'20-21 First Half Schedule Released

[Donoghus]

Per Celtics Twitter.

https://www.nba.com/celtics/schedule

[libermaniac]

Thank you! TP.

I find it strange that they play lots of back to back games with the same team.  Smart with Covid, I guess. 

My totally rough estimate puts them at about 25-13 after those first 38.

[Donoghus]

Thank you! TP.

I find it strange that they play lots of back to back games with the same team.  Smart with Covid, I guess.

Yeah, the opponents were images while the rest is text.  I got rid of it.  I'll see if I can find something textual.

[Donoghus]

Let's try this.

[keevsnick]

Only three instances with more than a day off between games. I know players probably need more rest, but personally i love it.

Playing the same team multiple times on mini "series" could be fun. Nice to see if teams make game plan adjustments night to night, or feuds carry over between games.

[RodyTur10]

I don't get it. Must be an American thing that everything needs to be bigger, more tough.
16 games in January and then 15 games in the short February month.
That's a crazy schedule. Just simply crazy.

Most sports (including basketball) in the Netherlands/Europe have 2 games a week and often (like football/soccer) players and coaches are complaining about overload. Sure you have less opportunities to make substitutions in football, but still.

Raymond Verheijen graduated in movement sciences, an author on exercise physiology, fitness and football coach, once did an study on rest days in football and he found out that at a minimum players needed 3 full days to recover. When matches were scheduled that didn't meet that requirement it turned out that the team that had more rest had a great advantage in their results leading to competition distortion.

I have no idea if there has been done such a research on basketball, but I can't imagine that a basketball player can fully recover from playing 30+ minutes a game with an average rest of less than 48 hours between games.

[nickagneta]

I don't get it. Must be an American thing that everything needs to be bigger, more tough.
16 games in January and then 15 games in the short February month.
That's a crazy schedule. Just simply crazy.

Most sports (including basketball) in the Netherlands/Europe have 2 games a week and often (like football/soccer) players and coaches are complaining about overload. Sure you have less opportunities to make substitutions in football, but still.

Raymond Verheijen graduated in movement sciences, an author on exercise physiology, fitness and football coach, once did an study on rest days in football and he found out that at a minimum players needed 3 full days to recover. When matches were scheduled that didn't meet that requirement it turned out that the team that had more rest had a great advantage in their results leading to competition distortion.

I have no idea if there has been done such a research on basketball, but I can't imagine that a basketball player can fully recover from playing 30+ minutes a game with an average rest of less than 48 hours between games.

They have been doing it for decades. Obviously there is no need to rest three days between games or else it would have shown up in large amounts poorly played late season and playoff games.

[RodyTur10]

I don't get it. Must be an American thing that everything needs to be bigger, more tough.
16 games in January and then 15 games in the short February month.
That's a crazy schedule. Just simply crazy.

Most sports (including basketball) in the Netherlands/Europe have 2 games a week and often (like football/soccer) players and coaches are complaining about overload. Sure you have less opportunities to make substitutions in football, but still.

Raymond Verheijen graduated in movement sciences, an author on exercise physiology, fitness and football coach, once did an study on rest days in football and he found out that at a minimum players needed 3 full days to recover. When matches were scheduled that didn't meet that requirement it turned out that the team that had more rest had a great advantage in their results leading to competition distortion.

I have no idea if there has been done such a research on basketball, but I can't imagine that a basketball player can fully recover from playing 30+ minutes a game with an average rest of less than 48 hours between games.

They have been doing it for decades. Obviously there is no need to rest three days between games or else it would have shown up in large amounts poorly played late season and playoff games.

The amount of injuries and fatigue on lots of players during every playoffs makes me question that.

Was Miami not benefiting from Boston having played a 7-game-series against Toronto, in particular Tatum?
 
And the injuries that Miami was coping with (Adebayo, Dragic) in the NBA Finals, weren't they more a result of fysical complaints from previous games than misfortune? (of course no way to prove it)