2019-20 Boston Celtics Season

I really do think his bad defense is due to lack of experience. He doesn't lack any physical tools to be at least decent.

Focus on his D next time. It's horrible. He's not a good defender and he hardly even tries half the time. He gets so many Defensive rebounds because he floats on D and basically focuses on rebounds over actually playing D. Like if he would actually play D and get that many it would be great. I will give you he's very good reading angles and getting in the right spot. Yet the fact he spends the time doing that is part of his issues. He's also not playing PG on D, like not even close. I don't think Leonard is the best player, yet he's right up there. 

To be fair, he really doesn't need to be anything more than pedestrian on defense to be on "best player in the game" radar. Dude just led the best offensive rating team of all time as a 21 year old. On that 7 year plan I mentioned in my previous post, I think there's only two guys I'm picking before Luka and that's Giannis and Tatum.

Shame the Porzingod is out tonight man, this series had some real upset potential if not for that bullshit ejection and now injuries.

Steve Nash had bad luck with injuries and got cheated out by the Spurs, particularly that one series where Bruce Bowen almost killed him and guys were suspended for leaving the bench. I understand your point, but I'm not saying Luka doesn't need to improve on defense. I'm saying he will. And that he only needs to be adequate out there on that end.

www.espn.com/nba/statistics/rpm

This basically sums up my thought process. Now RPM isn't perfect, because who you play with matters and it favor bigs in Defensive rankings. Like Dallas does a very good job hiding Doncic like the Celtics used to do with Thomas. Yet it highlights how good Doncic would need to be on offense to be the best even if he's D was zero, not negative. Even the great Harden needs above average D to reach his level. Doncic would need to be over twice as good as he is right now on offense to equal Giannis.

They also highlight how good the Celtics can be, given the Tatum we see now on offense is hardly the Tatum we had for the full year.

Also don't let those ranking fool you into thinking Doncic isn't that bad. Him hunting rebounds is the only reason those numbers aren't crazy bad. The formula for D uses rebounds as a big part of it. It treats Doncic as a forward, not guard. It's part of the reason a guy like Gobert is #1 almost every year. It actually highlights how bad Doncic is even getting elite level rebounds for his position.

It also highlights my point of maybe this is the best way to use him. Rather than wear him out trying to play D that he'll never be good at. You have him focus on offense and getting you rebounds on D. Hope he can reach Curry like efficiency on offense. Which isn't crazy. It's really the only thing that makes sense given his coach, who I really respect.

I’m only questioning the point if there’s not a lot more to it than not playing a game. They’ve put themselves in a spot where they are refusing to play until there’s real change. Well real change isn’t a short order thing. Also, no one has really laid out specifically what they want, at least nothing that makes any sense. The only specific people are the ones who want to abolish the police all together.

Not sure athletes have the power (nor should they) to set policy. But they absolutely have the power to get those who do have it to start acting.

Games have been postponed (no forfeits) and there is a meeting tonight to talk about how to proceed. MLB teams may similarly action as the Cincy/Milwaukee game has already been postponed.

Not sure about GOOD, but he has all the tools to be at least average. And he reached Curry like efficiency on offense. Again, he led the best offensive rating season of all time and that was a team that had good weapons but was far from a juggernaut. This whole discussion is moot by the way since:



Season could be over anyway. Joke's on us.

Once the Bucks decided not to play, they put the rest of the teams in a spot where they had to follow. Now, they need to take it further or I’m not sure how they justify playing so I would expect this season to be over.

Like any movement, I'm not sure where they go from here, but I back the players 100%. I am very interested to see what colesses from their meetings. My biggest fear for them, their kin, and the country is the only way the systemic racism changes in this country is by civil war. I'm afraid far more people are going to die before any of the issues that plague our society are even partially resolved.

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