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Would getting the 6th Pick and taking Buddy Hield really be such a bad thing? I know it's rationalization, but Hield is probably my 3rd or 4th favorite guy in this Draft anyways.
hes gonna be 23 his first year in the NBA. Also, we have AB and Smart. Do we need another 6'4 guy? I mean unless it's Dunn who looks like a potential star, I say pass. Or unless we are trading Smart for Love.
Age coming into the league is overrated in my mind. Hood was pretty old, Dray was old, Jimmy Butler was 22 his first year, Lillard was 22, KO was 22. All those guys hav panned out pretty well.

Heild will be able to play right away. Hes a shooter who can actually shoot (looking at you Young/Hunter) and from what Ive read has terrific intangibles etc that would allow him to fit in here.

The problem would obviously be the log jam at the gaurd spot. Youd be basically forced into trading one of your top 3 gaurds.

He fits better than Dunn I think.

I would not be too mad with falling to 6 or 7 and getting one of Heild Ellenson Poeltl. None really excite me but I think all could pretty quickly play a nice role on the team.

Its nice not to be reliant on the pick.

I think you could certainly see the pick traded for a big (Love?  Cousins? Okafor? Noel?) or maybe Ainge is confident in our ability to sign Horford, but if he thinks we can do that then we move the window up a few years and now it makes sense to trade the pick for a bordeline star that can contribute right away.

Who knows?

I think the fact that our pretty much worst case scenario right now leaves us with like the 8th pick in the draft and 50 mil in cap space is pretty encouraging.

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Would getting the 6th Pick and taking Buddy Hield really be such a bad thing? I know it's rationalization, but Hield is probably my 3rd or 4th favorite guy in this Draft anyways.
hes gonna be 23 his first year in the NBA. Also, we have AB and Smart. Do we need another 6'4 guy? I mean unless it's Dunn who looks like a potential star, I say pass. Or unless we are trading Smart for Love.

Age is overrated. What matters is that Hield has improved dramatically every year and has tremendous work ethic. He has demonstrated a clear ability to improve, and therefore, he has potential to continue this upward trend. Obviously, if we draft him we'd have to move a guard or two (AB would be my pick), but someone like AB is a valuable chip and could help us upgrade the frontcourt. I'm just saying, don't you think Charlotte and Cleveland would rather have picked Lillard than MKG or Waiters? And wouldn't you rather have Klay Thompson over Tristan Thompson or Brandon Knight? I'm not saying upperclassmen end up as better players--they don't--but prospects shouldn't be discounted due to their ages.
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Brook Lopez probably kept us from Ben Simmons this year.  Dude is legit.

He didn't take them to 35-40 wins though.
Nope.  Health derailed the team.  Pretty much no depth there at this point.  Despite losing 2 of their starters to injuries and another being bought out, they've still managed to go 6-6 out of their last 12.

Luckily at this point they are in such a hole that even if they go .500 for the remainder of the season we're getting a pick in the top 6 most likely.

Right, because Jarrett Jack and RHJ were the difference between a 25 win team and a 35-40 win team.

Lack of depth was a precise reason why many of us slated BKN to be a sub-30 win team before the season even started.
I completely agreed that lack of depth was a possible issue for them.  That's why I always acknowledged that they'd win less than 35 games if they didn't stay healthy.  A team like that can't afford to lose their starting PG + their best 2 way player (RHJ top in defensive and offensive rating) + lose their starting SG/SF to buyout.  If your team is only a handful of players deep and you lose 2-3 of those players, you're gonna have a bad time.  And now just as I expected, decimated by injuries and a shattered depth chart, Brooklyn's best case scenario appears to be a mere 28 wins if they manage to keep up this .500 win pace... which luckily for us will most likely be a Top 6 pick.   Wonderful time to be a Celtic fan.  Here's hoping they struggle down the stretch.

Sounds like you based your prediction on the premise that the entire Brooklyn squad would be healthy for the entire season.
No, I never based any prediction on the premise that they'd be healthy.  I said that if they stayed healthy they'd probably be fine.  I guesstimated 35-40.   This was a team that had just made the playoffs 3 years in a row and their only major loss was Deron Williams and some guys who were getting spot minutes off the bench by the time they made the playoffs.   Had they stayed healthy, this still seemed like a dangerous team.   Good news is, they didn't stay healthy and they never made any additions to that bench.   

I didn't really see the point in getting my hopes up on a Brooklyn situation that seemed contingent on players getting injured.  As inevitable as injuries and depth problems seemed, it felt like poor taste to expect injuries.   But now here we are... barring some inexplicable run, we're looking at a top 6 pick.  Now you're seeing fans who are disappointed that it might end up 6th instead of 1st.  Not me, though.  I'm beyond thrilled at this situation.  A top 6 pick is far more than I could have ever hoped out of that KG/Pierce trade.   It's amazing.   Had you told me a couple years ago that we could trade the corpse of KG and Pierce for a top 6 pick, I would have assumed you were high.  When you consider that we also got many other assets out of that deal including Isaiah Thomas... it's unbelievable.
dude you are an idiot

I 100% concur with this. Lbrrd, you were wrong, own up to it. This is humiliating that you're using health as an excuse. You can make whatever excuse you want, haha. No one is going to believe you. Everyone knows you were dead wrong.
How can it be an excuse if I literally said "if they stay healthy" in the quote people always bring up?  Lol.  Look at whatshisname's signature.  It's literally what I said.

They were on track for 24 wins when their star player Jarrett Jack went down. Where do they get the 34 or 35 wins from?

C'mon man you just completely whiffed on this one.
You didn't realize how much losing D Will would hurt them and you argued that they'd made the playoffs the last few seasons while everyone else said the East had gotten significantly better.

They've sucked the entire year. Losing RHJ and Jarrett Jack don't count as significant injuries when they were on track for 24 wins with those guys in the line up. Those guys were mediocre at best- that's why they will still get 24 or 25 wins at most.

Where was this line up getting 34 or 35 wins from even with a fully healthy squad? They've had their two best players the entire season in Thad and Lopez and even with those two and Jack+RHJ they were on track for 24 wins.

It's okay to be wrong and you'd be getting so much more credit from everyone if you just said:

You know what, I overestimated how good they'd be and I underestimated how tough the East would be this year.


To keep denying it is a bit pathetic to be honest. I like a lot of what you have to say but on this one you were just wrong. And guess what? Who cares? By denying it and acting like the Nets losing Jarrett Jack and RHJ  is like the Bulls losing Jimmy Butler just makes you more of a hate target and takes credibility away from some of the great input you have into this forum.
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Brook Lopez probably kept us from Ben Simmons this year.  Dude is legit.

He didn't take them to 35-40 wins though.
Nope.  Health derailed the team.  Pretty much no depth there at this point.  Despite losing 2 of their starters to injuries and another being bought out, they've still managed to go 6-6 out of their last 12.

Luckily at this point they are in such a hole that even if they go .500 for the remainder of the season we're getting a pick in the top 6 most likely.

Right, because Jarrett Jack and RHJ were the difference between a 25 win team and a 35-40 win team.

Lack of depth was a precise reason why many of us slated BKN to be a sub-30 win team before the season even started.
I completely agreed that lack of depth was a possible issue for them.  That's why I always acknowledged that they'd win less than 35 games if they didn't stay healthy.  A team like that can't afford to lose their starting PG + their best 2 way player (RHJ top in defensive and offensive rating) + lose their starting SG/SF to buyout.  If your team is only a handful of players deep and you lose 2-3 of those players, you're gonna have a bad time.  And now just as I expected, decimated by injuries and a shattered depth chart, Brooklyn's best case scenario appears to be a mere 28 wins if they manage to keep up this .500 win pace... which luckily for us will most likely be a Top 6 pick.   Wonderful time to be a Celtic fan.  Here's hoping they struggle down the stretch.

Sounds like you based your prediction on the premise that the entire Brooklyn squad would be healthy for the entire season.
No, I never based any prediction on the premise that they'd be healthy.  I said that if they stayed healthy they'd probably be fine.  I guesstimated 35-40.   This was a team that had just made the playoffs 3 years in a row and their only major loss was Deron Williams and some guys who were getting spot minutes off the bench by the time they made the playoffs.   Had they stayed healthy, this still seemed like a dangerous team.   Good news is, they didn't stay healthy and they never made any additions to that bench.   

I didn't really see the point in getting my hopes up on a Brooklyn situation that seemed contingent on players getting injured.  As inevitable as injuries and depth problems seemed, it felt like poor taste to expect injuries.   But now here we are... barring some inexplicable run, we're looking at a top 6 pick.  Now you're seeing fans who are disappointed that it might end up 6th instead of 1st.  Not me, though.  I'm beyond thrilled at this situation.  A top 6 pick is far more than I could have ever hoped out of that KG/Pierce trade.   It's amazing.   Had you told me a couple years ago that we could trade the corpse of KG and Pierce for a top 6 pick, I would have assumed you were high.  When you consider that we also got many other assets out of that deal including Isaiah Thomas... it's unbelievable.
dude you are an idiot

I 100% concur with this. Lbrrd, you were wrong, own up to it. This is humiliating that you're using health as an excuse. You can make whatever excuse you want, haha. No one is going to believe you. Everyone knows you were dead wrong.
How can it be an excuse if I literally said "if they stay healthy" in the quote people always bring up?  Lol.  Look at whatshisname's signature.  It's literally what I said.

They were on track for 24 wins when their star player Jarrett Jack went down. Where do they get the 34 or 35 wins from?

C'mon man you just completely whiffed on this one.
You didn't realize how much losing D Will would hurt them and you argued that they'd made the playoffs the last few seasons while everyone else said the East had gotten significantly better.

They've sucked the entire year. Losing RHJ and Jarrett Jack don't count as significant injuries when they were on track for 24 wins with those guys in the line up. Those guys were mediocre at best- that's why they will still get 24 or 25 wins at most.

Where was this line up getting 34 or 35 wins from even with a fully healthy squad? They've had their two best players the entire season in Thad and Lopez and even with those two and Jack+RHJ they were on track for 24 wins.

It's okay to be wrong and you'd be getting so much more credit from everyone if you just said:

You know what, I overestimated how good they'd be and I underestimated how tough the East would be this year.


To keep denying it is a bit pathetic to be honest. I like a lot of what you have to say but on this one you were just wrong. And guess what? Who cares? By denying it and acting like the Nets losing Jarrett Jack and RHJ  is like the Bulls losing Jimmy Butler just makes you more of a hate target and takes credibility away from some of the great input you have into this forum.
I think you say some version of this "you're pathetic!" comment in every thread (probably every other page of this thread) regarding my comments about Brooklyn.   I have responded to it dozens of times.  You know where I stand on this.   I have already explained, in detail, why my Brooklyn prediction was 100% accurate and why we're incredibly lucky.  Once again, here's my definitive quote on the subject:

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I know for a FACT that I was 100% right about Brooklyn.  Had they stayed healthy, they would have been fine.

Listen... you, Ogaju, Edward and chambers can go push your Politics elsewhere.  There's no place for it in the Celtics Talk thread focused on positivity.   Go peddle your backwards multiverse-denier agenda on some truthseeker forum.

I have PERSONALLY astral projected into the alt-dimension where Hollis-Jefferson and Jarret Jack stayed healthy.   In that dimension, The Nets are inexplicably in the midst of a 28 game win streak and have a record of 33-14.  They are the surprise of the season and are currently sitting in 2nd place in the East... well on their way to a 4th straight playoff appearance.   Brook Lopez was also just rightfully named to the all-star team and Hollis-Jefferson is scheduled to start in the Rising Stars game.   Thanks to the Brooklyn surge, the Boston pick looks like a lock to fall outside of the lotto.  Also, in that particular dimension, for some bizarre reason they spell the popular children's book series as "BerenstEin Bears" instead of "BerenstAin Bears".    It's really weird, but part of me thinks the "BerenstEin" verse might be Earth 1 while this "BerenstAin" verse might be Earth 2.   Consider yourself lucky we're currently stuck in Earth 2 where the Nets have been riddled with injuries,  Boston is increasingly likely to get a top 10 pick from them, and this thread has a reason to exist. 


But if it makes you feel any better, here's what I'll say...

You know what, I properly estimated how good a healthy Brooklyn team would be when I said "If they stay healthy, they will be ok.  I think they probably will win 35-40"... They probably would have had they stayed healthy.  At this point, the injury riddled Nets would need to go 17-3 to reach 35 wins.   That's not happening.  Knock on wood.  And even if they did reach 35 wins, it doesn't matter at this point.  The east being awful last season was a key factor.  Brooklyn won 38 games and made the playoffs.  This year, every team in the Eastern Conference playoff race is above .500.  Even if Brooklyn closes out the season going 20-0 and matches their win total from last year, it's a lotto pick. 
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Brook Lopez probably kept us from Ben Simmons this year.  Dude is legit.

He didn't take them to 35-40 wins though.
Nope.  Health derailed the team.  Pretty much no depth there at this point.  Despite losing 2 of their starters to injuries and another being bought out, they've still managed to go 6-6 out of their last 12.

Luckily at this point they are in such a hole that even if they go .500 for the remainder of the season we're getting a pick in the top 6 most likely.

Right, because Jarrett Jack and RHJ were the difference between a 25 win team and a 35-40 win team.

Lack of depth was a precise reason why many of us slated BKN to be a sub-30 win team before the season even started.
I completely agreed that lack of depth was a possible issue for them.  That's why I always acknowledged that they'd win less than 35 games if they didn't stay healthy.  A team like that can't afford to lose their starting PG + their best 2 way player (RHJ top in defensive and offensive rating) + lose their starting SG/SF to buyout.  If your team is only a handful of players deep and you lose 2-3 of those players, you're gonna have a bad time.  And now just as I expected, decimated by injuries and a shattered depth chart, Brooklyn's best case scenario appears to be a mere 28 wins if they manage to keep up this .500 win pace... which luckily for us will most likely be a Top 6 pick.   Wonderful time to be a Celtic fan.  Here's hoping they struggle down the stretch.

Sounds like you based your prediction on the premise that the entire Brooklyn squad would be healthy for the entire season.
No, I never based any prediction on the premise that they'd be healthy.  I said that if they stayed healthy they'd probably be fine.  I guesstimated 35-40.   This was a team that had just made the playoffs 3 years in a row and their only major loss was Deron Williams and some guys who were getting spot minutes off the bench by the time they made the playoffs.   Had they stayed healthy, this still seemed like a dangerous team.   Good news is, they didn't stay healthy and they never made any additions to that bench.   

I didn't really see the point in getting my hopes up on a Brooklyn situation that seemed contingent on players getting injured.  As inevitable as injuries and depth problems seemed, it felt like poor taste to expect injuries.   But now here we are... barring some inexplicable run, we're looking at a top 6 pick.  Now you're seeing fans who are disappointed that it might end up 6th instead of 1st.  Not me, though.  I'm beyond thrilled at this situation.  A top 6 pick is far more than I could have ever hoped out of that KG/Pierce trade.   It's amazing.   Had you told me a couple years ago that we could trade the corpse of KG and Pierce for a top 6 pick, I would have assumed you were high.  When you consider that we also got many other assets out of that deal including Isaiah Thomas... it's unbelievable.
dude you are an idiot

I 100% concur with this. Lbrrd, you were wrong, own up to it. This is humiliating that you're using health as an excuse. You can make whatever excuse you want, haha. No one is going to believe you. Everyone knows you were dead wrong.
How can it be an excuse if I literally said "if they stay healthy" in the quote people always bring up?  Lol.  Look at whatshisname's signature.  It's literally what I said.

They were on track for 24 wins when their star player Jarrett Jack went down. Where do they get the 34 or 35 wins from?

C'mon man you just completely whiffed on this one.
You didn't realize how much losing D Will would hurt them and you argued that they'd made the playoffs the last few seasons while everyone else said the East had gotten significantly better.

They've sucked the entire year. Losing RHJ and Jarrett Jack don't count as significant injuries when they were on track for 24 wins with those guys in the line up. Those guys were mediocre at best- that's why they will still get 24 or 25 wins at most.

Where was this line up getting 34 or 35 wins from even with a fully healthy squad? They've had their two best players the entire season in Thad and Lopez and even with those two and Jack+RHJ they were on track for 24 wins.

It's okay to be wrong and you'd be getting so much more credit from everyone if you just said:

You know what, I overestimated how good they'd be and I underestimated how tough the East would be this year.


To keep denying it is a bit pathetic to be honest. I like a lot of what you have to say but on this one you were just wrong. And guess what? Who cares? By denying it and acting like the Nets losing Jarrett Jack and RHJ  is like the Bulls losing Jimmy Butler just makes you more of a hate target and takes credibility away from some of the great input you have into this forum.
I think you say some version of this "you're pathetic!" comment in every thread (probably every other page of this thread) regarding my comments about Brooklyn.   I have responded to it dozens of times.  You know where I stand on this.   I have already explained, in detail, why my Brooklyn prediction was 100% accurate and why we're incredibly lucky.  Once again, here's my definitive quote on the subject:

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I know for a FACT that I was 100% right about Brooklyn.  Had they stayed healthy, they would have been fine.

Listen... you, Ogaju, Edward and chambers can go push your Politics elsewhere.  There's no place for it in the Celtics Talk thread focused on positivity.   Go peddle your backwards multiverse-denier agenda on some truthseeker forum.

I have PERSONALLY astral projected into the alt-dimension where Hollis-Jefferson and Jarret Jack stayed healthy.   In that dimension, The Nets are inexplicably in the midst of a 28 game win streak and have a record of 33-14.  They are the surprise of the season and are currently sitting in 2nd place in the East... well on their way to a 4th straight playoff appearance.   Brook Lopez was also just rightfully named to the all-star team and Hollis-Jefferson is scheduled to start in the Rising Stars game.   Thanks to the Brooklyn surge, the Boston pick looks like a lock to fall outside of the lotto.  Also, in that particular dimension, for some bizarre reason they spell the popular children's book series as "BerenstEin Bears" instead of "BerenstAin Bears".    It's really weird, but part of me thinks the "BerenstEin" verse might be Earth 1 while this "BerenstAin" verse might be Earth 2.   Consider yourself lucky we're currently stuck in Earth 2 where the Nets have been riddled with injuries,  Boston is increasingly likely to get a top 10 pick from them, and this thread has a reason to exist. 


But if it makes you feel any better, here's what I'll say...

You know what, I properly estimated how good a healthy Brooklyn team would be when I said "If they stay healthy, they will be ok.  I think they probably will win 35-40"... They probably would have had they stayed healthy.  At this point, the injury riddled Nets would need to go 17-3 to reach 35 wins.   That's not happening.  Knock on wood.  And even if they did reach 35 wins, it doesn't matter at this point.  The east being awful last season was a key factor.  Brooklyn won 38 games and made the playoffs.  This year, every team in the Eastern Conference playoff race is above .500.  Even if Brooklyn closes out the season going 20-0 and matches their win total from last year, it's a lotto pick.


How about your 33 win prediction on the Cs this season? What's the excuse on that one?

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Brook Lopez probably kept us from Ben Simmons this year.  Dude is legit.

He didn't take them to 35-40 wins though.
Nope.  Health derailed the team.  Pretty much no depth there at this point.  Despite losing 2 of their starters to injuries and another being bought out, they've still managed to go 6-6 out of their last 12.

Luckily at this point they are in such a hole that even if they go .500 for the remainder of the season we're getting a pick in the top 6 most likely.

Right, because Jarrett Jack and RHJ were the difference between a 25 win team and a 35-40 win team.

Lack of depth was a precise reason why many of us slated BKN to be a sub-30 win team before the season even started.
I completely agreed that lack of depth was a possible issue for them.  That's why I always acknowledged that they'd win less than 35 games if they didn't stay healthy.  A team like that can't afford to lose their starting PG + their best 2 way player (RHJ top in defensive and offensive rating) + lose their starting SG/SF to buyout.  If your team is only a handful of players deep and you lose 2-3 of those players, you're gonna have a bad time.  And now just as I expected, decimated by injuries and a shattered depth chart, Brooklyn's best case scenario appears to be a mere 28 wins if they manage to keep up this .500 win pace... which luckily for us will most likely be a Top 6 pick.   Wonderful time to be a Celtic fan.  Here's hoping they struggle down the stretch.

Sounds like you based your prediction on the premise that the entire Brooklyn squad would be healthy for the entire season.
No, I never based any prediction on the premise that they'd be healthy.  I said that if they stayed healthy they'd probably be fine.  I guesstimated 35-40.   This was a team that had just made the playoffs 3 years in a row and their only major loss was Deron Williams and some guys who were getting spot minutes off the bench by the time they made the playoffs.   Had they stayed healthy, this still seemed like a dangerous team.   Good news is, they didn't stay healthy and they never made any additions to that bench.   

I didn't really see the point in getting my h :angel:opes up on a Brooklyn situation that seemed contingent on players getting injured.  As inevitable as injuries and depth problems seemed, it felt like poor taste to expect injuries.   But now here we are... barring some inexplicable run, we're looking at a top 6 pick.  Now you're seeing fans who are disappointed that it might end up 6th instead of 1st.  Not me, though.  I'm beyond thrilled at this situation.  A top 6 pick is far more than I could have ever hoped out of that KG/Pierce trade.   It's amazing.   Had you told me a couple years ago that we could trade the corpse of KG and Pierce for a top 6 pick, I would have assumed you were high.  When you consider that we also got many other assets out of that deal including Isaiah Thomas... it's unbelievable.
dude you are an idiot

I 100% concur with this. Lbrrd, you were wrong, own up to it. This is humiliating that you're using health as an excuse. You can make whatever excuse you want, haha. No one is going to believe you. Everyone knows you were dead wrong.
How can it be an excuse if I literally said "if they stay healthy" in the quote people always bring up?  Lol.  Look at whatshisname's signature.  It's literally what I said.

They were on track for 24 wins when their star player Jarrett Jack went down. Where do they get the 34 or 35 wins from?

C'mon man you just completely whiffed on this one.
You didn't realize how much losing D Will would hurt them and you argued that they'd made the playoffs the last few seasons while everyone else said the East had gotten significantly better.

They've sucked the entire year. Losing RHJ and Jarrett Jack don't count as significant injuries when they were on track for 24 wins with those guys in the line up. Those guys were mediocre at best- that's why they will still get 24 or 25 wins at most.

Where was this line up getting 34 or 35 wins from even with a fully healthy squad? They've had their two best players the entire season in Thad and Lopez and even with those two and Jack+RHJ they were on track for 24 wins.

It's okay to be wrong and you'd be getting so much more credit from everyone if you just said:

You know what, I overestimated how good they'd be and I underestimated how tough the East would be this year.


To keep denying it is a bit pathetic to be honest. I like a lot of what you have to say but on this one you were just wrong. And guess what? Who cares? By denying it and acting like the Nets losing Jarrett Jack and RHJ  is like the Bulls losing Jimmy Butler just makes you more of a hate target and takes credibility away from some of the great input you have into this forum.
I think you say some version of this "you're pathetic!" comment in every thread (probably every other page of this thread) regarding my comments about Brooklyn.   I have responded to it dozens of times.  You know where I stand on this.   I have already explained, in detail, why my Brooklyn prediction was 100% accurate and why we're incredibly lucky.  Once again, here's my definitive quote on the subject:

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I know for a FACT that I was 100% right about Brooklyn.  Had they stayed healthy, they would have been fine.

Listen... you, Ogaju, Edward and chambers can go push your Politics elsewhere.  There's no place for it in the Celtics Talk thread focused on positivity.   Go peddle your backwards multiverse-denier agenda on some truthseeker forum.

I have PERSONALLY astral projected into the alt-dimension where Hollis-Jefferson and Jarret Jack stayed healthy.   In that dimension, The Nets are inexplicably in the midst of a 28 game win streak and have a record of 33-14.  They are the surprise of the season and are currently sitting in 2nd place in the East... well on their way to a 4th straight playoff appearance.   Brook Lopez was also just rightfully named to the all-star team and Hollis-Jefferson is scheduled to start in the Rising Stars game.   Thanks to the Brooklyn surge, the Boston pick looks like a lock to fall outside of the lotto.  Also, in that particular dimension, for some bizarre reason they spell the popular children's book series as "BerenstEin Bears" instead of "BerenstAin Bears".    It's really weird, but part of me thinks the "BerenstEin" verse might be Earth 1 while this "BerenstAin" verse might be Earth 2.   Consider yourself lucky we're currently stuck in Earth 2 where the Nets have been riddled with injuries,  Boston is increasingly likely to get a top 10 pick from them, and this thread has a reason to exist. 


But if it makes you feel any better, here's what I'll say...

You know what, I properly estimated how good a healthy Brooklyn team would be when I said "If they stay healthy, they will be ok.  I think they probably will win 35-40"... They probably would have had they stayed healthy.  At this point, the injury riddled Nets would need to go 17-3 to reach 35 wins.   That's not happening.  Knock on wood.  And even if they did reach 35 wins, it doesn't matter at this point.  The east being awful last season was a key factor.  Brooklyn won 38 games and made the playoffs.  This year, every team in the Eastern Conference playoff race is above .500.  Even if Brooklyn closes out the season going 20-0 and matches their win total from last year, it's a lotto pick.

Because it is borderline attention seeking at times mate.
I've often defended you and given you the benefit of the doubt here when no one else would- rather than pointing out the flaws in your argument I've pointed out the positive points to try and keep the discussion on this forum balanced.

You have this confusion about making ridiculous statements and people calling you out about it as if they are targeting you-but it's apparent that this is what you enjoy and thrive on- creating a fuss and drama and then ignoring/brushing off anyone who attempts to have a legitimate debate with you or question you about it.
 I honestly can't remember a single example of you admitting you were wrong and this is yet another one of those situations of your LarBrd33 revisionist history. You can't expect to continually make outlandish statements and predictions, and then retract/ change your position or move the goalposts without expecting people to question your intentions and challenging you about it. You want people to take you seriously but you don't take anyone else seriously.

A perfect example is this Nets scenario.

-First you decide to argue to the death that the Nets will probably make the playoffs and get 40+ wins and people are sleeping on them.
-then they go 2 wins 13 losses in their first 15 games and you say they should still crack 35 wins and they've had some unlucky losses but people are not giving them enough respect because 'this is the same Brooklyn team that made the playoffs last year minus D Will and it's the first offseason that Lopez has had completely healthy.'
-then the rookie RHJ goes down and you start this narrative that he's 'arguably their most important two way player and crucial to their success'. This is while they're projected to win 22 games when RHJ goes down. You then start to realize that this Nets team actually does suck and say 'hey we might get REALLY LUCKY and get a lottery pick because their star RHJ is out' and while everyone else is saying it's looking like a top 5 pick, you are adamant that it's 'just a lottery pick', and never admitting that the pick looks like it could be top 5.
-They continue to stink, going 7 wins 20 losses (on track for 21 wins total) and it was at this point that you started seeing a way to crawl out of your originally ridiculous 40 win and subsequent 35 win scenario and start saying 'they'll be fine if they stay healthy and they could add pieces at the deadline-but they're already not healthy after losing RHJ, as if losing the rookie was a key to their failure.
-as they are on track to win 24 games, Jack goes down- to your relief as it's given you another potential out and you start the rhetoric that Jarrett Jack their crucial star going down means 'as you said' they aren't deep enough-and now we definitely might get a lottery pick out of it- perhaps even a top 5 pick.
-you still, to this day,  believe, (well you don't actually believe it and probably stopped believing it after the Nets first 15 games), let's say, continue with the idea that the Nets would have had 35 wins had they been 'healthy.' This is while Lopez and Young have played nearly every single game. As if Jarrett Jack and RHJ were the key to getting an extra 10 wins when there was zero evidence to suggest they made any kind of impact on the win total.
-this is despite the fact that they were on track for 22 wins with a healthy RHJ going down, 24 wins with a healthy Jack going down- but you contest that they were going to pull 35 wins out of thin air with their roster of bums surrounding a soft non All Star big man with significant injury history.

Again, with Jack and RHJ they were on track for 24 wins. Where were they getting 35 wins from? 24 wins with their two best players playing almost every game. In fact replacing Jack with Larkin has actually made them better.
How were they ever getting 35 wins ? You haven't explained this. You probably won't bother trying to explain because I think sometimes you think if you repeat it enough without actually replying to people's counter arguments that perhaps it will come true?

You were completely wrong and you are in denial and it's a common pattern of  just regurgitating the same excuses and revisionist history and accusing people of 'following you around' and harassing you while your torch your way through multiple threads baiting and trolling to your hearts content.

A recent example is your absolute denial that the recent trade deadline rumors involved anyone but Jahlil Okafur. The reason for this? You're so firmly entrenched in your LarBrd33/Philly rebuild vs Celticsblog that you couldn't even fathom or attempt to consider it was another player or that Ainge could have leaked this info falsely. You turned a trade rumor into an attempt to justify/bolster your position in the Celticsblog vs 76ers argument that you've been at the forefront of for 2 years and it nothing to with the trade deadline and everything to do with your celticsblog ego. You even started a thread where you claimed and insinuated that Bill Simmons is a legitimate NBA insider and he 'confirmed' it was Okafur and that Bill has 'broken trade stories before'. When asked about this you did as you often do and ignored the question and moved on to your next troll/argument.

I'm happy for you to buck the trend here, troll everyone and make far fetched statements and predictions- but if you're going to do those things and not admit when you're wrong- you're going to get called out on it.
This is coming from someone who's often defended your opinion and right to a different point of view when no one else would.

You're probably a reasonably smart guy with a good sense of humor. I honestly enjoy a lot of your posts but on this one you are  in pure denial man and it just destroys your credibility when you want people to take you seriously on other stuff.

The Nets suck. The experts said they'd suck. The Vegas bookmakers said they'd suck. Pretty much anyone with any idea about the Eastern Conference and their screamingly obvious lack of depth said they would suck. You decided you'd do the LarBrd thing to do and make a bold prediction that would spice things up around good ol' Celticsblog and make you the anti-hero to so many of your haters. You were completely and utterly wrong and that's all there is to it.

You can't expect to continually dribble/gargle some of this stuff and expect people to put up with it- it ruins the blog. Sorry man I'm just keepin' it real.
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"We are lucky we have a very patient GM that isn't willing to settle for being good and coming close. He wants to win a championship and we have the potential to get there still with our roster and assets."

quoting 'Greg B' on RealGM after 2017 trade deadline.
Read that last line again. One more time.

Offline SCeltic34

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Brook Lopez probably kept us from Ben Simmons this year.  Dude is legit.

He didn't take them to 35-40 wins though.
Nope.  Health derailed the team.  Pretty much no depth there at this point.  Despite losing 2 of their starters to injuries and another being bought out, they've still managed to go 6-6 out of their last 12.

Luckily at this point they are in such a hole that even if they go .500 for the remainder of the season we're getting a pick in the top 6 most likely.

Right, because Jarrett Jack and RHJ were the difference between a 25 win team and a 35-40 win team.

Lack of depth was a precise reason why many of us slated BKN to be a sub-30 win team before the season even started.
I completely agreed that lack of depth was a possible issue for them.  That's why I always acknowledged that they'd win less than 35 games if they didn't stay healthy.  A team like that can't afford to lose their starting PG + their best 2 way player (RHJ top in defensive and offensive rating) + lose their starting SG/SF to buyout.  If your team is only a handful of players deep and you lose 2-3 of those players, you're gonna have a bad time.  And now just as I expected, decimated by injuries and a shattered depth chart, Brooklyn's best case scenario appears to be a mere 28 wins if they manage to keep up this .500 win pace... which luckily for us will most likely be a Top 6 pick.   Wonderful time to be a Celtic fan.  Here's hoping they struggle down the stretch.

Sounds like you based your prediction on the premise that the entire Brooklyn squad would be healthy for the entire season.
No, I never based any prediction on the premise that they'd be healthy.  I said that if they stayed healthy they'd probably be fine.  I guesstimated 35-40.   This was a team that had just made the playoffs 3 years in a row and their only major loss was Deron Williams and some guys who were getting spot minutes off the bench by the time they made the playoffs.   Had they stayed healthy, this still seemed like a dangerous team.   Good news is, they didn't stay healthy and they never made any additions to that bench.   

I didn't really see the point in getting my hopes up on a Brooklyn situation that seemed contingent on players getting injured. 
As inevitable as injuries and depth problems seemed, it felt like poor taste to expect injuries.   But now here we are... barring some inexplicable run, we're looking at a top 6 pick.  Now you're seeing fans who are disappointed that it might end up 6th instead of 1st.  Not me, though.  I'm beyond thrilled at this situation.  A top 6 pick is far more than I could have ever hoped out of that KG/Pierce trade.   It's amazing.   Had you told me a couple years ago that we could trade the corpse of KG and Pierce for a top 6 pick, I would have assumed you were high.  When you consider that we also got many other assets out of that deal including Isaiah Thomas... it's unbelievable.

I must say, you do a great job of ignoring counterarguments to some of your silly assertions.  Like RHJ being a 2-way player.  You also contradict yourself, but that seems to be commonplace with your posts.

Brooklyn having a poor record was never dependent on their health.  See Chambers' post above.  At no point during this season were they on pace to win even 30 games, even when they were fully healthy.  They're just a bad team that never had a realistic shot of winning 35-40 games, healthy or not.  It seemed obvious before the season started, and it's obvious now.

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It is what it is. The sky is not falling. Let the ping pong balls fall in May. I don't get the doom & gloom from some of you.

All I know is the Celtics will be a top 3 seed in the playoffs AND get a lottery pick.

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Brook Lopez probably kept us from Ben Simmons this year.  Dude is legit.

He didn't take them to 35-40 wins though.
Don't forget that they may have a similar record to the Celtics.

And that Thad Young and Joe Johnson are better than Thomas.

I'm not sure I understand  the first line.  We have 20 more wins at this point with 19 games left.  Brooklyn isn't going to have a win total anywhere near ours.

Neither Young or Johnson are better than IT.  Not even close.  Young is a career subpar rebounder whose numbers are inflated because everyone else on that team other than Robinson is a poor rebounder.  Good player around the rim, but predominantly left handed and can't stretch the floor effectively.  JJ is the biggest ball-stopper in the league and isn't anywhere near the player he was in his prime.
Haha, I know. I was just echoing statements that Larbrd, our resident Nostradamus, had made before the season.

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It is what it is. The sky is not falling. Let the ping pong balls fall in May. I don't get the doom & gloom from some of you.

All I know is the Celtics will be a top 3 seed in the playoffs AND get a lottery pick.
Pretty much!  :)

As for the latest chatter, I also suggest to not feed the subtly obvious attention-seeking troll(s). It may be tempting, but that's exactly the kind of attention he/she craves to boost his/her own self-esteem. I've noticed it for a long LONG time (not just this thread but too many others to name) but I felt it was worth commenting on as I fear this thread being derailed and becoming a circular reasoning flame war that he/she thrives on. Motivation can be subtle to spot from one thread, but it becomes obvious and blatant if you take all threads into account. Smart trolls know when to play the victim card and how to tiptoe the line.


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Quote from Chambers:
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You have this confusion about making ridiculous statements and people calling you out about it as if they are targeting you-but it's apparent that this is what you enjoy and thrive on- creating a fuss and drama and then ignoring/brushing off anyone who attempts to have a legitimate debate with you or question you about it.
 I honestly can't remember a single example of you admitting you were wrong and this is yet another one of those situations of your LarBrd33 revisionist history. You can't expect to continually make outlandish statements and predictions, and then retract/ change your position or move the goalposts without expecting people to question your intentions and challenging you about it. You want people to take you seriously but you don't take anyone else seriously.
...

My Response:

the bolded has been clear and obvious for quite a while for lb, and it is why i almost never bother engaging in discussions with him. he invites drama and attention to himself, indeed, it is my belief that he feeds on it. fine. its a relatively free blog. he can do that, and i can ignore him. fine.

but by feeding on the attention he often becomes both more hyperbolic and dogmatic to continue to garner that attention.

it is a shame since often lb writes good, solid analyses or has good insights. but his emotional needs, unfortunately, all too often torpedo discussions.
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It is what it is. The sky is not falling. Let the ping pong balls fall in May. I don't get the doom & gloom from some of you.

All I know is the Celtics will be a top 3 seed in the playoffs AND get a lottery pick.
Pretty much!  :)

As for the latest chatter, I also suggest to not feed the subtly obvious attention-seeking troll(s). It may be tempting, but that's exactly the kind of attention he/she craves to boost his/her own self-esteem. I've noticed it for a long LONG time (not just this thread but too many others to name) but I felt it was worth commenting on as I fear this thread being derailed and becoming a circular reasoning flame war that he/she thrives on. Motivation can be subtle to spot from one thread, but it becomes obvious and blatant if you take all threads into account.
good advice.  It's just really hard not to respond to these he/shes when they try to twist my previous comments.  I'll try to let it go.  There's no point in getting lured into circular debates with them.  It's a waste of time if people are going to ignore my points for emotional reasons.  It's completely pointless anyways.  Why do the he/she's care so much about what I said in the past?  What does that have to do with anything we are discussing now?  Focus on the future.  But then I see the he/she's take something I said out of context or deliberately ignore qualifiers like "I think... Probably... IF THEY STAY HEALTHY...", it's hard not to respond to them.  Just a couple posts ago you have one of them claiming I predicted 33 wins for the Celtics even though I've shared quotes from two different threads that prove I expected 45+ wins as far back as October (preseason).  He/she is deliberately ignoring that for attention.  That kind of behavior torpedos discussuons. It's best we don't feed into it, myself included. 

The bottom line is that we are looking at a pick that will most likely be projected 4-6 regardless of how hot Brooklyn finishes... Which is far more than anyone could have reasonably expected.  I for one am ecstatic about it.  Instead of arguing with one another we should be celebrating.  Even if Brooklyn finished the season with a 20 game win streak, we would still be looking at a lotto pick. That's amazing.  The most you can reasonably expect from them is for them to continue playing .500 ball and even if that happens the pick is projected 6th.  The "debate" is over... We are all winners here.  This could have been one of the picks we threw in to get Winslow... Instead, there's a shot it will be a land a key part of our franchise heading forward.  Everyone should be pretty excited about the future here.
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It is what it is. The sky is not falling. Let the ping pong balls fall in May. I don't get the doom & gloom from some of you.

All I know is the Celtics will be a top 3 seed in the playoffs AND get a lottery pick.
Pretty much!  :)

As for the latest chatter, I also suggest to not feed the subtly obvious attention-seeking troll(s). It may be tempting, but that's exactly the kind of attention he/she craves to boost his/her own self-esteem. I've noticed it for a long LONG time (not just this thread but too many others to name) but I felt it was worth commenting on as I fear this thread being derailed and becoming a circular reasoning flame war that he/she thrives on. Motivation can be subtle to spot from one thread, but it becomes obvious and blatant if you take all threads into account.
good advice.  It's just really hard not to respond to these he/shes when they try to twist my previous comments.  I'll try to let it go.  There's no point in getting lured into circular debates with them.  It's a waste of time if people are going to ignore my points for emotional reasons.

The bottom line is that we are looking at a pick that will most likely be projected 4-6 regardless of how hot Brooklyn finishes... Which is far more than anyone could have reasonably expected.  I for one am ecstatic about it.  Instead of arguing with one another we should be celebrating.  Even if Brooklyn finished the season with a 20 game win streak, we would still be looking at a lotto pick. That's amazing.  The most you can reasonably expect from them is for them to continue playing .500 ball and even if that happens the pick is projected 6th.  The "debate" is over... We are all winners here.  This could have been one of the picks we threw in to get Winslow... Instead, there's a shot it will be a land a key part of our franchise heading forward.  Everyone should be pretty excited about the future here.
Are you saying that them going .500 the rest of the way is the best case scenario for us? I think there is a strong chance they do considerably worse than that.

TP for everything else in this post. That we are probably ending up with a better pick from another team than the pick we received after tanking for a half season in Stevens first year is amazing. We essentially got the reward of a season of tanking, while watching our team battle to win 50 games. It's a great time to be a Celtics fan even if we only end up with the 6th pick.

I know everyone in enamored with Simmons and Ingram but we can should still be able to get a player with all star upside with the Nets pick even if it's at 6. With the culture around this team, the player selected with this pick will have a much better chance at developing than it will on any other team with a top 10 pick.
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Offline LarBrd33

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It is what it is. The sky is not falling. Let the ping pong balls fall in May. I don't get the doom & gloom from some of you.

All I know is the Celtics will be a top 3 seed in the playoffs AND get a lottery pick.
Pretty much!  :)

As for the latest chatter, I also suggest to not feed the subtly obvious attention-seeking troll(s). It may be tempting, but that's exactly the kind of attention he/she craves to boost his/her own self-esteem. I've noticed it for a long LONG time (not just this thread but too many others to name) but I felt it was worth commenting on as I fear this thread being derailed and becoming a circular reasoning flame war that he/she thrives on. Motivation can be subtle to spot from one thread, but it becomes obvious and blatant if you take all threads into account.
good advice.  It's just really hard not to respond to these he/shes when they try to twist my previous comments.  I'll try to let it go.  There's no point in getting lured into circular debates with them.  It's a waste of time if people are going to ignore my points for emotional reasons.

The bottom line is that we are looking at a pick that will most likely be projected 4-6 regardless of how hot Brooklyn finishes... Which is far more than anyone could have reasonably expected.  I for one am ecstatic about it.  Instead of arguing with one another we should be celebrating.  Even if Brooklyn finished the season with a 20 game win streak, we would still be looking at a lotto pick. That's amazing.  The most you can reasonably expect from them is for them to continue playing .500 ball and even if that happens the pick is projected 6th.  The "debate" is over... We are all winners here.  This could have been one of the picks we threw in to get Winslow... Instead, there's a shot it will be a land a key part of our franchise heading forward.  Everyone should be pretty excited about the future here.
Are you saying that them going .500 the rest of the way is the best case scenario for us? I think there is a strong chance they do considerably worse than that.

Obviously not.  How could anyone possibly think that was a best case scenario for us?  The best case scenario for us is Philly, LA and Phoenix winning every game from here out and Brooklyn losing ever game.  My writing is pretty muddled and confusing so I don't blame you for missing my point here.  That happens constantly.  So to clarify that point:   Brooklyn has played .500 ball over their last 12 games.  With their roster as decimated as it is, the most anyone can reasonably expect is for them to keep playing .500 ball. That's the "worst case" scenario more or less.  Even if they went 12-8 and finished with 30 wins, it doesn't matter at this point.  There's a big enough gap between Minny and the Pelicans that even 30 wins out of Brooklyn means the pick will be projected 6th at worst.   It's time to celebrate.   Danny pulled off a miracle with the kg/Pierce trade.  Get pumped up. We will be hitting the lotto with solid odds and we didn't have to suffer through a tanking season to get it. 

Essentially the season of us having cake and eating it too.