Official Celtics 2020-21 Regular Season Thread

[KGboss]

Someone needs to give wiggins a drug test

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[Curmudgeon]

Is there any actual news from camp?

[ConstableGeneva]

Is there any actual news from camp?

Nope. Team practices don't begin until Sunday, I think. It's mostly individual workouts (limit of 4 players at a time) the first five days of camp.

[playa-hater]

I didn't see this mentioned but 48 players tested positive for Covid.. wonder if any from Boston. the depth of every team might be tested this year more than ever.

[Darth Celtic]

What's the Lineup, going into the Regular Season?


Start of Season Lineup:
Starters: Smart - Brown - Tatum - Theis - Thompson
Rotation: Teague - Pritchard - Nesmith - G.Williams - R.Williams
Reserve: Edwards - Green - Ojeleye
Two-Ways: Waters - Fall


Main Lineup (Regular Season):
Starters: Kemba - Brown - Tatum - Theis - Thompson
Rotation: Teague - Smart - Nesmith - G.Williams - R.Williams
Reserve: Pritchard - Edwards - Langford - Green - Ojeleye
Two-Ways: Waters - Fall

Theis and TT starting would be such a good rebounding unit. But the spacing might be a challenge.

IDk if Grant Williams is ready to Start. But I definitely see us going with a 2 Bigs Lineup.

Tt and grant starting we would rebound everything and screen everything. If grant can shoot like the bubble it could work. When all healthy I expect Tatum at pf.

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[Darth Celtic]

Someone needs to give wiggins a drug test

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Always been physical. He is hitting the right age to fully fill out.

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[Shak_Celts]

Someone needs to give wiggins a drug test

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Always been physical. He is hitting the right age to fully fill out.

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He is only 25? How? He's been in the league 25 of those years!

[winsomme2]

Theis and TT starting would be such a good rebounding unit. But the spacing might be a challenge.

IDk if Grant Williams is ready to Start. But I definitely see us going with a 2 Bigs Lineup.

Tt and grant starting we would rebound everything and screen everything. If grant can shoot like the bubble it could work. When all healthy I expect Tatum at pf.

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With no Kemba and no Hayward we are going to have serious trouble scoring consistently IMO.

I think we need to throw both Neismith and Pritchard out there right away to see if either can just take advantage of the opportunity. Other than Tatum and JB we have no consistent scoring options.

[sam_I_am]

IDk if Grant Williams is ready to Start. But I definitely see us going with a 2 Bigs Lineup.

Tt and grant starting we would rebound everything and screen everything. If grant can shoot like the bubble it could work. When all healthy I expect Tatum at pf.

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With no Kemba and

Spoiler:

no Hayward we are going to have serious trouble scoring consistently IMO.

I think we need to throw both Neismith and Pritchard out there right away to see if either can just take advantage of the opportunity. Other than Tatum and JB we have no consistent scoring options.

Celtics record last year: 48-14 66%
With Gordon: 34-18 63%
Without Gordon: 14-6 70%

I think we’ll struggle without Kemba.

[ConstableGeneva]

IDk if Grant Williams is ready to Start. But I definitely see us going with a 2 Bigs Lineup.

Tt and grant starting we would rebound everything and screen everything. If grant can shoot like the bubble it could work. When all healthy I expect Tatum at pf.

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With no Kemba and no Hayward we are going to have serious trouble scoring consistently IMO.

I think we need to throw both Neismith and Pritchard out there right away to see if either can just take advantage of the opportunity. Other than Tatum and JB we have no consistent scoring options.

More than the scoring, we have no release valve who knows what to do with the ball other than shoot/take it to the basket. Let's hope they'll work on that ball movement 'cos Tatum's gonna get double-/triple-teamed. We kill Kemba for his playoff performance, but really he freed up the rest of the guys in that Toronto series because Raps were going box-and-1 with all attention on him. With him missing time, all attention's on JT.

Saving grace is it's the regular season and most teams are still working out the kinks of their defense. Rarely will you see teams early in the season specifically game-plan on a per-night basis. They will run their usual defense and will probably adjust/zero in on a certain player only late in games or in the 4th qtr.

[playa-hater]

Tt and grant starting we would rebound everything and screen everything. If grant can shoot like the bubble it could work. When all healthy I expect Tatum at pf.

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With no Kemba and

Spoiler:

no Hayward we are going to have serious trouble scoring consistently IMO.

I think we need to throw both Neismith and Pritchard out there right away to see if either can just take advantage of the opportunity. Other than Tatum and JB we have no consistent scoring options.

Celtics record last year: 48-14 66%
With Gordon: 34-18 63%
Without Gordon: 14-6 70%

I think we’ll struggle without Kemba.

Offensively maybe a little at times, though I am remaining optimistic that a bigger workload from the JJs will help. But overall I really think the team will be surprisingly tougher with defense notching up a level without Kemba..

[bisme37]

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[LarryBirdsFingr]

Someone needs to give wiggins a drug test

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Damn kid is juiced.

[Parliament10]

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[exculpatory]

The number of players periodically turning + & requiring quarantine is going to cluster **** this bubbleless season.

Sigh.

[3D Chess]

^^ Great job avoiding any tampering investigations there TT

[Curmudgeon]

The number of players periodically turning + & requiring quarantine is going to cluster **** this bubbleless season.

Sigh.

I think it's likely that the NBA league office has an airplane full of dry ice stationed at Heathrow or another London airport waiting to whisk 500 or so doses of the Pfizer vaccine across the Atlantic.

[exculpatory]

The number of players periodically turning + & requiring quarantine is going to cluster **** this bubbleless season.

Sigh.

I think it's likely that the NBA league office has an airplane full of dry ice stationed at Heathrow or another London airport waiting to whisk 500 or so doses of the Pfizer vaccine across the Atlantic.

Maybe so.

“Essential” workers - to help sustain the sanity of pro basketball fans.

[Bleeding Green]

Yeah if the vaccine is effective like it seems, pro athletes are getting it before anyone else in all seriousness. Even MPJ and Terence Davis may be forced to take it.

[Dogen]

Meh. When you guys see Payton Pritchard scoring and dishing the rock, you'll be saying "Kemba who?"

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