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  1. Jed Zeppelin

    2023-24 Celtics

    He appears to be kind of slow and lumbering, probably because he is built like a brick shithouse, but he is glued to guys on the perimeter and as promised in the scouting report his recovery timing to block shots is impeccable. Great little add by POBOBS, and Springer looks like an interesting...
  2. Jed Zeppelin

    3/18 - Pistons @ Cs.

    Man, Tillman and Springer can both really get after it on D.
  3. Jed Zeppelin

    2023-24 Celtics

    I am having a difficult time processing this. That is freaking wild considering how really easy it is to go down by 10 in today's NBA. This post really nails it for me. Last year the process was roughly: Guard dribbles up Guard uses screen and passes to whoever Whoever is fairly open and...
  4. Jed Zeppelin

    Doogie does defense, the Sam Hauser thread

    Not to mention the row of cameramen sitting under the basket to catch footage for the next “Where Amazing Happens” ad.
  5. Jed Zeppelin

    Patriots sign WR KJ Osborn

    JuJu had 29 catches and by end of season was barely seeing the field. You need 5/6 guys who can catch the ball, who will Osborn be blocking?
  6. Jed Zeppelin

    Jaylen Brown: Will he be enough in Year 8?

    Yeah this was all I meant. Outside our bubble it was “they had no choice” at best and “worst contract in NBA history” at worst. A lot of this was general anti-Celtics sentiment I’m sure. And pre-Holiday trade before people could marvel at the totality and not-fucking-aroundedness of POBOBS’...
  7. Jed Zeppelin

    Jaylen Brown: Will he be enough in Year 8?

    And a player who has historically looked on paper like you are just hoping his non-Tatum lineups can hold the line. Better team around him has helped, and better utilization of his defensive abilities, but his maturity on offense has really grown. If there was any player for whom I had no...
  8. Jed Zeppelin

    3/14 - Suns @ Cs

    Lots of guys taking turns doing iso but none of that really matters anyway if their D is going to be so trash. JB has been such a freaking beast lately. Little brothering pretty much anyone trying to defend him these days.
  9. Jed Zeppelin

    3/14 - Suns @ Cs

    Great quarter. Phoenix doesn’t defend enough and they take a LOT of contested midrange jumpers. Tatum is on all-time end of quarter cooler.
  10. Jed Zeppelin

    Calvin Ridley, you in?

    I'm going to be annoying about this every year now but I feel kind of strongly that the Pats need to be drafting at least 1 receiver in Rd 1-4 for awhile. It's not like the track record across other positions has been so good anyway. You need to keep firing bullets. You won't always be the...
  11. Jed Zeppelin

    Calvin Ridley, you in?

    I am far from a contract expert and we don't have all the details yet but it seems pretty not that far off what they could have just paid* to Brown, whose contract was 4 for $100 and $57 guaranteed. (Yes I know it is a different regime now.) *I do not know what their cap situation was at the...
  12. Jed Zeppelin

    Calvin Ridley, you in?

    I don't know—a guy like Jakobi Meyers is roughly 80% of Ridley (different role, but production-wise) and he seems like he'd be a pretty huge upgrade. Bourne is coming off surgery, Douglas is a little guy, JuJu and Thornton are just out there getting their cardio in before the next injury. If we...
  13. Jed Zeppelin

    Patriots' 2024 Free Agency Thread

    I think it's just the nature of the position and what it takes to actually get an elite receiver in their prime. Draft one and hold on tight, reassessing when it's time for their 3rd contract AJ Brown/Diggs/Hill route—trade for one looking for a monster contract and pay a hefty price (usually a...
  14. Jed Zeppelin

    Patriots' 2024 Free Agency Thread

    It's going to be weird and disorienting if they do exactly what everyone expects instead of going, like, QB-Trade-Trade-Trade-Safety-QB-TE-G-WR.
  15. Jed Zeppelin

    3/12 Cs @ Jazz - take it easy on Danny?

    Maybe instead of trying to get Tatum an end of quarter bucket in every end of quarter situation we might use the time while the games don’t matter to see if something else works. We have a better chance of scoring if we let Pritch dribble it down then take a 40 footer, for example.
  16. Jed Zeppelin

    A Stupid Gamble: DraftKings Ripping Off Baseball Prospectus Articles

    If I had to guess, I'd think this probably comes down to a very lazy writer rather than some kind of company directive. Figures hey, who will notice, it's behind a paywall.
  17. Jed Zeppelin

    Patriots sign RB Antonio Gibson

    IIRC he was really more of a WR in college but never got the looks out of the backfield you might expect, 3-4 targets a game when it has seemed like he has the juice for more.
  18. Jed Zeppelin

    2024 Spring Training Stuff

    Seems like Valdez and Rafaela are both performing well so far. It’s funny, they are kind of opposites like if Valdez could improve his defense by 10% and Rafaela his plate discipline by 10% (numbers pulled out of thin air) they would both be very hard to keep out of a regular role. Rooting hard...
  19. Jed Zeppelin

    3/9 - It was fun while it lasted - Cs @ Suns

    I am a zealot about this exact thing. Get rid of OOB replays and just always call it OOB on the player who was the impetus for forcing the ball out. My favorite unwritten rule is when a guy guys over the back to try to grab a rebound, inside defender goes up, both guys tip it out of bounds and...