CELTICS 2010

Brandon Roy had much deeper knee issues than a slight meniscus tear.

not gonna matter much if the rest of the team cant stay in shape

Go cs luv da cs pic.twitter.com/4opXoLG9y0

— fraser ramon (@SteveMerkle9) March 30, 2022

ten year old study on the famous meniscus

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nba-players-meniscus/most-nba-players-recover-from-meniscus-tears-idUSTRE7BF23P20111216

While one in five of the athletes never returned to play another NBA game after the injury, those that did return generally got back to their pre-injury playing level. That was based on a calculation that weighed athletes’ points, rebounds, fouls and turnovers in the seasons right before and after the injury.

The athletes missed about six weeks worth of practice and games before returning to play, on average.

from the Athletic, Ime pinpoints the vibe shift:

If you had to pinpoint a moment where it started turning around and why, what would that be?

Coming off the West Coast trip, we had a hard session where I went at them pretty hard.

Where were you? Paint that picture for me a little bit.

Film session (in Boston), back off the Utah, Portland, Clippers, Lakers, Phoenix trip. We didn’t have a good trip, but it was more so all the things that we had built to that point. Whether we were losing some big leads, playing a certain way. And we didn’t (play well on) that trip. So I hit them with a 75 clip film session — 75 different clips.

Plays you didn’t like?

Yeah, whole categories of (them) not having physicality, not moving the ball. Ran the whole gamut, and we hollered at them.

rob just got the 2nd annual tommy award congrats

well-deserved!

celtics playing good tonight but dont have the same pop without rob i miss the pop

marcus out there making plays as per usual

celtics defense is so good that sometimes teams mess up easy shots just from being so generally pressed

Jayson Tatum complains to the refs for 5 minutes straight then looks completely aghast when he gets the tech. Deuce is on the sidelines throwing up thumbs down lol

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) March 31, 2022

sloppy half from the celtics feels like they should be up seven instead theyre down one which is an eight point swing

marcus has a number of sick passes tonight

jaylen one of the few guys in the league who consistently scores against multiple defenders on the break

lately it feels like when they make their threes it’s a blowout, and when they don’t it’s a loss

taytum on the dray pod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZTvZlSr3Uc

damn that podcast is good. the whole robert williams discussion. dammit get better soon time lord!

Grant Williams stepped on someone's foot standing in front of Indiana's bench and went down for a bit before slowly walking back to Boston's bench. He's still stretching his left foot/ankle out now but appears he'll stay in the game.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) April 2, 2022

that dudes can legally stand around out of bounds inches from the court is insane, why do we not have a DMZ area of some kind?

ideal scenario celtics win out including game at bucks philly wins out and nets stay in the bottom part of the play in

https://i.imgur.com/msYmsD6.png

leaving heat at 1 celtics at 2 philly at 3 bucks at 4 and nets at 8, biggest obstacle is celtics playing in milwaukee on the second night of a back to back

i mean i guess the ideal would be celtics at 1 and everything lined up perfectly but thats much less likely

Update on this: confirmed with league it’s record vs. all playoff eligible teams, so the top 10.

Boston wins that tiebreaker.

So either Boston wins tomorrow (clinched head to head tiebreaker) or Milwaukee wins, the two tie for conf rec, and Boston wins 5th tiebreaker. https://t.co/5wmA3lFoTv

— Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) April 6, 2022

i love the things mike gorman says about players he doesnt like "tristan thompson collecting a check here chicago"

whenever hes talking about an upcoming game vs the nets theres some version of "kyrie may or may not play"

Another day, another 20+ pt win over a playoff team for the Celtics of Boston, Massachusetts, USA

pretty cool

Al Horford didn’t commit to playing tomorrow. Said he’ll see how his body feels. Said the Celtics need to make sure their healthy as they can be for the playoffs.

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) April 7, 2022

wonder if theyre going t throw the next two games to avoid the nets

they shd rest up, big day in the morning, no draft implications either bc they traded that pick

lol

funny thing is resting for the playoffs doesnt really make sense these days since theres time off while the play in happens, tho i guess resting on a back to back is still reasonable

kinda think any of the heat bucks celtics would take the nets without too much trouble anyway, not sure about the sixers, but maybe you just dont want to risk kd detonating on you

pretty much, especially given that the other options aren't particularly scary at the moment. but i am a firm believer that the bad karma of trying to manipulate seedings usually comes back around to bite you

will be funny if both the celtics and bucks try throw tonights game

celtics have moved up to contender status this year you could say theyre the new kids on the block

Double Jayson Tatum at your own risk now. This is a quick read to get the ball moving. Derrick White is swinging the ball to Jaylen Brown almost before he even catches it. The ball doesn't stick very often with Boston now. White's 0.5 ability has been exactly what they needed. pic.twitter.com/aOUFyhjuhS

— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) April 7, 2022

nice

two seasons ago tatum had 24 hockey assists. last year he had 47. right now he's at 69 (and counting). left-handed no-look bounce passes are now commonplace: https://t.co/KhT9RZZ5fj pic.twitter.com/00oZAaNIOm

— Michael Pina (@MichaelVPina) April 7, 2022

yessss

his passing has improved significantly anyway but i feel like how much trust there is right now is the biggest ingredient. such an unselfish team

the ball is just zipping around, best kind of offense

some more great clips in that article, lotta passes that are not necessarily spectacular on their face but he's just reading the floor really well, sucking the defense to himself without even having to drive at all and consistently getting it to the right guy

havent dug into the article yet but one thing this year thats new is hes making reads earlier often moving the ball before the double gets there which allows him to get a clean pass off and basically puts the defense in terminal rotation

there you have it

Celtics announce Jayson Tatum and Al Horford are out tonight against Bucks

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) April 7, 2022

red claws front court making a run vs the champs

turned this game on for a sec and the celtics had 3 white guys out there

resting guys? tanking for playoff position? perfect time to play your whites

Boston has some dangerous whites

— A.K (@Kungu_NBA) April 8, 2022

this game is insane

everyone is trying so hard!

not really a stats guy but i think i detect a trend

Celtics offensive rating by month:
October 103.5
November 107.2
December 111.5
January 112.2
February 116.5
March 120.9
April 129.1

— Bill Sy (@deliberatepix) April 10, 2022

Celtics assist percentage by month:
October 59.8
November 57.6
December 57.4
January 60.4
February 65
March 63.1
April 67.9

the return of 2014 nba finals mvp Passing

ball movement baby gotta love it

sitting pretty here at 3, set to face the Bulls... AND YET I think it's highly unlikely that's where the Celts will be at day's end? Bucks are resting everyone and losing big to Cavs. So if we win we jump over them into 2nd. But if we lose and Philly beats Pistons @ home (which you gotta think they want that 3-seed too), then we drop to 4th, I think? Am I wrong about this?

Whatever it is, loving those numbers upthread and excited to do some damage in the offs!