2019-20 Boston Celtics Season

Romeo got some good run in the first quarter. Looked good. His drive to the hoop was pretty sweet. Gives me hope he’s not going to be a bust.

I'm going on a slight rant here, but it's absolutely incredible how terrible of a job the 6ers FO has done over the past 3 seasons. You get two supremely talented players in Simmons and Embiid and it should immediately set you on championship course. But then it begins. You fumble the top pick overall in the draft, you surround them with guys that can't shoot, trade solid assets for ball hog and poor fit Jimmy Butler that bails on you after the season anyway, you also trade for another bad fit in Tobias Harris AND resign him anyway because being stupid is a full time job, you overpay for Al Horford who is (love you Al, but I've been saying that for years so I can't stop now) a small baller and also a TERRIBLE FIT next to Embiid and you refuse to be either a fastbreak team to properly use Simmons and you don't even try to space the floor so Embiid can bang inside. Heck, you let Embiid take as many outside shots as he wants. Now the 6ers can't score against a zone because they have no shooters and Brett Brown is a moron.

Just unbelievable. As a basketball lover, it just makes me angry.

Well, what percentage of people who have cut the cord are paying for streaming services that include ESPN?  I have PS Vue and will be switching to Youtube TV soon.

People do have the option to go with a service like Philio which costs less than half of all the others because it doesn't include sports.

Embiid has that island thing going on, it is a real laid back culture so maintaining a level of intensity that is required to dominate is hard for him. KG he is not.

I never even heard of Philio and I see why. Who would ever pay $20 for those Channels?  Go compare to Sling for $25 a month, that has a ton of sport channels and all the popular channels like TNT, USA, TBS. Unless you really like MTV and want four MTV channels or four Nickelodeon channels lol.  I count four channels I'd actually watch, it's mostly filler channels that no one likes, all those high channels on Dish.

You kinda miss the point, even if you don't pay for TV which is fairly rare and have an Antenna to watch your locals you are supporting sports. CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox and The CW all show live sports. Even if you don't pay, they get tons of add revenue by you watching it.

You base this off of what exactly?

I think we already learned a valuable lesson with the survey RJP posted. You can't poll individual people and then act like that determines a household and cable/TV is a household thing. The household matters, the kids matter and you have around three people per household on average.

Growing up I lived with my mom and brother, they both don't care about sports and would answer yes to that survey. Yet there was no way when I was younger my mom was going to cancel it, it would have been WW3 and turned back on the next day. So those numbers even if legit, don't translate to household numbers.

Nevermind don't you have to ask the question why ESPN can charge more and every cable provider pays it?

Recently cable providers are ditching channels like crazy over cost. Dish canceled NBC sports, one of the reasons I left and recently ditched a major channel in Fox. Yet I haven't seen any of them ditch ESPN. It's like the survey said, the #1 reason people currently give for keeping cable is live sports. Cable providers have the numbers of what people watch and if they could cut ESPN to keep costs lower without a mass exit of customers they would do it.

In 2016 44 of the top 50 most watched US TV broadcasts were sports. Most TV money is made through Adds and sports are by far and away the top events year after year. ESPN could fold tomorrow and it's only going to be a small blimp in sports revenue as other stations will sign contracts to fill the void. Subscription fees are a rather tiny amount of ESPNs revenue, adds is where they make the real money, which means tons of people are watching. They paid over 7 billion in sports fees in 2016, even if they had a 100 million subscribers which they didn't, that would still be only about a billion dollars. Viewers matter much more than fees. They don't charge the highest because they have to, it's because they can do it and people pay.

Only way the Sports TV money blows up is if people stop watching sports. It's not cable or ESPN. As long as TV stations can make almost 1.5 billion running adds during the Superbowl, sports will get a ton of TV money.

umassgrad2005 Just a guess but if ESPN is $9 month then 100 million subscribers equates to almost $11 billion a year so it's not as unbalanced as you indicated.

Also, Jaylen Brown back to back 5 assist games... wouldn’t surprise me if he’s never done that before.

He plays outside far too much. He usually gets the ball beyond the 3 point line, what is he, the Porzingod? He should be banging inside all game long, he looks unstoppable when he's near the basket. I truly don't see why the 6ers don't demand him to camp in there. I know it's the modern NBA and everyone wants to Steph, but Embiid takes 3.6 threes per game. That's insane. He shouldn't take any.

And Al is a guy that makes sense on a smaller line-up, like put him around quick guys. Maybe put a Baynes next to him to control the boards, but when it's time for the killer line-up he should be given space for his post game. That's hard to do when Simmons can't shoot and Embiid is or should be parked in the paint. The whole thing is baffling. It's like they make moves with zero regard for the guys they already have, what is their identity? Overpowering guys with size? No, the Lakers are overpowering guys with size. The 6ers are just fools getting in the way of each other.

Romeo is proving me so wrong and I am loving it. Looks so smooth out there, and playing hard defense with solid reads.

Grant Williams also rounding into offensive form!

Umm $9 per month times 100 million subscribers is $900 million per MONTH.  So unless a year is a lot short than it used to be that comes out to $10.8 billion