CELTICS 2010

doris, like all intelligent observers, agrees that daniel theis never gets a goddamn call

if tristan can't keep sabonis out of the paint there is literally no point in him being here

thankfully brad agrees and got his ass out of the game

yeah this has to be the end of the tristan experience hes just been plain awful

very clearly the celtics 3rd best center

there's our guy rob with the big rebound!

shooting free throws to ice it with a big dumb smile on his face. love this guy.

14-11-4 1stl 3blk in 22 minutes

there's going to be some foul trouble and some missed rotations and he can't play a ton of minutes but he's super talented and it's time to take him out on the highway and see what he can do

he gets an insane amount of steals for a bigman, hes averaging 1 in only 15mins a game, if you extrapolate that to starters minutes he would be... leading the nba! (and he would be second in blocks)

yeah overall he has a really good activity level and he usually channels his activity in positive ways. i think his passing could really help too, he's happy to move the ball and about once a game he'll make a wow pass

he can do stuff he makes plays hes not tristan thompson give the guy a shot

haha

https://i.imgur.com/6IDHmCz.png

lol the quotable brad stevens

i have never figured out the difference between jay king and jared weiss, any guidance is appreciated

weiss is a lil bit more nerdy and king is more jocky i think, like weiss writes stories for the athletic that have play diagrams in them where king writes stories for the athletic that have quotes about playing harder in them, but yeah very similar guys

ok that helps, feel like i've seen a couple of nice pieces on celtics xs and os so those must have been weiss. robb i know because he's dabbled in radio and other stuff and i think he's a reasonably sharp observer of the team in general. happy he's now at masslive where i can read him.

yeah f the boston sports journal paywall lol

As a new Athletic subscriber this season I’ve been really pleasantly surprised by the quality of their coverage, especially Weiss. I had/have the impression he was hired off one of the blogs and was expecting him to basically be Kevin O’Connor but he’s a way better writer

xp maybe worth it if you need deep semi-contrarian patriots coverage but those days are behind me

rob!

Rob finishes his post-game presser: "Hey, can I take this?" pic.twitter.com/n1RCSirL00

— Taylor Snow (@taylorcsnow) February 27, 2021

Anyway just checking in to see the win tonight, didn’t get to watch the game. Very happy to see them get a quality one and to see Rob quasi-unleashed

haha i wonder if this is rob's first presser

Paul Pierce had his money on Kevin Garnett. The rest of the Celtics, including Doc Rivers, thought differently. That turned out to be a big mistake.

The lesson they all learned that day - don't bet against the Big Ticket! 😤 pic.twitter.com/iekOCJTytI

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) February 28, 2021

Was just coming to post about that! Story is from Scalabrine on the Lowe Post from Friday. Worth a listen, 80% of it is on the current Celts and then a little bit on the 2008 team. Scal’s description of the arm wrestling match is gold too, how KG wore big baby down psychologically (unsurprisingly)

saw thompson pass an offensive rebound out to an open shooter

put together your big package for collins then get harrison barnes for more or less a salary dump, something like that, my plan for building a celtics contender

― lag∞n, Monday, March 1, 2021 4:40 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

x post from the main thread for the true celtics heads

the beauty of trading for collins is he makes $4m so matching salaries is no problem, then you have the tpe for another player, this assumes celtics ownership is willing to go deep into the luxury for the foreseeable future

where as if you put together a big package for aaron gordon you get only one player

going all in with john collins is a really tough call for me. i haven’t decided on it yet.

he's a borderline all-star at a position that is at a v high premium, the Big Wing

he’s a good player and i feel like they could figure out how to hide him on defense but if you do it that’s your team and you better be making really serious playoff runs.

one name i heard for the celtics that is not sexy but would be super helpful is evan fournier.

collins and fournier

That would be a great duo to bring in but it feels like too many things have to fall just right for it to happen. Fournier alone is not gonna do it.

I know there’s all the buzz about Harrison Barnes but I just can’t help thinking of him as like the most boring notable player in the league

let me help you while away your tuesday afternoon with 5 and a half minutes of rob williams highlights

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

thank you love when he blocks jump shots

may there be many more such highlight reels in his and our future

hope they dont move him in whatever trades are upcoming, he has legit potential to supercharge the team, tho no guarantee he gets there

thank you love when he blocks jump shots

― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 2, 2021 4:43 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i was wondering if brandon ingram had ever gotten his three-pointer blocked before

he has the kind of athleticism that people arent ready for, like ingram couldve done something to insure he didnt get that shot blocked but it didnt occur to him that it was a possibility, he was not ready

williams is increasingly fun to watch
block steals are among the most exciting plays in professional sports imo

rob

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvhIuwpXEAImXWd?format=jpg&name=large

kemba playing good recently

rob just got a block/steal on a terance mann jumper!

ha was about to notify the thread

guys are going to need to learn not to try to shoot over him on the perimeter, it's just a bad idea

13/8/4/3 blocks in 22 minutes, plays in crunch time, the much worried-about celtics take down the clips

rob making plays down the stretch getting the big crunch time minutes our boy rob doing things

tatum did not have a lot of pep tonight but the celtics def looking a lot better w kemba starting to regain form, now they need marcus back