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Post by texs31 on Apr 9, 2023 14:07:55 GMT -5
Think I misunderstood the 2nd Rd pick stuff. If I'm following correctly now, they will only end up with the BEST of Portlands pick or the Houston one.
Not both.
Seems like the Por pick will go to OKC if Cs get the Hou one.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Apr 9, 2023 14:08:44 GMT -5
Flipping between the Sox and Celts. Wow today - Pritchard, Muscala, Hauser. Nice last regular season game. Tuning up the bench for the playoffs
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Post by rjp313jr on Apr 10, 2023 5:58:26 GMT -5
Think I misunderstood the 2nd Rd pick stuff. If I'm following correctly now, they will only end up with the BEST of Portlands pick or the Houston one. Not both. Seems like the Por pick will go to OKC if Cs get the Hou one. Celtics get pick 35 versus 33, unless there’s a way for Houston and San Antonio to flip in the second rd based on lottery results. Either way, it’s a pretty valuable pick and not much different than their first round pick would have been. I suppose you can argue that the first round pick and it’s salary slot is more valuable than having to use exception money to sign a second round pick. But that argument goes both ways. |
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Post by texs31 on Apr 10, 2023 6:10:40 GMT -5
The new CBA has an exception for 2nd Rd Picks.
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Post by wcp3 on Apr 10, 2023 7:17:02 GMT -5
Hauser in the house tonight! What grade would you give the Celtics regular season with one game to go? I go with B+ A-. It's a long season, it can get boring, they have so much talent - I nicked them half a grade just because of an annoying habit to lose to poor teams (because it can get boring). The team is far superior to last year's team. Expecting big things in the playoffs. This pretty much sums it up. They have some bad habits that hopefully don’t seep into close games in the playoffs. But their record against good teams is encouraging, their depth on offense is miles ahead of last year, and they’re one of the few teams who rates as high as they do on offense and defense. The Celts are arguably the most complete team in the league on paper - it’s time for them to focus and put it all together for the next month or two. |
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Post by mobaz on Apr 10, 2023 8:31:44 GMT -5
Predictions for the season? Honestly, boringly, I think we'll end up about the same as last year. 50 wins, some lows with new coach, some highs where we're the best team in NBA, and a fight to ECF or Finals. If Brogdon and Time Lord can be healthy in the playoffs and Horford doesn't disintegrate, we should be in better shape than last year. I hope they pace themselves in early going and Tatum/Horford/Brown get rest, since last season was the longest of all their careers and all (maybe with the exception of JB) were feeling it at the end. I don't think Tatum is ready to make the MVP Votes leap. Went back to my prediction in October. So far so good. Tatum is a relatively clear 4th place in MVP race to me. Hoping Miami doesn't become too hard a 1st round matchup since lots left to play to get to the promised land. |
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Post by umassgrad2005 on Apr 10, 2023 12:00:54 GMT -5
I've really enjoyed watching Irving and the Mavs implode, much more than I probably should.
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Post by umassgrad2005 on Apr 10, 2023 12:05:17 GMT -5
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Post by texs31 on Apr 10, 2023 12:25:53 GMT -5
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Post by umassgrad2005 on Apr 10, 2023 12:47:03 GMT -5
So we're sending pick from Hawks via Blazers to Thunder? No one seems to know the pick, yet no way Stevens sent that high second and a 2029 2nd for Muscala right?
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Post by texs31 on Apr 10, 2023 12:53:28 GMT -5
I think Mike Zarren probably knows.
EDIT - all joking aside . . .
If we get Houston's pick, OKC will get the POR pick. I'm not sure what OKC gets if we don't but the upshot to Boston is they'll get either 33 or 35, but not both.
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Post by rjp313jr on Apr 10, 2023 12:54:05 GMT -5
I just saw the video of Gobert punching Anderson and my initial thought is “really?” Guys getting suspended for that? We’ve gone so soft.
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Post by jmei on Apr 10, 2023 13:00:48 GMT -5
So we're sending pick from Hawks via Blazers to Thunder? No one seems to know the pick, yet no way Stevens sent that high second and a 2029 2nd for Muscala right? The Masslive article lays out the two scenarios pretty clearly: At the time of the Muscala trade, the Blazers were 28-30, so that Portland second-round pick looked like a mid-round pick and not a great loss. Of course, Portland ended the season going 5-19 from there, but I don't know that it's fair to say that the Celtics front office should have predicted that at the time. |
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Post by rjp313jr on Apr 10, 2023 13:01:11 GMT -5
So we're sending pick from Hawks via Blazers to Thunder? No one seems to know the pick, yet no way Stevens sent that high second and a 2029 2nd for Muscala right? I think the Celtics are sending the lower of their 2 second round picks to OKC. That pick will be high (35) if the Celtics end up with the 33rd pick. If they don’t, then the Celtics end up with the Miami pick(50), instead of the Houston pick, which goes to OKC. But they’ll keep the Portland pick at 35. |
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Post by rjp313jr on Apr 10, 2023 13:03:04 GMT -5
So we're sending pick from Hawks via Blazers to Thunder? No one seems to know the pick, yet no way Stevens sent that high second and a 2029 2nd for Muscala right? The Masslive article lays out the two scenarios pretty clearly: At the time of the Muscala trade, the Blazers were 28-30, so that Portland second-round pick looked like a mid-round pick and not a great loss. Of course, Portland ended the season going 5-19 from there, but I don't know that it's fair to say that the Celtics front office should have predicted that at the time. Even if they did predict it, it wasn’t a high likelihood they were getting the Houston pick any way. It’s not like they had another second to trade. |
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Post by texs31 on Apr 10, 2023 13:07:04 GMT -5
So we're sending pick from Hawks via Blazers to Thunder? No one seems to know the pick, yet no way Stevens sent that high second and a 2029 2nd for Muscala right? The Masslive article lays out the two scenarios pretty clearly: At the time of the Muscala trade, the Blazers were 28-30, so that Portland second-round pick looked like a mid-round pick and not a great loss. Of course, Portland ended the season going 5-19 from there, but I don't know that it's fair to say that the Celtics front office should have predicted that at the time. I'd overlooked/forgotten all about the Miami pick. Thanks. |
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Post by mobaz on Apr 10, 2023 13:16:06 GMT -5
I just saw the video of Gobert punching Anderson and my initial thought is “really?” Guys getting suspended for that? We’ve gone so soft. NOT worthy of suspension, as much as I hate Gobert and love teammate drama/beef (on someone else's team). Losing half a game in an actually important regular season game seems like enough to me. |
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Post by umassgrad2005 on Apr 10, 2023 13:30:06 GMT -5
Okay thanks, it's all about that protection on picks 31/32.
I can understand Stevens not wanting more than one 2nd, nbadraft.net showing us with two picks was messing with me.
Still don't understand why Muscala cost two 2nds, especially with them getting one this year.
Teams are getting way too creative with 2nd round picks!
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Post by cdj on Apr 11, 2023 15:03:06 GMT -5
Well he’s at least hilarious
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Post by Don Caballero on Apr 11, 2023 22:22:55 GMT -5
Bro I know this is probably rich coming from me because I said multiple times that Marcus Smart is my favorite player of all time, but Anthony Davis is an incredibly obnoxious flopper. Watching him operating on offense out of the post is a disgrace because he has zero moves and he's stiff as a plank, that alone would be bad enough but NO my dude has to combine that with an embarrassing display of screaming bloody murder every time he as much as GESTURES towards the hoop. He screams regardless of contact occurring or not.
I'm glad we never traded for him.
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Post by cdj on Apr 11, 2023 23:22:34 GMT -5
Bro I know this is probably rich coming from me because I said multiple times that Marcus Smart is my favorite player of all time, but Anthony Davis is an incredibly obnoxious flopper. Watching him operating on offense out of the post is a disgrace because he has zero moves and he's stiff as a plank, that alone would be bad enough but NO my dude has to combine that with an embarrassing display of screaming bloody murder every time he as much as GESTURES towards the hoop. He screams regardless of contact occurring or not. I'm glad we never traded for him. Would’ve been a disaster if we traded for him. At the minimum Jaylen would be gone and Jaylen is better at basketball than Anthony Davis is these days |
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Post by soxfansince67 on Apr 12, 2023 8:29:06 GMT -5
So - the Hawks. If we play D and rebound, this should go well for the Cs
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Post by mobaz on Apr 12, 2023 14:41:58 GMT -5
So - the Hawks. If we play D and rebound, this should go well for the Cs Anything more than 5 games is a disappointment. I hope we take them seriously the whole series and feast the way we should. |
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Post by cdj on Apr 12, 2023 20:20:09 GMT -5
Should score 125 ppg
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Post by Don Caballero on Apr 12, 2023 21:41:17 GMT -5
Lu Dort reminds me so much of Marcus Smart it’s unreal lol.
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