[Boston Celtics] Injury Report for tomorrow vs. DAL:
Injury Report for tomorrow vs. DAL:
Jayson Tatum - Right Achilles Repair - QUESTIONABLE
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What 1 loss to the hornets does to a mf
Nice of the celtics to get blown out yesterday so that Tatum can come back feeling needed
I joked about this in the game thread yesterday. Multiple people seemed to not get the joke.
Dude has cooked the hornets so often in his career (and yeah I know the hornets have never been this good in that time) that he said “fuck this” after last night
buzz buzz mf’s
Super teams are needed to beat them
W Sources from Bill
Bill’s source must be the team’s doctor
Bill first said Tatum would be back against the Sixers. lol
Nothing but love about any comeback story. Lfg!
Really hoping he isn’t rushing it. A healthy Tatum changes the entire landscape in the east
Seems like he’s been actually doing drills and training for a while now
Even him playing 20 min for a bit would be great and doable
He’s gotta be medically cleared by everyone: you don risk 60 m a year on a guy in his twenties who is your franchise player.
Rust and ready to play at game speed is another thing though. Imagine there’s some growing pains in getting him ramped up and reintegrated w the team that I’m sure Celtics fans will not freak out about
One of the nice things about brining him back now while youre the 2 seed and its early March is that you can keep him on a minute restriction and slowly allow him to shake off the rust and get back to playing at game speeds.
If you were like the 6th seed and every game mattered or it was the playoffs you might not risk it but this is basically all reward with very little risk. I’d rather drop a couple games if he’s shaky and end up as the 3 seed with a healthy and adjusted Tatum than the opposite.
Yeah I think that’s the entire point of bringing him back now. They don’t really need him for another 5-6 weeks but this is plenty of time to ease him in and shake the rust off to be ready for normal duties come playoff time.
Oh for sure. Upside is the team is leveled up for the playoffs as you said.
Honestly wouldn’t be upset about falling to 4 so we can avoid the hornets in the first round lmao
It isnt necessarily just him too, the rest of the team has changed so much. Hes coming back to a different team and between having to build new chemistry and adjust his play to what his body is currently capable off hes probably going to look like shit thebfirst few weeks hes back. If they want him playable by the playoffs now is the latest they can realistically do it.
Agreed. Put Tatum on the bench squad to begin. With PP, Vuc, Gonzalez and Walsh. They will dominate other teams bench squads.
Let Tatum warm up then start him in the playoffs like usual.
didn’t this exact organization rush back Isaiah Thomas and permanently stunted his career after an injury? not sure i’d take their word as gospel
Thomas said today that in the locker room after Game 2, when the Celtics medical staff decided the condition of Thomas’ right hip was too deteriorated for him to continue playing, he insisted he was adamant about playing.
There is a 0% chance the team would let him play if he wasn’t fully medically cleared
Does that shit say QUESTIONABLE.
We ride at dawn. Holy shit.
Tatum saw enough after that Hornets loss. He’s coming.
Here we go!
QUESTIONABLE
Oh my God
I can’t believe we might get a Thunder vs Celtics Finals series. It’s gonna be 9⁄11 for this sub.
if thunder are healthy they win that in 5-6 games if things stay as they are
jaylen brown has been on an incredibly bad streak of like 25 games and tatum is gonna be returning after 10 months of no basketball and the achilles tear
shai is also just above their level tbh, brown nor tatum have never managed anything close to the jokic/shai/giannis tier of guy
If Celtics are healthy they win that in 5-6 games if things stay as they are
Tatum and brown are a better 1-2 punch than shai and Chet. Their depth is similar, I give Boston the edge
I’m sorry but you are way underestimating the Thunder. Maybe if they try to shoehorn JDub back in the lineup (they’ve been much better without him) but their defense will gunk up our game and while I think we have the ability to play as hard as them, they simply have way more athletic talent than we do.
also the sheer amount of playmaking the thunder have when fully healthy is ridiculous
shai, jdub, ihart, ajay alone are all people who can run the floor when on
I’m guessing folks are still clowning on the Thunder because they’ve been kinda mid for a few months but they have been super injured all year and even when they’re getting beat they still put up a great fight. Other than the spurs having their number I don’t see any reason they shouldn’t be favored in the playoffs unless they have too many players hurt.
it’s odd that people think we’ve been doing badly or something we’re 20-10 in the last 30 games despite dealing with a lot of injuries to almost every key player on the team.
pistons are 21-9 in record during the same timeframe
celtics 21-9
spurs 21-9
knicks 17-13
rockets 18-12
nuggets 16-14
timberwolves 19-11
i think people just expect way more out of us which is fair cause we opened the season 26-4 but with the team getting healthy again we’ve been on a roll, 8-2 in the last 10
Yeah that’s basically my point. Thunder are still unequivocally the team to beat.
tatum and brown 1-2 is better then shai/chet or shai/jdub but thats assuming that brown is playing at a high level, his efficiency has been very poor the last 25 games and thats also assuming that tatum is at least 90%.
and depth is not close be real 1-3 is shai, chet, jdub which is already a better 1-3 then the celtics
then 4-10 is a mix of the ajay, ihart, cason, dort, caruso, mccain, joe, jwill group
thunder have much better depth then the #2 best in the league by a decent margin
He’s playing
This just seems way too soon. I hope they know what they’re doing.
I mean, a team of world class doctors cleared him to play. Once they read that some bum ass Knicks fan thinks it’s way too soon, I’m sure they’ll throw their doctorates out the window and defer to your expertise
You sound like a real gem. Don’t act like you’re not a little worried. Those bum ass Knicks knocked you guys out last year so I doubt they are.
20 games to go. Seems like a proper ramp up time. Figure he plays 15, under 20 minutes for the first bit.