CELTICS 2010

lineup change did the trick

It was fun watching last year's playoff team tonight. They bring out the best in each other.

yeah they play hard and do stuff

ha celtics fans feeling bold after they cheered hayward to boston

Anthony Davis on whether he heard Garden cheering him at times tonight: "I heard it tonight but I'm focused on this team. I'm trying to do whatever I can to help this team gets wins with the roster we have."

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) December 11, 2018

that with the roster we have part doesnt sound too enthusiastic

davis gone, c's or lakers, book it

btw the worst timeline is davis and kd in lakers uniforms with bron, it would be so large, but bad

o god yea thats a nightmare

the best timeline is davis in boston pwning the raptors after kawhi signs a 5 year max deal also he gets injured and trues to sell new balance in myanmar and then there is a major look at his human rights record also KD goes to the spurs

(to clarify, we should really look at _kawhi's_ record on human rights)

Kawhi believes human’s don’t have rights unless they sit out a year

Jayson Tatum with AUTHORITY 🔨 pic.twitter.com/TguA3kJ189

— Boston Celtics (@celtics) December 11, 2018

wld prefer to see this current celtics team win rings and not make another superteam w davis, however wld prefer to see them win rings w davis than no rings w/o

making a superteam via trades is way more legit than via free agency tho

CELTICS - NBA RANKS
(During 6-game win streak)

OFFENSE 1st
DEFENSE 3rd
NET RATING 1st
SCORING 1st
FIELD GOAL% 1st
3-POINT % 1st
REBOUNDING 1st
ASSISTS 1st
ASSIST/TO 1st
EFFECTIVE FG% 1st
TRUE SHOOTING 1st

— Sean Grande (@SeanGrandePBP) December 11, 2018

rob williams is cute

Hear from Robert Williams after a big showing from the rookie. pic.twitter.com/LtOKNB28qp

— Boston Celtics (@celtics) December 11, 2018

making a superteam via trades is way more legit than via free agency tho

the core seven of the current team: 2 by trade, 2 by free agency, 3 by draft. what's the legitimacy quotient on that?

5:2 legitimacy ratio, pretty good, and if they trade for brow who wld be their best player then its even better, prob hayward wld be in that trade too so then horf wld be the only free agent signing left, also most ppl werent even that impressed by picking him up but now theyre starting to appreciate the genius of horf, overall a pretty legit team, way more so than yr warriors or heat and so forth

lmao

I like the legitimacy ratio

its one of the most innovative stats

we need a stat that measures a team's legitimacy ratio against a replacement level legitimacy ratio, weighted for market size, previous championships won, and number of times your gm has been fleeced by danny ainge.

2008 celtics (the proto super team) was all homegrown or trades for a perfect legitimacy score of 100

hm the warriors have 4/1 ratio as their starting lineup. not bad

for the warriors its better to use our adjusted legitimacy ratio metric which takes into account that they added a top 5 player via free agency after putting up the best regular season record ever and blew a 3-1 finals lead, also factors in that the free agent is a lil bitch, the parking lot call will affect the score somewhat too

long story short our metric shows the warriors sullied pristine legitimacy resulting in a total bummer rating of 100 for the whole league

whatever suits your little homered narrative

actually its objective math/science

gonna be weird when kd joins his bff kyrie after this season

i will not allow it/thankfully not really possible

congrats to the celtics for winning one title in the last 32 years :)

wow warriors fans seem kind of sensitive about how they blew up a lovable entertaining home grown team to build a shallow mercenary squad with no chemistry that everyone hates

That reminds me of when the Celtics got Kyrie for nothing and still couldn't get past Tristan Thompson and the Cavs.

kinda a weird reading of that series might want to review "the facts"

poly otm obv. the celtics were lovable with IT2 then they sold their soul and bad karma has bitten them.

yeah, and now they've loaded up with ring chasers like horford and hayward. p embarrassing tbh

and now desperate to add brow sheesh.

kyrie+horford celtics are cool dunno about hayward

no one would say that getting kyrie and horford and then playing all your draft picks is stacking the team

THIS is a bad ratio: stevie nicks, mike campbell, neil finn, christine mcvie, mick fleetwood, john mcvie.

celtics are very nice and chill

wow warriors fans seem kind of sensitive about how they blew up a lovable entertaining home grown team to build a shallow mercenary squad with no chemistry that everyone hates

― lag∞n, Tuesday, December 11, 2018 2:13 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

warriors fans please understand that this is -- in fact -- the Official Narrative of ILH

Whatever king of hoops

i love to look at the espn basketball power index which has the boston celtics at #1 http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/Basketball-Power-Index/espn-nba-basketball-power-index

538 which is dumb does not https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2019-nba-predictions/

btw i cant figure out what the deal is with 538s "full strength" index the celtics are rated way higher in that than they are in "current" but they havent had many injuries? perhaps its account for the fact that both kyrie and gordon are coming off big surgeries idk shit seems too black boxy overfit to be useful

yeah I am puzzled by the 538 system too

they should just have all the teams play basketball contests against one another to see who's better

crazy idea but just might work

basketball reference has "simple rating system" u have to sort by the srs column in the standings, top 3 teams are in the east lol https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2019_standings.html