CELTICS 2010

college players count the NCAA tournament games as 'meaningful'

i meant pro career but yes, point taken!

please do not disrespect the g league like this sir

https://www.passionweiss.com/2020/09/03/jaylen-brown-explains-it-all/

"Jaylen Brown is arguably the greatest iteration this side of Klay Thomas of the modern, proto 3&D wing."

i think it goes without saying that i hate to be this guy but jaylen actually drives to the basket at a notably high rate

theres something about him that just seems 3 and d ish like it might have to do with that hes really not a great playmaker or maybe it just his basic being but he does take it hard to the rack a lot

60% of his shots are 2s and 45% are within 10 feet of da rim https://stats.nba.com/player/1627759/shots-dash/?Season=2019-20&SeasonType=Regular%20Season

he’s never been a 3 and d guy, he spent his rookie year trying and failing to dunk on everything in sight.

infinite jest reference in the first graph = there is no way i am reading that whole article.

he’s never been a 3 and d guy, he spent his rookie year trying and failing to dunk on everything in sight.

― call all destroyer, Friday, September 4, 2020 8:21 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

tbf its the sickest shot

exactly! and now he dunks on guys on the reg.

one must attempt to dunk before one can dunk --ancient wisdom

infinite jest reference in the first graph

nah. it just referenced the pale king

Brad Stevens says Gordon Hayward is back in the bubble and currently quarantining.

"I haven't seen him because he's been in a room."

— Chris Grenham (@chrisgrenham) September 8, 2020

brad stevens plz write some indie songs

sufjan "brad" stevens

JAYLEN BROWN ON OG'S HEAD 😱

(via @celtics)pic.twitter.com/07xY49eqyp

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) September 7, 2020

haha semi's reaction

i watched about 2 minutes of that game but those 2 minutes included that dunk

more like larry butt

Jaylen Brown is now 3rd in Celtics playoff history in 3-pointers made, passing Larry Bird. pic.twitter.com/vkg97RPz8P

— BostonCelticsForever (@BostonCelts4eva) September 8, 2020

Celtics made Marcus Smart the primary defender on Kyle Lowry in Game 5.

Lowry didn’t attempt a shot in 5:30 scoreless minutes of matchup time, per NBA tracking data.

Raptors offensive rating was 85.2 in the 29 minutes Smart + Lowry shared floor.

— Chris Forsberg (@ChrisForsberg_) September 8, 2020

Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart was named to the All-Defensive First Team.

— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) September 8, 2020

shouldve been defensive player of the year + every spot on all the all defense teams + mvp + sportsmanship award winner

MOOD pic.twitter.com/EqepPDkgHS

— Boston Celtics (@celtics) September 12, 2020

lol

im really glad they won so i can watch more

aww

Jaylen Brown said he talked to Jayson Tatum last night and told him it is an honor to play alongside him.

— Chris Grenham (@chrisgrenham) September 12, 2020

<3 love those guys

lol rude

THE KING OF THE NORTH!
THE KING OF THE NORTH!
THE KING OF THE NORTH!
THE KING OF THE NORTH!
THE KING OF THE NORTH!
THE KING OF THE NORTH!
THE KING OF THE NORTH!
THE KING OF THE NORTH!
THE KING OF THE NORTH!
THE KING OF THE NORTH!
THE KING OF THE NORTH! pic.twitter.com/zgz4Ptjip1

— marcus smart (@smart_MS3) September 12, 2020

he retweeted the nba we the north post too, lol marcus has had enough

i def got the sense that there was no rancor between the celtics and raptors at all, they seemed to all respect one another, but it is very much my understanding of smart's brand to be luck fuck that hate on

him and powell exchanged words in g6, it was not 100% cordial

yeah i noticed powell was pissing the celtics off but i cldnt figure out what it was he was doing

my sense is that it was mostly respectful but marcus certainly did not like those slanted social media posts

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ehs2VHqWoAAXKdl?format=jpg&name=900x900

*singing hallelujah poorly but with great feeling*

Brad Stevens said he believes Gordon Hayward will be back at some point in the ECF, but he doesn’t know when.

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) September 12, 2020

what a great series just finished
what a great series coming up

minutes, game 7: tatum 44, kemba 44, smart 43, liberation brown (is there a better name in the history of bball?) 43. if hayward does nothing more than pull some of those numbers down, that could be huge.

obvs it would be good for the bench to be deeper but damn if they don't seem to weather those minutes well. so young!

drama

Celtics postseason notes -- General:

Have combined with their opponents to score just 106.1 points per 100 possessions, the second lowest combined mark in the playoffs.

Eight of their 11 games, most in the playoffs, have been within five points in the last five minutes.

6-2 after leading by double-digits. 2-1 after trailing by double-digits.

Have been the best second-quarter team (+20.0 points per 100 possessions) in the postseason.

i love brad stevens but can the celtics maybe sign a backup coach who would take over for 3rd quarters and give stevens a rest?

its a total flip from the IT era where they would be down at the half every game and then catch up in the 3rd

game 3 was extremely pleasing to me

good game for sure

a big win for the national basketball association's boston "celtics"

they tried really hard to lose there at the end, feel bad for em

disagree w that. thought they played well when their backs were up against the wall in the last two minutes. fuckin love marcus smart even if he forgot to run the clock out :)

With six minutes to go in the 4th, the Celtics are up 19 points. Over the next five minutes, the Heat go on a 21-5 run and the Celtics let the lead go to 5 in the last minute behind brown catching robinson in the face with an elbow for a flagrant. Marcus righted the ship at the end there but the Heat should never have gotten that close.

right, but it didn't feel to me like they were tanking or letting their foot off the gas - they were battling (imo)

no, i's agree with that but i do remember some bad choices right at the end there... i'd have to look at the play-by-play again to clarify.
driving aggressively seemed to work; not sure if they caught miami off guard or if they've found the right tactic.

they were running clock which they maybe started a lil early but it was working, then the flagrant made it dicey (fwiw i feel like when a guy plays defense with his face it should maybe not be a flagrant), if they wanted to keep their foot on the gas it wouldve produced a ton more possessions down the stretch which obvs increases variance, you run clock to reduce that, either approach can go wrong tho theres no 100% win and its very easy to fault the strategy when it does, when really usually the problem is often the execution, or just the other team playing really well

i hated that flagrant call. you have to be able to rotate the ball from side to side over your head in a ready to pass position. it's literally one of the most basic basketball moves.