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same, but on the other hand having him anywhere ahead of tristan is a pretty huge upgrade

haha ok nice normal

Evan Fournier will not make his debut tonight because he’s in health and safety protocols, per the Celtics.

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) March 27, 2021

i'm just gonna say it--the game changed tonight when they put luke kornet in

and the stats will back me up because they literally went on a 19-0 run when he checked in

kornet is definitively ahead of tristan in the celtics center rotation now

i joke but he was playing great! active, staying vertical on defense, he can shoot and move the ball a bit.

definitely more of an exemplar of what they like to do at center than tristan.

made a nice pass hit back to back 3s got a block got a steal

there's a stevens quote floating around about how they had been intrigued by his pick and roll defense for a while?? i just assumed by rep that he was one of those dudes who is too slow to really defend much.

they're doing a postgame interview with him and he is insanely sweaty.

watching him move around his feet literally looked heavy

yeah you would not say he glides out there

Celtics announce Evan Fournier is available to make his debut tonight against the Pelicans in the Celtics’ first home game with fans in a year.

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) March 29, 2021

they're doing a postgame interview with him and he is insanely sweaty.

― call all destroyer, Saturday, March 27, 2021 11:26 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

tacko dumped a bottle of water on him right before lol

oh that makes much more sense.

Romeo Langford sighting 👀 pic.twitter.com/iZzBnBg4q4

— Celtics on NBC Sports Boston (@NBCSCeltics) March 29, 2021

Well Fournier has nowhere to go but up from here

just needs to build on this performance with a 1-10

every time a big time college head coaching job opens brad trends on twitter lol

bomani was making this point when indiana fired its coach but the only coaches who go back to college from the NBA are the ones who are forced to because they can't hack it in the pros... calipari, pitino... fred hoiberg. brad is this weird special situation bcuz he coached butler so ppl attach this romantic idea of college basketball to him, like he just a gritty grinder who loves the purity of the game and will one day leave the glitz and glamor behind so he can go back to coaching random white corn boys who he can bootstrap to the final 4. but there isn't really any evidence that an NBA coach who is in demand w/ NBA teams which brad obv would be is going to go back to the amateur level

i'm curious what happens w/ juwan howard... he's been killing it at michigan, has the no 1 recruiting class coming up, will prob continue to be an amazing recruiter, is coaching at his alma mater, but also has 5+ years of nba assistant experience, you'd think he'd be able to command the respect of pros. i don't know what the read on him is as a tactical coach or w/e tho i haven't been paying that close of attention

Larry Brown a notable exception, but he's pretty iconoclastic and defies any attempt to generalize about coaching trajectories.

Can't imagine Brad taking the step back now at all, or even down the line to anything other than a dream situation. But I could see him going to coach Indiana someday, if they are a top team again and stumble into a coaching vacancy when Brad also happens to be at a natural transition point.

it’s not as if those guys are paid peanuts

i’ve read some friend of a friend stuff from people in the boston area who know brad socially. apparently he will say absolutely nothing about the celtics but he will openly say that he fucking hates recruiting.

right. college coaches have to work all year round to convince high school kids to play for them, NBA coaches work w/ ppl who do the recruiting and get the summer and fall off

robert william 20-9-8

didn't miss a shot!

9-9, last time they played houston he went... 7-7, houston is not good btw

Rob Williams, otoh, is good

Wilt Chamberlain, Nikola Jokic, Draymond Green and Robert Williams. Those are the four centers in NBA history to score at least 20 points without a miss while dishing out eight assists in a game, with the latest coming in the Celtics’ 118-102 win over the Rockets on Friday night.

damn rob for mvp

Houston traded Clint Capela on 2/5/2020, a little over a month before the league shut down for COVID. It is boggling my mind how quickly and dramatically they have completely shifted the identity, trajectory, whatever of their team. I guess better to go from contention to process-like rebuild in half a season than to wait a decade to blow it up like the Magic did tho

(xps to me reflecting on rob's ability to never miss a shot against them)

they are truly a fallen franchise

robert william 20-9-8

this man is in bad need a snazzy nickname

he’s got one dawg

granted it is extremely wack

I forgot how he got that nickname. I guess it's an sarcastic dig at him for missing a meeting years ago? At this point they should pass that title to Wiseman and give Rob a better one.

Yeah he had issue with his promptness. He also regenerates into a new body every several years.

fournier looking pretty good

big upgrade from whatever non dribbling player they were playing that day to him

getting more minutes for rob and pritchard is big too

tell em

We need to win a championship with Marcus man pic.twitter.com/B6izxidCqg

— Extend Ainge (@clappedjean) April 5, 2021

love that energy

I hate him bc he's on the Celts, but I would take him on the Sixers in two seconds. Knowing the Sixers, they'll pick him up as a broken-down 35 yo.

tough 48 hours for Paul Pierce

what the fuck is he doing

not being on espn

no, i did the google and everything, just not sure what the hell he's thinking

The decision was made after Pierce published racy Instagram videos on Friday, showing him smoking what appeared to be marijuana and with scantily clad women whom may have been strippers.

he doesn’t seem too broken up about it.

good morning

pierce is a clown my god he needs to retire from public life

^ could be said of countless public figures