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    2023-24 Celtics

    The thing is, Sabonis and Fox have really rejuvenated that franchise, even if the ceiling of any team led by them is not that high. I think the best-case scenario is that the Kings are able to keep putting decent players around them and making the playoffs, a la the beloved grit-n-grind Grizzles...
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    2024 Celtic Playoff Prediction Poll

    The absence of a top 2 or 3 guy in the league is definitely part of the skepticism, and not unreasonably, but this Celtics team is miles better than that Hawks team was. Those Hawks had the league's 6th-best offense and 6th-best defense; the Celtics are at no. 1 (by a lot) and no. 2. Those Hawks...
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    Jayson Tatum's Rise to the Top

    Does he play great defense? He's getting a lot of steals, but I've heard mixed things from smart commentators (and don't watch enough Thunder games to have an opinion myself). He's putting up incredible numbers offensively, of course, and the team's defensive rating is very good. I suspect if...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    For what it's worth, the video shared above from Thinking Basketball, which has a lot of clips, suggests that this started to shift in the 1980s, and maybe didn't become totally standard until the 2010s. I do think that play by Giannis should be an offensive foul, though it's rarely if ever...
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    NBA & Celtic 2024 Trade Deadline thread

    Tucker also makes 11 million a year, right? I don't think he's an option even just from a salary-matching perspective.
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    2023-24 Celtics

    View: https://twitter.com/MikeDSykes/status/1744100926917312783 What's really cool about this is it feels kinda similar to the 1-3-1 scheme West Virginia used back in 2010 to beat Kentucky. Who anchored the defense at center, guarded Demarcus Cousins and disrupted things in the paint? Joe...
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    2023-24 Celtics

    The play I was describing wasn't the one at the end of regulation; it was the one that happened with about 1:20 left. (I didn't love the last play either, to be honest, but I agree it wasn't a terrible look, and it's not easy to get great looks with 4 seconds left.)
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    2023-24 Celtics

    Here's the last few minutes of the Pistons game plus overtime: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHRzJl9zgSw The play for Tatum is about three minutes in. Watching it again, it was pretty clearly called ahead of time — it's very deliberate, everyone's on the same page. But it's the same...
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    2023-24 Celtics

    Agree to disagree. I watched the Lakers game; the fourth quarter was never very close. Over the past few years, this team has struggled late (as in, the last few minutes) in *close* games — slowing down, going to Tatum isos, etc. Now, last night, they mostly went to White and Porzingis late...
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    2023-24 Celtics

    There was no crunch time, by this definition, against the Lakers — the C's were up by 9 when the fourth quarter started, and were ahead by 10 or more for the final eight and a half minutes. I hope they play that way when the game is close, too, but the old habits have shown up once or twice...
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    12/19 Gore Golden State

    It was very close, but pretty sure that Jackson Davis block on Jaylen Brown was goaltending — shot hit the backboard first.
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    11/22 Thanksgiving Eve vs. Bucks

    Good angle on the Brown to Hauser connection: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtYYuHuCBvQ
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    Celtics Rotation and Trade Needs Conversation

    Ah, missed that — good discussion of it there. Didn't realize Pritchard's contract has a poison pill provision.
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    Celtics Rotation and Trade Needs Conversation

    The trade target I keep wondering about is Alex Caruso. There's a decent chance that he becomes available, and, if I'm not mistaken, the C's could make it work salary-wise by sending Pritchard and a few end of the bench guys. He's signed at low money through next season. He's limited...
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