CELTICS 2010

bigs are just better at defense than smalls, can't get around it

grant williams is not that big but hes clearly bigger than derrick white

also hes fat (according to trae young)

if you're fat enough no one can get by you makes sense to me

its like being a hockey goalie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpe7R_KgdVo

theyre saying rob back soon

just want to give props to jaylen for becoming a true bucket getter, early in his career he was pretty robotic now he can score in every way and hes creative with it

ive been living the free stream life this year getting a lot of opponent broadcast teams and theyre always like they cant keep this up right when the celtics come out bombing threes, buddy ive got bad news

40 point first quarter

white is hoisting like a madman this year no hesitation looks like a different player

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fh5eLJUWYAAee97?format=jpg&name=large

a little concerning that if it hadn’t been for derrick white having a career night the celtics might have lost this game. grant’s stat line was good but he looked off. brogdon was v ineffective. the ball movement is still great though. trust the ball movement.

idk they got ahead early and coasted both teams seemed weirdly gassed in the second half only thing that kept it at all close was a ton of celtics turnovers which is something they have really not been doing this year, will say that jaylen initiating the offense is not good now nor has it ever been hes not a good passer and has a tendency to turn it over when driving into a set d, theres really no reason to use him that way since they have so many guys marcus white tatum brogdon pritchard who can do it better, get jaylen the ball on the move while defense is in rotation on a kick out with a screen in the high post really anything but him just dribbling up top

along the same lines jaylen + bench lineups arent great but tatum + bench are, tho it might be a little different this year if youre including brogdon in the bench since hes not a bench quality player and can do a lot of the playmaking stuff jaylen struggles with

he seems like a nice guy but i’m starting to think jb is not the sharpest tool in the shed

two stinkers so far this year both vs the bulls

other two losses were overtime vs the cavs, just stay away from those two teams

he seems like a nice guy but i’m starting to think jb is not the sharpest tool in the shed

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, November 22, 2022 7:52 AM (three hours ago)

all of these athletes and celebrities are basically cult members, completely in love with the idea of themselves as special, surrounding themselves with people who (for their own benefit) will reinforce that, it’s not a mindset that attracts the most curious people or demands any real introspection, this sort of thing is just a threat to the bottom line. which is why brown and the rest of the NBA players are loath to really criticize kyrie or support any sort of accountability: on some level of course they simply agree with what he’s saying, but on a more coldly economic level any holding of a player to account is a threat to their ability to make a lot of money.

obviously the specifics of the kyrie situation are a bit arbitrary and hypocritical coming from billionaire lizards like joe tsai, but it’s probably safe to not invest any moral energy in self-interested multimillionaire macho men either

i would prefer honestly to never have to think about the politics personal behavior and so forth of any celebrity ever again i know some people enjoy that sort of thing finding an actor to judge or whatever but its really just more sound and fury imho, kryie def crossed a line where he was promoting uncut anti semitism to his millions of followers and for that i resent him it would be preferable if he could just be a somewhat normal level of lame dude, im not even demanding shut up and dribble here gordon hayward can endorse trump if he wants or lebron can conspire with obama to undercut the labor movement idc just dont be a full on thought leader for abhorrent ideas

tho tbh if a celebrities actions are bizarre or funny im wiling to entertain them, kyrie being the messiest bitch in the nba then burning sage upon his return to boston garden was legitimately newsworthy

need less of this and more of carmelo's mystical orb

i didn't hallucinate that, right. its impossible to find on google now because a basketball is also an orb

lol i do not remember that but it sounds good

oh weird maybe it was actually all in my head. or else i saw it somewhere else and somehow didn't share it here

hmm it might have been jr smith and not carmelo but it was one of the two. my investigation has dead ended at a link to a deleted tweet though

remember when jr threw the soup lol

jt drives good now

📽️New video on the NBA app is how Jayson Tatum has grown as a rim finisher and penetrator, and how it's boosted his efficiency. https://t.co/SW466HqDT0

— Ben Taylor (@ElGee35) November 22, 2022

damn i didnt know larry had such low self esteem

Larry Bird talks about all his doubters when he was coming out of college and how long it took him to realize he would dominate the NBA. Spoiler: it took him three days.

pic.twitter.com/6eLyvxnjN9

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) November 22, 2022

lol, dude was an MJ level psycho.

celtics came out serious about this game

pretty good

Celtics with 54/52/84 splits in their 70-point first half.

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) November 24, 2022

tatum blocks luka off the backboard -> pure 3-pointer by brown in semi-transition. they are a handful on both ends.

that was a very satisfying sequence

i am a horrible nitpicker since i've watched these guys entire careers, so sometimes i try to imagine being a fan of the other team and it does not seem fun to go against them

its true theyre all grown up

Jaylen Brown cannot stop improving pic.twitter.com/17nAAlDyFl

— 𝙍𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙮 ☘️ (@CelticsRiley) November 23, 2022

celtics go up 16 in the 1st, decide to not play for most of two quarters then go on a 35-4 run

this homestand is real tasty--anything less than 5-1 would be disappointing

celtics much better at finishing games so far, prob has something to do with ditching a lot of the iso play

Updated net rating by quarter table: pic.twitter.com/vi2lGHM7ex

— Tom Bassine (@tvbassine) November 26, 2022

wtf are are the pacers doing in first quarters tho

huh! pacers and lakers tables very strange

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thinking about how part of the celtic mediocre defensive numbers is prob the fact that theyve gotten out to a bunch of big leads then coasted til the end when they put the clamps on if they need to, they did totally shut down the famous kings offense when they needed to last night, that and the okc game are the only ones where iirc they really flipped the switch on d, but it does seem like they can if they want to, and getting rob back should help with that too

starters still playing too many minutes is really my only complaint, need to give the big 3 bench whites more minutes

adding another center should happen too but thats not pressing

playing fewer minutes could allow guys to try harder on d too, coasting most of the time is not the best from a habitual pov

yeah agreed like the suns have the #2 offense and #4 defense but still have about the same net rating as the celtics, having a middle of the pack defensive rating is just circumstantial to the offense being an outlier

doesnt really matter how you do it if the margin is big enough. they're not like one of those offense-only teams that sinks in the playoffs, those teams always have much smaller MOV than 7 points

their defense has been better recently too, started off the season really bad

last 10 #1 offense #4 defense