CELTICS 2010

oh weird maybe it was actually all in my head. or else i saw it somewhere else and somehow didn't share it here

hmm it might have been jr smith and not carmelo but it was one of the two. my investigation has dead ended at a link to a deleted tweet though

remember when jr threw the soup lol

jt drives good now

📽️New video on the NBA app is how Jayson Tatum has grown as a rim finisher and penetrator, and how it's boosted his efficiency. https://t.co/SW466HqDT0

— Ben Taylor (@ElGee35) November 22, 2022

damn i didnt know larry had such low self esteem

Larry Bird talks about all his doubters when he was coming out of college and how long it took him to realize he would dominate the NBA. Spoiler: it took him three days.

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— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) November 22, 2022

lol, dude was an MJ level psycho.

celtics came out serious about this game

pretty good

Celtics with 54/52/84 splits in their 70-point first half.

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) November 24, 2022

tatum blocks luka off the backboard -> pure 3-pointer by brown in semi-transition. they are a handful on both ends.

that was a very satisfying sequence

i am a horrible nitpicker since i've watched these guys entire careers, so sometimes i try to imagine being a fan of the other team and it does not seem fun to go against them

its true theyre all grown up

Jaylen Brown cannot stop improving pic.twitter.com/17nAAlDyFl

— 𝙍𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙮 ☘️ (@CelticsRiley) November 23, 2022

celtics go up 16 in the 1st, decide to not play for most of two quarters then go on a 35-4 run

this homestand is real tasty--anything less than 5-1 would be disappointing

celtics much better at finishing games so far, prob has something to do with ditching a lot of the iso play

Updated net rating by quarter table: pic.twitter.com/vi2lGHM7ex

— Tom Bassine (@tvbassine) November 26, 2022

wtf are are the pacers doing in first quarters tho

huh! pacers and lakers tables very strange

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thinking about how part of the celtic mediocre defensive numbers is prob the fact that theyve gotten out to a bunch of big leads then coasted til the end when they put the clamps on if they need to, they did totally shut down the famous kings offense when they needed to last night, that and the okc game are the only ones where iirc they really flipped the switch on d, but it does seem like they can if they want to, and getting rob back should help with that too

starters still playing too many minutes is really my only complaint, need to give the big 3 bench whites more minutes

adding another center should happen too but thats not pressing

playing fewer minutes could allow guys to try harder on d too, coasting most of the time is not the best from a habitual pov

yeah agreed like the suns have the #2 offense and #4 defense but still have about the same net rating as the celtics, having a middle of the pack defensive rating is just circumstantial to the offense being an outlier

doesnt really matter how you do it if the margin is big enough. they're not like one of those offense-only teams that sinks in the playoffs, those teams always have much smaller MOV than 7 points

their defense has been better recently too, started off the season really bad

last 10 #1 offense #4 defense

“big 3 bench whites” lmao

my big horrible sons

"the sullys"

from ice cr?m’s lips to joe isuzu’s ears: tatum resting tonight

pretty creaky shit so far imo. not sure grant has a real role with this setup apart from hang out in the corner waiting for someone to pass him the ball. on the other hand it is entertaining to see if anybody on the wizards be able to stop jb taking it to the rim. so far signs point to “no”.

Second unit looking sick as usual

they didnt seem to miss tatum too much, too bad the bench couldnt close it out tho

lmao from the athletic

He has come a long way from the player Marcus Smart remembered when Brown first got to Boston and was trying to do it all.

“A little story: When Jaylen first got here, he used to go 1-on-5, 1-on-4, just throw up some bulls—,” Smart said. “We would look at him like ‘Jaylen, what are you doing?’ And his excuse to us — or his reasoning was, ‘When everyone is telling me to slow down, the defense hears that, so I’m going to speed up.’ And we were like, ‘No, no, no, Jaylen, that doesn’t make any sense.'”

“Smart be making up stories in his own head,” Brown said. “Don’t listen to Smart, man.”

big game tonight

No changes so far to the Hornets injury report for their game at the Celtics tonight.

LaMelo Ball, Gordon Hayward, Cody Martin and Dennis Smith Jr. are all out tonight in Boston.

— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) November 28, 2022

we were all hoping to see cody martin

Celtics should rest Brown and Tatum both.

Guys can I just say, I know it was the Wizards, but Kornet was AMAZING last night. Looked like the second coming of Kevin McHale down there.

I also think that Horford might have lost a step on defense. Not sure about that - it might be deliberate for him to be sagging, but he just doesn’t close out 3s.

In general the defense was good but then again, how in the hell did the Washington Wizards score 121??

celtics offense has been so good that they can afford to coast on d is how i break it down to an extent

kornet has been great hes a skilled player but hes just so slow that a determined team could take advantage of him if they wanted to, but he should be able to soak up some regular season minutes at the least, as i said im in favor of him and the rest of the sullys getting more burn

it's funny that they're just using him as a giant roll man, my thought (and i don't think i was alone) was that they would have him popping and shooting threes a lot more. instead he just gets dunks.

it doesnt seem like he wants to shoot threes even tho he can make them

down two starters celtics still put up a 45 point 1st quarter

hornets are putting a truly depressing squad out there

its bad lol the worst team minus their three best players

everyone talking about how the celtics have "the best offense ever" but i really need someone to disseminate the relative to league average and quarter season data

obvs a lot of this comes down to the just absolute hoisting theyre doing, 2nd in 3pt attempts and first in percentage which is a very winning combination, that will simply have to cool off horford is shooting 48% from 3 derrick white 45 which are both 10+ points over their career averages

but how much will it cool down maybe not as much as one might think, because it should be noted that the celtics are creating absolutely pristine looks, shades of 2014 spurs with constant player and ball movement excellent unselfishness and all around very wise basketball play, however befitting todays nba theyre more skilled than that spurs team, theyre playing five out but its not just a matter of everyone being able to shoot they can all put the ball on the floor and make plays too, which is pretty hard to defend, another thing theyre doing thats really good and can sometimes be hard for good ball movement teams is recognizing good opportunities and taking them, everyone is ready to go, they are very aggressive always attacking, theyre not passing up good looks

another reason their shooting might not dip that much is that their two highest volume shooters arent actually shooting well from 3, tatum and brown at both at 34%, which youd think will probably come up, also sam hauser a legit sniper is prob gonna get more minutes which will help with the nums

anyway its pretty cool to watch this nice team

curious to see if they can keep rolling against miami, they match up well against the celtics and are not really a team that you think of as being easy to beat twice in a row

lol

Jump Shooting By Team. pic.twitter.com/DJav9GGB6d

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) November 30, 2022

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Robert Williams is scrimmaging right now at Celtics shootaround.

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) November 30, 2022