CELTICS 2010

i think tatum has the slowest release on a three i’ve ever seen. it’s like he’s cranking up the arm of a crane. creeeeeeeak

his shot is idk what youd call it really long like it starts with a super low dip then goes into a two motion with a really high release, he also often especially when open pauses on the dip to gather himself doesnt seem ideal tbh kinda crazy he shoots as well as he does

or at least has shot as well as he has until this season lol

tatum is a great example of how spot up 3-pt shooting and off the dribble 3-pt shooting are completely different skills for a lot of guys, like you'd never say someone who gets off as many stepbacks as he does has a "slow release," but then yeah if you hit him for an open spot up he looks a million times worse than guys who can just catch it in the pocket and launch.

yeah i feel like tatum's shot is really built around it not being blockable by the man guarding him, like it's a very one on one oriented motion. so he has this elongated way of raising it up really high and getting it off over a contesting hand & when there's no one in front of him it all looks kinda unnecessary

i thought that the white-smart-brown-tatum + whoever mix looked kinda nice for the c's yesterday. if white or smart was at all a reliable three point shooter they'd really have something there. but they have nice flexibility off that 4, they can play big or small depending on what makes sense. i could see the argument against the trade insofar as they will give up a decent-ish pick to upgrade a team that still prob has a low ceiling this year but i thought their main 4 looked noticeably better yesterday in terms of fit and style than what they had w/ schroeder. i think it speaks well of brad's GMing just in terms of identifying a player on a different team that works off his core guys even if the price in terms of assets & contracts might've been a tad high

yeah getting white was a home run imo insofar as getting a non star can be a home run, it was a double maybe

idk how far the celtics can go this year but having a great d def gives them a chance to make a run especially considering no one in the east is looking dominant but getting white was for sure more of a long term move

the 538 projections have them at 3rd-best chances to win the championship, which is.....really something.

i was fairly surprised by some of the lukewarm response i saw to the white trade given that to me he's a slam-dunk obvious fit with this group for the next three years.

i do wonder if the point differential based systems might be a bit off on them bcuz they beat the no longer existent kings team by 50 points, the g league nets team by 30 points, the heat the game after they went to 3 OTs and sat butler by 30. good wins & i'm sure there's some garbage time filtering happening w/ some of the more advanced systems but it feels like their point differential is a bit goosed at the moment

oh 100% that's the case.

i mean blow outs are good its a thing that good teams do but it does seem like one could and maybe some do add a mechanism to their model to determine if a team has all their guys or not for a game cause 538 prob thinks the celtics blew out the good heat and nets

although maybe at this point the nets are not considered good anymore lol

i contend that the energy had already shifted

Celtics:

— 8 straight wins
— 7-0 since Jaylen tweeted "the energy is about to shift"
— 6th in the East
— 12-1 in the last 13 games with Smart
— 2nd in defensive rating this season
— 1st in NetRtg and DRtg in 2022

Hottest team right now. pic.twitter.com/LB656aUMrX

— StatMuse (@statmuse) February 13, 2022

The energy is about to shift

— Jaylen Brown (@FCHWPO) January 31, 2022

theis def overpaid lol, not sure about trading for him cause of that, tho we do love theis dont we folks

Daniel Theis said he didn’t hold a grudge against the Celtics trading him because he understood it was a business decision to duck the luxury tax.

“Let’s say it kinda worked out.”

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) February 15, 2022

This is the third time in the last 11 games that Tatum and Brown have been either tied with or beating the other team by themselves at halftime.

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) February 16, 2022

aww

Daniel Theis on what it was like rejoining his Celtics teammates this week: "When I saw them, it felt like I never left."

— Taylor Snow (@taylorcsnow) February 15, 2022

Vibes are flowin!

i don’t know that i’ve ever seen them move the ball like this. open looks absolutely everywhere.

i’m worried about marcus’ ankle.

yeah hopefully its not some really bad sprain and hes just out a week or two most of which is eaten up by the all star break

ball movement has been great stunning really everything i could hope for love when the ball just zips all over the place best kind of offense

Totally, all the more satisfying because they really haven’t been great at that in the Tatum era. Really speaks to the differences between guys like Schroder and White that Don’t Show Up In The Box Score

dennis schroder god bless him is an extremely limited basketball player

and yeah white is a really good ball mover noticed a bunch of plays where hes jumped in the air for a catch and passed it before he hit the ground, caught where he easily couldve taken a dribble or two but just swung it right away etc

marcus listed as doubtful instead of out could be a good sign

Marcus Smart doubtful for Wednesday’s game against Pistons, but that’s a small positive https://t.co/5l034R6Cju

— Souichi Terada (寺田惣一) (@SouichiTerada) February 16, 2022

New: Marcus Smart (ankle) and Rob Williams (calf) are both out tonight against Detroit but neither is expected to miss time 'long-term' according to Ime Udoka https://t.co/XbDfrEtIhG

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) February 16, 2022

weve got a live look

Marcus Smart arriving to TD Garden ahead of Celtics vs. Pistons ☘️ pic.twitter.com/66Xx4GUJeZ

— Celtics on NBC Sports Boston (@NBCSCeltics) February 16, 2022

it's worth remembering that marcus's injuries always look 75% worse than they are. but still glad this is just a sprain.

the celtics have lost a game, to the pistons, rip

makes sense that hte streak would end to the worst team in the league

waggling eyebrows

KAT can stop by for #Celtics pics any time. Try a jersey on, see how it feels. pic.twitter.com/TqJeqOfF8k

— Adam Kaufman (@AdamMKaufman) February 21, 2022

KAT situation feels weird, like minny is starting build something but he may get that grass is greener feeling

he should get a greener feeling

it's the night after the all-star break and the red-hot boston celtics play the nets. the boston globe do not have a single preview article up on their website, interesting move

globe sports section is a shell of what it used to be

https://www.masslive.com/celtics/ always has a lot of stuff and https://theathletic.com/team/celtics/ has one or two high qual pieces a day tho you have to give them money, theres also https://celticswire.usatoday.com if you really need a fix

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can't endorse all of celticsblog but keith smith is great

lol i used to post in the celtics blog forum when it was new, i made them their first favicon

athletic gives great coverage imo

occurs to me that if at some point grant takes horfs starting spot that the celtics will have a starting five of all guys they drafted, wld be pretty cool

for all the talk of danny whiffing on so many picks he also hit a bunch, just not a lot of in between, nesmith and pritchard cld still do something tho

thinking theres a good chance horf gets moved with some picks in the offseason, his contract is only partially guaranteed so he cld easily be waived, i know if you trade a guy in season and hes waived you cant resign him but not sure about the offseason, wld be cool to trade him then get him back

No idea if this is plausible or even possible, but would be cool if Horf renegotiated for a lower yearly amt in exchange for years, and finished his career as a rotation player in Boston. Probably a pipe dream but in the fantasy land of my mind, both Al and the Celts learned over the past few years that they’re better off together than apart

(Yielding his starting spot part of that vision obv)

yeah theres no renegotiation in the nba

Right but with the partial guarantee, thought there might be something to work with there

idk if theyre allowed to cut and resign

Prob not , would have to clear waivers or something (which he might, at that number (depending how much is guaranteed))

Paging Larry Coon