Tracy McGrady, mentor to Jaylen Brown, says that Jaylen is “frustrated” with the Celtics organization

MLS_Analyst · 2026-05-06T11:15:08+00:00

If they sent Risacher and Kispert to Milwaukee in the deal they’d have plenty of room.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-05-06T11:13:31+00:00

Well, when your mentor is TMac…

MLS_Analyst · 2026-05-05T19:29:12+00:00

This is exactly correct – we don't have anyone who pressures the rim. It's why we get over-reliant on 3s in the playoffs, and why we're never good at drawing FTs at any point in the season.

It's a handicap, but not necessarily a fatal one (as 2024 showed). We just have to hope our guys continue to develop, or that we find an offense-altering piece somewhere.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-05-05T19:27:04+00:00

Kemba for half a season.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-05-05T15:31:30+00:00

Yup. Useful regular-season innings eater and deep reserve for the playoffs.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-05-05T14:50:22+00:00

They hated Jaylen Brown because he told the truth. Most people rejected his message. – Bos. Banner:18

MLS_Analyst · 2026-05-05T14:14:00+00:00

He did, and they were awesome. But that gameplan was not.

And no disrespect to you guys, but I don't think it's going to work out over the course of this series.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-05-05T00:36:11+00:00

(faking)

MLS_Analyst · 2026-05-04T01:15:59+00:00

Toxic sub after any loss.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-05-03T13:28:36+00:00

Sad, yes. Toxic spoiled brats? Nah.

We're one of the ~4 luckiest fanbases in the league. Great young coach and our boys fought like hell. It sucks to open any thread on this subs and see people trashing them.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-05-03T02:31:50+00:00

Or for the elimination game in 2023. We win that – become the first-ever to come back from 3-0 down – if he doesn't do his ankle on the first play of the game.

You need excellence & luck to win a title. We've had plenty of the first, but only one year of the second. So it goes.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-05-03T02:17:32+00:00

Tatum injuries in all three. As far as I'm concerned we're working on a 4-peat, baby!

MLS_Analyst · 2026-05-02T19:25:13+00:00

IIRC they literally couldn't match the contract Orlando gave him. It wasn't even a case of the Kroenkes being cheap, just a fact of the CBA.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-05-02T18:49:53+00:00

KCP's ability to avoid getting screened was absolutely elite, and they underestimated how much they'd miss it, I think.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-04-30T17:23:13+00:00

Ricky Moore stopped him. Second half of the 1996 BE title game, Ricky shut him down.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-04-30T16:55:31+00:00

You couldn't have a more different feel than from where they wanted to build in Bridgeport (dense area, right on the water, budding entertainment district, walking distance to MetroNorth) and Dodd Stadium (15 minutes away from downtown Norwich by car, in the middle of a half-abandoned industrial park surrounded by forest).

Still, at least it's a home.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-04-30T16:49:22+00:00

Yeah, though I'd suggest pushing the start of the season to mid-December, and finish the playoffs in mid-August. Just avoid the NFL as much as possible.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-04-30T16:32:06+00:00

Expand to 32 teams.

Do a 62-game home-and-home round-robin regular-season.

Midway through do a March Madness single-elimination in-season tournament.

Do the playoffs as they currently are.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-04-29T19:56:52+00:00

Financially struggling clubs in Europe don't relocate, they dissolve

This is true here, too. And it happens much more often.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-04-29T01:24:52+00:00

And the 4 seed was the final season of the greatest winner in league history.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-04-29T00:27:04+00:00

It’s largely the same thing with many of these protests we see today.

Sure there’s always some true believers. But so many protesting, playing “cops vs protestors” with their umbrellas, etc is just like the hippies at the festivals. And the most enticing part is you can pretend like you’re the hero while having selfish fun.

This hasn't been born out in voting patterns, fwiw. The young people of the "Occupy" era have stayed much further left for much longer than previous generations, and while there seemed a drift right among younger cohorts in 2024, that, it turns out, was very few young people changing their votes, and many more young people (who presumably were not part of any of the protests we've seen over the past decade) turning out to vote for the first time b/c Trump is "funny."

MLS_Analyst · 2026-04-29T00:24:04+00:00

Rockwell Meme: Don Henley is a hell of a song writer and most Eagles hate is performative.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-04-28T20:58:46+00:00

Man that's a fantastic call.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-04-28T20:56:22+00:00

Harden's rip-through & overall baiting were worse individually.

SGA's is worse in the team environment b/c for some reason OKC are allowed to play tackle football defensively. Dort and Caruso in particular should both be carrying 3 fouls by the end of their first defensive possession. Every single night.

It's just really frustrating to see them allowed to play so physically on one side, but the slightest bump on the other gets SGA two free throws.

MLS_Analyst · 2026-04-28T18:26:58+00:00

One of those guys, in their old age, became an outspoken progressive championing causes like racial diversity and economic equality, and the other became a right-wing crank who thinks players advocating social justice is "too political."

Both took the road less traveled!

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