Just finished watching.  can't believe they let it get that close down the stretch but JB hanging tough down the stretch for them. 

hoping Q is able to go for the next game or this team is going to really struggle

It's hard because we compare them to the championship level team we had the past several years...but this team is largely scrubs, other than JB, White and PP and to a lesser extent Sam. And PP and White have not had to do as much heavy lifting in the team in the past as they have this year. In past years they could play mediocre, maybe not turn up 100% focused, but because they had JT, JB and KP as the main lifters, then they had the likes of Al and Jrue, even if they gave up a 20 point lead they had the quality to still win (and remember they didn't always win either).

Now, the margins are much thinner, but the expectations on everyone are bigger too. Including guys like Walsh, Minott, Queta, Garza, Gonzalez, these guys are trying to carve out regular roles in the team, they don't have the life experiences that JB and the others had to go through to learn. They're just trying to make sure they do what Joe wants them to do, they're not thinking "we need to stop this Magic run", they're thinking "I have to defend Franz, make sure he doesn't have any open shots". Jaylen, DW and PP are the ones that have to manage the game and make sure their teammates just win each moment without complicating their lives.

Personally, I've managed to reset my expectations of the team, I know there's going to be a lot of screw ups, we will tear our hairs out with some of the things they do, because they're learning and in a normal Celtics year we wouldn't be relying on these guys, but we're trying to see who sticks next year and who doesn't. Somehow I've managed to achieve a nirvana where my expectations of them are low enough that I'm not upset if they screw up because of inexperience, it's more of a scientific curiosity I have to see how they respond to the increased responsibility 

Always feels good to win, but Brown and White do not need to be playing 35+ minutes this year. There's no money in it for us.
I still think Tatum's excess minutes every season (along with off-season activities) directly contributed to his Achilles injury.

Jaylen is averaging 32.4 minutes, his lowest since the 2018-2019 season, so I do not exactly get this comment.  White is playing 32.9 per game, which is less than last year as well.

Saw one report that said MCL and this that says sprain.

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/campbell-season-latest-injury-england-020532311.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAE9wKQ-QCmAQuDDHRMpekPffzQRUTUEMh8ybgjhvu2qy68VbQtvHSNTjx4yLEuqovw4yiKGhjlaHjE_eeEIICc0DM3zMBpqKWo97fOd7AjgxG7nxNuKfE4ycYp5-p5cAuLiHP4H-wnwVuOV4tKaEy5aIZNTsqwXRbvPSpYpnG7q5


I guess nothing really known definitively yet.

MCL sprain is probably the best thing that can happen to him

Just finished watching.  can't believe they let it get that close down the stretch but JB hanging tough down the stretch for them. 

hoping Q is able to go for the next game or this team is going to really struggle

Quote from: Moranis on Yesterday at 12:33:50 PM

He is behind Magic, Oscar, and Stockton in the all time PG hierarchy but I think you could argue him as high as 4.  I have Thomas 4 and Kidd 5 with Paul 6, but I think you could argue those spots and not sound like a crazy person.

Where is Steph Curry? Are you excluding from PG rankings? Considering him as a SG or combo guard rather than PG?

I never know where to put him positionallly.  If he is a PG he'd be 2nd behind Magic. I suppose the same is also true of Oscar positonally