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  1. CreightonGubanich

    Cutting The Cord on Cable/Satellite TV Service?

    Can you really not record games on NESN360 or access games that have concluded somehow? I have YTTV and have been OK without NESN for awhile, but my son is starting to get really into the Bruins. We'd hardly ever watch live though. I like the YTTV interface and would rather just add NESN360, but...
  2. CreightonGubanich

    General Celtics thread: 24-25 edition

    This is well said. Mike Gorman is my favorite play-by-play guy ever, full stop. I'll always prefer his style over someone like Drew, but Drew has really impressed me. He's fun and schticky but he's in on the joke and doesn't take himself too seriously. His chemistry with Scal really works for...
  3. CreightonGubanich

    General Celtics thread: 24-25 edition

    It's one of my favorite basketball quotes. James often comes off as not particularly self aware, but that was both really honest and insightful without throwing Paul George under the bus. And LeBron has played that way his entire career.
  4. CreightonGubanich

    General Celtics thread: 24-25 edition

    What a contrast between Anthony Edwards and Jayson Tatum. Like, I get that it's frustrating, no one wants the game taken out of their hands. But teams played JT like that all the time, including in last years' playoffs. Ant doesn't have a Jaylen Brown on his team, but I don't know that it would...
  5. CreightonGubanich

    General NBA season thread: 24-25 edition

    I don't think that every team plays the same way, though. I hear this argument a lot and it doesn't make sense to me. It's true that every team is hunting the most valuable shot in basketball (an open catch-and-shoot three). But that's been true as long as basketball has been played, it's just...
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    Much like Newman, the Sox are not “Ready to deliver”– The 2025 Offseason News (& rumors?) Thread

    And what's frustrating is that it's not even about spending in totality, or spending on top of the market contracts, in a vacuum. It's the failure to address really obvious deficiencies in the roster, year after year, and those failures resulting in a mediocre team when that outcome was both...
  7. CreightonGubanich

    Greatest Wing Tandems of all-time

    I won't quibble too much about definitions, but to me, a wing has to be able to handle the ball a bit on the perimeter. Guys like Ibaka and McHale don't fit my definition of a wing, but that's just my opinion. We can probably all agree, though, that someday, 30 years from now, someone is going...
  8. CreightonGubanich

    Jayson Tatum's Rise to the Top

    Yeah, it's not perfect. Pierce was kind of a unique player. He spent a good chunk of his career at the two guard spot, but I think he'd play a lot of four in the NBA today. Pierce is still more of a wing while Banchero's profile tilts more towards a big. I do think Banchero's more like Pierce...
  9. CreightonGubanich

    Jayson Tatum's Rise to the Top

    If Paolo Banchero's shooting continues to progress, we might get to watch a reasonable facsimile of the player Pierce might have been in today's NBA.
  10. CreightonGubanich

    Jayson Tatum's Rise to the Top

    Pierce had such an interesting career. He probably peaked as the 8th-10th best player in the league. He probably [sigh], wasn't the best player on a title team, though he was the number one offensive option. He's really similar to Tatum in that he evolved into a complete player, and was...
  11. CreightonGubanich

    Sox sign Aroldis Chapman

    There's a lot going on here, and I'm not going to try to parse all of it, but I will say this. If you think that lack of a criminal conviction equates to "proving the allegations false", you have a lot of work to do, on the mechanics of our legal system, the history of domestic abuse...
  12. CreightonGubanich

    Payton Pritchard says PRabbit, PRabbit on the First of Every Month

    Yeah, I get it. Just trying to reconcile the player that I think Pritchard is becoming (a real threat offensively, game changing floor spacer, decent defender) with my negative gut reaction to the idea of him as a starter. I agree that it's more likely than not an expensive player (KP or Jrue...
  13. CreightonGubanich

    Payton Pritchard says PRabbit, PRabbit on the First of Every Month

    Defensively, I'm trying to reconcile in my head two things: 1) I think Pritchard is actually roughly net average on defense, or a little below; I like his pressure on the ball, I like his strength in preventing guys from getting to their spots, and I really like his ability to fight through...
  14. CreightonGubanich

    General Celtics thread: 24-25 edition

    The Queta minutes last night were interesting. I think Joe knows he can always turn to Kornet and play drop coverage in those situations and get by defensively. You turn Mitchell/Garland into midrange jump shooters and live with the results. The thing is, though, if you have a big that can...
  15. CreightonGubanich

    Baylor Scheierman - 30th pick, RD1

    I'm not a coach, but the shooting mechanics discussion is really interesting. I always thought of Steph's shooting motion as the equivalent of Ken Griffey Jr.'s swing mechanics (or Dustin Pedroia if you prefer) - if you're a kid, don't copy those guys, because unless you're Griffey, it's not...
  16. CreightonGubanich

    The Bill Simmons Thread

    For some reason, the Tyson-Paul fight has me re-visiting a couple old Simmons columns: ESPN.com: Page 2 : Say 'goodbye' to our little friend ESPN.com: Page 2 : Meeting Iron Mike The guy could write. I miss insightful Bill.
  17. CreightonGubanich

    Much like Newman, the Sox are not “Ready to deliver”– The 2025 Offseason News (& rumors?) Thread

    Still seems very unlikely to happen of course, but I've come around on the idea of Soto a bit after initially thinking signing him would be a misuse of resources. What's changed for me is realizing it isn't so much "starting pitching" that the Sox lack, it's elite talent. They have a lot of guys...
  18. CreightonGubanich

    General Celtics thread: 24-25 edition

    He's essentially the guard version of what we thought we were getting in Gordon Hayward. A guy who fills all the gaps and perfectly complements the two stars, versatile defender, excellent shooter who can also put the ball on the deck and make plays for others. Of course, Hayward got hurt and...
  19. CreightonGubanich

    National Celtics discourse

    True, but Valanciunas is a skilled basketball player. He's a big dude, but he can shoot it a bit and has good touch. He's carved out a pretty nice career in this era because he's not just a Greg Ostertag, someone whose only elite skill was taking up more than average amounts of space.
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    National Celtics discourse

    I never understood the stylistic complaints, going back way before the Celtics won. Teams generate their three pointers in dramatically different ways - whether it's a passing savant like Jokic, or a motion offense like the Warriors, or a pick-and-roll maestro like Luka. Those styles of...
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