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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 20, 2024 22:39:15 GMT -5
It was a nice overall win. Pasta is the Man!
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 20, 2024 22:36:04 GMT -5
They NEEDED a game like this. They won a game that they would have lost in previous years. Great win - and...that record of theirs. Insane. They may take their foot off the gas peddle the last few games but with our depth I'm not sure that will effect the win total. We are on pace for 65 wins. Only three Celtics teams have won more during the regular season with the high being 68 however they did not win a Championship that season, but the other 2 did. Those two Championship seasons being the 86 Celtics which won 67 and the 08 Celtics won 66. To sum it up the Celtics are the most revered team in NBA history, sorry Lakers, and we are in the mist of one of the best regular seasons in the history of the team. 2 of the other 3 teams with comparable seasons won it all and while each team each season is different the comps suggest what we already know and feel, it's this teams time. Enjoy the ride and do not whine about the occasional bad loss. And Hey, Tatum was big when it was late and close tonight.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 20, 2024 22:18:42 GMT -5
well don't like the way they played in the 4th quarter, but Bucks proved they will not be an easy out at all. Portis and Lillard are big shot makers, add in Giannis and they will be very tough. It makes me rethink getting to the Finals should be a given. Getting to the ECF should be a given, however the Bucks will give us all we can handle in a series. I still expect us to get to the Finals but it will likely be a long series. Even Cleveland is a darkhorse. I don't think any other team has any chance at all in the East.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 20, 2024 22:13:44 GMT -5
Negative fans will take this game as a bad one, and it did get ugly in the end, but nice effort to take it in the clutch while a collapse was looking likely. Good teaching moment. Right!. I'd rather win ugly then look good losing.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 20, 2024 22:11:26 GMT -5
Bummed about no Giannis tonight. Was hoping to see how both teams stack up at full strength No Holiday for the Celtics.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 19, 2024 17:15:14 GMT -5
Is this true? It doesn’t feel true to me. In my experience the widely accepted truth is that some players will always run higher BABIPs. Especially for Rod Carew. He was the closest to being able to hit the ball wherever he wanted, like a tennis player. Another name to throw in there is Ichiro.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 11, 2024 21:35:32 GMT -5
I find the analogy apt enough. In what way is it inadequate to illustrate your prior claim? 1) Unpleasant words spoken; 2) Punishment follows; 3) Question to Observer: Can a discerning person determine the validity of the words spoken due to the harshness of the punishment? Does my mother wear army boots, or not? I asked questions you responded with questions thus avoiding my questions. The onus is on you. Deflecting questions with other questions becomes like paying someone to debate with you, it's not really an argument if you don't have a conversation and that would be you replying directly to the questions posed. (see the Monty Python bit on debates) besides you have me all confused which mother is wearing army boots.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 11, 2024 18:52:49 GMT -5
So if I punch a fellow in the nose (a "harsh fine") for saying, "Your mother wears army boots!" should a critical thinking observer then decide my mother does, or does not, in fact wear army boots? That's funny but not applicable. If you want to debate what I said do not use analogies, especially when they don't apply. I thought you were going in the vain of, if my mother punched your mother in the nose what color was the blood? .
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 11, 2024 18:22:43 GMT -5
Anyone notice the past 4 games the B's have only allowed 1 goal each game during regulation?
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 10, 2024 15:06:01 GMT -5
I'm curious what the ostriches will say about Goberts take on NBA refs? Then I'll ask the same person how often do you refer to the pro's opinion when it matches your own? And why you will not when it does not like right here? For those who respond, kudos to you but if you do and ignore all aspects of it, then you are the ostrich regardless of whether you acknowledge it or not. Edit, Ref Donoughy, Net Flex Specials on rigging games, Gobert, and more. At what point do you have to concede, maybe just maybe I'm wrong and some games maybe just may be rigged. If you refuse to answer that, then you cannot have a debate with anyone. In that context which is extremely fair whether or not you answer, it's hard to debate this anymore. So the NBA fined Gobert-100K. Extremely harsh considering how most fines are, most of those fines are for truly (sarcasm) unimportant things like injuries to other players. So why so harsh a fine if what he's saying is not even true? That right there is at least smoke to a person with critical thinking skills. For those who refuse to believe in the sketchiness of the league, do you fine someone that much for tarnishing the league, if it wasn't true? The are so afraid of people believing it that they over-react because it is true. Money laundering is a common thing and professional sports and gambling is likely the easiest way to do so. I can see someone believing the league is pure because they in fact want to believe that but to argue it can't be seems beyond silly at this point, afterall ignorance is bliss.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 10, 2024 14:50:34 GMT -5
His NTC is limited to 16 (?) teams. So he can be traded. Right but he can essentially put the goalie needie teams on it and leave the ones with strong goalie situations off it and in effect it’s blocking out the heavy majority of trade possibilities I figure it’s easier in the offseason because Linus won’t have to leave his family behind for months (or uproot them in the middle of what I presume is the school year). It’s logistically a lot easier for Linus to manage a trade in the summer. I’ve seen speculation from Friedman that the team was an EC team, I’ve seen some Ottawa smoke out there. If that’s the case he may never approve a trade to there, they should not have even bothered to try lmao So it's my understanding that he had to previously pick the teams and I believe the overwhelming amount of teams on his list were West Coast teams.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 10, 2024 10:57:05 GMT -5
FWIW Jimmy Murphy (Boston Hockey Now) has 3 separate sources who say it wasn't LA. Colorado is the team he's saying. Interesting. I'm assuming they were going after a 2 way center.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 10, 2024 10:55:37 GMT -5
He's not worth as much then, two playoff runs with Ullmark is better than one. The trade at the deadline was perfect because it also allowed you to have a strength during the majority of the season, two top 10 goalies keeping you in every game nearly every single game. The deadline for the B's represented the 80% of the season mark, lessening the need for two goalies especially with two good goalies in Providence in Bussi and DiPietro in that they could play as little as 4 or 5 games and Swayman would still be fresh going into the playoffs. The truth is despite Ullmark having better numbers than Swayman, Swayman was the better goalie for the majority of last season. Ullmark was unworldly at the beginning of the season but from December on Swayman was better to the end of the season last year and has been the better goalie the entire year this year. Yeah but all that doesn’t matter if the guy has a NTC and doesn’t wanna go anywhere His NTC is limited to 16 (?) teams. So he can be traded.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 9, 2024 23:42:38 GMT -5
This. The offense dies when Tatum has the ball up.top. They just need to get Tatum the ball off some action and/or misdirection. But letting him walk it up the court against a set defense is making it so much easier for the defense. Stop doing it. For the last play of the game? This might be the only time I agree with you.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 9, 2024 22:32:30 GMT -5
Oh look, they’re puking all over themselves again in the 3rd quarter. Puking being the 12 point lead that dropped to nine? FFS stop trolling.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 9, 2024 22:23:16 GMT -5
I'm curious what the ostriches will say about Goberts take on NBA refs? Then I'll ask the same person how often do you refer to the pro's opinion when it matches your own? And why you will not when it does not like right here? For those who respond, kudos to you but if you do and ignore all aspects of it, then you are the ostrich regardless of whether you acknowledge it or not. Edit, Ref Donoughy, Net Flex Specials on rigging games, Gobert, and more. At what point do you have to concede, maybe just maybe I'm wrong and some games maybe just may be rigged. If you refuse to answer that, then you cannot have a debate with anyone. In that context which is extremely fair whether or not you answer, it's hard to debate this anymore.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 9, 2024 21:23:25 GMT -5
I don’t think trading Linus in-season was all that realistic given the teams that need goalies and their geographic location. It will be much easier to move him this offseason He's not worth as much then, two playoff runs with Ullmark is better than one. The trade at the deadline was perfect because it also allowed you to have a strength during the majority of the season, two top 10 goalies keeping you in every game nearly every single game. The deadline for the B's represented the 80% of the season mark, lessening the need for two goalies especially with two good goalies in Providence in Bussi and DiPietro in that they could play as little as 4 or 5 games and Swayman would still be fresh going into the playoffs. The truth is despite Ullmark having better numbers than Swayman, Swayman was the better goalie for the majority of last season. Ullmark was unworldly at the beginning of the season but from December on Swayman was better to the end of the season last year and has been the better goalie the entire year this year.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 9, 2024 16:31:53 GMT -5
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 9, 2024 16:17:10 GMT -5
Anyone have thoughts on Ullmark activating his no-trade clause - likely blocked additional deal(s) He did in fact block a trade, it's been reported. Who was saying since the off-season and just about 1 week ago they best way to upgrade the team, who lost 2 centers, was to trade from your strength to cover your weakness, this guy right here. My Pedroia hurt caption should be, I hate to tell you I told you so but.......Now I have absolutely no issues with Ullmark at all but for the teams sake I'm disappointed because we are 4/5 the way through the season, Swayman is clearly a #1 type goalie whose well rested. We have a good goalie down in Providence, so Ullmark's absence for this season would have little impact but the players he could have returned well that's a different story and now we'll never really know just how different it could have been.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 7, 2024 22:41:38 GMT -5
I'm behind in the game and will not be able to stay up to watch, important day at the office, but these refs have sucked in the first dare any say any different?
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 6, 2024 21:52:55 GMT -5
Glad I watched the bruins I figured the Bs on a back to back against a hi wheeling team like Edmonton would win so I watched the C's instead, well after that $hit show I turned back to the B's with just under 2 minutes and that didn't work out well at all.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 6, 2024 19:59:44 GMT -5
uggh. This is why this team still gives me so many doubts. Last possession of the game was awful. When are they going to learn, Tatum iso isn't working at the end. He lazily walked the ball up, held onto the ball and took a bad contested shot. Can't have these kinds of losses in the playoffs or they will crumble. They can blow teams out, and I think they can blow out any team 2 times in a series, but can they win games at the end like this? They haven't proven it yet. One legit complaint about last nights game is Tatum on the last possession slowing walking it up the court only helps the other team, and he does nearly every-time. And for all the people complaining about winning tight games and looking back, stop and look at this year after last night's loss where they ref's were under an apparent edict to make the game below the spread and then went brinks job nutty on that last possession the team is, according to the post game still 18-9 in close and late games. Persistence of memory is something everyone should be aware of.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 5, 2024 21:54:58 GMT -5
It must be eating you up, with all this winning that's going on. Tatum is getting fouled constantly but you just want to call a team with an 8 game lead over the 2 seed 3 quarters through the season Clown show. Why would you do that, just to get a rise, you have a serious problem. That game was literally stolen from the Celts, the call against Tatum against him overturned but the ensuing play and tip in not allowed, so they go to jump ball and then the clock starting from the tip of the ball and not possession, there was about 18 things wrong with that last possession, all against a heavy favorite against an underdog missing it's top player. Come-on. Will you re-emerge the next time the Celts lose again maybe next Feb.2?
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 5, 2024 21:41:56 GMT -5
Clown show defensive effort against a G-league roster. An 11 game winning streak with the largest average margin of victory in the entire history of the league and this is your hot take. Knowing Cleveland is missing their star player AND the spread was 8.5 it makes you wonder about the constant bad calls by the refs in the fourth to get the came close, of course many will never consider money makes the world go round and never consider such non-sense.
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Mar 4, 2024 17:54:16 GMT -5
So since the start of February, which is my B-Day btw, the Warriors had the second-best record, in other words, the Celtics just faced the second-hottest team in the NBA for the past 5 weeks and still beat them by 52 points and if I'm not mistaken, going by memory here, they've become the first team in NBA history to win 3 games in a season by 50+ points. Buddy, if you can call that up from memory, you are on a higher plane....and I want a pint of your blood...😵💫😊 Sarasoxer, all I remembered was they had tied the record with 2, 50 pts plus wins not that long ago so it was a much smaller feat than you are giving me credit for.
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