CELTICS 2010

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

the other day i was listening to bill simmons list his top rookies of this year and in my head i jokingly shouted "peyton pritchard!" (again, in my head...) and then i was like, wait what happened to that guy? his stats this year are ghastly! i guess his playing time is really getting jerked around tho looking at his game logs

xp if they can get both Js playing at the same time for most of the season the offense should move up to middling

Pritchard had insane buzz coming out of summer league and yeah, he's been awful.

just hasnt gotten much burn, and the celtics offense being very bad and out of sorts hasnt helped him when hes been in there, need to be getting him clean looks from deep

udoka has been throwing out some just awful all bench units too, basically lost them the 1st cavs game that way, tho in his defense he was missing a bunch of guys

that was also a back to back after an overtime game, to be fair

yeah he left them out there for so long thooo

The Boston Celtics have played 254 clutch possessions so far this season. No other team has played more than 195. 56% of their late game minutes currently qualify.

— Synergy Basketball (@SynergySST) November 16, 2021

they remain terrible at putting teams away, i think i can remember one comfortable win this year?

that was the case for the entire brad era too though. so many games where they went into halftime down 10 to a mediocre team and then IT or kyrie had to pop off in the second half

i guess lately its been the reverse where they play worse in the second half

Jaylen back tonight, and Rob probable