CELTICS 2010

btw celtics played zinger and kornet together for a bit last night, i believe those are two of the top five tallest guys in the league, serious twin towers sitch

was sadly occupied last night and just watched the game. zinger looked great obv, super excited. if he can stay healthy it's gonna be interesting to see how jaylen's role changes. you'd like to think he can cut down on the bad decision-making/trying to do too much stuff if he can be the #3 guy. jrue, i know he'll have plenty of better offensive games but every time he clanked one couldn't help but miss marcus' absurdly overconfident, 'too eager to take the shot' bad offense, which is more fun to get emotionally invested in than jrue's unselfish, 'don't want to take the shot' bad offense.

offense looked pretty bad obvs will improve as the guys get to know each other how much it improves we will see sky should be the limit tho, defense looked pretty nice even considering the new guys adjustment period theres really no excuse for them to not be the top d this year imo

dont think theres another team that can throw out a lineup of all shooters all ballhandlers all plus defenders

even if you throw out the defense clause its pretty rare

like maybe devner can run a viable lineup of guys who can shoot a three and at least attack a closeout

the devner nugegts

great team the nba chapmions

idg what this boston offense is trying to do

brissett is doing exactly that they want him to do

i was at the game. they got it done but mazzulla's rotations are so bizarre man this can't be right

also horford looks kinda slow out there sadly he might be cooked

brissett was a very nice surprise though

i was at the game. they got it done but mazzulla's rotations are so bizarre man this can't be right

― ciderpress, Friday, October 27, 2023 10:31 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

nice, hopefully hes just trying to get the starters a lot of minutes together until theyre up to speed

he was doing the opposite though, felt like there was always 3 bench guys out there

starters played pretty big minutes except for zinger who fouled out

how many minutes did tatum-brown-holiday-porzingis play together though is what i want to look up

idk how to access that data

it'll be on websites tomorrow

only three made shots from the bench

jrue three assists away from a triple-dub tho

they seem pretty uncoordinated which stands to reason but have been able to eek out a couple close wins nevertheless which is nice

they definitely would have yakked away one of these two games last year

zinger got absolutely wrecked by bam, who isnt even a great scorer, celtics are going to have to figure something out for emiid jokic et al, its prob just horford but also id think theyll pick up another center at some point

also second game out of two that their opponent went wild from three, not sure if thats more hot shooting or poor defense

DERRICK. MF. WHITE. pic.twitter.com/8ZCxMulApb

— Pull up shoot (@NElGHT_) October 28, 2023

Derrick White, 1st Team All-Defense. pic.twitter.com/XmqDy19utJ

— Pull up shoot (@NElGHT_) October 27, 2023

Unbelievable block by Jrue Holiday pic.twitter.com/knUx3w3wln

— Pull up shoot (@NElGHT_) October 28, 2023

Look at the defense. pic.twitter.com/8nLZkQJCU9

— Pull up shoot (@NElGHT_) October 28, 2023

didn't recognize White with the shaved head, very intense

lol rude

The Boston Celtics, as nicknamed by my 3-year-old:

Derrick "Snow White"
Jaylen "Charlie Brown"
"Kristoff" Porzingis (huge Frozen fan)
Sam "Hauser Bowser" (huge Mario fan)
Jayson "Tater Tot"
Jrue "Christmas Tree"

She still needs to fill out the roster but it's a solid start.

— Matt Shearer (@MattWBZ) October 31, 2023

rude

Leading by 23, the Celtics open the 2nd quarter with a full-court press and force 2 straight turnovers pic.twitter.com/bYAIzFz9hX

— Taylor Snow (@taylorcsnow) October 30, 2023

no mercy in professional sports imo

nice to see them just wreck a bad team, didnt do that enough last year

She still needs to fill out the roster but it's a solid start.

so do the celtics!

haha i actually clicked through to twitter just to see if anyone grabbed that low hanging fruit

Jeff Van Gundy holding court pregame on the Celtics bench pic.twitter.com/lSfGZ1snnE

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) November 1, 2023

long live the king

celtics uhh looking pretty good preeeetty good

two games in a row of full fourth quarter garbage time

https://i.imgur.com/4H4FuQK.png

good lord what are they doing to the poor pacers

i know its difficult but we must not look away

alls fair in love and ball

old is new

Early on, the Celtics offense has transformed from one of the NBA’s most post-up-averse attacks into one of the most post-up reliant. Through a 4-0 start, they have used nearly seven more post-up possessions per game than they did last season, including possessions that end with passes out of the post. They entered Wednesday night with the third-most such possessions per game in the NBA (11.0), according to Synergy Sports. That put Boston ahead of Joel Embiid’s Philadelphia 76ers by one post-up chance per game and not far behind the league’s most post-up-heavy offense in Nikola Jokic’s Denver Nuggets.

the lane has been so open for them

It’s hilarious how much space they have.

Rim protector is dragged out to three. Help can’t come from the weak side because there’s an All-NBA wing in that corner. pic.twitter.com/SSEWQB07tR

— Pull up shoot (@NElGHT_) November 2, 2023

who you gonna help off of

Let’s give Jrue Holiday a post-up without even the slightest threat of a help defender pic.twitter.com/Oq56odGpEP

— Pull up shoot (@NElGHT_) November 2, 2023

playing five out with jrue and zinger just hits different

this is wild jt in the corner jt at the elbow jt everywhere

Tatum shot chart last season vs. this season pic.twitter.com/3r8B2e9oq7

— Max (@lissnx14) November 2, 2023

always liked this guy

Phil Pressey just did some stuff during a scrimmage between some Celtics coaches and bench players. pic.twitter.com/gxPQg1m8f8

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) November 2, 2023

lol van gundy going native

👀 All eyes on Maine at the Expo today. #bleedgreen pic.twitter.com/LEufTCOjPB

— Maine Celtics (@MaineCeltics) November 3, 2023

Robert Williams and Marcus Smart reunited💔 pic.twitter.com/WaM5R7wXT1

— Ian Inangelo (@iinangelo) November 4, 2023