Crowder irate with Celtics fans for cheering Hayward (Going off on Twitter).

[walker834]

We need rebounders.  We have Horford.  We have Jae and Jaylen and Amir who can get in there and do some dirty work.  KO and Zeller not too great so far either. Jae hasn't been doing much on the boards himself and could do  more.

Jae is a good defender as well. I think Smart is better.  Jaylen is more athletic. Jae has been kind of relegated to shooting it in our offense because Marcus and Jaylen don't really do that too well yet.

Those guys still should be rebounding with Amir and Horford and Bradley.

Brad is going for that mix and spacing the floor and we have some guys rebounding but not really.

[Eja117]

This whining by Jae wouldn't last two seconds on the Patriots. If it did he'd be on the Browns after that

Yeah, Bill would have cut him before he pressed "send"

I've never seen an opposing player cheered at a Pats game (aside from the polite applause when someone is carted off), so I don't think the situation is remotely analogous.

The Pats never give them any reason to.

[walker834]

Hayward is a better player than Crowder this year.  Crowder is still shooting it and we won the game. There isn't a huge difference between the two except Crowder is more a role guy and Hayward can really score it in a variety of ways.

Crowder can step up.  I'm not sure i want him ball hogging it though. It wouldn't hurt to see him turn it up a notch or two though.

[jdz101]

Why has this thread gone 18 pages...wow

[walker834]

Because there isn't m uch to talk about and Jae is irate lol.  We are one superstar Jae.

Jae steps up. Everyone steps up.  Good for the celtics.

[fantankerous]

Thank chemical chance for the ignore list. 

[walker834]

Jae is one of the good guys

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18407208/boston-celtics-coach-brad-stevens-surprised-jae-crowder-fan-comments

Feelings should be mixed according to bleacher report

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2685217-jae-crowders-mixed-feelings-about-boston-celtics-fans-should-be-mutual

I honestly have no issue with Crowder. He's a good player and the heart of this team in ways. Not the end all be all but good player.

A lot of drama over nothing.  Crowder will probably step up and the fans will cheer him in a few days.

[walker834]

The media loves this stuff though and eats it up.  Jae needs to be aware.  It's all created garbage and Jae just fed into it.  I think that's absurd in ways.  The media should show more integrity than creating soap operas.   They will run with the soap opera side of it and really don't care what is best for the celtics.

Players use that too and people get bitter and traded and not liked. I hope people  cheer for Crowder when he steps up.

I don't think jae by any means is a bad player here.

[fantankerous]

Its' still about a million times a better sports city than anywhere else.  It depends on  who your friends are.

Boston is a demanding sports city. Boston fans are smarter than most other places, and are not happy at all if players don't reach their potentials, don't play at 100% effort, or don't show total dedication. In Crowder's case, fans realize the team is close but needs an upgrade, and it won't be at ITs or Horford's position. Everyone else is fair game to come off the bench or be traded.

Boston fans are not smarter than other places.  They are far, far more doltish.  And far, far more racist.  The worst part of being a Celtics fan is other Celtics fans.  The best thing the franchise could do is relocate. 

[walker834]

Boston has sme of the best people too.  There are people in other parts of the country who are much more doltish than massachusetts.  There are idiots everywhere.  But massachusetts is still one of the most educated states and very diverse.

Relocating these teams is silly.  The south is a million times worse as far as real ignorance.  Speaking from experience too and no some massachusetts sports fans aren't exactly prizes of the world.

[greece66]

Its' still about a million times a better sports city than anywhere else.  It depends on  who your friends are.

Boston is a demanding sports city. Boston fans are smarter than most other places, and are not happy at all if players don't reach their potentials, don't play at 100% effort, or don't show total dedication. In Crowder's case, fans realize the team is close but needs an upgrade, and it won't be at ITs or Horford's position. Everyone else is fair game to come off the bench or be traded.

Boston fans are not smarter than other places.  They are far, far more doltish.  And far, far more racist.  The worst part of being a Celtics fan is other Celtics fans.  The best thing the franchise could do is relocate.

[Celtics18]

Jae is one of the good guys

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18407208/boston-celtics-coach-brad-stevens-surprised-jae-crowder-fan-comments

Feelings should be mixed according to bleacher report

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2685217-jae-crowders-mixed-feelings-about-boston-celtics-fans-should-be-mutual

I honestly have no issue with Crowder. He's a good player and the heart of this team in ways. Not the end all be all but good player.

A lot of drama over nothing.  Crowder will probably step up and the fans will cheer him in a few days.

Good stuff by the coach.  I like how he simultaneously had his player's back, but at the same time expressed that he wasn't impressed by his action.

It's hard to be both tactful and sincere.  Brad always seems to manage to pull it off.

[CelticsBR]

Come on, this is all silly. People are able to compare Hayward and Crowder and almost everybody agrees that the distance between the two is not that big. However, CROWDER IS IN A 6 MILLION PER - 4 YEAR CONTRACT.

There is absolutely no logic to give up on him and sign Hayward.

This league has a salary cap, Crowder has one of the best contracts in the whole league. Spend the cap for a center, not for a 3. 

[bogg]

Good. Crowder should be p---ed. Use it as motivation. Having a plethora of guys who aren't content with the idea that other players are better than them is why Boston's rebuild lasted all of 18 months.

[Bobshot]

Boston has always been a Democratic town. Largely liberal. Celtics supporters going way back to the 50s have mostly been white collar--as opposed to Bruins fans being blue collar. It was kind of like the white collar Yankees vs the blue collar Dodgers/Giants in NY.

The Yankees and the Celtics had one thing in common in the 50s and 60s: they hoarded championships. The two greatest teams in sports. The difference was the Yankees were basically a white team, and the Celtics were, in time, largely black. That didn't matter. It was their winning tradition that attracted the fans. At least most of them.

I think a lot of the fans today don't remember those days. They probably remember Bird and McHale.  I think maybe they are looking for Larry to come through that door again. Maybe that's what they see in Hayward. But he is no Bird. And he won't solve their defensive hole up front.