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Re: So we have 2 stars and a very good player in Horford, what is left?
« Reply #15 on: July 09, 2017, 12:04:29 AM »

Offline max215

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OP said two stars but made no mention of Jayson Tatum...
Isaiah, you were lightning in a bottle.

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Re: So we have 2 stars and a very good player in Horford, what is left?
« Reply #16 on: July 09, 2017, 12:04:50 AM »

Offline saltlover

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Ball Handlers:   IT/Smart/Rozier   B+/A-      When IT takes over, the Celtics are very good

Wings: Hayward/Brown/Tatum/Crowder/Morris   A-       Great depth and very good potential

Bigs: Horford/Zizic/Yabu        B+       Horford is a good NBA player. Who knows about the others


What is left depends on what the goal is.

Championship team: A top 5 player (not likely to happen)
Top 5 team: Another top 30 player.
Top 10 team: They're already there.


Considering we were inarguably a top-5 team last year, you are insinuating either we got worse, or a number of teams have gotten better.

We lost a very good player in Bradley, and a decent one in KO. We added an all-star in Hayward, another potential go-to scorer in Tatum, and a versatile, tough Morris.

Other teams may have improved, but so did we. I think we were the 4th-best team last season, and will be even better this one. So, who leapfrogged us? Houston? There's only one ball. Minnesota? Nope. OKC? Lol.

I modified my post right after I posted it. You saw my error. They are top 5.

My rankings (on-paper, no chemistry considerations):

Tier 1: GS
Tier 2: CLE
Tier 3: HOU, SA, BOS, OKC
Tier 4: MIN, TOR, WAS, MIL

There is no way in the world we are on the same Tier as SA.. They are a 60 Win team on average in the west and they have arguably the true best player in the league in KL, also beleive that they would have knocked off The CAV's last year if they met..
At the very least they should be in Teir 2 alone..

We may (or may not) be in Teir 3 but even if we are, there is a huge gap between Tier 2 and 3.

I may be in the minority, but I believed the Spurs could have beaten the Warriors this past season.

They played them very well in the regular season and were up like 22 points before Kawhi went down and out. They were a very bad matchup for the Dubs.

I don't know if they would've beaten the Warriors, but I absolutely think they'd have beaten the Cavs.  They were unequivocally the second-best team in the league last year.

Re: So we have 2 stars and a very good player in Horford, what is left?
« Reply #17 on: July 09, 2017, 07:30:02 AM »

Offline __ramonezy__

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Don't sleep on Horford's "all-star" ability. He's our Chris Bosh, the legitimate star that sacrifices stats for the team good. This guy is Duncan-esque with the way he controls the flow of the game. Horford is going to be this year's biggest surprise... simply because how underrated he is... IT didn't become 3rd leading scorer by accident