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    Tatum or Ant?

    I think injuries are smily par for the course with Embiid. It's true that a healthier Embiid would have greater updside than the current one, but that guy doesn't exist. As to bad teams, yes. But. They have tried a few different ways to build around him and none of them have worked. At some...
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    Tatum or Ant?

    Depends. Are we talking about what he has actually done or potential upside? If he's 29 or 30 and hasn't won, I think you have to be thinking of him as more of a top sidekick on a winning team as opposed to being THE guy. At 26, you don't. Embiid is 29. He seems clearly to be a better regular...
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    The Krafts

    Kraft was shrewd enough in the way that he maneuvered to buy the team, and he was successful in keeping the team in New England. He was good in hiring coaches: Carroll, for all the crap he got here, turned out to be a good coach, and BB, arguably the best ever. When he did have the dynasty...
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    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    What happens with QB drafting after the top of the first round? Do teams tend to draft them appropriately or overdraft them in, say, the bottom of round 1 and rounds 2 and 3. Obviously it depends on the evaluation of the individual player, but do teams tend to draft those QBs too high?
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    Tatum or Ant?

    I would argue that of course it is fair. The Celtics came up short in each of the past 2 years and Tatum's play was erratic and sometimes bad in key moments. I disagree almost completely with this. Yes, Tatum might be getting more in-season credit if he were putting up better stats (not that...
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    2023-24 Celtics

    This analysis holds true if you look at total minutes instead of games (as one would expect) and also if you look at minutes per game (which wouldn't directly flow from games played). Basically, Holiday and White are playing about the same or more minutes this year than last year, whether you...
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    2023-24 Celtics

    If they Celtics starters aren’t going to try, I question the value of running them out there at this point.
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    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    This case "for" Daniels sort of helps to convince me that he's not a guy I want at 3.
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    Pritchard Extended

    Probably. May depend on what Boston was offering.
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    Eliot Wolf will be in charge of the personnel department,

    Yes, this. I think there has been a decent amount written about this in books like "The Education of a Coach," "Patriot Reign," and others...Even "Parcells" (I think BB's idea of drafting a guy who fits in your system originated with him).
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    2023-24 Celtics

    Not dressing both centers and not bringing Queta was kind of a tell.
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    2023-24 Celtics

    I hope this was the game where Joe told them to get all of the dumb shit that won’t work in the playoffs out of their system.
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    2023-24 Celtics

    No KP, No Al against the Bucks tonight. Tillman starting, and we'll see Kornet and the newly signed Neemius Queta off the bench.
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    Pritchard Extended

    I think the idea was "Hey, Al, How'd you like it in Philly?"
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    Irrational exuberance: The Neemias Queta thread

    Maybe what there should be is expansion.
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