CELTICS 2010

tomorrrow the celtics will host the nuggets and me, a nuggets fan

oh nice, enjoy your time with the joker, tho unfortunately jokes are against the law in boston

so, thoughts on Derrick White? Seems like selling high on Richardson is a good thing though always precarious to upset the fragile balance when the team is finally rolling

Always been a Derrick White fan but a little nervous to be bringing in another combo guard as a lead ballhandler who's not a great shooter or distributor

ah i see, discussion on the main thread. carry on

i like it from the pov of white just being an active guy who can create, richardson was great this year but hes pretty limited, shooting could def be better, whites not a point guard by any means but his playmaking is for sure better than richardsons, overall good move imho and farewell to romeo kinda never got off the ground maybe the spurs can give him more of a shot

gotta think brown becomes a guard with this roster

Celtics depth chart at as of 3:10 p.m.

Guards: Marcus Smart, Derrick White, Payton Pritchard
Forwards: Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Grant Williams, Aaron Nesmith
Bigs: Rob Williams, Al Horford, Daniel Theis

Open roster spots: 5(!)

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) February 10, 2022

1 smart, white, pritchard
2 brown, white
3 tatum, brown, nesmith
4 horf, grant, tatum
5 rob, theis

they need another guy

Nba guards when Marcus Smart checks out and Derrick White checks in pic.twitter.com/swQiLNBjrV

— Trey (@TA1297) February 10, 2022

getting garry harris in the buyout market would be pretty good

they would be genuinely scary on the perimeter if they could grab gary

some of the celtics fan stuff i read is very strange....like people flagellating themselves over giving up romeo langford, who literally could not get in the rotation.

he has a ton of diehard fans for reasons i dont fully understand

effort admiration

celebrating the departure of his latvian enemy

wrong thread

as far as romeo idk a lot of fans only really follow their own team so those are the only guys they know lol

if celtics fans especially like romeo i certainly would not know why

it's true that fewer people than i expect have a perspective on the whole league, like this isn't the nfl or mlb there's 6 or 7 guys per team who matter and it's not all that hard to keep track of them. that's part of the appeal!

i am over here reading that romeo is "a 3 and d monster in the making" but at this rate "the making" is going to go well into his second nba contract

totally missed that they were sending this years pick over in the white trade, dont think that was reported at first, trade makes more sense now

League sources tell MassLive that the Celtics’ will send a top-4 protected first-round pick in 2022 to San Antonio. That pick will roll over to top-4 protected in 2023 if it doesn’t convey in 2022. If it remains protected through both drafts, it turns into a second-round pick in 2023 if it also doesn’t convey next season

"a 3 and d monster in the making" but not a "a 3 and d monster in the NBA"

yeah the spurs get this years pick which will be like 18 in what is said to be a bad draft, and they also got a swap in 2028 which people are similarly flagellating themselves about. idk, you have to give something to get something when the something is a guy entering his prime on a pretty cheap contract with years of team control.

yeah before i knew about the pick i had no idea why the spurs would do that trade, trying to get off a long term deal, pop being nice to ime

generally you dont like to give up a 1st for a bench player but white could really be one of those starting quality bench players

if this goes well he'll be playing starter-level minutes. by all accounts he's a willing passer with good defense. a great type of guard to put with the Js.

yeah i mean i like it i like the move i like their moves today, they really went all in on their big defense first team, doing their thing, being themselves, and they got under the tax line too

to me the biggest thing it showed, not that i ever really had doubts, is that the plan is to keep building around jayson and jaylen

yeah thats a no brainer

the east is obvs very freaking stacked this year but if this improves their already sick D they could make some noise, also if tatum remembers how to shoot, it would be cool to beat philly in the playoffs again

honestly derrick is a tremendous defender, one of the best charge-takers there is and hes the best shot-blocking guards this side of d wade and danny green. he should really have more all-defense hype than dejounte. hes not the most athletic guard, but he's a smart and patient pick n roll leader, has some nice hesitation moves. his 3pt shot has been rough this year though its started to fall more lately, and he'll likely get some better looks with the j's drawing so much attention. he'll make an impact right away

getting someone who can run some offense should be a plus

i'm super excited about that. it's desperately needed on this team. and while there seems to be some consternation about his shooting (especially vis a vis richardson who has rediscovered his own shot a bit this year), iirc white's best shooting came in the bubble so it's pretty obvious what that was about, and he should get some good looks on the celtics while anything he does off the dribble will be a bonus.

richardson was shooting too good didnt seem sustainable

the last time the spurs were in the playoffs he was excellent too. i really liked him. big george hill getting traded vibes rn.

richardson looked like a corpse at the start of the year but grew into a nice role and found himself a bit (at his lowest minutes and usage in 5 years, tbf). this is all very well and good but he was a reclamation project, not a key part of the team going forward

yeah he was good for them but ultimately hes a pretty limited player white can actually do some stuff

plus the team has plenty of forehead now

im gonna be sad now, derrick's dad follows me on my hoops twitter burner

lol nice

you can still support your pal derrick from afar

no i cant, its better if u suck for my team bc they have the c's pick

lol

well once the playoffs start

fine i'll compromise, derrick can go 12-12 every night while the c's rack up l's

hmm i dont think theyll lose if that happens

no, everyone else will miss all their shots, derrick will be just there shaking his head like "cmon guys, do something"

what if they're so bad that he demands a trade.... to the spurs............

...holy fuck

i think people liked romeo because his name was romeo

it’s sad, he used to be your romeo

whoa o yeah