2018-19 Celtics Season

Hayward broke his foot. We never got to see what the potential of what this team's ceiling at any point and now we never will.

Another Celtics tragedy. Go figure. There's only been like 5 of these the past 30 years.

Kyrie doesn't care about legacy. He's a fruit loop. He'll leave unless Danny trades for like 2 other superstars and forces his decision and remakes the team completely to fit what he wants. More talented veterans who can carry the load around him so he can be free to just shoot the ball at will with wide open shots.

I think Kyrie can twist his legacy in his head to suit himself in any way he wants. You're talking about a dude who talks about absolutely nothing (while thinking he's made complete sense) and makes absolutely no sense in doing so. He also thinks the earth *might* be flat.

I don't think the dude is really all that smart at all. I think he's a really talented basketball player that thinks about him and himself. He could have had a million reasons why he wanted to leave LeBron, heck I could think of 10 reasons why I would want to be on the opposite side of the country to LeBron too.

Kyrie will do what's best for Kyrie. He will also talk about how making the best decision for himself was best for his legacy to either leave or stay with the Celtics (most likely leave). No one will understand what the heck he's talking about, but those reasons will make perfect sense to Kyrie.

You getting where I'm going with this? This is how Kyrie talks and thinks.

This is hardly why I never got on Brad Stevens this year over rotations.

You had 3 guys in contract years in Kyrie, Rozier, and Morris. All 3 were trying to get paid. Rozier was fighting for minutes all year "to be smiling, because a smiling Terry is a good Terry." Morris wanted starter minutes. Kyrie wanted to run the basketball team the way he wanted.

Then you had the veteran versus the rookie dynamic in the clubhouse all because of the playoffs last year.

Everyone is fighting for minutes outside of Smart, Brown, and Tatum. Brown and Tatum are two of your best players and you had to play them.

You had Stevens who (mistakenly) tried to get Hayward as many minutes as he could because he was trying to get him to player he once was and he's very close to him.

It was a freaking disaster from start. They were a very seperate group. None of them wanted to play together all year and it was pretty obvious early on. Everyone will blame Kyrie. I blame everyone.

I really wish that Hayward didn't break his foot and Kyrie never needed the surgery. MAYBE THEN EVERYONE WOULD HAVE LEARNED TO PLAY TOGETHER THE PAST TWO YEARS. The young guys wouldn't have had a playoff round to hold over the veterans in this group. The veterans might have actually shared the freaking basketball more and tried to win more instead of "getting theirs."

This was a process that took literally years to assemble and it was destroyed along with the dreams of me and a lot of Celtic fans. It took one f-ing messed up year after a bad year of circumstances the year before to completely DESTROY THIS PROCESS.

THERE WAS EGOS EVERYWHERE. KYRIE. MORRIS. BROWN. ROZIER. All said stupid crap throughout the year and all deserve the blame and Stevens was put right in the middle of it. He did a really poor job of managing it, but it's the f-ing NBA and he's trying to cater to the players the best of his ability and failed miserably (so what can he really f-ing do here?)

This is way worse than the 2011 Red Sox. It didn't take years of losing and luck to get to the 2011 Red Sox. It did with the 2018/2019 Celtics. You were lucky to be able to get Hayward and Irving in the first place. Now one is broken and the other is leaving after you couldn't have him play in your system well. It's impossible to develop from within, but here we go all over again, I guess. I love having basketball teams with low ceileing in terms of winning. SIGH.

I believe the circumstances in his quote. I don't take Lou Merloni seriously either when it comes to basketball.

The first part is fair, but I really think that was the case and that's why I posted it. I tried to stay away from it, but it was really relevant to the point of the next post I was trying to make.

It is really believable. I think it's the truth, even though neither one of us can prove it.

Do they trade for Davis without knowing that Kyrie is re-signing? I’m not sure they do, but it’s too early to tell.

 I think getting AD will be what Kyrie wants to see first.

What did Rozier do? Given his situation I think he handled it about as well as any young player could. He certainly wasn't saying crap to the media like Irving and Morris all season. He went from starter playing big minutes to playing very few minutes. Like no one lost more value than Rozier during the season and yet he never flipped out like Irving did 15 plus times. The chemistry between Horford, Tatum, Brown, and Rozier was awesome during last year's playoffs.

You have to blame Danny, too much talent is an issue if it doesn't fit together and Irving makes fitting pieces harder. It was also a team full of slashers, when Irving's current style required floor spacing shooters and limited our slashers. You also had too many small forwards and guards. Like Irving could have been the glue to hold it together, which is the crazy part. His shooting and playmaking in theory would fit very well. Yet it was all about him, not the team. He didn't want to add to last year's playoff team, he wanted to change it to his team. He didn't want to help Tatum and Brown grow, he wanted them to take a back seat to the Irving show.

So while the Hayward injury was tragic, it didn't ruin anything. Irving is Irving, heck if anything he needed a season like this to check his ego. Maybe now he can respect what the young guys did and the value of team play. Irving and Hayward were never going to be the most talented team. Without team play we never would have won anything. Hayward was never seen on Irving's level, so no way he could have held him in check like LeBron could. Frankly no injuries and this happens last year and we don't get that great playoff run.

And look at what else he said in that article.

Yeah, the fact that Rozier did willingly step back for the team and gave up a sh*tload of money says a lot more than his few words after the season is over.

Except he was one of the guys who was on a contract year and was bitching all year about playing time, what a COMPLETE contradiction.

Yeah, all they need is to get rid of Rozier and encourage Kyrie to shoot 100% more air balls and everything will be great.