CELTICS 2010

marcus having a rough start to the season

Brutal final 30 seconds for Marcus Smart against the Mavs. On top of the bad foul to give on Doncic, he also missed Boston's final shot with 30 seconds left while trying to draw a foul on Porzingis, throwing up unneeded low quality shot since Boston was already in penalty.

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) November 7, 2021

tatum did seem to remember than you can just do something as soon as you get the ball tho which is cool, team in general seems to be playing not terrible anymore, got back in a scheduled loss without jaylen after being down big

richardson also finally had a good game, tho i remain a sceptic

hes one of those guys that kind of just always looks bad out there, he moves around sloppy like his shoes are too big

yeah not impressed by his shooting form either

lol ok

JAYLEN BROWN COME ON DOWN.

via: @TheAthletic

Full story: https://t.co/qhHAJNjw5b pic.twitter.com/yrUjgdTmML

— Victor Williams (@ThePhillyPod) November 8, 2021

"would have to include"

i value what shams and woj do, but if you're gonna engage in exclusively access journalism you have to contextualize which teams are writing your copy

eh i guess that's clear from the wording, it's just an absurd thing to put out there. like why even report it. "any potential Simmons deal with the Mavs would have to include Doncic" etc

not saying Jaylen is Luka. But still

sixers trying to set a market by leaking to shams, who is this supposed to fool

i do support the celtics getting simmons thooo, would have to be a three team deal since the sixers dont want what the celtics are willing to trade, something like bunch of picks + horf to a rebuilding team, players from rebuilding team to philly, simmons to boston

https://i.imgur.com/ZIboRyS.png

some of those picks should actually be going to philly i guess, 2 first and 2 seconds for colin sexton doesnt really make sense lol

Horf destined to spend the rest of his life cycling btwn the celts, sixers, and bottom feeders i see

i don't think simmons is irredeemable but i still have the High Maintenance Star bad taste in my mouth after kyrie.

lag∞n, why you have to do me dirty with that trade?

lol sixers can probably do better but also maybe not?

I mean Maxey might already be better than Sexton.

Love is interesting and probably would work with Embiid but he apparently doesn't like the new ball either.

if maxey is better than sexton the sixers are in a pretty sweet spot

I haven't seen Sexton much, so grain of salt, just looking at their advanced stats and (wishful thinking) projecting Maxey to develop a bit more.

sexton has the right skills and style to be an nba lead ball handler aka a guy who can break down the defense and getting things happening, whether he will ever do it at a high enough level to really be a good lead ball handler well i wouldnt bet on it but he is at least the type of player the sixers need, tho hes also the type of guy who could really suffer from this new physicality if it persists because he is small

if the sixers have to settle for a package like him and love lol that would be bad for them tho not out of the realm of possibility but does seem like pretty much the floor they could get for simmons

lmao what

“Daryl Morey asked for Jaylen Brown, Marcus Smart, Robert Williams, and a protected first round pick to the Celtics in exchange for Ben Simmons and Danny Green. The Celtics hung up without saying any words”. (Via @ShamsCharania) pic.twitter.com/RyvIQgem4t

— NBA Central (@TheNBACenfral) November 8, 2021

lol fake apologies

i'm TheNBACenfral

lol, I was going to say, maybe Morey's strategy is to make a ridiculous demand so the C's fall back on just trading Jaylen Brown to him.

if you make extreme enough demands maybe they'll just give you a free player as a compromise

its crazy how many rebounds rob is getting at least a finger on this year

two mins left in the 1st half

Robert Williams already has seven offensive rebounds, which is a new career-high.

— Chris Grenham (@chrisgrenham) November 11, 2021

love to get my lil fingers on some boards

no better feeling than snaring one

Robert Williams up to 19 alley-oop finishes this year. As @celticsvoice noted during broadcast (h/t stats guru Dick Lipe), he’s got more alley-oop finishes than 25 teams. Here they are via @Sportradar: pic.twitter.com/C8TSqKMPIv

— Chris Forsberg (@ChrisForsberg_) November 11, 2021

ffs maybe tweet the four teams ahead instead of the 25 teams behind?

cavs, hawks, suns, lakers for the record

i wouldve done the whole list and put robs name in there thats the way to do it

yes, that would be a good presentation of information

would subscribe to cr?m/cad bball twitter

celtics should trade for pat connaughton hes from arlington, hes flagrantly irish, hes a good player, this is a guy they need

he could be lucky the leprechaun too doing dunks during timeouts with a hat on save some money that way

bucks lineup tonight is out of control, think they have one starter playing

connaughton is giannis's guy! they're bros and they do early a.m. workouts together (or something similar, i forget the specifics). he's turned himself into a really good player.

maybe they can get giannis too

now you're talking

That was just the 20th time in the last 25 years the Celtics didn't take a free throw in the first half, yet somehow the 3rd time it's happened in 2021, per @SportRadar.

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) November 13, 2021

celtics have been playing really good defense after starting out awful, next they just need to figure out offense

think theyll prob work their way to the good but not great team that was generally expected

one has to think that jayson will remember how to score the ball

Celtics over first seven games:
Offensive rating: 19th
Defensive rating: 27th
Net rating: 24th
2-5

Celtics over last seven games
Offensive rating: 23rd
Defensive rating: 1st
Net rating: 5th
5-2https://t.co/yJiZwgMg4j

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) November 16, 2021

a lot of people are saying the best offense is a good defense

this is much more the team profile i thought they would have

feel like they should be able to get to at least middling on offense

feel like this is right as far as their defensive improvement

Slowly but surely, Udoka has righted the ship with this group on the defensive end in the past two weeks with a number of subtle but effective moves. He’s scaled back the defensive switching among the team’s true bigs (Rob Williams). He’s also leaning more heavily into playing strong wing defenders (Josh Richardson, Romeo Langford) off the bench over potential defensive liabilities (Payton Pritchard, Jabari Parker).

Those shifts combined with some improved effort and understanding from Boston’s personnel has rocketed this group back towards the top of the NBA since the start of November. After Monday’s 98-92 win over the Cavs, Boston improved to 5-2 in its last seven games despite playing without Jaylen Brown for five of those contests.

https://www.masslive.com/celtics/2021/11/celtics-show-off-elite-defensive-upside-in-early-season-turnaround-thats-our-identity.html