2018-19 Celtics Season

I don't have anything else to say, what I wanted has happened and the teams play has improved as a result. Time to start talking about Robert Williams because hopefully by the playoffs he can become an option for this team. He adds something major to this team. Things like our up coming draft picks and how the Clippers lead the West deserve some more mention.

I will say to clear things up mainly because you keep acting like I don't like Irving or I want him gone. I like Irving, heck I love Irving the scorer and love the effort he's shown on D so far. If you notice I haven't talked about trading Irving or I want him gone. Just I want Irving to fit into our Style, rather than Irving wanting his teammates to play his way. That is how we reach our full potential.

I do think this will be the turning point of the season. I give major props to Irving admitting and accepting what was crystal clear. He can't be both the top scorer and run the offense all by himself. It's so pronounced it's crazy. This team leading through 3 quarters with Irving shooting 33% is a very good thing. The fact that Irving, Hayward, Smart, and Rozier had 25 assists alone which is more than the team averages per game is awesome. That's how this team needs to play and all the good points make me overlook all those 3 point attempts. Mainly because they didn't need to shoot lights out to score 118 points and they have started to get more FTs.

Let's just hope that Brown returning doesn't eat into Smarts or Roziers minutes. You need those two playing 50 minutes a night and having one of them on the court most of the time.

Man if I could choose one guy in the entire NBA I'd like to have on the Celtics right now, that guy would be Jokic. I absolutely love his game. Love every single part of it, even his (somewhat underrated) defense. Besides he's such a goofy dude and he's prone to LOLtastic plays, at the end of yesterday's Nuggets game he put up an absolute howler of a 3 after being fouled and somehow it went in and his reaction was just as priceless.

We're missing a crazy likable person, the only one on the team right now is Smart. Danny needs to trade for an Euro weirdo.

I totally didn’t include the image on my last post 🤦🏻‍♂️/ not sure I can find it again as I deleted my photos

I know the Knicks suck, but I think I’m ready to declare the Celtics are back. The problem is their slow start is going to cost them home court. Let’s hope they can at least get to be the 2 seed.

It’s no coincidence that Jaylen Brown had his best game when HE decided to get aggressive. Went it the line 9 times and hit 7 of them. That’s all on him not anyone else to play that way and he needs to understand he’s not that good otherwise. Don’t get me wrong, he can be a great player, but for him to be great he needs to be super aggressive. Some guys forget that and think they can just get by on skill and natural ability. He can’t, Smart can’t, Rozier can’t, Morris cant. They need that extra aggression and effort every night.

So not only has Kyrie carried this team offensively through the season so far, most of the roster has been a complete non factor, if not a complete net negative on offense.

Wow that lasted 5 days till a guy that clearly doesn't watch much Celtics Basketball writes an article and bam it's everyone else sucks hahaha. Since Smart became PG, we have the number one offense in the NBA. What did the whole team worth of players just change overnight? Interesting I wonder why, wait no I don't.

Only player with a net positive rating without Irving is, wait for it Rozier! Anyone surprised by that? I'm sure not given the way he runs the offense. Oh wait Smart and Rozier play well together, anyone surprised by that? Not at all.

Anyone surprised that Brown playing with Rozier and Hayward looks a lot better? Nope not at all. Anyone surprised that the bench had 15 FT attempts and the starters had 5? Nope not at all. Even without Browns nine attempts they still had 6 attempts per 5. That is on one player and one player only.

It's like I wish we had a half season worth of data to see if a certain player was removed would the rest of the team stop shooting jumpers and attack the rim more. Oh wait we have that data and it was crazy pronounced. They did just that.

I'm sorry that the brilliance of a certain players scoring ability clouds certain people judgement. I just won't stand by why people keep acting like its everyone else. Like a whole team worth of players that almost went to the finals all of sudden suck. Not just a few but like every single one of them and its on them for not playing a certain way. When its clear the team plays a different way because of one player. Yet the player that won't be named can't be the issue. He can't be why guys are playing a different way, he's too talented offensively. Even when the player that won't be named is shooting a career high amount of jumpers that rubs off on everyone he plays with. While shooting a career low amount of FTs.

Smart can help run a more team friendly offense, but his game isn't driving and getting FTs. So he can't be the one to help change that for the starters. Tatum while crazy skilled, still plays off other players style. It's why his FTs increased late last season and why they are down this year. He's just not yet ready to be the guy that leads a team and has players play off of him. So that leaves one guy, the player that won't be named. Who did have a bunch of better games, yet prefers jumpers. So either the player that won't be named helps change that or we'll have to wait for Tatum to fully develop and becomes this teams best player. While hoping that player is more like playoff Tatum and not the one that plays with the player that won't be named.

So it seems like its all about dumping 20 million in contracts for next year? Plus gives them a Veteran for the bench. I kinda like it as a Celtic fan because Dellavedova is an annoying player and he really helped them in the playoff last year. They won all three games he played over 16 minutes. He helped them play D and team ball.

Gotta love it for the Cavs also take on 20 million next year, get two picks. That's what they need to do.

This wouldn't be an issue if Hayward and Horford hadn't start the season as poorly as they did. This team is built to support a player like Kyrie, they just needed to stop bricking open looks and/or look slow as heck.

Edit: just to add a stat, they had 32 assists last night, that's their season high. The player with the most assists was Kyrie with 8, but the key stat here is that the only guy that played over 15 minutes that didn't have at least 2 assists was Theis. They don't need a traditional playmaker, they have a lot of guys that can create shots for others. Kyrie's style isn't counterintuitive to that, they just need to find the balance and the guys around him have to step up their game (which they have).

Dolly may have given C's fits but Hill is the better player (especially in the proper role of backup PG). Over the course of the season and against most teams, Hill should be better for them.

Not sure what Milwaukee can pull off next July. Keith Smith projects them to have 21M in cap space (renouncing all FAs except Brogdon and Middleton). Can the Bucks attract someone with that space? The lure of playing with the Freak would be strong but still.

Just my two cents but its not always who's better, but who fits better.  Dellavedova is like a Smart type player, he just impacts the game in a bunch of ways that don't show up in the stat sheet. Hill isn't a bad player, he's just not the guy he once was. If you needed a starter Hill would be a lot better, yet at backup PG in limited minutes I'd take Dellavedova. His energy, D, team first style type crap.

The big thing here is 20 million in cap space next year, plus Hills contract of 19 million, yet only 1 million guaranteed. The timing also allows them to flip him at the deadline if they wanted too or after the season. I don't think they will have the cap space to sign a big name, but Hill might help them trade for a guy.

I'd also hate for Hill to take minutes from DiVencenzo. I really like that kid.

Same here. Loved that kid coming out of the draft and wanted him to fall to us. Obviously I'm not unhappy with The Time Lord, but DiVincenzo really is a baller.

Great win tonight! I mean it's important to add that it is the Bulls and the game isn't over yet, but it's nice to see the Celtics once again winning every quarter. That sound you hear faintly in the air is Toronto collectively going "oh sh*t..."

Lol the Celtics won by 56. 56!!! That's a record for the Celtics. Unbelievable.