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Post by kyceltic on Nov 10, 2023 21:54:12 GMT -5
Damn Stevens must be bad if he's not better than Brissett.
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Post by Admin on Nov 10, 2023 21:56:59 GMT -5
"The Stall" goes for a block but whistled for a foul Payton pounding the ball for a clock violation and BKN ends it on the inbounds ... 121-107 BOS back on a winning track now at 6-2
Raptors tomorrow night at 7PM
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Post by cole on Nov 10, 2023 21:59:05 GMT -5
Thunder up now!
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Post by Admin on Nov 10, 2023 22:53:40 GMT -5
OKC down 10 ... Sixers keep winning & Clippers keep losing - guess who won that trade!
Lakers not so good so far this season ... down 10 to Suns on ESPN
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Post by cole on Nov 10, 2023 23:04:10 GMT -5
when grandson was the small i am ask on him what your favorit dinasaur is. He is name on the lots kind . I say what about basketball raptor and he is say who . We are have the big laughing.
Nobody is care on you @raptors
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Post by drewski6 on Nov 11, 2023 10:25:24 GMT -5
And the Celtics are taking it so seriously that they're resting big Al tonight,instead of tomorrow! If not for the floor, no one would know anything is going on! It feels silly. id call it a cash grab, but im not sure what additional cash this will grab lol
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Post by drewski6 on Nov 11, 2023 10:27:23 GMT -5
Hauser some of his finest D Tatum stretching this back out Hauser sneakily finds himself on a hotstreak
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Post by hedleylamarr on Nov 11, 2023 10:30:48 GMT -5
Hauser some of his finest D Tatum stretching this back out Hauser sneakily finds himself on a hotstreak Yes, good for him. As I've said, I really don't care who steps up, as long as someone does. Hauser would get the first crack at it. If his struggles continued, he would have been buried on the bench. But, he may have found himself a niche. Good for him, good for us!!
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Post by elvissurfs on Nov 11, 2023 10:32:28 GMT -5
I think I derailed Pud by posting on an old game thread in response to Hedley about Timelord...anyhow I cut and pasted his post to here...and yeah, the new floor for the 'in season play-in tournament' is weird...the person I watched the game with last night was confused...tried to explain it to her, which led to having to explain what the 'tournament' was, which doesn't make sense either...
puddin Avatar Nov 11, 2023 5:18:01 GMT -8 puddin said: What happened to the ageless parquet floor?
I was stunned watching the Cs for the first time in my life at home play on a very strange-looking alien floor!
I literally did not know what I was watching.... disorienting to the max!
The game could easily have been played overseas or on Mars for that matter for all I understood.
How jarring!!!!!
Pud
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Post by elvissurfs on Nov 11, 2023 10:56:53 GMT -5
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Post by dfries13 on Nov 11, 2023 10:59:27 GMT -5
And the Celtics are taking it so seriously that they're resting big Al tonight,instead of tomorrow! If not for the floor, no one would know anything is going on! It feels silly. id call it a cash grab, but im not sure what additional cash this will grab lol 500K for each player on the team that wins this silly in season tournament. Buys a new Lamborghini Not sure where the moneys come from and don't care. Gimmick to get fans excited for what is too long a season. Pop suggested going back to 74 or 76 games.. Cuts out the back to backs.. The floor painting was no Monet or Vermeer might pass off as a. Hieronymus Bosch
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Post by cole on Nov 11, 2023 11:19:17 GMT -5
Let's see if we can make Dali even weirder
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Post by hedleylamarr on Nov 11, 2023 11:21:33 GMT -5
Happy Vets Day to Petey, and all our board members who have served.
I did not, but my father and both grandfathers did.
After my father died, in 2008, the US Army called us and said, "what do you want us to do with the three medals your father won in WWII and never picked up?"
PTSD - he NEVER mentioned them........ever, and he was quite a talker!
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Post by puddin on Nov 11, 2023 11:22:21 GMT -5
I think I derailed Pud by posting on an old game thread in response to Hedley about Timelord...anyhow I cut and pasted his post to here...and yeah, the new floor for the 'in season play-in tournament' is weird...the person I watched the game with last night was confused...tried to explain it to her, which led to having to explain what the 'tournament' was, which doesn't make sense either... puddin Avatar Nov 11, 2023 5:18:01 GMT -8 puddin said: What happened to the ageless parquet floor? I was stunned watching the Cs for the first time in my life at home play on a very strange-looking alien floor! I literally did not know what I was watching.... disorienting to the max! The game could easily have been played overseas or on Mars for that matter for all I understood. How jarring!!!!! Pud I just discovered the details about this "in season tournament".
What a terrible idea, trying to spice up the regular season with a meaningless tourney.
An obvious admission by the league that the regular season is waaaaay too long and waaaay to meaningless.
How pathetic an attempt to keep fans involved, trying to "juice" the ratings adding "excitement" when there is little reason to be involved in November and December.... and the floor is GROSS.
Alternate wacky idea: To keep fans awake glued to their TV screens, add a 4 point shot.... but only in the 2Q to improve ratings a bit just before half time!
Pud
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Post by puddin on Nov 11, 2023 11:24:35 GMT -5
Celtics fans guide to in-season tournament: Everything you need to know By Souichi Terada | sterada@masslive.com
When the Celtics take on the Nets on Friday, some fans are likely going to be confused when they see the court at TD Garden. The NBA unveiled new courts specifically for its new in-season tournament, which has drawn the ire of some fans for the colorful aesthetics.
But that’s the new in-season tourney, which debuts for the 2023-24 season. It’s a new invention for the league as it looks to spice up the regular season. Plenty of fans — and even some players — are still wondering what exactly this new tournament will entail.
Here’s everything you need to know about the new in-season tournament:
What exactly is the in-season tournament?
The in-season tournament has multiple stages, but the most important part is that it still counts towards a team’s regular-season record. The NBA wanted to incorporate a tourney into the middle of the season, so this was the league’s solution. The tournament will last a total of 67 games and is called the NBA Cup.
The tournament itself is relatively straightforward. The NBA split up its 30 teams into six groups with three in each conference. Each group has five teams and those teams will play each other in a round-robin format. After the group play, the top team from each group will advance to the knockout stages. One wild card from each conference will also make it to the knockouts to form an eight-team bracket.
From there, it’s a single-elimination tournament, much like March Madness at the college level. The quarterfinals will be played at team sites, so the Celtics could end up getting an extra home game, for example. The semifinals and finals will both be played in Las Vegas at a neutral site. The semis will be Dec. 7 while the finals will be Dec. 9. The main detail to know about the finals is that is the lone game in the in-season tournament that won’t count toward a team’s regular-season record.
Teams that don’t qualify past the group play round will have two regular-season games assigned to them, one home and on the road. Teams that lose in the quarterfinals will have an extra regular-season game against another quarterfinal loser.
Who are the other teams in the Celtics’ group?
The Celtics are in Group C in the East. Their opponents are the Nets, Raptors, Bulls and Magic. They take on the Nets to start Friday. They’ll play at the Raptors on Nov. 17, at the Magic on Nov. 24 and wrap up group play at home against the Bulls on Nov. 28.
What do teams get for winning the in-season tournament?
Players and coaches will earn $500,000 each for winning the entire tournament and it’s a descending number from there. The runner-ups will get $200,000 each, semifinalists at $100,000 each and the quarterfinalists at $50,000. Now, that’s not a huge sum for guys like Jayson Tatum or Jaylen Brown, but that could be a nice penny for the end-of-bench guys. Assistant coaches get a separate pool where they will share 75% of whatever the head coach’s pool is.
Why should you care?
Well, the Celtics are still playing regular-season basketball games. They just come with a little bit more attention with the in-season tournament, along with more flash with the courts. The NBA’s been pushing for this idea for the past few years as a way to make the regular season a little more interesting. While it’s likely not going to replace playoff-intensity basketball in group play games, that could chance once teams start getting to the knockout stages.
It’s also important to note this is the first season the league is doing this tournament. It takes at least a few tries to smooth out any issues in a new idea. Fans, players and coaches will go into the tourney with skepticism since it is a new idea. But it only takes a few fun games in the knockout stages for there to get some more buy-in as a whole. There could also be a middle-tier team making a Cinderella run, which is entirely possible in the single-elimination format.
Also, the NBA will get some marquee cross-conference matchups in Las Vegas for the semifinals and finals, so those should be fun to watch. East and West teams meet only twice during the regular season, so an extra third matchup between two contenders should add extra juice. If, for example, the Celtics and Lakers meet in Vegas, then fans are going to be tuned into that game.
Regardless, it should be interesting to see how the in-season tourney unfolds over the next few weeks. The group play games are ho-hum regular-season games, for now. But the stakes will rise in the knockout stages, and that’s where the NBA is banking it can have a better product. At the very least, the league is trying something different.
Maybe I need to read a bit before asking stupid, redundant questions....
Pud
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Post by kyceltic on Nov 11, 2023 12:04:40 GMT -5
It feels silly. id call it a cash grab, but im not sure what additional cash this will grab lol 500K for each player on the team that wins this silly in season tournament. Buys a new Lamborghini Not sure where the moneys come from and don't care. Gimmick to get fans excited for what is too long a season. Pop suggested going back to 74 or 76 games.. Cuts out the back to backs.. The floor painting was no Monet or Vermeer might pass off as a. Hieronymus Bosch View Attachment when did they ever play 74 or 76 games? Maybe in the 50's! I don't even like to hear talk about shortening the season!
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Post by cole on Nov 11, 2023 12:22:34 GMT -5
500K for each player on the team that wins this silly in season tournament. Buys a new Lamborghini Not sure where the moneys come from and don't care. Gimmick to get fans excited for what is too long a season. Pop suggested going back to 74 or 76 games.. Cuts out the back to backs.. The floor painting was no Monet or Vermeer might pass off as a. Hieronymus Bosch View Attachment when did they ever play 74 or 76 games? Maybe in the 50's! I don't even like to hear talk about shortening the season! Yeah play the games but use the bench is better than less games
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Post by elvissurfs on Nov 11, 2023 12:33:21 GMT -5
Well, the problem with shortening the season is that it messes with all the record books...and of course revenue...
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Post by kyceltic on Nov 11, 2023 12:57:00 GMT -5
Well, the problem with shortening the season is that it messes with all the record books...and of course revenue... And worse than that, it makes me get to watch less Celtic games!
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Post by cole on Nov 11, 2023 16:04:16 GMT -5
when grandson was the small i am ask on him what your favorit dinasaur is. He is name on the lots kind . I say what about basketball raptor and he is say who . We are have the big laughing. Nobody is care on you @raptors @austin Janos, NBA celtic is team no make win tomorrow. Raptor is claw face of small potato basketbal man Lucky. Raptor is big. Thank u is austin
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Post by dfries13 on Nov 11, 2023 17:46:51 GMT -5
500K for each player on the team that wins this silly in season tournament. Buys a new Lamborghini Not sure where the moneys come from and don't care. Gimmick to get fans excited for what is too long a season. Pop suggested going back to 74 or 76 games.. Cuts out the back to backs.. The floor painting was no Monet or Vermeer might pass off as a. Hieronymus Bosch View Attachment when did they ever play 74 or 76 games? Maybe in the 50's! I don't even like to hear talk about shortening the season! Get a life.. The world won't end if they cut out back to back games. Out of 450 or more players only 10 played in 82 games last year.. Sense you struggle with math i'll help that is 2.2%
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Post by kyceltic on Nov 11, 2023 18:00:09 GMT -5
when did they ever play 74 or 76 games? Maybe in the 50's! I don't even like to hear talk about shortening the season! Get a life.. The world won't end if they cut out back to back games. Out of 450 or more players only 10 played in 82 games last year.. Sense you struggle with math i'll help that is 2.2% But the teams all played 82! That's 100%! How's that for math??
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Post by kyceltic on Nov 11, 2023 18:18:17 GMT -5
2 nights in a row of the Celtics! What could be any better? We're 25th out of 30 teams in assists, that won't get it done. Tatum and Brown both should be looking for the open man, instead of practicing their dribbling.
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Post by dfries13 on Nov 11, 2023 18:22:18 GMT -5
Get a life.. The world won't end if they cut out back to back games. Out of 450 or more players only 10 played in 82 games last year.. Sense you struggle with math i'll help that is 2.2% But the teams all played 82! That's 100%! How's that for math?? Wrong . Math is not your friend... Denver played 102 games last year.. Celtics played in 102 also
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Post by dfries13 on Nov 11, 2023 18:28:32 GMT -5
2 nights in a row of the Celtics! What could be any better? We're 25th out of 30 teams in assists, that won't get it done. Tatum and Brown both should be looking for the open man, instead of practicing their dribbling. What could be better? Trust me here.. 2 in the sand ..
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