He does seem to be shouting limitations from the rooftops. Usually coaches are pretty vague about this stuff, especially when the team doesn't know for sure what's happening. Either it's a big bluff, or they are getting their excuses ready mighty early. There's still a chance they might not have to play for another week, so it wouldn't be the biggest shock.
This really feels like they're trying to break the bad news slowly, rather than sandbag.
Kind of terrifying to think of what Philly could have been without that trade. I mean, the Fultz for Tatum deal is still their blackest mark, but they fucked up so many other times too!
Yep. That was amazing. Not sure there is another non-Celtic I have enjoyed watching more these last few years.
Heat have to be favored to win the series up 3-1. Probably not by a ton but they must be the favorites now.
They're a couple of easily avoidable decisions away from being more dominant than the GSW run. These decisions aren't like "well, if team XYZ had just drafted Giannis!".
Never know if you're getting the entire story for sure on these media reports.
I was thinking that also. Back to the 90s (which is probably where the scores will be). Still think at least one of Milwaukee or Cleveland get up off the mat.
They were never getting Tatum. I mean, I am assuming Ainge knew the Sixers were taking Fultz and The Lakers were taking Ball. He had more courage than I would have to make that trade, but I also assume that absent the Sixers trade Tatum goes 1 to the C’s.
Yeah, I totally get that is the vegas line; Ringer has Heat with 80% chance to win series now, assume other analytics same. I just think, personally, Bucks have more in them than those numbers show. But I get it....and I'm not really a bettor so easy to talk about it I know
For sure. The problem though is let's say they are 80% chance to win game 5, 60% to win @ Miami and 80% to win at home in Game 7, that's still 38% for the series.
I remember that interview. I got the sense that Redick liked Butler but I also got the sense that he completely understood why others didn’t like Jimmy or grew tired of him.
Speaking of 538, Nate Silver is out:
We're in line for a bunch of great series in the second round. Celtics/Sixers has been in the cards for about 2 months now and has been one of the leagues best rivalries over the last half decade, Nuggets/Suns would be a fight between the #1 seed and the team favored to come out of the west since the trade deadline and Warriors/Lakers is a rekindling of the best finals rivalry since Bird and Magic. The other EC series is harder to figure, but Heat/Knicks would be both historic to see and terrible to watch.
Reports are circulating that Embiid was sitting in a puddle of his own sweat while wearing an oxygen mask by the end of that film session.
Yep, he was gasping for air in those intense Brooklyn games squaring off against Nic Claxton
Warriors have an enormous advantage over the Kings in a Game 7 regardless of venue. Sacramento needed to split this last road trip and end it early…..the longer it goes the more trouble they will be in (imo of course).
I mean as bad as it sounds on paper, the draft pick they ended up trading was pretty worthless and they were always going to end up with Fultz because Boston was always going to draft Tatum. Had they done nothing (tradewise) they still would have had a draft bust (in a draft full of them).
Well, it did lead to the Celtics acquiring Derek White, so far from worthless for them!
Fine point: The trade was an excellent move by Philly, given they started with the 3rd pick (and 3 of the top 4 picks were massive busts) and ended up with #1, with the cost just being Romeo Langford. The massive failure was choosing Fultz, not the trade.
I mean Boston just got salary filler from the trade. (At the time I thought that Ainge had outsmarted himself because I thought the '18 draft was the better of the two and a mid lottery pick in '18 would be better than a mid lottery pick the next year.) From Philly's standpoint they traded the right to pay a draft bust in order to draft an even bigger bust. But Fultz was always going to end up there.
But Red's teams almost always won. This team has yet to prove it on the biggest starge.
I'm all for level-headedness and positivity, but every single season 16 teams have at least a couple of really bad playoff losses. Only 1 of those 16 wins the title. The Celtics put themselves in a really lousy position here - they gave a defeated team life, and now Atlanta goes home with their 2nd best player coming back and the knowledge that they can win in Boston. If Atlanta wins game 6 at home, the pressure ratchets up 1000% for this Celtics team.
One can argue that Jaylen's lacksadasical D on the Toronto 3 pointer was a major factor for the celts running out of steam against GSW -- Toronto likely loses in 5, and a better rested Celts might of been able to eliminate Bucks and Miami in less than 7
Exactly.
