бұрын

Milwaukee was all black players ya diversified players

@timothyfenton2619 2 жыл бұрын

This sux

@larry930legend Жыл бұрын

I so much remember 1986 World Champion Boston Celtics. In my opinion they were America's team,better than any other team. We had the best players of course Larry Legend,Mc Hale,DJ, Chief... 40--1 home record!!

@rmcfete Жыл бұрын

50-1 counting po