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MLK Day C's at Warriors

☘️ C's off to a nice 5-0 lead. KP and JT are our scorers. KP with another three! JB found him in the corner. C's must not fall into bad habits. C's defense is suspect already. They need to punch the Warriors flat in the face today. KP gets the rock and posts up Curry. Steph Curry is the reason today's NBA is three happy and it sucks. . I'm looking for consistent effort on D as we head towards the All Star break. Not to mention I want to see better shot selection from the Celtics. Too many threes makes the game I love look terrible. The three should be used as a weapon but not to build your offense around. Blame Curry for that, and Leflop for flopping. Two "stars" who ruined the game I love. Let's see if the Celtics can put together a quality game for four quarters today. Even when they almost make the steal the other team scores. It's brutal. JBs turn around jumper is absolute butter. He should dominate inside the ...

Hawk on the menu

🏀 Anyone who watched the Chiefs game knows how dirty all refs are. The way they fix games for the Chiefs is absolutely disgusting. When you see and hear former NFL players call out these refs you know there's a problem. C's now take on the Hawks, I'm hoping the C's can show their dominance as they did last night. Jrue hits his first three of the night! I believe he's starting to get his groove back. JB is off to a great start himself. Getting by the defense and jamming it home. C's defense is doing some good things tonight. I love the way they are making the Hawks turn over the ball. Hopefully the D continues to show what it's made of. Luke is doing a pretty good job as a starter tonight. He's just a good plug in guy to have when Al and KP are out. C's seem to play to Luke's strengths. Both JB and JT have found Luke in the paint. Queta is in the game and we will need him to make an impact. I ...

Can the C's find that old Magic

C's must make a statement tonight... ☘️ Jrue with a spectacular pass to KP who scores in the paint. That should be something to take advantage of over the Magic. C's use some excellent ball movement which leads to a DWhite three. Jrue to KP again! It's extremely early but the C's are moving the ball rather well. Everyone seems engaged and are working as one. Not so impressed with the D right now... Although that last set was pretty good. C's need to learn how to rebound the damn ball! Stop giving up freaking offensive rebounds. I want to see effort on D and rebounding the ball. Offense is easier since no NBA team really values Defense. If you put the work in on D everything else falls into place. I respect hearing what Eddie House said about the dog days of the year and I believe it. Yet that doesn't mean I don't want to see the best from this team. We have a chance to do something special. You know what I'm talking about. ...

Oh Canada!

☘️ C's have their stud five starting tonight. Keys tonight will be defense and shot selection. C's are wearing those ugly city edition uniforms. JB is going to dominate Mitchell tonight. Not a great start for the C's tonight. Very flat right now. Love seeing Jrue drive to the cup. He should be able to get there all game. No one on Toronto can guard him. Joe calls an early timeout as tonight's game sucks. What's with these slow starts lately? I don't like this trend going on. Hopefully after that timeout Joe was up in their face looking for better defensive effort. What a pass from KP to JB for the JAM! Two quality offensive possessions off the timeout. KP for three! I like how KP is getting involved early tonight. KP is on fire right now! Cs are actually playing basketball with some effort! It's something to be said when you have a good Coach. C's were flat and Joe calls the timeout, boom back to playing l...

One experiment Joe Mazzulla MUST try - and NOW

First of all, Kristaps Porzingis to the bench would not be a demotion for the super-skilled big man. But it is worth trying now since the season is less-than-halfway done. The Celtics struggles are not the fault of Porzingis - nor can he be blamed for his fellow starters having to get used to playing with him. The issue is that it is expected that the 7'2" center will continue to be plagued with injuries, and his comebacks will be frequent. Boston is 9-7 (.562) in the 16 games Kristaps has played thus far in the season. He started all of those contests. Without him on the court, Boston is 19-4 (.826). The talk lately has been about the difficulties faced by other Celtics starters in readjusting to Porzingis' presence on the court . But how may times this season are they going to have to "readjust"/ That is my point. Time for Joe Mazzulla to start Al Horford at the center spot and have Kristaps come off the bench to play with the likes of Payton Pritchard, Sa...

Sunday Basketball

What can I say about today's game? C's barely escaped with a one point victory. First of all that five second call on Derrick was absolutely garbage. Derrick was pissed with that ref and he should be. My initial thoughts are we are beyond lucky to have won this game. I don't know what's going on with this team but we are not playing like I feel we should be. I know it's very difficult to repeat in today's NBA. Yet this team if healthy should be able to do so. With that said I wasn't very impressed with tonights win. I love this team but tonight didn't really impress me. There were moments in the game that I felt good about what I saw. There were moments I wanted to smash my TV. Some of the turnovers were careless. Those need to be cleaned up. That's just a lack of focus in my opinion. It was nice seeing Jrue get aggressive in the fourth. Those are the kinds of plays you want from a veteran like h...