Celtics Media Day

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Ben Rohrbach @brohrbach
1 minute ago
Kristaps Porzingis declares himself healthy: “Being here now, being healthy to start the season, it just gives me extra fire.” No limitations from the plantar fasciitis. “I’m perfectly fine.”

His plantar fascitis and how it is being handled worries me. Plantar fascitis doesn't just go away that quickly. It improves some and then it flares up again when you start working out or working out heavily on it again.

It seems very quick to me for Porzingis to be here at training camp and have no issues after having to sit out the international tournament.

It makes no sense to me. How could he have a problem serious enough to sit out that has healed so quickly? Plantar fascitis doesn't heal that quickly. It hangs around and hangs around making your life miserable.

I expect this will become a season long problem that he has to play through throughout the season until the end of the season. He will play in pain. He will be more limited in his mobility. And his performance will suffer.

KP said that shoes he was trying over the summer were really hurting his feet.  He went to different shoes and now he's feeling better.  It seems flimsy, but who knows?

Not too flimsy to me - had my shin splints compeltely healed by adding orthotics to fix my arch. Simple fixes for these kinds of inflammatory injuries don't shock me

Yeah, as someone who does distance running, its amazing how much  a difference a pair of shoes and some custom orthopedics can make.  I've had to return shoes before because they were screwing up my feet.  Run in a new pair and zero issues.   The right shoe/orthopedics can work wonders.

Conversely, it can also just been that canned "Never been better" stuff uttered at the begining of every training camp since the beginning of time.

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I think that’s a good articulation, Roy. And I think it reflects what many posters here get frustrated about. It’s not that we necessarily have a bad gameplan, but getting “outcoached” has a lot to do with one coach making the right adjustments by reacting to the game at hand.

Now, to be fair to Joe, he’s correct that deviating from a developed gameplan carries risk because there are times when those adjustments actually turn out worse. It comes down to risk appetite and a low risk appetite can look worse/be frustrating for fans when it results in a loss

This is where Charles Lee and Sam Cassell come in. These two would surely be in Joe’s ear if they see something isn’t working and Joe isn’t adjusting. I think Joe knows his weaknesses that’s why he got two topnotch assistants (it was reported that he reached put to these two guys right?). His “arrogance” during interviews certainly doesn’t endear him to us fans but I feel he’ll do a much better job this year with a full training camp and a couple of “head coach material” assistants to fall back on. Management has gone all in with the Jrue trade and Joe knows this. I don’t think he’ll have a very long leash this time around.

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Jrue's press conference is on right now.  He comes across as a humble guy with a great attitude.  Called the Boston fanbase "literally insane", haha.

EDIT:

Just ended.  Mostly standard stuff but he appears happy to be here.  Apparently there was a hard-ass practice today that Stevens and Pagliuca were raving about.  According to Brad, the execution understandably isn't there yet but the spirit definitely is. 

I'm looking forward to the season.  And I say that as somebody who was done with this team after the playoffs last year, lol.  Been nice to have a few months away but I'm ready for some basketball again.

Here were the quotes:

"There was just an electricity in the gym today when you have such great players playing at a high level," Pagliuca said. "Paul Pierce turned to us and said he's never seen an NBA practice in his whole career that they went that hard, and that fast for that long. He was really smiling as well."

Grousbeck was quite impressed with what he saw, too.

"We watched practice today, Jrue was out there, and in the 21 years of being here for me and Steve, we agreed this was one of the most energized, focused, driven and insanely connected groups," Grousbeck explained. "Jrue and the rest of the guys will probably comment on that as the season goes on, but this was a great start to see the team and how excited everybody is.

The owners saying that is one thing. Pierce's quote is cool -- for him to say that's the hardest, fastest practice he's ever seen is really something considering they tanked a few times to grind it out in practice instead. He might be embellishing but it must be rooted in some truth for him to make the comment. Even if Pagliuca mistranslated.