Celtics ranked 28th? Seriously?

[Denis998]

I would say this guy should get fired, but he isn't even an accredited journalist. BR lets any random write.

[sahara]

So the young team that made playoffs and got better is the third worst team in the league next season?



Vitun spede.

[PhoSita]

Yep, that's Bleacher Report for ya.

No explanation given to support the conclusion aside form the entirely subjective opinion of the author, and very little even at that.


The Celts have way too much depth to fall that far.  To end up with the 3rd worst record they'd have to be put in a position where they are relying on rookies or washed up vets for big minutes.  I just don't see how that could happen, unless the team jet crashes or something.

[LGC88]

28th? That's too optimistic, that means we have a chance at the top 3 draft pick? Wow, so much for trying to tank in 2014 and get the 6th pick. No need to try so hard, just let BR guide you 
On another note, you should know KG Living Legend better. You know his titles and how he makes everybody answer each post he creates.
There is a translation to be made underneath his excitement.
I read the title as "Hey, this Celtics team has a chance to win 50 games next season".
Don't be too harsh on semantic. 

[dreamgreen]

Honestly with the depth of this team it would be almost impossible to finish that bad. 

[Celtics4ever]

Ought to show folks how little our guys are respected outside of Boston though to some degree.  Folks think we had a bad offseason too, and a crap draft outside of Boston.

I think Ainge did what he could, I like our picks, I do not think they are all world.   But I think three of them are NBA quality players.

[Chief Macho]

Sounds more realistic than most of you homers.

[D.o.s.]

Friendly.

[MBunge]

To put it in further perspective, this guy is saying Boston is going to go from winning 40 games last season to no more than 22 or 23 next season.  Has any team ever done that without...

A.  Serious injuries to more than one player?

B.  Blowing up a team and trading away its best talent?

Mike

[celticsclay]

Sounds more realistic than most of you homers.

great post, value added

[D.o.s.]

To put it in further perspective, this guy is saying Boston is going to go from winning 40 games last season to no more than 22 or 23 next season.  Has any team ever done that without...

A.  Serious injuries to more than one player?

B.  Blowing up a team and trading away its best talent?

Mike

I know the Kings did it in from 2008 to 2009, when they went from 37 to 18 wins or something like that, but I can't remember the details.

[KG Living Legend]

Sounds more realistic than most of you homers.

 Can't out of here with that crap. 22 wins is upsurd.

[Big333223]

It's hard to imagine the Celtics finishing with a worse record than the Timberwolves and Portland (if only for playing in the West) or the Magic and Nets, who (I think) have clearly inferior talent. Adding in Denver and Philly as the article does, I'd say Boston's worst case scenario this season is 24th worst in the league.

[KG Living Legend]

28th? That's too optimistic, that means we have a chance at the top 3 draft pick? Wow, so much for trying to tank in 2014 and get the 6th pick. No need to try so hard, just let BR guide you 
On another note, you should know KG Living Legend better. You know his titles and how he makes everybody answer each post he creates.
There is a translation to be made underneath his excitement.
I read the title as "Hey, this Celtics team has a chance to win 50 games next season".
Don't be too harsh on semantic. 

.





 What are you trying to say man.

[PhoSita]

To put it in further perspective, this guy is saying Boston is going to go from winning 40 games last season to no more than 22 or 23 next season.  Has any team ever done that without...

A.  Serious injuries to more than one player?

B.  Blowing up a team and trading away its best talent?

Mike

The Bucks won 38 games in 2013 and 15 games the next year.  To accomplish that, they:

- Traded Brandon Jennings for Brandon Knight & Khris Middleton
- Traded Tobias Harris for JJ Redick and then traded Redick for Caron Butler and little else
- Trade Luc Richard Mbah a Moute for nothing
- Let Monta Ellis and Sam Dalembert walk in free agency
- Signed OJ Mayo, who played only 50 games or so
- Lost Ilyasova, Pachulia, and Caron Butler for around 30 games each
- Lost Larry Sanders for all but 20 games



So, they let a lot of key guys go either by trade or in free agency and the younger players and free agents who were meant to replace them were either not ready to contribute or were injured for almost half the season.

The biggest part was that they were a team predicated on defense and they replaced Larry Sanders and Samuel Dalembert with a combination of Zaza Pachulia, John Henson, Jeff Adrien, and Ekpe Udoh.