CELTICS 2010

i'd push the big 3 down some stairs dont get me wrong

Then throw big baby down on top of'em

are these pre-emptively strikes against some trash-talking c's fans that haven't arrived yet or

ly

I don't get the potshots and hatred; C's fans aren't parasitical cancers like Lakers' fans.

oh GOODNESS i came here as a peace offering and now im a barnacle or some shit

'ez snappin' is scandalized by a little bored schtick BRA-VOE

aerosol really hates you all tbf

that orlando shirt is lol

needs reposting

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BRIDE OF PERKINSTEIN

aw

shaq to solidify celtics:

BOSTON — NBA analyst David Aldridge said Wednesday that with the addition of Shaquille O'Neal, the Celtics have vastly improved their chances of leading the league in three-second lane violations for the 2010–2011 season. "Not only does Shaq's presence in the paint give his team more opportunities to turn the ball over, but the Celtics have also added an experienced big man who makes an already old team significantly older," said Aldridge, adding that O'Neal should fill a key role in terms of drastically slowing down the Celtics' offense. "Danny Ainge was looking for someone with size who can't make it down to the other end of the court, and he went out and got the best in the business." Aldridge added that while O'Neal isn't the dominant force he once was, he believes Shaq still has a thing or two to teach teams who think it's a good idea to sign him.

He may not entirely solidify the C's, but he can add a lot of viscosity.

hahahahaaha guys i just realized, shaq is really fat!

on paper and based on my faded memories of his great prime years, boston signing shaq sounds like a very good move. then, you read stuff like this:

SamAmicoNBA Shaq on Mo: "Guys who couldn't even play were worried about shots. Why was Mo (Williams) taking 15 shots, and I'm only taking four?"

if o'neal is complaining about his shots on a 66-win team featuring lebron james, i'm not convinced he'll all of a sudden be a good team player in boston. i imagine if he could work well anywhere, it would be there, given the quality character guys leading the team, but still . . .

http://sportscracklepop.com/2010/09/07/glen-big-baby-davis-is-at-it-again/

RIP

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almost felt bad for scal w/the intensely patronizing fan appresh, almost

he'll get over it

Perkins, who will turn 24 next season, is too young to remember when Shaq was a productive basketball player. When asked if he has seen any tapes of Shaqs days with the Magic, Lakers, or Heat Perkins replied “no . . . I don’t own a VCR.”

lol

http://plixi.com/p/47526042

shaq's son is out of control

broken link image rip

http://plixi.com/p/47525934

http://www.talkhoops.net/2010-articles/september/i-will-always-heart-kg-reason-281.html

There's a lot to like about KG, but I wish to god he'd woof less at his opponents and refs and let his play do more of the talking. Too dickish from my pov.

Woofing at his teammates is ok in my book, though.

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lolthefaces

it looks like he's with his kids

he's obv. fitting into the system well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZYBqSTD9VI

should of worn those masks in game 7. they'd be defending world champions today.

guys...you need to watch this video

jumping back in here. really enjoying the pics and videos posted.

perk's marriage looks a keeper

This just made my morning (stole it from the "Living on a Prayer" thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoC4yWWxFGs

rivers v. thibodeau tonite!

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/nba/news/story?id=5870869

wicked awesome

win streak fuk u all ashfjfnfc cmdmllv

note to kg's mri: pls be nice

they will prob just lie abt it if its not

KG's injury not only reason for concern
By John Hollinger

Kevin Garnett's health is obviously first and foremost on the minds of Boston Celtics fans right now. It goes without saying that a long-term injury to the superstar power forward would be devastating to the Celtics' title hopes.

But a more insidious foe also may be a factor for them during the final two-thirds of the season: the law of averages. Statistically, it will be very difficult for Boston to maintain its offensive performance, even allowing for the fact that it has been short-handed on several nights.

It's an odd conclusion to reach because Boston isn't primarily an offensive team; the Celtics are only 10th in offensive efficiency. It's their top-ranked defense that's carried the mail for them in their torrid 24-6 start.

Nonetheless, the offense perhaps bears greater scrutiny as we test whether the Celtics' play can continue throughout the season's final 52 games, because in one respect Boston has been flukishly amazing.

Let's start at the top. The Celtics are one of the league's most unusual offensive teams -- they take fewer shots than nearly everyone else, and they make a higher percentage of them than everyone else. In fact, their field goal percentage of 50.2 is more than 2 percentage points higher than that of any other team this season; what's more, it's the second-best shooting percentage of the past decade.

On the flip side, while although the Celtics have lowered the obscenely high turnover rate of seasons past, their lack of second shots remains phenomenal. Despite enviable size, Boston ranks last in offensive rebound rate. The Celtics claim only 21.0 percent of their missed shots, and as a result, only the woebegone Charlotte Bobcats attempt fewer shots per possessions. (I define "shots" here to include free throw attempts.)

That's just par for the course so far; Boston was last in the NBA in shots per possession last season.

But the other part of the equation is that Boston is not only first in overall shooting percentage, as noted, but also first in true shooting percentage at 57.3, beating out even the likes of Phoenix and New York, both of which are known for their propensity to launch 3-pointers (which improve their true shooting percentage).

Delve a little deeper, and it gets more surprising. Boston doesn't get a huge bump from 3-pointers or free throws; the Celtics just are amazingly accurate inside the arc. The Celtics' 52.9 percent shooting on 2-pointers dwarfs the league average of 48.2 percent and is actually a major improvement on their league-leading performance of last season.

In 2009-10, despite what was largely seen as a disappointing regular season, Boston finished 3.1 percentage points ahead of the league average in 2-point shooting. This season's performance, at 4.7 points ahead, is an even greater outlier.

If you're wondering, that continued even without Garnett on Wednesday night: Boston hit 52.8 percent of its 2s against the Pistons -- but lost to Detroit because it couldn't miss.

(By the way, for those of you Celtics fans bewildered by Tracy McGrady's performance Wednesday night, he's been showing signs of re-emergence lately. In some games, like the one Wednesday night or a week ago against Toronto, he's been brilliant, almost like the T-Mac of old. In others, as against Charlotte, he's seemed dead-legged. Methinks the knees aren't there for him every night, but when they are, he can still bring it.)

OK, so they make a lot of 2s. What's the big deal?

It's this: Two-point field goal percentage is one of the flukiest stats in basketball. One can see huge random variances in this stat from month to month and even from year to year, and they aren't necessarily meaningful.

Applying it to Boston's case, it's easy to be suspicious of its ability to keep shooting so well. Boston's top 2-point shooter from last season, Kendrick Perkins, hasn't played a game this season, yet the Celtics have dramatically increased their advantage on the rest of the league in this category. Although Shaquille O'Neal's addition has been very helpful in this area, Perkins actually shot better on 2s than Shaq did last season. Now O'Neal has upped his percentage to career-high levels in green.

He's not the only one. Paul Pierce, Glen Davis, Nate Robinson, Kevin Garnett and Rajon Rondo all have increased their 2-point percentages from last season, which is very odd to see this early in the season. Leaguewide, shooting percentages normally gently rise as the season goes on, which means most players will be slightly below their career norms in late December. But of the Celtics' seven most frequent shooters, only Ray Allen is making 2s at a lower clip than last season.

The two most suspect marks are those of Pierce and Davis. They're second and third on the team, respectively, in 2-point attempts, and both are converting at rates that blow away their career bests. Pierce has made half his 2-point shots in a season just once, when he made 50.3 percent in 2005-06. For his career he's made 47.2 percent of his 2-point attempts. But this season, at age 33, he's at 53.2 percent.

Similarly, Davis entered the season a 45.3 percent career marksman on 2s, and he's made 48.3 percent so far this season. You can go right on down the line with the other Boston regulars, but those two are the greatest extremes.

Breaking it down on a team level, what's particularly striking is how much more often the Celtics convert at the rim. Boston is making 69.3 percent of its shots there, according to Hoopdata.com. Last season, it made only 64.4 percent.

It's not just that Boston hasn't been at 69 percent before, it's that nobody else has, either. No team has made more than 67 percent at the rim in the past five seasons. In fact, the only teams to top 65 percent are last season's, Cleveland Cavaliers and the Phoenix Suns in the four previous seasons. Those teams, obviously, had historically great finishers in LeBron James and Amare Stoudemire. The Celtics do not, which makes me suspicious of their ability to end up in the high 60s.

Maybe I'm wrong. Perhaps it's no fluke and there's a good reason the Celtics are defying the long-term trends. Nonetheless, trying to find such a reason seems to me a grasp for straws. One might argue it's the brilliant passing of Rondo, but he was on the team last season, and besides, he missed several games this season. One might say it's O'Neal, except he's missed a ton of time, too. One could argue that subtracting Rasheed Wallace helps, except he didn't shoot that many 2s last season and didn't shoot them that badly (51.1 percent). And one might say that the veteran Celtics are simply taking advantage of their experience, except that older players typically see their 2-point percentage decline.

So we're left to conclude that Boston is unlikely to keep shooting 2s so phenomenally. Which takes us to the next question: How great an impact are we talking about?

If, in its final 52 games, Boston shoots something more like 64 percent at the rim instead of 69 percent, that alone will subtract about 1.25 made shots a game, or 2.5 points. The Celtics will get back a few baskets on second shots, but since their offensive rebound rate is so poor, they'll end up with only about 0.3 points off those misses.

So we end up knocking 2.2 points a game off their offensive output. The good news is that the Celtics are still a heck of a team without those points. Right now they outscore opponents by 8.2 points per game, and dropping to 6.0 a game still would leave them as the second-best team in the East.

Where it becomes more interesting is a vis-à-vis the Miami Heat and the race for home-court advantage in the East.

Boston still leads Miami by three games in the loss column and has a good chance of owning the tiebreaker thanks to two early-season victories over the Heat. But the current playoff odds, which are based on past performance and do not factor in a potential decline in the Celtics' 2-point shooting, see the teams tying with 61 victories each. If Boston can't keep up its phenomenal short-range shooting percentage, it's going to fall short of that mark and likely would end up costing the Celtics home-court advantage.

All of that pales, of course, in comparison to the worries over Garnett's calf this morning. But the hot shooting of the C's is a subplot that warrants tracking as the season goes on. Boston is on pace to post historically great 2-point shooting results, particularly from short range, and that's been a major factor in its blistering start. But history tells us not to trust it.

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Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge said Thursday afternoon an MRI confirmed Kevin Garnett's injury is a strained right calf muscle and not related to his surgically repaired knee.

Ainge, speaking on Boston sports radio station WEEI, estimated Garnett would miss two weeks with the injury.

"It's actually the muscle just off the side of the leg below the knee," Ainge explained. "It's not anything to do with his knee, which is great news. He may be out for a couple of weeks, at the most. ... I think that's on the conservative side."

uhhh luke harangody went off for a 17/11 tonite??

goin to celtics/rockets on monday - hadnt been to a c's game in prob five years now two in one month - i am truly blessed

neat! how long u in town for?

few days, maybe we could drink, still in ny atm

k well ilx bos crew is pretty good at turning out--if you've got a free night bump the boston classic or dirty water thread or something

sweet

avengers assemble

tatums assist to pritchard at 4:08 is so good just pure manipulation hes setting it the whole way then as soon as vj rotates the beautiful looping skip pass is there hes got three philly defenders in the palm of his hand while casually dribbling at half speed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5-mrJ04N08

― lag∞n, Monday, April 27, 2026 8:59 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

you can also see payton signal the spot he's going to go to and tatum threads the pass right to it

love to watch high level basketball

pritchard also signals jaylen to get deeper in the corner but he was already doing it, these guys are locked in

guess ainge had seen markelle fultz in aau a bunch via his son playing against him thereby getting a scouting advantage cause usually nba workers arent allowed at aau games

https://www.reddit.com/r/bostonceltics/comments/1tc89bf/elhassan_how_danny_ainge_exploited_a_big_loophole/

kinda interesting and fun to hear them talking about it but hard to imagine that exposure overrode the countless of hours of fultz balling that everyone had free access to. regardless though, it's definitely one of the most amazing jedi mind tricks that ainge was so confident going against such a broad consensus, and it paid off to such an extreme degree. truly mind-boggling

celtics drafted two freak athlete projects, which makes sense for where they were drafting

lot of people had cenac higher and he was rated top ten before the season, hes a crazy on ball defender who can switch onto perimeter players very well but somehow blocks no shots despite being as mentioned a freak athlete who is very tall, he can shoot some too is a shot maker in the midrange should be a good roll man, not a physical player, much to like and not like kind of a weird player

dillon mitchell just seems like a no brainer nba player except that he cannot shoot at all, so teach him how to shoot and youre good i guess, easy

dodged a bullet

They had talks with the Boston Celtics about Jaylen Brown, a team source said, but the Celtics were looking for a package including Gobert, Reid and similar pick compensation that went to Charlotte for Ball, team sources said.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7395316/2026/06/26/lamelo-ball-trade-timberwolves-anthony-edwards-fit-background/?source=emp_shared_article&unlocked_article_code=1.tFA.EDvc.DgsxttWoVQu1

jalen spending his summer crashing out as a guy making 50 million plus a year, hell yeah

He went to a world cup game with the rest of the guys yesterday, looked fun.

dont really understand the jaylen sitch i understood trading for giannis thats pretty simple but now its not like theyre going to get a better player back but they still want to trade him and get some sort of package thats a major restructuring i guess they just think that the current team is plain not good enough even if they made lesser moves but if they trade jaylen theyre prob going to take a pretty major step back and have a lot more work to do which i guess applaud their decisiveness but idk

all the stuff about how their relationship is too damaged to move forward seems silly idk maybe talk it over doesnt seem like a good reason to make a trade, suspect its really more about not wanting to give him the contract extension hes eligible for, but then youre going to trade him for what donovan clingan and picks

i would just like to put it on the public record one more time that i absolutely love jaylen brown and i would absolutely and unconditionally trust him as my team's #1, #2, or god (and brad stevens) willing, one of two #1s. i'd be good with him as player-coach, too.

all the stuff about how their relationship is too damaged to move forward seems silly idk maybe talk it over doesnt seem like a good reason to make a trade, suspect its really more about not wanting to give him the contract extension hes eligible for, but then youre going to trade him for what donovan clingan and picks

― lag∞n, Sunday, June 28, 2026 10:36 AM (yesterday)

i thought simmons was honestly pretty good on this in his pod from sunday, just pointing out that jaylen was not saying stuff during the regular season like "can't wait for jayson to be back on the floor" and tatum hasn't said anything in the last few weeks even thru leaked reports or whatever to support jaylen or indicate that he really wants jaylen around. now, simmons said that he thinks they have a fine relationship overall and on the court, no animosity just prob not guys who are particularly close, and tatum is not exactly publicly outspoken generally about anything. but it does feel to me like the celtics looked at that pairing of two guys as having reached the end point. i think stuff about aging, contract, selling high etc is absolutely playing into it but i do think that tatum & brown at one point had a relationship that could be based on a shared goal (winning a title) but that is no longer necessarily the case and i wonder if the celtics front office has detected that fracture, which isn't about personality just as much as it is about the realities of getting the championship monkey off of one's back

yeah i think theres some truth to that like its pretty obvious that jaylen wants his own team, having said that it doesnt mean that you just trade him for whatever, but then you start factoring in the cba type stuff and yeah you can see where the celtics are coming from, front office should be worrying about not antagonizing the fans too much too dont want a mookie betts situation on yr hands