Celtics/NBA 2019-2020 Regular Season: Marcus Smart tests positive for CORVID-19

[CDJ]

This actually isn't true. 'Eric Gordon' plays Michael Jordan's kid, but it's not this Eric Gordon. He's been asked before and denied it.

DAMMIT, this ruins my life


I mean....I didn’t specify which Eric Gordon, I obviously meant the one that’s selling insurance somewhere now

 

[N o o d l e s]

Wild

 

[Deuce17]

Gonna try and watch. Havent been able to watch the NBA last few years really

Apparently you didn’t watch much college either if you hadn’t heard of Jayson Tatum haha

 

[Maine Fan]

So close yesterday, what a team.
So many up and coming stars.

Go Celtics

 

[McGarnagle]

I like how when they drafted Tatum I was like who?

Now Fultz and Ball are busts and hes looking like the star on this team

I remember being incredibly angry that Danny traded the #1 pick. I thought it was the worst decision in the world.

I could not have been more wrong. As you said, it's not just that Tatum turned out to be the best player in the draft, the two players taken ahead of him became massive busts. Fultz might go down as the worst #1 pick since Michael Olowokandi

 

[N o o d l e s]

I remember being incredibly angry that Danny traded the #1 pick. I thought it was the worst decision in the world.

I could not have been more wrong. As you said, it's not just that Tatum turned out to be the best player in the draft, the two players taken ahead of him became massive busts. Fultz might go down as the worst #1 pick since Michael Olowokandi

He’s actually playing fairly well in Orlando

 

[CDJ]

Yeah Fultz had TOS surgery, which you typically see in pitchers. Tough thing to deal with. He’s come back from it playing some decent basketball for the magic- pretty sure I was reading reports where the only two guys they consider untouchable are Fultz and Jonathan Isaac.

He’s still not even close to Tatum though obviously. But he’s rebounding from the tough start To his career, and that’s nice to see because it will upset sixers fans. Anything to upset Sixers fans. That’s my motto.

 

[Maine Fan]

Go Celtics

 

[Alicat]

Jayson Tatum reminds me so much of a young Reggie Lewis in the way he can just take over the game almost effortlessly and has such a pureness to his game that is captivating to watch.

We are so damn lucky to have him.

 

[Fenway]

Do the Knicks really think they can win a PR war with Spike Lee?

https://nypost.com/2020/03/03/knicks-hit-back-at-laughable-spike-lee-complaint-with-handshake-photo/

 

[Chief Nine]

Do the Knicks really think they can win a PR war with Spike Lee?

https://nypost.com/2020/03/03/knicks-hit-back-at-laughable-spike-lee-complaint-with-handshake-photo/

They both deserve each other

 

[Chief Nine]

Do the Knicks really think they can win a PR war with Spike Lee?

https://nypost.com/2020/03/03/knicks-hit-back-at-laughable-spike-lee-complaint-with-handshake-photo/

Spike can show up dressed like this and try to sneak past the gate (he'd be much shorter than Bernard King but I wouldn't put it past Spike to try it)

 

[CDJ]

Do the Knicks really think they can win a PR war with Spike Lee?

https://nypost.com/2020/03/03/knicks-hit-back-at-laughable-spike-lee-complaint-with-handshake-photo/

they banned Charles Oakley, idk if they care about their image among Knicks fans. That was the last straw for a lot of ppl

 

[KesselBuiltMyHotrod]

They're gonna give up 51 points in the 4th and choke this away

 

[Smitty93]

They're gonna give up 51 points in the 4th and choke this away

They saw what Houston did the game before and thought "yeah, we can blow a 5 point lead in the last minute too"

 

[CDJ]

impressive 4th quarter

 

[Smitty93]

Literally all they needed to do was not touch Levert. He wasn't scoring from there.

That's such an awful collapse. How do you let Caris Levert put a 50-burger on you?

 

[KesselBuiltMyHotrod]

Humiliating loss. Really killed my confidence in this team.

 

[CDJ]

Eh, just a loss in early March to me. Especially with Tatum sick.

a bad loss. Probably the worst of the season. But just a loss.

 

[pgm16]

Bad loss, but they don't have many. Hopefully everyone is healthy for playoffs.

 

[Alicat]

They are getting absolutely roasted right now and it is well deserved.

This loss was inexcusable.

 

[Alicat]

Now they’re looking into whether Marcus Smart touched the ref when he confronted him. Sigh.

 

[Mr Cartmenez]

Eh, just a loss in early March to me. Especially with Tatum sick.

a bad loss. Probably the worst of the season. But just a loss.

I wouldn't say that. In my opinion the difference between the #2 and #3 seed can make all the difference in the world. 1st round match up would be much easier (Orlando vs. Philly/Indiana, especially against Philly it would be close to a toss-up at best, bad match-up) and a potential 2nd round HFA against a pretty evenly matched Toronto Raptors team.

It's a good year for the "sleeper"-contenders to shoot for the finals. When was the last time the huge favorites were so underwhelming? Milwaukee (even by someone like Miami) can be beat and the West is wide open, don't see the Lakers as huge favorites.

Usually I agree with Dannys decisions, but this year he made the wrong move by standing pat. If the deadline were tomorrow, I doubt he would do it again. He just didn't think a few weeks ago that "going for it" was worth it. But Tatums ascension has changed the teams ceiling.
Our weak bench will eventually do us in. They really needed a spark plug from the bench.

 

[CDJ]

I wouldn't say that. In my opinion the difference between the #2 and #3 seed can make all the difference in the world. 1st round match up would be much easier (Orlando vs. Philly/Indiana, especially against Philly it would be close to a toss-up at best, bad match-up) and a potential 2nd round HFA against a pretty evenly matched Toronto Raptors team.

It's a good year for the "sleeper"-contenders to shoot for the finals. When was the last time the huge favorites were so underwhelming? Milwaukee (even by someone like Miami) can be beat and the West is wide open, don't see the Lakers as huge favorites.

Usually I agree with Dannys decisions, but this year he made the wrong move by standing pat. If the deadline were tomorrow, I doubt he would do it again. He just didn't think a few weeks ago that "going for it" was worth it. But Tatums ascension has changed the teams ceiling.
Our weak bench will eventually do us in. They really needed a spark plug from the bench.

not sure how you get that without getting rid of Smart or Kanter/Theis

Bench becomes a lot less weak when everybody’s healthy.

also I think we smoke Philly. They are basically last years Celtics. On paper they look like a world beater but they have zero chemistry.

there’s only one team worth really worrying about in the East and it’s Milwaukee. MAYBE Toronto. Every other team is either a toss up for us or better imo


So yeah at the end of the day it’s a regular season loss in March. Shit happens. Bad loss but not really indicative of anything.

 

[CDJ]

Jaylen has a bum hammy, out at least a week


Get him fresh heading into the postseason