CELTICS 2010

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

swoon

haha aww

quick tatum check after 5: 30/9/4 on 56/41/80 shooting, seems good.

hes really playing within the flow nicely getting a lot of easy buckets

no need for anyone to force anything this year

"First of all, I didn't even want to come (to Boston) because I didn't think I was going to play. They had Gordon, JB, IT, Smart, I didn't think I was good enough to be on that team."

Jayson Tatum asked about getting drafted in Barclays Center back in 2017 pic.twitter.com/7VvLi0Sw3W

— Celtics on NBC Sports Boston (@NBCSCeltics) November 5, 2023

celitcs mostly winning on talent so far but there are shapes of team play emerging, point jrue looks good, initiating the offense, as an outlet for double teams etc, not gonna happen but him and white should bring it up the court every time afaic, or at the very least keep it out of jaylens hands, jaylen consistently fucking up the most basic things initiating the offense is something you cant unsee once youre aware of it, jayson isnt exactly bad but he is pretty slow to get things moving, jrue and derrick are just much quicker on that

zinger was a menace guarding the 3pt line in crunch time last night, pretty foolish of the nets to challenge him like that when the obvious move was to drive, but they were behind and wanted those threes whatre you gonna do

would like to see more ball movement theyre way down in assist percentage, which is understandable theyre getting good shots anyway, have a bunch of guys who can create on their own, but theyd get even better shots with a lil more passing

one nice set they have done a bit is tatum bringing it up and jrue acting as the screener, great way to get jrue playmaking or driving with an advantage.

and obviously winning with talent at this point is encouraging, they're banking wins just by overwhelming teams with their starting 5 while they figure out how to play together, which cannot be said about other recently transformed teams like the bucks or suns

yeah celtics roster is imo clearly more sound than those teams, partially because they have more quality guys and also cause the fit is good

theres that wing pick and pop theyd to with tatum and horford and now theyre putting zinger in it which makes it a uh lot more dangerous, zingers shot is so quick has deep range and hes 7-3, pretty crazy

only other 7 footer i can think of that gets his shot off as fast is kd, like dirk had a two motion shot that more relied on having a high release point

the 30ftr he hits at 2:00 his form looks pretty normal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yui0IxEPxcg

KRISTAPS PORZINGIS FROM THE LOGO 🤯

pic.twitter.com/1abEY22tpE

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) November 5, 2023

and apparently leading the league in contests

22 points, 7 rebounds, 3 blocks for Kristaps Porzingis last night.

He's now 1st in the NBA with 14.6 contested shots per game ⛔️ pic.twitter.com/pU5pLpAh8O

— Tomek Kordylewski (@Timi_093) November 5, 2023

yeah he shoots a little lower release which is not an issue when he can space out to the logo.

random

Happy birthday to the King of Cambridge, Bill Walton!

pic.twitter.com/gO9pR7YC1z

— Honest☘️Larry (@HonestLarry1) November 5, 2023

bro doing time for all of us 😔 https://t.co/qVg2IWmnCU pic.twitter.com/EcbmKZe5yq

— brad auerbach (@CelticsPost) November 4, 2023

lol

would like to see more ball movement theyre way down in assist percentage, which is understandable theyre getting good shots anyway, have a bunch of guys who can create on their own, but theyd get even better shots with a lil more passing

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yeah they are excelling in a very unorthodox way, they’re last in assist percentage on offense and second to last in turnovers forced on defense, also 17th in free throw rate offensively. so to say their talent has been overwhelming seems accurate, they’re shooting lights out and rebounding well on both sides too

yeah theyre getting good looks i think they just put defenses in such a tough spot with their talent that they havent had to do too much, and theyve been scoring so well that on defense theyve been able to mostly just play solid without really ramping up the effort, but one would think they will need to do more on both sides eventually

their numbers are off the charts but three of their five games have been close in the fourth and then there were two huge blowouts

so i dont think theyve been quite as good as theyve seemed but the potential is def there, and it makes sense that it would take a min to get everything coordinated since they made such big changes

a lot of hoo-hah about “now joe has his guys” and “now joe has had a whole off-season to prepare” and i know holiday came in late to that process but he plays the same type of role as marcus, so it’s not like some big monkeywrench. yet the player jrue seems to connect with offensively the most is.. kornet? idk. definitely a work in progress.

kornet was looking very effective at dunking the ball last game lol

need to see them play vs some better defenses before we know where theyre at

theyve got the #1 defense in the nba tonight

might be a tough match up for rudy tho

it always is against the teams that matter

poor rudy lol

rudy is playing much better than last year

rudy is good I’m sorry to inform the haters

correct hes good not great

it gives me no joy to report this but rudy is bad and dumb also he started covid

anyway my point wasnt really about rudys quality or lack there of just that the celtics have the personnel to pull him away from the basket where his value dies

whos he gonna guard whats the plan

Naz Reid season

tho white is out again due to the birth of his child which means the celtics will be going big so maybe rudy will do ok with horf

this is sick

Tatum is so nasty.. Peep the lefty finish. pic.twitter.com/QE2m1B9FId

— Pull up shoot (@NElGHT_) November 7, 2023