Celtics News

[boscel33]

Many of us talk about this, but it's nice to see Red's comments!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/red-auerbach-said-the-nba-set-the-celtics-up-to-fail-in-the-90s-the-league-never-gave-us-a-chance-to-recover/ar-AA1SW8X3?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=694bee8f5cd842b89e9bc4145a043303&ei=16

[Birdman]

I alway will have a special place in my heart for Horford, Holiday & Porzingis but look like it was a great thing in not keeping all 3? Porzingus still fighting that virus & hopefully he be okay while Jru & Al been hurt most of the year

[Who]

https://x.com/CrumpledJumper/status/2003290505418080591/photo/1

Sooo... you're telling me that right now Neemy is a better rim protector (by 0.1!) than Ivaca Zubac that everyone thinks we should trade for and start ahead of Neemy?

I feel like people are underrating Q. Advanced metrics should always be taken with a grain of salt, but his are really impressive, particularly with a quarter of the season gone. Even more so when you consider how much he's getting paid.

Sometimes it's a snob thing, he was a nobody last season, he's getting paid peanuts, he's unspectacular, it's hard to change that paradigm of how we viewed him. I feel he impacts winning a lot more than people give him credit for. He's a perfect Moneyball type player to me.

Most of the names that people have brought up as supposed upgrades actually have worse advanced metrics than him, and cost ten times as much. Look at his percentiles for on-off. He's improved in pretty much every facet other than his free throw rate and his pts/possession and eFG. He's in the 90th %ile among all bigs in terms of his on-off differential, and his defensive metrics are all in the top 10-20% of bigs.

Queta only plays half the game. 25mpg. We need a 2nd starting caliber for the other half of the game.

It is not a question that Queta isn't solid. It is that we have 48 minutes at center and he is filling only half of them. Queta is not enough.

[Phantom255x]

What we simply need is another big man, it could be someone better than Queta, or even just a viable backup behind him who can eat 20-25 minutes a night regularly. Because when Queta struggles, is in foul trouble or simply doesn't play due to injury that's when the issues arise. Because clearly Tillman/Boucher aren't trusted and are unplayable, and Garza I guess can have a few decent games here or there but that's not an ideal option still.

[Neurotic Guy]

If you are familiar with what makes Mazzulla tick, you may not be surprised by what he told 98.5 The Sports Hub's Zolak & Bertrand during his weekly radio interview Friday. "We obviously have a dog, but I'm trying to convince (my wife) to get a wolf that just kind of roams the area of our house, as kind of an extra layer of protection," Mazzulla said

It appears Mazzulla is meeting some resistance on the wolf front, however. "Apparently the trainer said that another guy had one and it turned on him in the middle of the night," Mazzulla added (To the trainer's point, wolves are wild animals for a reason. But Mazzulla insisted he wouldn't find himself in the same predicament. "I was like, '(The wolf) didn't have a good enough relationship with him,'" Mazzulla replied.

He is a unique human. Definitely interesting, I?m not sure how mentally healthy.  But I think many professional head coaches are driven and prone to obsessive thinking. Not necessarily a bad thing but those who choose to be part of their daily lives (like spouses) probably need to be unique themselves. I imagine that it may not be easy at times.

[Silas]

From CelticsBlog....the Cs after 30 games:

Record: 19-11 (7th most wins in NBA)
ORTG: 121.4 (2nd in NBA)
DRTG: 114.3 (15th in NBA)
NET: +7.0 (4th in NBA)
TS%: 58.9% (12th in NBA)
eFG%: 56.0% (8th in NBA)
TOV%: 12.6 (2nd in NBA)
OREB%: 33.2% (7th in NBA)
DREB%: 66.9% (28th in NBA)
Opponent PTS: 110.4 (2nd in NBA)
Opponent FG%: 44.7% (3rd in NBA)

not too shabby...