CELTICS 2010

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bought tix to take my daughter for her birthday to the thunder game on 4/3/24. pretty stoked, haven't been to a game since the kyrie era, and this will be her first. i knew for sure that my determination to make a fan out of her had paid dividends when i saw the look of horror on her face after i told her they traded rob. "don't worry, you're gonna like jrue" i told her. "dad i know who jrue holiday is" she answered

niice

This team will be a nightmare.

but only so long as everybody stays healthy. they're really, really not built to sustain a serious injury to anybody.

theyre a lil shallow they lost four rotation players and replaced them with two, but being shallow is not unique amongst current contenders, and they have some ability to add another dece guy, suspect theyll roll with what they have to start see if any of bench guys step up then address whatever concerns arise later

great

NBC Sports Boston names Drew Carter to be Mike Gorman’s successor on Celtics broadcasts. @GlobeChadFinn https://t.co/HMaIUEZKOV pic.twitter.com/Mqf1J5k8cg

— Boston.com Celtics News (@BDCCeltics) October 5, 2023

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Last Sunday, he was the play-by-play announcer on ESPN and Disney’s “Toy Story” broadcast of the Falcons-Jaguars NFL game.

scal and this guy is going to be trash.

yeah, sad

rebuilding is never pretty

love our new strong friend

Jrue Holiday | Poetry in Motion

𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 & 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩. pic.twitter.com/kX9I8JZ5CT

— Pull up shoot (@NElGHT_) October 6, 2023

that video gets at something i was thinking about, which goes back to i think jordan talking about how the celtics needed somebody who could set up their kitchen, could “get to their spots” and cook, and i feel like jrue can do that, particularly those little middie moves

jrue one of those guys i always assume is a few years older than he is. probably because his first team change was really early

yeah and he entered the league at 19 and played right away so it feels like he’s been around forever

he made an allstar team in philly too then was banished to new orleans

underrated terrible process trade 22 y/o allstar for nerlens noel and the pick that became elfrid payton

thats the process baby

everyone thought he was getting traded for sure, instead the guys in front of him got traded, sometimes its like that

Boston Celtics guard Payton Pritchard has agreed on a four-year, $30 million contract extension, agents Austin Brown, Max Saidman and Mitch Nathan of @CAA_Basketball tell ESPN. Deal is fully guaranteed. pic.twitter.com/sD9LgpmHZx

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) October 8, 2023

update

Flutie Flakes Chocolate Bar (1999-2000): A spin-off of the iconic cereal honoring then-#Bills QB Doug Flutie, this was a milk chocolate candy bar, full of pieces of Flutie Flakes (frosted corn flakes). pic.twitter.com/lT3KAgEUeu

— Discontinued Foods! (@Snack_Memories) October 8, 2023

great time to be a lifelong porzingis fan

Porzingis really is a PERFECT fit in Boston 🔥 pic.twitter.com/KTdV6gSBp3

— Celtics Junkies (@Celtics_Junkies) October 8, 2023

weirdly good preseason game, teams playing harder than many official games, little rusty from a skill perspective but pretty good overall

pritchards the only guy who can dribble or get a shot on the court in the fourth and he is embracing the role lol, kudos to him

and with 50 seconds left up by three he ices it

same day he signs his new contract — game. pic.twitter.com/Fx0ThLxX1B

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) October 9, 2023

$30 million of confidence baby!

gotta love it

gotta say i agree with joe on this one, many guys wouldn't have done well with the hand payton was dealt

Joe Mazzulla said Payton Pritchard is one of his favorite people. Said the league can break people who go through ups and downs like Pritchard has, but he’s a tough SOB and never let it get him down.

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) October 8, 2023

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— basom (@bencavell) October 9, 2023

ok sounds good lol

At the onset of training camp, Mazzulla mapped out a revamped “tribal” structure for his coaching staff. His assistants are assigned into groups of three or four to improve the equity in how coaches communicate with players and how ideas move up the chain of command.

“By the time we get to a full team meeting, we’ve already had a group of people argue, go over and talk about their philosophy and what they want to do,” Mazzulla said on media day. “Then it’s my job to tell them no, but it’s my job to listen to them. So I think just creating that environment of that tribal leadership, that togetherness, that ownership. It’s something that I’m really excited to do.”

jeff van on board

Now they can throw Jeff Van Gundy into the mix, who has been brought in as a senior consultant for all basketball matters. He’ll be operating behind the scenes, sitting in on player and coaches meetings to provide a bird’s eye view and unbiased perspective, according to Mazzulla.

its crazy how jared weiss of the athletic is just transcribes what mazzulla tells him and calls it an article

That’s part of why Cassell makes perfect sense for Tatum. While there’s still room to grow his game, Tatum’s limit at this point of his development trajectory will be determined more by his mindset than skill. He needs someone there every day to remind him what it takes to lead a contender that actually goes all the way. If there’s anyone who will happily be in his ear every day, it’s Sam Cassell.

not saying the celtics can't win a chip with joe maz running the show, but let's just say i'm becoming increasingly confident that it will be in spite of rather than because of his galaxy brain

i feel like he might be a good coach its possible i just cant stand the success wins mindset type shit

if he were to somehow be replaced with current assistant coach charles lee who i dont really know anything about other than his vibe seems preferable that would be fine with me

btw re mindset talk i was watching the bucks lakers game last night and granted it was a preseason game but doris and the play by play guy were just going nuts with that shit totally ignoring the action of the game to pump up how darvin hamm was providing the right culture for cam redish to succeed, i mean ok probably not

doris has gotten extremely soft as her profile has grown.

doris loves culture

if ive got to listen to nonsense id much rather it be jeff van complaining about how supermarkets suck or whatever

jvg in the house, i love it!!

i do think mazzulla might not be playing with a premium edition of quizlet, if you know what i mean

can we get jvg talking to himself during the game as a podcast extra? come on nba.com let’s do this

i'm not a conspiratorial type but this jvg thing is interesting--like all the talk about an unbiased perspective fly on the wall, anyone who's been part of any type of organization knows that's not a real thing. he's there because someone wants him to be there and to me the simplest explanation is they've pushed all the chips in on this team and there is a concern that the coaching staff isn't up to the challenge.

yeah he is probably there to babysit

thought the same re jvg and also they hired two assistants who will prob get head coaching jobs ...somewhere... soon

maybe jeff is there to tell them to fire joe

i do not think jeff should be coach fwiw

and the celtics seem to think having younger black coaches is the way to go too, and they have two viable candidates on staff who meet the description

totally ignoring the action of the game

to be fair, this is the correct way to cover a preseason game

i mean i turned it on to watch the game not attend a leadership conference

haha yeah there are a thousand better ways to totally ignore the action of a game

when i watch a preseason game im in serious scout mode (wondering who various guys are)

Same. I just sat through Blazers v Suns last night where PDX played what was close to an all-rookie lineup the entire game. At least half of them will be on two-way contracts and playing in the G-League this season. It was a weird mess of a game, but it let me see the deep end of the bench and try to attach unknown names to whatever on-court skills were on display.