{"id":36555,"date":"2022-06-04T15:56:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T15:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/warriors-punking-celtics-inspired-ime-udokas-fourth-quarter-rally-cry\/"},"modified":"2022-06-04T15:56:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T15:56:22","slug":"warriors-punking-celtics-inspired-ime-udokas-fourth-quarter-rally-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/warriors-punking-celtics-inspired-ime-udokas-fourth-quarter-rally-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors &#8216;punking&#8217; Celtics inspired Ime Udoka&#8217;s fourth-quarter rally cry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Boston Celtics weren&#8217;t going down without a fight, and Ime Udoka&#8217;s message to his team entering the fourth quarter provided the spark it needed.<\/p>\n<p>The coach&#8217;s pump-up speech played a huge role in Boston erasing a 12-point Golden State lead and delivering the Warriors their first playoff loss at home, as the Celtics won Game 1 of the NBA Finals 120-108 on Thursday night at Chase Center .<\/p>\n<p>Udoka told Chris Haynes of Yahoo!  Sports what his message of him to the team was entering the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou&#8217;re getting punked out there,\u201d Udoka recalled.  \u201cThey&#8217;re punking us right now.  Is this the way you want to go out?  This is not us.  Let&#8217;s at least give ourselves a chance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we&#8217;re going to go out, let&#8217;s go out playing the way we play.  That&#8217;s all I was asking, \u201dUdoka added.  &#8220;I&#8217;m happy the guys responded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The speech clearly resonated with the team, given the outcome, and Celtics players believe it was the kick in the pants they needed at just the right time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor anyone, I feel like that challenges us to step up and stop being so soft, you would say,\u201d forward Grant Williams told Yahoo!  Sports.  \u201cHe&#8217;s not afraid to say that to anybody.  He was yelling at me, [Jaylen Brown] and whoever was in the game while we were running down the court, telling us to toughen the hell up.  That&#8217;s what you love about Ime.  He tells it like it is. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Ad Slot --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s something we needed to hear,\u201d guard Derrick White said.  &#8220;We were challenged to toughen up, and we did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h5>RELATED: Draymond believes he &#8216;failed&#8217; Steph with Game 1 performance<\/h5>\n<p>More often than not, when Golden State leads by 12 points entering the fourth quarter, it ends in a victory.  Unfortunately for the Warriors, the Celtics put together a historic comeback effort that left Golden State stunned.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors would be wise to punk the Celtics for all four quarters in Game 2 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download and follow the Dubs Talk podcast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/shows\/316ce225-5694-403f-a724-adbf53d39c76\/episodes\/14f68ea7-1a23-4c16-9b2d-3b05ebfd9250\/embed\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script><\/p>\n<p>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)<\/p>\n<p>{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?<\/p>\n<p>n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};<\/p>\n<p>if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';<\/p>\n<p>n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;<\/p>\n<p>t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];<\/p>\n<p>s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',<\/p>\n<p>'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');<\/p>\n<p>function getCookie(cname) {\n    let name = cname + \"=\";\n    let decodedCookie = decodeURIComponent(document.cookie);\n    let ca = decodedCookie.split(';');\n    for (let i = 0; i < ca.length; i++) {\n        let c = ca[i];\n        while (c.charAt(0) == ' ') {\n            c = c.substring(1);\n        }\n        if (c.indexOf(name) == 0) {\n            return c.substring(name.length, c.length);\n        }\n    }\n    return \"\";\n}\n\n\n  if (getCookie('usprivacy') === '1YYN') {\n    fbq('dataProcessingOptions', ['LDU'], 0, 0);\n  }\n  \n\nfbq('init', '674090812743125');\n\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics weren&#8217;t going down without a fight, and Ime Udoka&#8217;s message to his team entering the fourth quarter provided the spark it needed. The coach&#8217;s pump-up speech played a huge role in Boston erasing a 12-point Golden State lead and delivering the Warriors their first playoff loss at home, as the Celtics won &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/warriors-punking-celtics-inspired-ime-udokas-fourth-quarter-rally-cry\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Warriors &#8216;punking&#8217; Celtics inspired Ime Udoka&#8217;s fourth-quarter rally cry<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/sites\/rsnunited\/files\/styles\/metatags_opengraph\/public\/article\/hero\/Ime-Udoka-USA-18423689.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}