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Post by hedleylamarr on Jan 9, 2020 10:41:13 GMT -5
We were also IN the game last night, and down by 7 when Kemba had his meltdown. If he stayed in the game, who knows what could have happened. He's our MVP this year, no doubt in my mind
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Post by kyceltic on Jan 9, 2020 10:50:25 GMT -5
Awesome, love it! The return of E8 coming out with guns blazing...well, I did not realize that Admin was referring to Yabu...makes sense now, and yeah Danny has made a lot of questionable moves over time...I will be holding my breath until we get past the trade deadline... You know it's the same person, right? I wanted to see how long it could go on!
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Post by kyceltic on Jan 9, 2020 10:54:30 GMT -5
We were also IN the game last night, and down by 7 when Kemba had his meltdown. If he stayed in the game, who knows what could have happened. He's our MVP this year, no doubt in my mind The bad thing about it, it was a legal screen, hard but legal!! Kemba's got to be better!
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Post by drewski6 on Jan 9, 2020 11:19:39 GMT -5
Kemba's been ill, Jaylen's been ill, Smart had that eye issue...It looks like these guys lost their momentum and rhythm. Im not going to overreact. There are peaks and valleys every season. I expect them to get hot again and rattle off a winning streak. I do agree though, that with any one of the big 3 hurting, unavailable (Kemba, Jaylen, Tatum) - are scoring depth suffers. Hard to score when you have Wannamaker, Smart, GWill, THeis out there.
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Post by drewski6 on Jan 9, 2020 11:20:24 GMT -5
Hopefully the illnesses / injuries are out of the way, and we can regain some stability and gel. (Knocks on wood)
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Post by hedleylamarr on Jan 9, 2020 11:29:38 GMT -5
Hedley, I just sent you a PM
Edit: Never mind Hedley...now KY has copied your post so it would take both of you to delete your posts to keep whoever does not yet realize this in the dark...I guess you guys were the ones who told the other kids there was no Santa in second grade too...
Hedley did his part
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Post by hedleylamarr on Jan 9, 2020 11:30:49 GMT -5
Bench scoring, bench scoring, bench scoring.............where is Crawford??
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Post by elvissurfs on Jan 9, 2020 11:35:59 GMT -5
Ky sent you a PM
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Post by petey62 on Jan 9, 2020 13:43:46 GMT -5
The Celtics are trending to the negative right now. We've played four horrible games in a row but were fortunate to win two against young/inexperienced teams in Atlanta and Chicago (thanks to Theis or we might have lost at home to Atlanta). Over an 82 game schedule, you eventually see the true make up of a team. We're not playing well at home or on the road and we better turn that around or we'll find ourselves sitting at #5 or #6 very soon. I do agree with the four bad games in a row. Kemba did not play in three of them, however. Last night was a real stink bomb. I also agree we are trending in the negative right now. No excuses, but also plenty of time to right the ship Kemba should not have to play for this team to avoid having bad games against Atanta, Chicago and Washington. It pains me to hear injuries being used as an excuse. The Wizards had 2 or 3 significant players out yet they found a way to win. Against ATL, Collins played 22 minutes before falling on his tailbone and leaving the game.....and he was dominating the game. Had he been able to play the whole game, no telling how that result would have figured. There is plenty of time to right the ship. There is also plenty of time to continue trending downward if we don't play better and/or upgrade certain areas of the roster. Teams are figuring things out and they realize that the Celtics are not a good-shooting team, yet will continue to chuck it up when they're not making them. And they also know that ball movement is the way to attack us, as evidenced by Trae and ATL and last night against SAS. Without Embiid tonight, I think we're in for a dogfight and we'll have to play our best to come out with a win against Philly.
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Post by hedleylamarr on Jan 9, 2020 14:05:08 GMT -5
I do agree with the four bad games in a row. Kemba did not play in three of them, however. Last night was a real stink bomb. I also agree we are trending in the negative right now. No excuses, but also plenty of time to right the ship Kemba should not have to play for this team to avoid having bad games against Atanta, Chicago and Washington. It pains me to hear injuries being used as an excuse. The Wizards had 2 or 3 significant players out yet they found a way to win. Against ATL, Collins played 22 minutes before falling on his tailbone and leaving the game.....and he was dominating the game. Had he been able to play the whole game, no telling how that result would have figured. There is plenty of time to right the ship. There is also plenty of time to continue trending downward if we don't play better and/or upgrade certain areas of the roster. Teams are figuring things out and they realize that the Celtics are not a good-shooting team, yet will continue to chuck it up when they're not making them. And they also know that ball movement is the way to attack us, as evidenced by Trae and ATL and last night against SAS. Without Embiid tonight, I think we're in for a dogfight and we'll have to play our best to come out with a win against Philly. Not using injuries as an excuse. We won two of those games without Kemba. A win is a win. We didn't play well in any of them, and still won two of the three. I think that's the sign of a good team, not a bad one.
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Post by drewski6 on Jan 9, 2020 14:25:10 GMT -5
I do agree with the four bad games in a row. Kemba did not play in three of them, however. Last night was a real stink bomb. I also agree we are trending in the negative right now. No excuses, but also plenty of time to right the ship Kemba should not have to play for this team to avoid having bad games against Atanta, Chicago and Washington. It pains me to hear injuries being used as an excuse. The Wizards had 2 or 3 significant players out yet they found a way to win. Against ATL, Collins played 22 minutes before falling on his tailbone and leaving the game.....and he was dominating the game. Had he been able to play the whole game, no telling how that result would have figured. There is plenty of time to right the ship. There is also plenty of time to continue trending downward if we don't play better and/or upgrade certain areas of the roster. Teams are figuring things out and they realize that the Celtics are not a good-shooting team, yet will continue to chuck it up when they're not making them. And they also know that ball movement is the way to attack us, as evidenced by Trae and ATL and last night against SAS. Without Embiid tonight, I think we're in for a dogfight and we'll have to play our best to come out with a win against Philly. I agree. This has been a discouraging spell, and you cant you chalk it up to injuries when other teams had them too. Atl with Collins, Was with Beal....Im just not ready to throw in the towel. I still think this is a good team. We have to re-find our way, and its not guaranteed that we will. But there have plenty of teams who hit low points during the regular season and then re-found their way and came back to make a good deep run. Its not guaranteed, but its possible. I wish the all-star break was right now, feeling like we could use a reset.
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Post by drewski6 on Jan 9, 2020 14:27:33 GMT -5
And I agree with many that its time to call up Waters. He shoots well, is a good backup pg. So really he helps with two issues, a shooter off the bench and cutting into Wannamaker's playing time, who I am losing faith in. If Waters can shoot close to 40% from 3, and move the ball off the bench, he could be a big help right now.
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Post by petey62 on Jan 9, 2020 14:55:38 GMT -5
Kemba should not have to play for this team to avoid having bad games against Atanta, Chicago and Washington. It pains me to hear injuries being used as an excuse. The Wizards had 2 or 3 significant players out yet they found a way to win. Against ATL, Collins played 22 minutes before falling on his tailbone and leaving the game.....and he was dominating the game. Had he been able to play the whole game, no telling how that result would have figured. There is plenty of time to right the ship. There is also plenty of time to continue trending downward if we don't play better and/or upgrade certain areas of the roster. Teams are figuring things out and they realize that the Celtics are not a good-shooting team, yet will continue to chuck it up when they're not making them. And they also know that ball movement is the way to attack us, as evidenced by Trae and ATL and last night against SAS. Without Embiid tonight, I think we're in for a dogfight and we'll have to play our best to come out with a win against Philly. Not using injuries as an excuse. We won two of those games without Kemba. A win is a win. We didn't play well in any of them, and still won two of the three. I think that's the sign of a good team, not a bad one. You are correct that a win is a win. I'm simply saying we have played 4 horrible games in a row. Winning two of them wasn't a sign that we're a good team. Winning two of them is a sign that Atlanta and Chicago are two pretty mediocre teams. To play like that for 4 games is not the sign of a good team because, eventually, you play the SAS and get absolutely run off the court which should never happen to a good team at home. We got it down to 7 when the Kemba ejection happened. Honestly, the way the SAS answered every Celtic run, had Kemba not gotten ejected, they might have still gone on a spurt like they had been doing all game. Right now, the Celtics are performing like a bad team.
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Post by hedleylamarr on Jan 9, 2020 14:58:48 GMT -5
And I agree with many that its time to call up Waters. He shoots well, is a good backup pg. So really he helps with two issues, a shooter off the bench and cutting into Wannamaker's playing time, who I am losing faith in. If Waters can shoot close to 40% from 3, and move the ball off the bench, he could be a big help right now. He's too small to play D............he's a role player, not a backup PG. While I agree Wanamaker has been god-awful for a a while now, neither Edwards nor Waters has stepped it up enough to take his minutes.
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Post by hedleylamarr on Jan 9, 2020 16:27:12 GMT -5
It was NOT a legal screen on Kemba. If you watch, Aldridge clearly extends his arms and pushes. That was 4 FT's and the ball. We were down 7.........then we were down 12. Game over
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Post by fierce on Jan 9, 2020 18:46:32 GMT -5
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