Yesterday was Atlanta Falcons day. So there was some overdue reverse karma that meant both Boston teams were going to lose no matter what. Not sure it’s the only or even the correct explanation, but it sounds good to me so I’m going with it.
Shit happens like this all the time in the NBA. Some days you just don't have it and it generally means nothing regarding future expectations
This is pretty accurate. I watched the first quarter and turned it off. "Going through the motions" would be too generous to describe their effort. They weren't even really doing that.
The decision to have Smart/JB guard Porzingis while letting the Pistons guards/wings go by Al like a turnstile was also pretty interesting. You normally don’t hear about a coach going through the motions but maybe that’s what happened last night
For sure. But the players absolutely were too. I saw a few possessions where guys either beat their man or got the ball on the cut and the rotating D didn't even bother getting near the rim let alone contest. It was like someone's dog died after layup lines and everyone decided to mail it in. Even guys who are normally hardos like White and Brogdon. Even Joe.
You're probably right. It would nice, though, to have a full complement of players for this game in Milwaukee.
No TL or Grant going against a Giannis/Lopez front line…..he may get the start with Blake being a better matchup against Portis on the second unit.
Who is going to instruct the officials on the finer points of calling an NBA game?
Considering what Memphis went through with Ja, the idea that the players look foolish because they visited the White House in suits is laughable. Are NBA players supposed to be spending their entire road trip breaking down film? I’d get the frustration if it looked like they were partying all night but these types of takes make the entire fan base look bad.
I don’t really think Ja is relevant. Seems like it goes without saying it would be preferable if the Cs players didn’t brandish handguns in public.
The “larking around in suits” commentary wreaks of shut and dribble mentality. Maybe it’s not intentional but that is how it can be be perceived. It wasn’t just Grant, JB, and Malcolm that caused the team to lose; the team played like crap. Plenty of people here have offered solid analysis of what went wrong. How about we avoid comparing what internet commentators experiences are to professional athletes?
The last two champions visited the day after their Wizards game so you’d have to go back to 2016 and prior to see what history suggests. One thing we know is that athletes are routine oriented and spending the day outside of their routine, while not mentally preparing to compete later in the day, would appear to be more challenging then a normal road game.
Even if you did that, it’s an entire roster visiting compared to 3 players.
I think you're dancing around calling my comment racist, which is fine. I'll consider that.
Not at all. I would've made the same comment about "larking around the city" if we had seen photos of them spending the day in shorts at Disneyland, or sniffing flowers in Levis on the banks of the Potomac, and they had shown up for a game mentally clocked out.
Maybe we're smarter than we think?
I haven't seen the pics so don't know exactly what JB, MB, and GW did, but I think that being invited to the White House to talk about social justice policy initiatives with the DOJ is a bit different than what you describe. It's a hugely important deal to these three and while campaigning for JB to be a forward for all-NBA could create some good will, supporting JB's and MB's social initiatives are likely more important.
IIRC, they've allowed Smart to play Porzingis a number of times with good success. I haven't gotten to the game yet but saw the 1Q and it was interesting to me how easily KP was able to shoot over defenders as (again IIRC) he really hasn't had that success against the Cs in the past.
The entire world doesn't revolve around a Tuesday night regular season basketball game. Get over yourself.
You were on the debate team in school, weren't you? Unassailable, really.
No debate team for me but I certainly never used the term "bennies" to describe how a basketball player is compensated.
The term bennies is slang for benefits, which is clear from context. OTOH, the idea that somehow a visit to DOJ somehow caused the Celtics to lose that game is a hot take that should be consigned to the dustbin of history. Next game.
Am I the only person reading the board who's tired of the posters who think they can read minds and imply pretty serious allegations at other posters in non V&N threads? The tone of comments like these reek of "when did you stop beating your wife?" pointed at posters who've been polite and thoughtful on this board for decades
No, you are far from the only one that’s for sure lol. I’m surprised as I haven’t seen BM give anything but good insights in the past. We all have bad days and bad takes let’s hope that’s all this is from him, a one-off.
Yeah, in this particular case it’s way too much. Especially the beating around the bush, attending to be semi-accusatory BS.
Closest I can come to a racist “bennies” definition is that it is term used on the Jersey shore to describe NYC tourists who come down in the summer and act obnoxious. The racist part is that it derives from the name Benny which is supposed to be typically Jewish. That and slang for amphetamines, which really isn’t race associated.
As someone on the other side of this argument I will simply say that I disagree about your characterization of some posts here.
I construed it as meaning "Benjamins", and it looks like I'm the only one who saw it that way. So for that I apologize.
Can you not admit that there's a better way of alerting a poster to crossing a line? That maybe leaping to accusations of x-ism is actually detrimental to whatever project you support? It's not like MDLTG is some random poster lobbing bombs in the thread, he's someone we can reliably say is not a troll and has good intentions. Even BZ above notes that he misconstrued what the poster said - considering that there's a multitude of ways we can misunderstand each other via short written posts on a message board, perhaps giving each other the benefit of the doubt to start would be more constructive than immediately drawing moral judgments.
I agree that that @MyDaughterLovesTomGordon , who is nothing but a good faith poster around these parts, deserves the benefit of the doubt.
Hey mods! What does someone have to do here before there are banned because this is like the 5th time that this Fucking Asshat has implied to the board that I’m an anti-Semite?
Keep telling us what a wonderful person Kyrie is and you will keep getting this.
How do you reconcile your position on Jaylen Brown, when his defense of Kyrie was 100X of that of any poster in the Cellar?
the only thing @HomeRunBaker is guilty of is having a strong opinion on hoops
