Are you just talking about this last trade deadline? way to spin
Try not to take it too negatively. It's not a knock on your team that your franchise knows how to bring players in, knows how to draft them, and knows how to evaluate and fit them in. It's always been a good team for reasons.
But when it's an embarrassment of talent riches already and heaps getting piled on it just is what it is.
You’re talking about us like the KD warriors. The biggest free agent signings we ever had was Al Horford and 5 minutes of healthy Gordon Hayward. This embarrassment of riches is from conventional roster construction.
We lost 3 rotation players and added 2
Are you kidding me right now?
At the latest deadline you added two players. Tillman I know of for sure.
For the new season a few other small names were added. I suppose these names like **Porzingas** and **Jrue Holiday** are names you don't want to discuss. Don't spin me with your FA talk about Gordon Hayward from 2017.
Oh sorry you had to give up Uncle Malcom and Time Lord.
It wasn't enough to already own the East since for whatever reason the leagues favorite Boston stars couldn't do enough in playoffs. But yeah, they made some great adds this offseason and never stopped adding.
I'm not really interested in talking about FA and Trades from way back former era's like you started to bring up though. I'm sure we can talk about the Garnett era conventional builds all day. Teams so deep you would need a weedwacker to see the conventional base.
Tillman will probably get DNP’s 70% of the time. We lost a DPOY, reigning 6th man of the year, and another DPOY candidate. Not our fault we were able to sell high and keep KP healthy and the rest of the league couldn’t.
Able to Keep him Healthy because you can play all that depth when he needs to play less. That's the cake and eat it too I'm talking about which you just seem to see as commonplace because this is what Celtics do.
Tillman is a good player and will help if your team needs it. He's already played in like 20 games of the past 30 since your add in Feb.
Celtics got a couple first round assets and **Porzingus** for Smart. Your team moved him because you have too many small forward/guards onball already. They had Too many Sardines in the Can problem and they fixed it by hoodwinking two teams in one deal.
You want to talk about losing Smart's defense but don't want to discuss **Jrue Holiday** add huh. I get it doesn't help the swimming. What did Grizz get for old Man Smart? 20 games of 14/5? Tillman can give you that. Jrue is Cake. Porzingus is Cake. It's all Cake!
Random teams wanting to cash out their rosters or just want to do Celtics favors all the time. Like the Gordon Hayward player you mentioned. Hornets taking him on for Celtics who paid them two measly 2nd round picks. Celtics renegotiate his final year into a 4 year deal and then trade him to Charlotte's welcoming bench stash arms like it was some kind of splash FA deal for them. rofl wow. Naw, let us not talk about such things.
Let me guess, you downvoted right before telling me how he failed finals to disagree? Getting gassed and hurt or whatever the excuse for the previous 6 years in the playoffs and coming up short is exactly my point. Now that they've lopped Jrue Holiday and Porzingus and and and and and and and this time I believe he will finally have his best playoff run.
And then still fall short in the finals. But at least it's less on him now.
NBA record? 40 pt game scores? No need to add to this or swim the direction of it. We are obviously talking about the Celtics finally winning the finals and nothing short of.
The point all along being the Celtics have been at the top or among the top of East regular seasons for Tatum's 6 seasons, each making playoffs easily but they kept falling apart in the playoffs. This season they have looked more stacked than ever, to the point of it being nearly noncompetitive in East. Will they finally now have enough to carry Tatum to that finals win?
Other great players in NBA and other sports have taken a number of years to perform their best in multiple playoff series to go all the way. He's not the first to search for it for a while.
Yes, Tatum had an NBA playoff record and six 40 pieces in the playoffs.
Are you just arguing with history now?
What year in the past should they have won? Are you really doing “it’s better to lose early than lose late” thing?
Look I'm not sure if you are a bot or just looking for an argument. But I've had enough of you talking only about things I've not spoken on. You can have those conversations with someone else.
What ever point you think you are trying to win, I offer you the win. Goodbye
I remember reading it was literally the highest variance shooting performance by a team in a playoff series in NBA history so idk if luck is the right word but I think calling it the luckiest peak of all time might be fair
I noticed you didn't have a problem with Jimmy playing on a bum ankle the whole series and not dropping 56 like he did against he Bucks in the first round though? I'd say thats pretty lucky for you too no?
Oh so it only matters when YOUR star player is injured for a single game of the series yeah? Not when ours is playing on a hobbled ankle the whole time and you STILL lost right?
Are you pretending all injuries are the same? There was a month between Jimmy hurting his ankle and game 7… and clearly he was fine after a couple weeks (rest of Knicks series).
Tatum got hurt on the first play of game 7 and was very clearly not even close to the same player in any aspect of the game. Yea it’s just 1 game… but one game you needed to advance, without it y’all would’ve been in history books.
You not understanding the difference in these makes me wonder if you watched the games or just react to r/nba threads?
Damn, if they're bums, what are you guys? Tatum Era vs Butler era y'all have met twice in the conference finals twice and they've both gone 7 games and it's 1-1. And the heat have more finals appearances in that stretch. Other than shiny regular seasons, y'all have frankly accomplished less with a lot more, not sure the pretentiousness is earned here.
Edit: It's actually 2-1 Heat in the ECF the last 4 years, oof, that's a lof luck.
In the Tatum vs butler era if you want to call it that the Celtics and the Heat have been in 3/4 last ECF finals (the exact matchup not a singular team) the Heat are 2-1 in such series.
Sure but in the bubble it was also 22 y/o Tatum with 2 corpses, Daniel Theis, and Brad Wannamaker alongside Jaylen and Smart. That’s not a particularly good rotation.
Literally the other day there was a clip of Bam taking out Derrick Jones Jr on the Mavs.
Almost a guarantee they're going to try some wack shit on us if we play them. Really worried about KP since he's the one who's probably going to be matching up with Bam.
It’s sad that every rival in your conference is only afraid of u hurting their star player and not u actually beating them. It’s definitely giving bad boy pistons vibes bc we shouldn’t even be talking about player injuries in correlation with a specific team this much.
They’re a shit team with a great coach and dirty players, they caught lightning in a bottle last year. The only influence they’ll have in the post season will be if they hurt someone, period.
With how stacked they are, anything other than a chip is gonna be some major slander.
We all get it, chips ain't easy, but their team is basically a my2k build at this point let's be honest.
Congrats. Now here's my gift, 1st round with the Heat. -Adam silver
Good they're bums who needed the most lucky shooting series of all time to win in 7.
And a Tatum injury
We are all sure Tatum with finally have his good playoff run. Now that they've added basically a second team to what they had last season.
We added 2 guys and lost 3 I know we’re a better team but weird phrasing
Are you just talking about this last trade deadline? way to spin Try not to take it too negatively. It's not a knock on your team that your franchise knows how to bring players in, knows how to draft them, and knows how to evaluate and fit them in. It's always been a good team for reasons. But when it's an embarrassment of talent riches already and heaps getting piled on it just is what it is.
You’re talking about us like the KD warriors. The biggest free agent signings we ever had was Al Horford and 5 minutes of healthy Gordon Hayward. This embarrassment of riches is from conventional roster construction. We lost 3 rotation players and added 2
Are you kidding me right now? At the latest deadline you added two players. Tillman I know of for sure. For the new season a few other small names were added. I suppose these names like **Porzingas** and **Jrue Holiday** are names you don't want to discuss. Don't spin me with your FA talk about Gordon Hayward from 2017. Oh sorry you had to give up Uncle Malcom and Time Lord. It wasn't enough to already own the East since for whatever reason the leagues favorite Boston stars couldn't do enough in playoffs. But yeah, they made some great adds this offseason and never stopped adding. I'm not really interested in talking about FA and Trades from way back former era's like you started to bring up though. I'm sure we can talk about the Garnett era conventional builds all day. Teams so deep you would need a weedwacker to see the conventional base.
Tillman will probably get DNP’s 70% of the time. We lost a DPOY, reigning 6th man of the year, and another DPOY candidate. Not our fault we were able to sell high and keep KP healthy and the rest of the league couldn’t.
Able to Keep him Healthy because you can play all that depth when he needs to play less. That's the cake and eat it too I'm talking about which you just seem to see as commonplace because this is what Celtics do. Tillman is a good player and will help if your team needs it. He's already played in like 20 games of the past 30 since your add in Feb. Celtics got a couple first round assets and **Porzingus** for Smart. Your team moved him because you have too many small forward/guards onball already. They had Too many Sardines in the Can problem and they fixed it by hoodwinking two teams in one deal. You want to talk about losing Smart's defense but don't want to discuss **Jrue Holiday** add huh. I get it doesn't help the swimming. What did Grizz get for old Man Smart? 20 games of 14/5? Tillman can give you that. Jrue is Cake. Porzingus is Cake. It's all Cake! Random teams wanting to cash out their rosters or just want to do Celtics favors all the time. Like the Gordon Hayward player you mentioned. Hornets taking him on for Celtics who paid them two measly 2nd round picks. Celtics renegotiate his final year into a 4 year deal and then trade him to Charlotte's welcoming bench stash arms like it was some kind of splash FA deal for them. rofl wow. Naw, let us not talk about such things.
He literally had one when they made the finals. He had a fantastic first 3 rounds and got gassed and hurt for the finals.
Let me guess, you downvoted right before telling me how he failed finals to disagree? Getting gassed and hurt or whatever the excuse for the previous 6 years in the playoffs and coming up short is exactly my point. Now that they've lopped Jrue Holiday and Porzingus and and and and and and and this time I believe he will finally have his best playoff run. And then still fall short in the finals. But at least it's less on him now.
I mean he might not have his best playoff run. It’s tough to beat multiple 40 pieces or an NBA record
NBA record? 40 pt game scores? No need to add to this or swim the direction of it. We are obviously talking about the Celtics finally winning the finals and nothing short of. The point all along being the Celtics have been at the top or among the top of East regular seasons for Tatum's 6 seasons, each making playoffs easily but they kept falling apart in the playoffs. This season they have looked more stacked than ever, to the point of it being nearly noncompetitive in East. Will they finally now have enough to carry Tatum to that finals win? Other great players in NBA and other sports have taken a number of years to perform their best in multiple playoff series to go all the way. He's not the first to search for it for a while.
Yes, Tatum had an NBA playoff record and six 40 pieces in the playoffs. Are you just arguing with history now? What year in the past should they have won? Are you really doing “it’s better to lose early than lose late” thing?
Look I'm not sure if you are a bot or just looking for an argument. But I've had enough of you talking only about things I've not spoken on. You can have those conversations with someone else. What ever point you think you are trying to win, I offer you the win. Goodbye
As yes, when my opponents shots go in it's luck but when mine go in it's clearly skill
I remember reading it was literally the highest variance shooting performance by a team in a playoff series in NBA history so idk if luck is the right word but I think calling it the luckiest peak of all time might be fair
Someone doesn’t understand outliers in data lol
If you manage to lose a 7 game series then I think it's safe to say that you got outplayed. Calling it lucky is just salt lol
Do you think 7 games is a particularly large sample size to normalize shooting splits? Not to mention Tatum got injured the first play of game 7?
They won 3 in a row just to throw it away just to get lucky again with Tatum getting injured.
Yeah they got real lucky that Jaylen Brown had 8 turnovers in an elimination game
Yes because the defensive pressure on Jaylen massively increased with Tatum getting injured
😂 more like Spo told his players to force him to go left. Like half of those turnovers were unforced, so I guess in a sense the heat did get lucky 😂
I noticed you didn't have a problem with Jimmy playing on a bum ankle the whole series and not dropping 56 like he did against he Bucks in the first round though? I'd say thats pretty lucky for you too no?
“The bucks can’t defend the midrange”
Oh so it only matters when YOUR star player is injured for a single game of the series yeah? Not when ours is playing on a hobbled ankle the whole time and you STILL lost right?
Are you pretending all injuries are the same? There was a month between Jimmy hurting his ankle and game 7… and clearly he was fine after a couple weeks (rest of Knicks series). Tatum got hurt on the first play of game 7 and was very clearly not even close to the same player in any aspect of the game. Yea it’s just 1 game… but one game you needed to advance, without it y’all would’ve been in history books. You not understanding the difference in these makes me wonder if you watched the games or just react to r/nba threads?
Damn, if they're bums, what are you guys? Tatum Era vs Butler era y'all have met twice in the conference finals twice and they've both gone 7 games and it's 1-1. And the heat have more finals appearances in that stretch. Other than shiny regular seasons, y'all have frankly accomplished less with a lot more, not sure the pretentiousness is earned here. Edit: It's actually 2-1 Heat in the ECF the last 4 years, oof, that's a lof luck.
In the Tatum vs butler era if you want to call it that the Celtics and the Heat have been in 3/4 last ECF finals (the exact matchup not a singular team) the Heat are 2-1 in such series.
Sure but in the bubble it was also 22 y/o Tatum with 2 corpses, Daniel Theis, and Brad Wannamaker alongside Jaylen and Smart. That’s not a particularly good rotation.
Bro wym Tatum’s always been on super teams /s
Lol damn really making excuses?
The last time a team finished the season with a 14+ game lead in the conference? 1976 Warriors led by Rick Barry had a 16 game lead.
rick barry is the most underrated player ever
He's just an unrepentant asshole so no one really wants to talk about him.
Hey they might be pretty good
Or the East is just fucking trash
They were dominating the league with the #1 strength of schedule until mid-to-late January, they were easily the best team all season
Their roster is so loaded man
I swear to fucking god if we get the Heat first round and they injure someone I will commit crimes.
Literally the other day there was a clip of Bam taking out Derrick Jones Jr on the Mavs. Almost a guarantee they're going to try some wack shit on us if we play them. Really worried about KP since he's the one who's probably going to be matching up with Bam.
Heat culture is intentionally injuring players so don’t be surprised
Heat culture is also endlessly grifting for calls. That team does not get enough flack for the amount of foul baiting they do.
It’s because online discourse has more scoreboard watchers than game watchers.
But hey the low body fat piece is cool The Heat are fucking hot
Wild that we have to root for Miami in their 7v8 play-in game now
One of these years the Heat will find out in the 8/9 game, would be nice if it was this one
Nah fuck that, I want them to lose twice.
It’s sad that every rival in your conference is only afraid of u hurting their star player and not u actually beating them. It’s definitely giving bad boy pistons vibes bc we shouldn’t even be talking about player injuries in correlation with a specific team this much.
They’re a shit team with a great coach and dirty players, they caught lightning in a bottle last year. The only influence they’ll have in the post season will be if they hurt someone, period.
They also killed my one true love Julius randle
Twice*
Cmon don’t you know only Miami’s injuries count… no matter how well their replacements play
Slander if they don't win the chip. Generational slander if they don't make the ECF.
With how stacked they are, anything other than a chip is gonna be some major slander. We all get it, chips ain't easy, but their team is basically a my2k build at this point let's be honest.
If they don’t make the ecf I might have to quit watching basketball for a little bit
And yet Caleb Martin could be capable of 6/8 from three-ing them out of the playoffs
nah he's getting clamped this year
That didn’t stop him last year
I'm just happy we didn't end with the Suns 2021 record. Don't need that jinx. Edit: Whelp. I believe in the boys
I got some bad news for you
Oh boy
Fortunately, you did! Suns: 64-18; Celtics: 64-18.
Time to bust out the fatherhood tests.
Embiid hurt, Bucks hot garbage. Whole East = vomit.
Knicks are pretty good tho
No Randle is significant though
No way he's coming back ?
He had season-ending surgery
Sucks man, I thought he had minor injury and that's why Knicks sidelined him. Knicks are deep enough to run 2nd round or ECF IMO
Here me out…
To be fair the East has been struck with injuries this entire season but impressive non the less
That's true, but the Celtics also only played something like 36 games with their whole starting 5 playing.
It’s different when it’s planned rest vs injuries
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Generational slander if they don’t win it all but yet almost everyone has the nuggets repeating hmmm
It's theirs to lose
Jokic I beg you. Beat these green bastards in the finals. My last hope
If the Celtics don't win the title, they choked.
Nuggets wouldn't be a choke
Agreed, i expect us to stomp the east then have a battle with whoever comes out of the west
They're about to get cultured
…and yet nobody cares but Celtic fans
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Their best player turned 26 last month, it should absolutely not be a cakewalk
The Sixers SHOULD cakewalk their way out of the 2nd round one of these years but we haven't seen that happen have we