« Reply #1233 on: June 05, 2021, 10:04:54 AM »
Funny how everyone makes injury excuses for the Lakers yet completely ignore them when it comes to other teams like the Celtics and Sixers (if Embiid's injury is serious), etc. 
Yeah, it’s interesting to see the different takes on two teams that finished the season as #7 seeds, got decimated by major injuries, and lost in the first round.
The Celtics were a middling team all season while the Lakers were the 2nd best team in the West when their injuries happened. They just had different ceilings when fully healthy, which is why they are talked about differently.
The Celtics were never healthy this season.
Exactly. I was trying to get stats but from this link, it seems Kemba, Tatum, Brown and Smart barely played together while healthy this year. Anyone have the actual totals where at least one person was missing? The link below says it barely happened at all.
https://www.lineups.com/nba/lineups/boston-celtics
Those four guys played 292 minutes together this year, but it's hard to say how many of those minutes featured all four being anywhere close to healthy. Very few.
Kemba was really never healthy all year.
Smart injured his calf at the end of January.
Tatum got COVID in January.
Brown had tendonitis in his left knee since at least February.
Comparison:
LeBron and AD played 601 minutes together this season. More than double.
How many minutes did Tatum and Brown play together this season? Why use 4 players for one team, but only 2 for the other?
Because the Lakers constructed a roster based on having two superstars, whereas the Celtics had a roster based on four lesser stars. I mean, it shows in the salaries. LeBron and Davis made a combined $73 million compared to the ~$80 million of the Celtics top 4. That’s much closer than comparing Davis and Lebron’s $73 million to the J’s $33 million.
so Tatum is Boston's 5th best player, since salary matters in that way. Tatum is a max player, he is just on his rookie contract. To do what you are doing makes no sense. Schroder and KCP both make similar money to Fournier and Smart, why would they not count?
2 players are always going to play more minutes then 4 players when you include the same 2 players. It isn't an apt comparison. You either need to include the Lakers top 4 or just go with Boston's top 2 if you want to have a fair comparison.
You’re funny in your adamant support of all things LeBron.
That isn't a support of Lebron, that is a support of logic, which is where most of my ideas come from i.e. if it is logical, it is probably something I believe.
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