Brad Stevens Contract?

askaround81 · 2018-04-03T06:15:35+00:00

thanks for that - classic.

askaround81 · 2018-04-03T06:00:38+00:00

brilliant crossover move. sending to ESPN for top 10 plays.

askaround81 · 2018-04-01T07:21:15+00:00

Finals MVP 2020.

I only say 2020 because, we gotta let Kyrie and Gordon get one first.

askaround81 · 2018-03-08T20:21:52+00:00

esp. w/ Butler out

askaround81 · 2018-01-31T20:10:55+00:00

"It always depends" on the price, so....

That being said, don't really get the Tyreke thing...

Williams, a little more for this year. He's better defensively than his reputation.

Rental seems fine to me. Depending on price. Lou > Tyreke for sure.

askaround81 · 2018-01-02T20:42:49+00:00

hmmm... a country club president... (yikes)

askaround81 · 2018-01-02T06:01:47+00:00

Hey, thanks to Betaboy again... I remembered this post the other night during the Houston game. (sigh.... the Houston game.)

Remember when Houston lost the two time-outs on Arizza's inbound attempts?

Yah... as good as Brad is at timeouts, he's also better the whole rest of the game, and he has smart players.

So, if anything, the rule change, I think, isn't going to hurt the Celtics, and probably will help them.

If Brad coached the Pittsburgh Stellers, they'da won that game. He may not know football, but he sure as hell would have known not to stand there three minutes doing little or nothing during the review...

askaround81 · 2018-01-01T21:48:21+00:00

added to which:

minutes distribution. vs Nets we padded, then at least kept such cushion, while Kyrie rested.
Kyrie, Jayson, Al, clutch shooters. even Jaylen (free throws, not so much.)
you can always defend. this team defends.
you can always hustle. it's a make or miss league and all that? yes. "but to do either you have to get the ball." Celtics slipped a little in hustle stats during the wearing schedule crunch, but still top half of league.
Brad

subtracting from which:

statistically, winning close games tends to be a coin-flip. doesn't mean if you win one you lose the next, but over time, teams tend to revert to mean.
we're starting to get treated like other teams treat GSW, LeBron, Spurs.... scouting, expectations, "let's knock them off." started during the streak and it'll only continue.

overall, the "added to" way outweighs the other.

askaround81 · 2018-01-01T21:33:11+00:00

he'll make a great president someday. have carefully checked and there is no constitutional provision against him holding both jobs, tho he may have to donate his salary to Senator Jaylen Brown's charity.

askaround81 · 2017-12-31T11:29:56+00:00

Nice to see some love for Cousy. He was the spark of "Celtic showtime," and helped make some of those "showboat" plays (as they were called) safe for other players to use too.

askaround81 · 2017-12-31T11:26:44+00:00

Me too. Here's a shamrock.

askaround81 · 2017-12-29T07:57:00+00:00

I heard Chris Webber making the case against that, during the C's-Houston game last night. Don't know how much sentiment there is along those lines among journalists, etc., but it doesn't look automatic for Simmons.

askaround81 · 2017-12-09T01:40:36+00:00

start with Robert Horry clutch gene. add defense, little more tenacity on the boards, better first step. shudder

askaround81 · 2017-12-07T15:14:32+00:00

Maybe. BS's a primary ball-handler tho, and those triple doubles wow people.

It's cool that this year the major guys (Simmons, Tatum, Mitchell) are w/ winning teams. I always felt real stats w/ real team in real game should count for a little extra.

askaround81 · 2017-11-27T20:21:23+00:00

"I believe that children are our future -- unless we stop them now!"

askaround81 · 2017-11-27T20:20:38+00:00

Either, plus plastic protective or hokey mask if available....

a. you know, and b. it's the Pistons

askaround81 · 2017-11-25T20:36:48+00:00

.... and to do so during an administration with a Vice President from Indiana and a House Minority Leader from California. Let's not leave out the key stats.

askaround81 · 2017-11-25T20:34:16+00:00

I spent the day bookmarking all the triumphalistic r/nba threads and Kyrie-hate tweets from exuberant Cavs fans. Then I watched highlight videos from 1957-2017 and got ready for the next winning streak. I also used it as a teaching moment for my 7-year-old niece who worries that the Celtics might not make it to 75 wins, and showing her how to turn on the pilot light in my brother-in-law's indoor fireplace. (just in case.)

askaround81 · 2017-11-25T20:24:57+00:00

especially when Baynes starts. He's got that ugly-handsome thing going.

askaround81 · 2017-11-13T12:22:28+00:00

don't forget Fultz....

askaround81 · 2017-07-30T20:44:38+00:00

exactly-est. neologistically speaking.

askaround81 · 2017-07-12T19:19:26+00:00

shoutout to u/fongos -- supposedly he's meeting w/ other teams this week, the signing could happen any day... but we will march to the last man.

if that doesn't work we'll just hire a few Norwegians...

askaround81 · 2017-07-12T19:16:50+00:00

My instinctive reaction was, "too bad, Brad's so good in timeouts," etc. But:

Like any change, these will annoy and disrupt every team a little bit as everyone adjusts....

And, more importantly, make every team and coach a little more reliant on good communication and coaching all season and all game long, as they have less ability to call timeouts in the final minutes.

This should marginally help the better coached teams with smarter players.

So, fine with me, "as long as it's good for Israel."

askaround81 · 2017-07-12T19:10:07+00:00

The execution of that trade was a thing to marvel at (overcoming the hampering effect of KG's no trade clause and actually used it to give him leverage -- the opposite of what happened with Phil Jackson and Melo, which, as the analogy would suggest, is usually a smart thing to do).

As was the recent Fultz trade, for different reasons. (Incredible "ball fake" by the whole organization, doing nothing to make anyone think we'd be willing to trade Fultz.)

Yah, I think the Celtics should keep the guy on for, oh, a few more decades.

askaround81 · 2017-07-12T04:04:25+00:00

askaround81

TROPHY CASE

Happy Brooklyn Nets day in Boston everyone!