Watching maxey seal the game 7 was wild

Dude is so fast when he drives and crafty at the hoop. By far one of the most enjoyable players to watch in the league

Scheierman using the power of analytics to stop Maxey and Embiid from cooking that asscheeks starting lineup Joe put out there

Hugo Gonzalez using his on/off splits to shut down Paul George 

Great comment and truly reflective of how dumb the Celtics are being right now. They genuinely believe that this group of absolute (at best) role players are the superior path to a guy like JB. I find it sickening.

Team is overwhelmed? Let’s start a bunch of guys who never start. Genius 

He didn’t have to go all in. All 5 starting in a game 7 was an insane overcook

Yeah, clearly his teammates who had been playing well all series and then in that game. Keep trusting those guys… Right? /s

WHERE WAS HUGO EFFICIENCY GONZALEZ????

It wasn’t just one game. Jaylen had more turnovers than assists for the series. He did the same in the 2023 Heat series they blew too.

Part of why they played poorly is due to Jaylen’s lack of playmaking skills and turnovers. He lacks any court vision, and has trouble setting anyone up. It’s why he ends up driving into traffic with no plan on where to kick the ball, or how to counter, and turns the ball over or takes a tough shot so often.

I am not putting the series loss on Jaylen. One of the main issues was the center rotation. But I also am not going to let people cite the game 7 as if was the whole series.

That’s not the argument I am making at all. I am simply point out that a fixation on game 7 is silly when the series could have been over with in a game 5 or 6 win. I don’t think Jaylen alone cost them the series either. I think our biggest issue was center rotation. But Jaylen having more turnovers than assists, and shooting poorly in the later games, didn’t help either.

I don’t think Jaylen got traded because of this series anyways.

They won the championship when the Jays combined for 48% of the cap. They combine for 70% now. I think the Celtics just felt he was overpaid and building a champion around him was not feasible. They saw Giannis at the same cap usage, but being a superior player as having potential to be doable.

He had 17 FGA’s to score 18 points. And shot ²⁄₆ on free throws.

Maybe I should have cited TS% which was 45.8% for the game.

Because it is?

it’s not a good shooting night. 41% is nothing to brag about 

This encapsulates the reaction to Brown’s perceived value.

⁷⁄₁₇ would be the league average field goal percentage in 1960. 41% is awful on volume.

Sarcasm

Man I’m just clowning around. I’m not going to engage in conversations about how Jaylen Brown is actually terrible, after being told all year that he should be involved in MVP talks. The truth is obviously somewhere in between.

You say this as if white and Pritchard didn’t also suck in games ⁵⁄₆

⁷⁄₁₇ isn’t bad

The Celtics developmental program often brings guys along really slow. So unless you are a fan of the team to actually watch a ton of games, you are going to miss what they actually are doing out there based off off boxscores and game averages.

I wouldn’t go off points per game, as Hugo had 24 games where he played under 10 minutes. When he got closer to real minutes he was scoring pretty consistently.

Out of the 10 games he played 25+ minutes he scored 10+ points in 7 of them.

Guys like Rozier and Avery Bradley averaged less than 2ppg their rookie seasons.

One way I try to gauge rookies is if they hold up on defense and have at least a few 10+ point games.

Someone like Nesmith 7 games of 10+ points.

A total dud like James Young had 1 game of 10+ points. But James young averaged a similar 3.4 points per game.

Others didn’t even flash that much their rookie year. Rozier didn’t have a single 10+ point game his rookie season.

Also you guys exaggerate how Bill talks about him. He doesn’t think Hugo is going to be like a 3rd option on a championship team. He just thinks he has some potential. I see it too. I don’t know what his ceiling will be, or even that he will absolutely pan out, but I share Bill’s enthusiasm.

The Celtics offered Jaylen and 2 firsts. The report is that the Bucks wanted an additional 1-2 picks plus a couple young players on top of that.

The Celtics if they sent out 4 picks and a couple young players, would have basically no firsts left to trade to help build out a now very shallow roster.

They didn’t want to decimate both pick assets and cheap talent on the team.

It was never because they thought Hugo would be a star. They did need to field a team with some semblance of depth after getting Giannis in the door. And someone like Hugo making $2.9M next season would help with that.

Do you think if Brown didn’t play in the series they would have simply Jsut had 25 Less turnovers? Or that the defense wouldn’t have centered their attention on other players who have even less ways of scoring on the team?

There would be so much less controversy around this if people just watched the damn games.

I for one am not going to miss JB taking the ball up the court as the primary ball carrier, and having his sub-par ball handling lead to him dribbling the ball off his foot; or having his poor court vision lead him to make a bad pass and turn the ball over, or put his head down and try to shoulder his way through the paint just to toss up a crappy layup attempt and whine to the refs for a foul.

He’s a solid player, but he was NEVER a 1B to Tatum’s 1A, and Celtics fans (not lost in their emotions) all know this. The entirety of decision makers in the NBA all know this.

It’s mainly reddit and talking heads confused about it.

I think it’s some of both. Some people know it’s just a meme, and not what really happened. But I think a decent chunk of people believe that’s what really happened.

I know—I was being silly

JB has NEVER been a playmaker. He’s a scorer and defender. Thats a weak argument to put on him. That’s like asking Carmelo Anthony to be a playmaker after a decade in the league.

Why is everyone fixating on the shooting percentage and not the 5 turnovers 2 assists and 1 fucking rebound.

He had a TS% of 45.8% because he also shot ²⁄₆ on free throws which is atrocious.