There's no getting around Danny and Brad phoning it in this year.

[Kiorrik]

I don't get the whole ignoring of the fact that we had injuries/covid.

How does that not affect every single game this season.

I truly believe that if we didn't have league highest missed games due to COVID, and 2 injuries less (Brown/Kemba) we'd have a season where we'd be at around .600.

That'd put us way up, and have us face BKN probably in the conference finals.

I honestly, truly, 100% believe, that without that more-than-significant portion of bad luck, we'd be conference (if not league) title contenders.

If we disagree on that, fine.

But you can't honestly think it had no impact on our whole season.

what happened to next man up? What affected the Cs is lack of depth to respond to the injury and COVID issues.

Lack of depth compounded by no real training camp or time to practice.  Plus, how many teams have the depth to replace multiple starters?

Yeah I honestly don't get it. Take away 3 of the starting 5 of any team and they're screwed.

[Mahk E Mahk]

if anyone should be suspected of phoning it in, i’d start with a few players. i didn’t see any evidence of this from brad or danny.

[Celtics4ever]

Yeah I honestly don't get it. Take away 3 of the starting 5 of any team and they're screwed.

The other side of the coin is that even if we had our starters do you think we could still beat the Nets, Bucks and Sixers?

[jambr380]

Yeah I honestly don't get it. Take away 3 of the starting 5 of any team and they're screwed.

The other side of the coin is that even if we had our starters do you think we could still beat the Nets, Bucks and Sixers?

I think if we had some continuity with our starters throughout the year, we definitely could have competed. We swept a Simmons-less Sixers team with essentially the same group last playoffs. Our ceiling was never as high as the Nets, but flip the script (us healthy and them missing Kyrie, Harden, and Blake) and we destroy them.

[Kiorrik]

Yeah I honestly don't get it. Take away 3 of the starting 5 of any team and they're screwed.

The other side of the coin is that even if we had our starters do you think we could still beat the Nets, Bucks and Sixers?

Sixers? Sure. Bucks? Yeah, honestly. Nets? Dunno. But it'd have been a lot closer.

[KG Living Legend]

Yeah I honestly don't get it. Take away 3 of the starting 5 of any team and they're screwed.

The other side of the coin is that even if we had our starters do you think we could still beat the Nets, Bucks and Sixers?

Sixers? Sure. Bucks? Yeah, honestly. Nets? Dunno. But it'd have been a lot closer.

 Sixes no. Bucks no way.

[elcotte]

Both of these guys phoned it in this year and I'm glad they did something at the end of the year to get some new blood in here. They should've made this move after the bubble. They should've played all the young guys a lot more if they were just giving the season away.

GM's are supposed to be on the phone.

[Moranis]

If you're of a believer in team chemistry and ball movement you'll understand that when the Celtics lost Horford and Hayward the basketball IQ of this team suffered.

If you need a reminder of what both look like, check out this years Phoenix Suns.

Not only that we lost them, but we didn't replace them at all really. The talent we had going out over the last couple of years (Horford, Hayward, Rozier, Morris, Baynes) was significantly higher than what we brought in (Kemba and Fournier + prospects)

So then you believe Ainge has been phoning it for years?

[Tr1boy]

I think Thompson has to go

His non chalent attitude towards the regular season doesnt help.  Non stretch ability created no space on the floor

Marcus Smart  .. I think is a goner also.  Team needs to give legit mins to Nesmith, Langford and Pritchard next season

Walker is likely untradeable.  Perhaps the next coach will have him buy into a bench role.  Would make sense also to limit knee flare ups

Grant, Edwards, Tacko, Kornet all have to go. Cant see Fournier and his salary demand coming back. Strictly a rental

Brad biggest needs will be to find stretch bigs.  Maybe they will bring back Olynyk. FA market role bigs such as Muscala. JaMychal Green

[gouki88]

If you're of a believer in team chemistry and ball movement you'll understand that when the Celtics lost Horford and Hayward the basketball IQ of this team suffered.

If you need a reminder of what both look like, check out this years Phoenix Suns.

Not only that we lost them, but we didn't replace them at all really. The talent we had going out over the last couple of years (Horford, Hayward, Rozier, Morris, Baynes) was significantly higher than what we brought in (Kemba and Fournier + prospects)

So then you believe Ainge has been phoning it for years?

No, like I've said before, he was a victim of circumstance.

Roy alluded to it earlier with all the guys who didn't come here (Millsap, Ibaka, Drummond) or trades we missed out on (Aaron Gordon, Myles Turner)

[Hoopvortex]

Both of these guys phoned it in this year and I'm glad they did something at the end of the year to get some new blood in here. They should've made this move after the bubble. They should've played all the young guys a lot more if they were just giving the season away.

Not what I saw, not how I interpreted what I saw.