Celtics 2025-26, Season Thread

[Fierce1]

We are 0-3, this is the bad news. But, the good news, I was just pulling up the 3-man unit lineup data and it actually looks pretty darn good from the net rating perspective.

BROWN - WHITE - PRITCHARD = +21
WHITE - QUETA - PRITCHARD = +23
BROWN - WHITE - QUETA = +21
BROWN - QUETA - PRITCHARD = +27

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https://www.nba.com/stats/team/1610612738/lineups-advanced?GroupQuantity=3

Every three man grouping is a positive until you get down to Simons groupings. Pretty much all the SIMONS (and TILLMAN) combinations are deeply net negative. But honestly, this is not that bad, we are still mixing and matching with lineups and still trying to figure out how to use ANFERNEE

Just pretty encouraging actually. Play Amari and Shulga next, lets get some lineup data with them dudes!

edit: and our most-used 5-man lineup (Brown, White, Queta, Pritchard, Hauser) is DESTROYING the opposition. This lineup is net +52.8 in 25 mins ... so all is not lost, lol, not at all

Figuring out how to use Simons is a waste of time.

It's time Brad trades him.
He just doesn't fit in.

Another coach will be able to maximize Simons' scoring ability.
Joe doesn't know how to use Simons.

Simons is a Negative PG.
We need a Real 3rd PG.

My trade proposal since August:

Coby White and Vucevic for Simons, Hauser, and draft pick/s

[Parliament10]

Repost:

I think that we need to Pull our Two-Ways back from the G League (Preseason) and play them.
Send Scheierman & Walsh back to Maine.


Celtics Roster, 2025-26:
Starters: Pritchard - White - Brown - Boucher - Queta
Rotation: Simons - Gonzalez - Hauser - Minott - Tillman
Reserves: Scheierman - Walsh - Garza

Two-Ways: Shulga - Harper - Amari

[Parliament10]

Repost:

I think that we need to Pull our Two-Ways back from the G League (Preseason) and play them.
Send Scheierman & Walsh back to Maine.


Celtics Roster, 2025-26:
Starters: Pritchard - White - Brown - Boucher - Queta
Rotation: Simons - Gonzalez - Hauser - Minott - Tillman
Reserves: Scheierman - Walsh - Garza

Two-Ways: Shulga - Harper - Amari

Read on Twitter

It's Preseason in Maine. The Two-Ways aren't going to get Waived from there.
So, bring them back up to the Corpse of the Boston Celtics, and help with resuscitation.

[itrsteve]

What I really like is that we’re not actually tanking on purpose. We’ll have Wizards and Jazz next week, that’ll be the bottom feeder litmus test.

The worse this gets the better I am with Tatum not coming back this season.

[cloverleaf]

Ah, jeez.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BF0xAwAxAkM

[cloverleaf]

What I really like is that we’re not actually tanking on purpose. We’ll have Wizards and Jazz next week, that’ll be the bottom feeder litmus test.

The worse this gets the better I am with Tatum not coming back this season.

Brad's an evil genius. Surely they looked to how the Warriors handled Curry's absence.

Has there ever been a team that let its top-3 centers go without any attempt at a real replacement?

[Larry_Russell]

What I really like is that we’re not actually tanking on purpose. We’ll have Wizards and Jazz next week, that’ll be the bottom feeder litmus test.

The worse this gets the better I am with Tatum not coming back this season.

Utahs front court will pummel this team.

[2Mas]

Some of us have been saying this all summer.

If we were trying to win, Brad woulda signed win now type players. The only player fits that criteria is Boucher to a degree.

Instead we signed dudes to multi yr deals, hoping to develop guys so next yr they out perform their deals when we try to win again.

We're hoping to develop Minott, so next year he can be a good backup to Tatum. We're looking to develop Garza, so next yr he can back up our top accusation next summer. Same way we did with Sam, Luke & PP.

Celts don't care about going 45-37. No moves they made tried to do that. We'll end up mid/low 30s. Get a top 10 pick & next yr we're back to being big dogs.