Lakers (34-8) at Celtics (27-14) Game #42 1/20/20

[Scottiej23]

Brad took this game quite seriously by cutting the rotation to eight guys. Could this show us that another bench scorer is our greatesr need?

A healthy Robert Williams

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And why not give Jamal Crawford a 10 day?

Thing with Crawford is his days as an NBA player have passed. He was a 41% shooter for his career. The thing with him, particularly these last few years, is that you only heard about him when he had a bit of a scoring burst in a game. The problem was the long stretches of games inbetween those that you wouldn't hear about. He's also one of those guys where, if he's not scoring he's not bringing anything else. I don't think he gives us anything we need, at least nowhere near the level of consistancy we require.

[Mahk E Mahk]

Romeo is one slick cat

Very good at those shots off the backboard, floaters etc

Reminds me of one of those really good old school slashers attacking/slithering to the basket

Dribbles the ball super low to the ground. Not easy to swipe away

Agreed...great hands, soft around the rim...let's hope we have a top #2 in the making

on his last basket, it looked like he went up for a dunk, got challenged, hung in the air and adjusted to kiss it off the glass. pretty amazing stuff for a rook.

[GreenFaith1819]

A most satisfying win!

[liam]

Romeo is one slick cat

Very good at those shots off the backboard, floaters etc

Reminds me of one of those really good old school slashers attacking/slithering to the basket

Dribbles the ball super low to the ground. Not easy to swipe away

Agreed...great hands, soft around the rim...let's hope we have a top #2 in the making

on his last basket, it looked like he went up for a dunk, got challenged, hung in the air and adjusted to kiss it off the glass. pretty amazing stuff for a rook.

He is a natural scorer.

[slamtheking]

Does Lebron have anymore fight in him?

Zero attack to the basket(beast mode)

AD also looked pretty normal tonight

Lebron's old. And AD always nursing some injury

Have a feeling he leaves LA in offseason. Imagine the reaction if he does?!

Here?  we'll go nuts with joy
true fans of the NBA?  they'll rejoice that a bogus agent and Lebron could not successfully scheme their way to another superteazm
Laker fans? they'll weep and whine as always

[CaNdyMaN1369]

Missed it...                         So Happy      the Celtics destroyed the Fakers...         not for sure how they did it, but i'm glad they did...

[Scottiej23]

Does Lebron have anymore fight in him?

Zero attack to the basket(beast mode)

AD also looked pretty normal tonight

Lebron's old. And AD always nursing some injury

Have a feeling he leaves LA in offseason. Imagine the reaction if he does?!

Here?  we'll go nuts with joy
true fans of the NBA?  they'll rejoice that a bogus agent and Lebron could not successfully scheme their way to another superteazm
Laker fans? they'll weep and whine as always

I hope he stays there and fails (does not win another championship).

Great, great individual player and for me is in the discussion for greatest of all time. But an absolutely poisonous teammate and non-existant leadership.

[nickagneta]

Celtics win games one of two ways - either red-hot streaky shooting or they just out-work, out-hustle the other team. So, as we have seen many times, if we are not shooting well, we have no inside game to turn to and we have a good defense, but it requires lots of energy to be effective. no shooting and little effort = Loss. You get one or the other, I'd say 60% chance to win. Of course, those nights when we are playing with high energy and intense effort and shooting it well, we become a top 3 team in the league.

Tonite vs Lakers, we are playing with energy and grit and shooting a decent %, though not off the charts. Lakers out-shooting us, but effort is getting it done so far - Can we maintain this energy ?

Are you watching this game? Boston's inside game has been excellent. Kanter 18/8

Yep, I'm watching. Are you ? typical comment - Kanter has scored off offensive rebounds and in-close slip passes for little layups. That is not a post player making an offensive move and shot over a defender.

You can't be watching this game. Celtics are killing the Lakers on the boards, have more offensive rebounds and lead the Lakers in points in the paint. Boston's inside game has been outstanding.

His definition of an inside game are Duncan-esque post ups that have bigs pounding the ball under the basket every possession.

Which would be an ok strategy ... if we had a talent like Duncan

I'd rather have Garnett scaling up with the Jays, Kemba and Hayward with excellent outside shooting and GOAT level big man passing

I'd settle for any all-time 7 footer to be honest.

My definition of an inside game is an actual inside game. I am all for offensive rebounding, great  job Kanter. My original point, which was missed due to a lack of understanding of basketball, was that if the perimeter shots are clanging, as we sometimes see on those nightmare shooting games from Tatum and Brown, the Celtics do not have another offensive option.

Obviously, in today's game, we are not going to see a player like Kevin McHale receive an entry pass and make a two-step move to score. But there are still elements of inside post scoring within the offense that some teams' still enjoy that gives them an additional offensive option.

The only one not understanding basketball is you.

An inside game is more than an ability to throw the ball to a big guy that makes a down low move. What you call inside basketball is only a big with low posts moves.

But an inside game means having the ability to defend inside. It means having the ability to drive and score inside. It means having the ability to rebound inside. It means having the ability at low posts moves. It means having the ability to put back offensive rebounds.

The Celtics inside game was tremendous tonight.

[liam]

Missed it...                         So Happy      the Celtics destroyed the Fakers...         not for sure how they did it, but i'm glad they did...

They out worked the Lakers and they shot really well!

[Mahk E Mahk]

Celtics win games one of two ways - either red-hot streaky shooting or they just out-work, out-hustle the other team. So, as we have seen many times, if we are not shooting well, we have no inside game to turn to and we have a good defense, but it requires lots of energy to be effective. no shooting and little effort = Loss. You get one or the other, I'd say 60% chance to win. Of course, those nights when we are playing with high energy and intense effort and shooting it well, we become a top 3 team in the league.

Tonite vs Lakers, we are playing with energy and grit and shooting a decent %, though not off the charts. Lakers out-shooting us, but effort is getting it done so far - Can we maintain this energy ?

Are you watching this game? Boston's inside game has been excellent. Kanter 18/8

Yep, I'm watching. Are you ? typical comment - Kanter has scored off offensive rebounds and in-close slip passes for little layups. That is not a post player making an offensive move and shot over a defender.

You can't be watching this game. Celtics are killing the Lakers on the boards, have more offensive rebounds and lead the Lakers in points in the paint. Boston's inside game has been outstanding.

His definition of an inside game are Duncan-esque post ups that have bigs pounding the ball under the basket every possession.

Which would be an ok strategy ... if we had a talent like Duncan

I'd rather have Garnett scaling up with the Jays, Kemba and Hayward with excellent outside shooting and GOAT level big man passing

I'd settle for any all-time 7 footer to be honest.

My definition of an inside game is an actual inside game. I am all for offensive rebounding, great  job Kanter. My original point, which was missed due to a lack of understanding of basketball, was that if the perimeter shots are clanging, as we sometimes see on those nightmare shooting games from Tatum and Brown, the Celtics do not have another offensive option.

Obviously, in today's game, we are not going to see a player like Kevin McHale receive an entry pass and make a two-step move to score. But there are still elements of inside post scoring within the offense that some teams' still enjoy that gives them an additional offensive option.

The only one not understanding basketball is you.

An inside game is more than an ability to throw the ball to a big guy that makes a down low move. What you call inside basketball is only a big with low posts moves.

But an inside game means having the ability to defend inside. It means having the ability to drive and score inside. It means having the ability to rebound inside. It means having the ability at low posts moves. It means having the ability to put back offensive rebounds.

The Celtics inside game was tremendous tonight.

boys, boys! let it go and enjoy the W!

[RockinRyA]

Langford looks like a pro on offence, the moves he has are really advanced for a guard/wing combo.

agreed.  the few on the site that complain he's a bust already have no idea what this kid can do

Its just 3-5 vocal idiots who think they can see the future.

[liam]

Langford looks like a pro on offence, the moves he has are really advanced for a guard/wing combo.

agreed.  the few on the site that complain he's a bust already have no idea what this kid can do

Its just 3-5 vocal idiots who think they can see the future.

Langford looks as smooth as butter. 

[tenn_smoothie]

Celtics win games one of two ways - either red-hot streaky shooting or they just out-work, out-hustle the other team. So, as we have seen many times, if we are not shooting well, we have no inside game to turn to and we have a good defense, but it requires lots of energy to be effective. no shooting and little effort = Loss. You get one or the other, I'd say 60% chance to win. Of course, those nights when we are playing with high energy and intense effort and shooting it well, we become a top 3 team in the league.

Tonite vs Lakers, we are playing with energy and grit and shooting a decent %, though not off the charts. Lakers out-shooting us, but effort is getting it done so far - Can we maintain this energy ?

Are you watching this game? Boston's inside game has been excellent. Kanter 18/8

Yep, I'm watching. Are you ? typical comment - Kanter has scored off offensive rebounds and in-close slip passes for little layups. That is not a post player making an offensive move and shot over a defender.

You can't be watching this game. Celtics are killing the Lakers on the boards, have more offensive rebounds and lead the Lakers in points in the paint. Boston's inside game has been outstanding.

His definition of an inside game are Duncan-esque post ups that have bigs pounding the ball under the basket every possession.

Which would be an ok strategy ... if we had a talent like Duncan

I'd rather have Garnett scaling up with the Jays, Kemba and Hayward with excellent outside shooting and GOAT level big man passing

I'd settle for any all-time 7 footer to be honest.

My definition of an inside game is an actual inside game. I am all for offensive rebounding, great  job Kanter. My original point, which was missed due to a lack of understanding of basketball, was that if the perimeter shots are clanging, as we sometimes see on those nightmare shooting games from Tatum and Brown, the Celtics do not have another offensive option.

Obviously, in today's game, we are not going to see a player like Kevin McHale receive an entry pass and make a two-step move to score. But there are still elements of inside post scoring within the offense that some teams' still enjoy that gives them an additional offensive option.

The only one not understanding basketball is you.

An inside game is more than an ability to throw the ball to a big guy that makes a down low move. What you call inside basketball is only a big with low posts moves.

But an inside game means having the ability to defend inside. It means having the ability to drive and score inside. It means having the ability to rebound inside. It means having the ability at low posts moves. It means having the ability to put back offensive rebounds.

The Celtics inside game was tremendous tonight.

Thanks Nick - you just made my point for me.

[Sophomore]

Langford looks like a pro on offence, the moves he has are really advanced for a guard/wing combo.

agreed.  the few on the site that complain he's a bust already have no idea what this kid can do

Its just 3-5 vocal idiots who think they can see the future.

Langford looks as smooth as butter. 

Wonder if they’ll work him in more by the all star break or after... In his limited minutes his defense and rebounding have been solid, too.

[NKY fan]

Langford looks like a pro on offence, the moves he has are really advanced for a guard/wing combo.

agreed.  the few on the site that complain he's a bust already have no idea what this kid can do

Its just 3-5 vocal idiots who think they can see the future.

Langford looks as smooth as butter. 

Wonder if they’ll work him in more by the all star break or after... In his limited minutes his defense and rebounding have been solid, too.

So why wasn’t he playing in the bad stretch where we were shorthanded ?