CELTICS 2010

celtics this season are playing like (checks notes) a .500 team.

lagoon analysis otm and i really hope to see it. they just need some, um, actual shooters. it was such an unfamiliar feeling seeing a game where semi went off that i looked back through his game logs. he had an 18 pter earlier this yr vs the wiz but before that had never once scored 15 pts in an nba game. his 3FG% bounced up to 38% last yr so if he can keep that up maybe there are more games like this in his future

i think semi can be a guy who hits open 3s his stroke looks much better this year, theis shooting is looking good too after being totally weirdly shook last year, i mean theyve got shooters tatum kemba brown and pritchard are all guys who can hit all the types of 3s, and then pretty much the rest of them except for centers and green can hit an open look probably at least enough of the time

an absolutely knock down guy whos always running around off screens and whatnot would be good tho, im sure thats what they picture nesmith doing but hes not ready yet

carsen has shown flashes of doing that i guess but seems unlikely hell ever be more than like an 8th man at best

he seems like a guy who really needs to see the first one go in.

yeah also not sure if he has too much of the basketball iq

Rob Williams doing some cool shit pic.twitter.com/HgcI01O0JU

— Efrain Ramos (@efraincarmelo) February 14, 2021

lol russ at the end of that clip

joker bout to score 100 points

Celtics have downgraded Daniel Theis to OUT with a right index finger sprain tonight against Jokic and the Nuggets. Big night for TT to establish his value to the team.

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) February 16, 2021

yikesies

might sit this one out lol

lol why is the nba web site such trash

yeah its really bad

i hate this charade of self flagellation, the celtics are losing cause theyve had a bunch of injuries and their bench is trash, is simple maths you give bad players a bunch of minutes and you will lose

Jayson Tatum: “I’ve gotta be better.”

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) February 16, 2021

i wonder if that's from the same press session where he mentioned that he's still feeling some covid fatigue

yeah i think so

joker bout to score 100 points

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29 in the first half, celtics winning somehow

lol holy shit what a play pic.twitter.com/0Vtl7hI9AU

— Efrain Ramos (@efraincarmelo) February 17, 2021

have you seen this guy

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— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) February 17, 2021

"It's like a flock of birds went by him"

We love @celticsvoice pic.twitter.com/mPc6zgScqw

— Celtics on NBC Sports Boston (@NBCSCeltics) February 17, 2021

lol!

Brad Stevens: “We are imperfect, as everyone knows. And we’re just going to do our best to be as good as we can be.”

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) February 17, 2021

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celtics were so mad at traes foul drawing shenanigans lol

Hope Trae Young is okay 🙏 Not sure how Jaylen Brown wasn’t ejected, but there’s no place for fouls like this in the NBA pic.twitter.com/c4FDeHBXWn

— 𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙩¹³🎡 (@RocketsPlsWin) February 18, 2021

referee work this year has made the transition from impressionism to dadaism

lol, i know trae does some genuinely good basketball stuff, but he's basically my most hated nba player.

Aaron Nesmith was shocked by how big Tacko's shoes are, but Jeff Teague knew exactly what to do...

Celtics/Hawks tipping off NOW on @NBCSBoston! pic.twitter.com/cIeXFoiLMm

— Celtics on NBC Sports Boston (@NBCSCeltics) February 20, 2021

atlanta never figured out that if theis was in the high post he was going to drop off to thompson in the low post for a dunk or vice versa

if nesmith can start hitting shots like he did in uhh 14 games of his sophmore season of college (tbf the ft% was also good https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/aaron-nesmith-1.html) celtics mightve found a guy

Since entering the rotation on Sunday, Aaron Nesmith has a +18.6 net rating (team-high). The reason? Boston is allowing just 91.8 points per 100 possessions in the 93 minutes he’s on the court. https://t.co/IPHrQGqX3I

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) February 20, 2021

hes obvs just not comfortable in the pro game yet as far as the bad shooting goes clearly out of rhythm/not sure what hes supposed to do, feel like he must be shooting well in practice to be getting these minutes, wld make sense to get him more time in that case

hes athletic big strong and so forth and ive seen him do a couple drives that were more than just a pure shooter attacks closeout type of thing

i think i saw that maybe he needed some time to get comfortable with the "defensive concepts" and now he can be out there a little more which was good. the panic about saddiq bey or whoever getting minutes sooner than him was always dumb.

saddiq bey is v good tho, i like him

oh yeah, he's great, it's just impossible for anyone to know when guys picked in the teens and up are going to be ready to be in a rotation

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1. Fire Scal
2. Trade Theis and Grant for Horford.
3. Sign IT
4. Trade Semi, Teague and 2nd for Olynynk.
5. See what Tyler Zeller is up to.
6. Call Gerald Green
7. Bring back Walter McCarty to the coaching staff.

Yw

— 13 Yung James aka Tricki Lake (@jims__juice) February 25, 2021

has it really only been 2 seasons without horford it seems like forever

the team just has no defensive anchor now and is also somehow extremely shallow on everything else too

yeah the bench sucking smart being out having no horf kemba playing bad thompson not knowing about kicking offesive rebounds out or playing defense brad not knowing that rob is better than thompson everything feeling out of sync, its rough out there

im totally willing to write this season off tho what with the pandemic and weird schedule feel like the nba and the whole world is just burned the ef out

the jays + an actual starter quality defensive big is a great team, we are being deprived. now's the right time to find out how good rob williams is

at least put him second in the big rotation and at least if youre going to play two bigs make it him and theis two guys who can move their feet, theis and thompson just have no chance defensively, its has to be demoralizing to play in that lineup

couple caveats re rob playing time is brad did imply the other day that they were bringing him back slowly from last years injury and rob has said that sometimes it still bothers him so if theyre trying to avoid a long term problem there i support it, and tbh i have to give brad the benefit of the doubt re developing young players both jays have outperformed what people thought their ceiling even was when they were drafted, some of the other guys theyve drafted more recently idk jurys still out obvs not everyones going to stick, rob tho is looking very good this year, he makes plays!

some stretches w rob in is the only time of the brad era that imo the offense has looked really dominant, theyve had highish ratings but i feel like brad is such an optimizer despite being often very good his teams dont tend have that thing where youre like holy shit theyre punching the knicks in the neck, which is what i like to see tbh

i've given this a lot of thought and their main problem is they play too many guys who have between 0-1 offensive skills. bunch of non-nba players on the roster and borderline players getting asked to give important minutes. i'm ticked that some of the local sentiment has turned toward the Js being selfish! no one else can do anything!

their bench sucking is def far and away their biggest problem, and then having a bunch of injuries has compounded that by giving the bench more minutes

one semi ojelye type is an interesting spare part. three or four semi ojelye types is a major problem.

yeeaaap

brads got jokes!

A week in Brad Stevens' shoes according to him:
Root canal & identity theft >>> Celtics' recent skid 🥴

(@ZoandBertrand) pic.twitter.com/SqC12QlPbG

— NBC Sports Boston (@NBCSBoston) February 25, 2021

i think there is a sunk cost thing going on with thompson. cut your losses and bench the man for rob