Quote from: Redz on Yesterday at 09:44:14 PM

I?ll give you 11 guesses at who had the Celtics best +/- tonight!  No peeking.

I peeked. Shows how misleading that stat can be.

I just watched the game. Wow. Great effort. Rough start for JB but he had a great second quarter and finished strong except for a couple of ill-advised threes on the fourth.
I?m still loving Minott.  Hugo and Jordan too.  But story of the game was Derrick White.  Is he back?  The other story of the game is - how do you beat the team with the best record in the conference when you simply can?t got a defensive rebound unless it magically falls into your lap?  I didn?t see the OR stats but seemed like 20+ for Detroit.

JB is a top ten player in the league at the moment. He looks at times like James Harden and at times like KD.  He couldn?t buy a basket at the rim in the early going but still ended up with 30+ points. Simons couldn?t make a shot but sunk 2 key FTs at the end - as did DW and PP. I HATED the strategy to foul Detroit at the end and it nearly cost them. I?ll have to look at the thread to see what others thought/think of that strategy. I guess if you have absolutely no faith that the Cs can secure a rebound maybe it makes some sense, but I felt like - play some D and if they hit a contested three, so be it. 

Terrific win - especially with no Q.  Great to see Amari out there.

Quote from: Neurotic Guy on Yesterday at 11:43:39 PM

But story of the game was Derrick White.  Is he back? 

I thought D White was playing badly. Taking bad shots. The ball was just going in. I am not taking much hope from that performance. He was settling for bad shots. He was just lucky. Not playing smart efficient basketball. Just good fortune bailing out bad decisions.

LaMelo has missed 7 games in November and even in the 6 games he's played this month including tonight, in that span he's shot a whopping 30-88 (34%) from the field, including 3-11 tonight as his team is getting wrecked.

The Kings are the kind of team that'd trade for him because they're the directionless Kings but otherwise I really don't see who'd be interested, he's not exactly a winning player either and I don't think it's just the Hornets. He's not showing signs of improving his defense or other parts of his game.

Are there any centers out there who can successfully:

-Play impact defense
-Rebound well
-Hit 30% of their threes
-Play the pick and roll well
-Stay healthy

If so, please get them. Feels like all the guys named check only some of those four boxes.

• $51m over the salary cap
• $12m over the luxury tax (so we have not reset the repeater tax, despite all the criticism from people that the owner is being cheap)
• $4m over the first apron
• $7.8m under the second apron, so any salary greater than this will put us back in the 2nd apron with all the restrictions. And since we were there last season, we only have one more season we can be above it before our draft pick is frozen and goes to the very end of the first round