Celtics (24-9) at Timberwolves (17-15) Game #34 1/2/25

[jpotter33]

https://x.com/ByJayKing/status/1874946316331368844

Both JB and KP out tonight.


Good Lord. Are we being punished by the Basketball Gods for being mostly healthy last year?  It?s like we?re missing two to three top rotation players every night. How many games have our top six played together - two full games maybe?

And the KP stuff is getting really concerning and frustrating. A slight ankle turn turns into a five to six game absence for him, though hopefully this is as much about him playing tomorrow with Al sitting out the B2B.

[Neurotic Guy]

https://x.com/ByJayKing/status/1874946316331368844

Both JB and KP out tonight.


Good Lord. Are we being punished by the Basketball Gods for being mostly healthy last year?  It?s like we?re missing two to three top rotation players every night. How many games have our top six played together - two full games maybe?

And the KP stuff is getting really concerning and frustrating. A slight ankle turn turns into a five to six game absence for him, though hopefully this is as much about him playing tomorrow with Al sitting out the B2B.

KP can?t stay on the court. It?s who he is. Got to hope the timing is right for him to be able to help out for a few games in the ECF and in the Finals if we get there.  I do hope Brad can somehow add a contributing big at the deadline. 

[Phantom255x]

https://x.com/ByJayKing/status/1874946316331368844

Both JB and KP out tonight.


Good Lord. Are we being punished by the Basketball Gods for being mostly healthy last year?  It?s like we?re missing two to three top rotation players every night. How many games have our top six played together - two full games maybe?

And the KP stuff is getting really concerning and frustrating. A slight ankle turn turns into a five to six game absence for him, though hopefully this is as much about him playing tomorrow with Al sitting out the B2B.

I personally think they are prioritizing health and load management this season a lot more than previous seasons. I mean Jaylen looked perfectly fine in the Raptors game. Now he?s out? I?m sure he?ll play tomorrow though. Jrue also randomly missed a week just recently.

The Porzingis one will become super annoying IF he doesn?t play tomorrow either as you said.

Last year?s team mostly played besides Horford rest days and others having clear injuries. But I wonder if a deep playoff run and some of our guys playing Olympics has them a little more fatigued than usual.

[Phantom255x]

Have a sneaky feeling JT goes off tonight, maybe 35+ points and a double-double.

Jaylen's out. KP out.

Going Tatum 38/10/6 statline or something very close. Hopefully in a winning effort and him outdueling Ant

[liam]

Let's go bench!

[Silas]

PP, Luke, and Sam need to step up big tonight.

[mobilija]

More Walshy pls

Keep giving the kid more time and confidence

[jpotter33]

Come out with two top of the key pull up threes and a quick trigger Hauser three.  Lovely. Hate this offense.

EDIT: Then add two more bad quick threes. Hate it.

[Neurotic Guy]

First 6 shots from 3.  I don?t even care that they?ve made none.

[Phantom255x]

Horrible start

[jpotter33]

Boy, amazing what happens when you come down and don't just automatically look to jack up awful threes.

But the defense is still broken.

[Surferdad]

Horrible start

Bad defense, worse offense

[tenn_smoothie]

So we shot a few less 3's vs Toronto the other night and scored inside more and won big.
I thought, maybe, the team is seeing the wisdom of better shot selection.
Appears Joe dispelled them of that notion quickly, opening up tonight firing one howitzer after another from 3.
Joe probably made them run extra sprints in practice yesterday for not reaching 50 3-point attempts on Tuesday night.

[Neurotic Guy]

First 6 shots from 3.  I don?t even care that they?ve made none.

Meaning they can?t keep starting games by chucking longballs.  Terrible start. 

[jpotter33]

First 6 shots from 3.  I don?t even care that they?ve made none.

Meaning they can?t keep starting games by chucking longballs.  Terrible start.

What's worse is that it's not just quantity but the quality that is suffering. Of the 7 threes we've taken thus far, really only the White baseline three was a good, quality three point shot with Hauser's being a marginal quality shot. All of the other ones were quick pull up threes of poor quality.