Agree. My larger point was in response to someone who was super-exasperated with GWill last year and pointing out that he wasn't a terrible player - in fact, he might be more same than different but in a better situation.
I think you are likely right. I can't recall if the two announcements show "also receiving votes," but if they do, my prediction would look like this:
Agreed generally, although I'm not a big fan of giving season ending awards and honors to players who miss significant time. Green has missed half the season, in my book that should disqualify him from 1st team and DPOY.
They do. Last year, Smart just missed making one of the teams (among those that missed out, only Mikal Bridges received more votes for a guard) and Jaylen somehow got a (single) vote for 1st team.
According to an article in TheAthletic from today, all of Tatum, Brown, Smart, Horford, Timelord and White are even in the 84 percentile of dEPM (defensive estimated plus-minus), so at least according to this metric even better than just the top quartile.
Jaylen slightly below, but if that’s one of your weaker defenders, your defense is incredible.
Green should have no shot at DPOY, he has missed too many games.
It's insanely valuable to have a point guard who can guard 1-5 when offenses are making a point to hunt mismatches, often by getting the other teams PG switched on to their scoring wings.
I'm trying to get my head around Derrick White's defense. That's really impressive since he played most of his games with a below avg defensive team
Right now I lean Smart. He won't win because... guard, but I think he should.
Another awesome callout. It's stunning to watch. Guy holds the ball for 1 Mississippi, and someone is making a smart cut (and usually getting hit).
It’s also insanely fun to have a PG that makes opposing Cs weep in frustration when he gets switched on to them.
To my eyes, they've been good at forcing opponents off the 3 (or forcing them to take bad ones), which makes sense given RW at the back end and that 3>2. I also think teams are so ingrained into taking 3s that a lot of players (certainly not all or even most, but a lot) think that driving for 2 is "losing" the possession. I can't prove that last point; as I said, it's my eyes based on Celtics games and what their opponents are doing in response to really tough defense.
I watched all 48 min of this one and saw a tired Utah team clang open 3 after open 3. Obv our defense has been fantastic this year but to point out the Utah game is kinda funny. After we locked them down early to build a lead both sides kinda went through the motions over the final 30 min or so.
Funny. I'm bored but not that bored.
Many of the three were taken against a run by which is not to be confused with tightly contested. As I wrote in the gambling thread pre-game, this was expected from a team playing their 13th in 23 days and 3rd in 4 on the road. That isn’t to downplay what this Celtics team has done defensively this year but only referring to one night of a scheduling win.
KAT had 12 points in the first quarter. The play where Grant steamrolled him on a drive in the middle of the second quarter seemed to take the wind out of his sails (after he hammered Grant a bunch of times earlier in the game).
I saw Hauser with the Maine Celtics a few weeks ago and he was TERRIBLE - like, not even good enough for the G League. Then I saw him against Minnesota the other day with the big squad and he looked much better, so looks like this is the real Hauser. Also, Matt Ryan who was on the bench for the Celtics last night was awesome in another Maine Celtics game last week. He had like 43 points, mostly on 3's, and had the crowd really into it.
If the Celtics play Toronto in the playoffs (as likely as any matchup at this point), the Raps might not break 100 in any game. Their offense looks *really* grindy, even against weaker Celtics defenders.
Tatum has said multiple times that he’s vaccinated, the fake reports are about Jaylen/Horford. But they are both vaccinated as well.
This is because Windhorst (falsely based off of Ime’s press conference) that some Celtics players weren’t vaccinated based off of the injury report for the Raptor game. Seems to be much ado about nothing
If we can avoid certain matchups we’ll still have a chance. Losing TL kills us against the Bucks as we had trouble keeping Giannis from the rim even with him in the lineup.
Just like losing Kyrie and Hayward killed them in 2017-2018. This is a cohesive, versatile and talented unit with or without Time Lord. They absolutely can make a deep run. And the NBA being what it is, there’s no telling who will be healthy as the playoffs proceed. Just keep grinding.
Yes, we've seen the last couple years in the playoffs how often other teams can run into their own bad matchups, or have guys get hurt.
I mean, it kinda did? Without 2 all-stars they got to game 7 of the EC finals (great!), but they still lost, and they likely would've been flattened by the Warriors. If Hayward had been healthy in 2020, maybe they have enough horses to get past the Heat and actually match the Lakers in the finals.
