Lakers (16-5) at Celtics (13-9) Game #23 12/5/25

[Neurotic Guy]

14-9.   About a 49 win pace.  Team is playing well.  Glad to see a wire to wire win and not let it get below 15.

[SparzWizard]

Phewww

Always nice to beat LA even on our slow years.

[SparzWizard]

up by 21 in the fourth quarter against the lakers. sometimes life is good. 

and yeah, walsh has somehow flipped a switch.  if he can keep this us and keep growing he will be valuable player.

Think he's had his Avery Bradley breakout game this week. Guy been a baller

[radiohead]

What a satisfying win. TPs all around!

[A Future of Stevens]

Alot of us complain about how the Lakers seem to stumble into talent....but dont we also?
(Luka excluded for obvious reasons)
We have FANTASTIC wings for the sub 24 category....we have a starting quality pg that keeps getting better on arguably the best contract in the league...and is Queta better than Ayton? Its close at least.

[radiohead]

11 pages and counting on a game thread. This must be the most we?ve had the past few weeks? Welcome back CStrong!

[Silas]

11 pages and counting on a game thread. This must be the most we?ve had the past few weeks? Welcome back CStrong!

TPs for CelticsStrong

[kraidstar]

TPs to all for the win and for putting up with watching that disgusting, FT-hunting Lakers team. Total frauds. Barring and epic effort by the officials they will get smoked again in the playoffs.

[hwangjini_1]

early on mazzulla put a lot of strange line ups on the floor. but now i can see how it paid off in finding whom to play and not play.

this may be mazzulla's best year as a coach yet. and as was noted over in SoSH:

"They?re 4th in garbage time filtered offensive rating. 88th percentile in points per 100 possessions with Jaylen on the court, and 69th percentile (118.8 lol, a result of offenses being juiced this season) even with him off the court."

[letsgoblue86]

Wonder if Horford is having buyers remorse right now.

Though we probably don?t see Walsh develop if horford was here taking his minutes.

[radiohead]

Alot of us complain about how the Lakers seem to stumble into talent....but dont we also?
(Luka excluded for obvious reasons)
We have FANTASTIC wings for the sub 24 category....we have a starting quality pg that keeps getting better on arguably the best contract in the league...and is Queta better than Ayton? Its close at least.

Ayton may be the more talented guy (former #1 pick at that) but when it comes to playing hard, having the right attitude,and improving oneself in the offseason, Q smokes DA by a mile. Queta was waived by Sacramento and Boston was the only team interested in him? Kudos to Brad for taking a chance.

[Phantom255x]

C's are technically tied for the 4 seed and also just 1 back of the 2 seed

[SHAQATTACK]

Wonder if Horford is having buyers remorse right now.

Though we probably don?t see Walsh develop if horford was here taking his minutes.

Yeah, the way Walsh is playing .  He is providing a lot of the offense and defense Horford left .  Al is getting really long of tooth now ,  we are probably better off with a young healthy fellow . Al has had so many concussions. He should stop playing I think.

[Celtics2021]

Wonder if Horford is having buyers remorse right now.

Though we probably don?t see Walsh develop if horford was here taking his minutes.

Second time Al has made a mistake in leaving.  I wonder if he gets traded at the deadline and agrees to a buyout.  He would still be better than Garza, Tillman, and Boucher.

[Phantom255x]

Wonder if Horford is having buyers remorse right now.

Though we probably don?t see Walsh develop if horford was here taking his minutes.

Second time Al has made a mistake in leaving.  I wonder if he gets traded at the deadline and agrees to a buyout.  He would still be better than Garza, Tillman, and Boucher.

Is he even allowed to come back to the Celtics this season? Also, it's really becoming similar to PHI/OKC where his role is iffy, and he's just missing games due to random injuries. At least here he had a real role and could get consistent minutes and opportunities