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Post by kyceltic on Aug 4, 2020 19:27:47 GMT -5
Can Smart play any worse?
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Post by Admin on Aug 4, 2020 19:28:14 GMT -5
Fierce was crediting Brad the other night for keeping the team focused and not quitting but it seems he's failed to do so tonight.
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Post by kyceltic on Aug 4, 2020 19:30:39 GMT -5
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Post by kyceltic on Aug 4, 2020 19:31:55 GMT -5
Worst bench in the history of professional sports!
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Post by fierce on Aug 4, 2020 19:39:51 GMT -5
Fierce was crediting Brad the other night for keeping the team focused and not quitting but it seems he's failed to do so tonight. Tonight the Heat's coach has a better game plan. Celts are scrambling all over the place. |
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Post by kyceltic on Aug 4, 2020 19:49:24 GMT -5
Great line up Brad!
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Post by fierce on Aug 4, 2020 19:51:07 GMT -5
Looks like the Heat's Zone Defense is giving the Celts trouble.
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Post by Admin on Aug 4, 2020 19:53:43 GMT -5
Shooting excluding threes > 24-43 (56%) Threes > 8-27 (30%)
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Post by Admin on Aug 4, 2020 19:58:03 GMT -5
Maker with a steal to Theis for the finish!
Down 4 ... Theis saves the miss with throw off of the Heat player.
Now it looks like the refs are gonna change the call on the court as usual with the C's in close games since they got to the bubble.
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Post by Admin on Aug 4, 2020 20:00:30 GMT -5
Crowder pulled Theis down w/o a foul call and then awarded the ball to Heat ... Brad won the challenge but C's fail to take advantage and now the Heat hit another three ... back down 7
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Post by Admin on Aug 4, 2020 20:02:57 GMT -5
<3 mins to go ... Brown misses a three and that may be the game.
105-98 w/o Butler.
Now Theis called for traveling ... Scal refutes it and Heat another three (Dragic) ... down 10 ... It's OVAH!
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Post by Admin on Aug 4, 2020 20:04:37 GMT -5
Brad finally pissed having words with the ref but there's only 1 min left Brad ... too little too late!
You needed to get in their head much earlier to make any difference ...
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Post by Admin on Aug 4, 2020 20:08:04 GMT -5
JT gets a "T" but nobody knows why ... except a Heat player is on the floor.
He'll probably be assessed an F2 now as the play is under review. Blocking foul on Heat ... Challenge lost by them trying to get a charge called on JT.
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Post by Admin on Aug 4, 2020 20:09:47 GMT -5
Another whistle with 20 secs to play ... C'mon ref! On Olynyk ... Theis 1-2 ... 109-103
Heat travel and C's hit a three off the TO ... 109-106 with 13 secs ... Hmmmmmm
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Post by Admin on Aug 4, 2020 20:15:13 GMT -5
Dragic out limping ... Heat make 1-2 FTs but get the rebound on the miss and are fouled again making both ... 112-106
THE END
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Post by kyceltic on Aug 4, 2020 20:23:45 GMT -5
Their bench 43 points ours 23, which is probably more than usual!
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Post by petey62 on Aug 4, 2020 20:29:04 GMT -5
What a pathetic performance. Brown and Hayward a combined 0-10 on 3-point shooting. Smart just had one of his worst games ever.
Their bench is pretty good with Dragic and Herro and, when Butler is healthy, Olynyk.
We counter with Wannamaker, Williams and Smart.
Good game by Kanter.
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Post by kyceltic on Aug 4, 2020 20:33:21 GMT -5
What a pathetic performance. Brown and Hayward a combined 0-10 on 3-point shooting. Smart just had one of his worst games ever. Their bench is pretty good with Dragic and Herro and, when Butler is healthy, Olynyk. We counter with Wannamaker, Williams and Smart. Good game by Kanter. I'd trade all 3 for Herro! |
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Post by Admin on Aug 4, 2020 20:35:19 GMT -5
Danny decided to stand pat once again ...
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Post by Cabutan on Aug 4, 2020 20:39:01 GMT -5
That miami team is one that no one would want to meet in playoffs.
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Post by kyceltic on Aug 4, 2020 20:40:58 GMT -5
Danny decided to stand pat once again ... I'd like to know, what he thought he was standing pat with? |
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Post by sfbosfan on Aug 4, 2020 21:36:29 GMT -5
Their shooting % was hot and ours was not. When we hit our 3s and % shooting 45% + we usually win. This is another example of us failing to have a big man in the post who can give us 10 rebs and score 20 its and someone to rely on when we are not shooting well.
I don’t know which Boston team is more pathetic..us or the Red Sox. I guess the latter. What’s really going to hurt in this short season is if they count the championships, the Lakers should win and tie us with 18 and the Yankees will add another to their long list.
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Post by Admin on Aug 4, 2020 21:47:54 GMT -5
I think he said something about players ready to step up and break out and he needed to see their response to the challenge. How's that working out? Here's what others were reporting: The NBA trade deadline has once again come and gone without any action from the Boston Celtics. Despite being connected in rumors involving Clint Capela, Davis Bertans, Marieff Morris, and others, Danny Ainge apparently never found the right deal.
The lack of a result doesn't mean the Celtics were inactive, however. A report Thursday morning from the Athletic's James Edwards indicated the Celtics had made an offer to the Detroit Pistons for forward Christian Wood, which Detroit turned down.
After that, the Celtics rumor/report noise was relatively quiet for most of the day. With about an hour to go, there were multiple reports about the Celtics having general discussions, but there were not specific deals floated publicly.
Unlike last year when the Celtics were the only Eastern Conference contender not to make a move, this time around sitting out seemed to be the popular choice. Of the six teams over .500 in the Eastern Conference, only the Miami Heat (34-16, fourth place) and Philadelphia 76ers (31-20, sixth place) made deadline deals. In one of the bigger trades of the deadline, Miami acquired Andre Igoudala, Solomon Hill, and Jae Crowder from the Memphis Grizzlies.
Meanwhile, the Sixers added scoring by sending a trio of second-round picks to the Golden State Warriors for Alec Burks and Glen Robinson III.
It's now been five years since Danny Ainge made a major move at the deadline. His last splash came in 2015, when he sent a first-round pick and Marcus Thornton to the Phoenix Suns for Isaiah Thomas.
One of the challenges for the Celtics in trade talks was a lack of roster spots. They had a full 15-player roster and only three players don’t have guaranteed money, or an option, for the 2020-21 season. Boston’s desire to not eat dead money on next year’s cap sheet was a factor in not making any moves.
Unfortunately, that desire to manage for the future may end up costing the Celtics now.
Celtics general manager Danny Ainge recently said his priority for the team was that they get healthy. He said the team would entertain trade possibilities, but didn’t feel it was a necessity for them to make a move. In addition, both Ainge and Brad Stevens have indicated a high level of belief in their roster when healthy.
Basically, all of Boston’s roster spots could easily be spoken for without the team doing much at all.
And…Boston projects to have three first round picks and one second round pick.
That’s 21 players in the mix for roster spots. Offseason rosters cap at 20 players. And at least three to five of those spots are usually non-guaranteed camp invites. Even if you waive Green and let Wanamaker, Fall and Waters walk, the math is still too tight.
The reality is that the Celtics have too many players and picks for them to reasonably manage keeping all of them.
That’s why the time was now to make a move. If the asking price really was two first round picks for Davis Bertans, Ainge should have met it, while also including a couple of players for salary matching. That’s the kind of consolidation trade that makes Boston better right now and helps clean thing up down the line.
If there were bigger deals available, and Boston wouldn’t move on from picks or young players, it was also a mistake. This was the year for Ainge to make a trade even if it wasn’t a slam dunk winner of a swap for the Celtics. This was the time to take a risk.
And the funny thing? Ainge isn’t risk adverse. He swung big for Kyrie Irving. He’s got the nickname “Trader Danny” in the first place by making a million trades during the 2014-15 season. And to start it all, he went big for Ray Allen which led to getting Kevin Garnett. And that set of trades got the Celtics a 17th banner.
This was another time for Ainge to take a risk. And for the fifth straight trade deadline, Boston stood pat. Maybe Ainge and Stevens are right and Boston just needs to be healthy. Only time will tell if that’s enough to be NBA Finals contenders. But we know for sure that the Celtics playoff path this season got more difficult. And it didn’t have to.
As constructed, Boston has a roster that has flexibility to compete against teams with size as well as squads whose strength lies in their versatility.
Any move made by the Celtics at the trade deadline or at the buyout deadline would have tilted that flexibility in one direction or the other and thereby made them even more vulnerable to getting a "bad draw" in the playoffs.
If Boston added size but it meant losing a rotation wing in the process, would that added size be enough to compensate for the loss on the perimeter if, let's say, the Celtics faced the Miami Heat?
Or if Boston went out and added another perimeter scorer, but it cost them at least one big body up front, would that come back and bite them if they had to play, say, a healthy Joel Embiid and Philadelphia in the first round?
Because of Boston's insistence on not trading away anyone at the trade deadline, that put a much greater emphasis on them finding someone on the buyout market.
But here's the thing.
When a player is bought out and then clears waivers, they become a free agent and because of that they have the option of signing with any team they want.
The opportunity to play and their role on the team are more times than not why players choose certain teams over others.
Any of those aforementioned players weren't going to play the kind of minutes they would want to in Boston.
Throw in the chemistry issues that last year's team had, and there's no way Boston was going to roll the dice on bringing someone in who, while talented, may not be ready to embrace a limited role or one that fluctuates as much as those roles tend to in Boston.
The one player that the Celtics really would have wanted to add via the buyout market, Cleveland's Tristan Thompson, never became available.
As much as preserving the current group has factored in Ainge and the Celtics standing pat at the last two deadlines, the overriding reason for them to make no deals was them simply not believing a deal would have made the team better in the short or long term.
One of the keys to any successful postseason run is to have elements of a team that have room to grow.
Forsberg: Tatum still has room to grow after fantastic February
For the Celtics, their bench doesn't have to necessarily score more than they are now, but they do have to be more impactful.
Having Marcus Smart with the reserve unit more consistently should help in that regard.
With him being the fill-in whenever a starter can't go, Smart's presence bodes well for the first group but it consistently delivers a blow to the reserve unit and what the bench can do from a production standpoint.
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Post by elvissurfs on Aug 4, 2020 21:58:57 GMT -5
Just watched the last quarter...pretty sad...plenty of chances...we surely are not playing like before covid...will be home tomorrow night to watch the whole game, hopefully we can get back on track...
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Post by Cabutan on Aug 4, 2020 22:04:10 GMT -5
Miami vs philly would be really entertaining.
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