Welcome to Boston, Payton Pritchard!

Post #961 » by **165bows** » Wed Sep 4, 2024 1:01 am

Fencer reregistered wrote:https://www.celticsblog.com/2024/9/3/24221197/payton-pritchard-is-better-than-any-of-us-realize-boston-celtics

Great article, PP’s had a nice upward arc to his trajectory these days.

Post #962 » by **165bows** » Wed Sep 4, 2024 12:40 pm

165bows wrote:
Fencer reregistered wrote:https://www.celticsblog.com/2024/9/3/24221197/payton-pritchard-is-better-than-any-of-us-realize-boston-celtics

Great article, PP’s had a nice upward arc to his trajectory these days.

Anyways this just reminded me of how hard my attempt failed at pushing the PP extension talk last summer. Seemed like that might get some real traction but it only lasted a page or two.

At any rate, the answer was... PP's extension was bigger than the Dick contract!! Who knew Dick would have been so bad last year, and PP ended up being really good last year.

viewtopic.php?p=107927157#p107927157

Post #963 » by **shackles10** » Wed Sep 4, 2024 2:16 pm

165bows wrote:
Fencer reregistered wrote:https://www.celticsblog.com/2024/9/3/24221197/payton-pritchard-is-better-than-any-of-us-realize-boston-celtics

Great article, PP’s had a nice upward arc to his trajectory these days.

Fencer reregistered · Post #964 » by **Fencer reregistered** » Wed Sep 4, 2024 5:41 pm

165bows wrote:
165bows wrote:
Fencer reregistered wrote:https://www.celticsblog.com/2024/9/3/24221197/payton-pritchard-is-better-than-any-of-us-realize-boston-celtics

Great article, PP’s had a nice upward arc to his trajectory these days.

Anyways this just reminded me of how hard my attempt failed at pushing the PP extension talk last summer. Seemed like that might get some real traction but it only lasted a page or two.

At any rate, the answer was... PP's extension was bigger than the Dick contract!! Who knew Dick would have been so bad last year, and PP ended up being really good last year.

viewtopic.php?p=107927157#p107927157

I get the thrust of that joke, but at best it's only a wee bit funny.

Sorry to prick your bubble!

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playa-hater · Post #968 » by **playa-hater** » Mon Oct 21, 2024 12:40 am

165bows wrote:
165bows wrote:
Fencer reregistered wrote:https://www.celticsblog.com/2024/9/3/24221197/payton-pritchard-is-better-than-any-of-us-realize-boston-celtics

Great article, PP’s had a nice upward arc to his trajectory these days.

Anyways this just reminded me of how hard my attempt failed at pushing the PP extension talk last summer. Seemed like that might get some real traction but it only lasted a page or two.

At any rate, the answer was... PP's extension was bigger than the Dick contract!! Who knew Dick would have been so bad last year, and PP ended up being really good last year.

viewtopic.php?p=107927157#p107927157

That's because my PP always goes Hard, unlike Dick! :oops:

sorry. couldn't help it.

Fencer reregistered · Post #969 » by **Fencer reregistered** » Tue Oct 22, 2024 3:21 am

https://www.celticsblog.com/2024/10/21/24276023/boston-celtics-payton-pritchard-halfcourt-shots-nba-rule-change-heaves-g-league

The example that stood out to me was Malcolm Brogdon, who carefully avoided heaves during the regular season, then promptly made one in the playoffs.

playa-hater · Post #970 » by **playa-hater** » Tue Oct 22, 2024 3:40 am

Fencer reregistered wrote:https://www.celticsblog.com/2024/10/21/24276023/boston-celtics-payton-pritchard-halfcourt-shots-nba-rule-change-heaves-g-league

The example that stood out to me was Malcolm Brogdon, who carefully avoided heaves during the regular season, then promptly made one in the playoffs.

Man am I happy to see this rule. It is just common sense to me. Meanwhile I would love to know how much PP's 3-percentage would go up if they started that rule last year. I bet 5+ % easy.

Post #971 » by **Parliament10** » Tue Oct 22, 2024 4:12 am

playa-hater wrote:
Fencer reregistered wrote:https://www.celticsblog.com/2024/10/21/24276023/boston-celtics-payton-pritchard-halfcourt-shots-nba-rule-change-heaves-g-league

The example that stood out to me was Malcolm Brogdon, who carefully avoided heaves during the regular season, then promptly made one in the playoffs.

Man am I happy to see this rule. It is just common sense to me. Meanwhile I would love to know how much PP's 3-percentage would go up if they started that rule last year. I bet 5+ % easy.

It's just in the G League this year. Experimental.
We might see it in years to come though, at the NBA level.

hugepatsfan · Post #972 » by **hugepatsfan** » Tue Oct 22, 2024 4:21 pm

playa-hater wrote:
Fencer reregistered wrote:https://www.celticsblog.com/2024/10/21/24276023/boston-celtics-payton-pritchard-halfcourt-shots-nba-rule-change-heaves-g-league

The example that stood out to me was Malcolm Brogdon, who carefully avoided heaves during the regular season, then promptly made one in the playoffs.

Man am I happy to see this rule. It is just common sense to me. Meanwhile I would love to know how much PP's 3-percentage would go up if they started that rule last year. I bet 5+ % easy.

Bref says Pritchard was 1-5 on "heaves" last year in the regular season. So if that's consistent with how this rule would be applied he'd go from 147-382 (38.5%) from 3 on the year to 147-378 (38.9%). So it'd only be a half percent increase.

A 5% increase would take a CRAAAAAAAAZY amount of heaves to be taken off the stat sheet lol.

playa-hater · Post #973 » by **playa-hater** » Tue Oct 22, 2024 4:56 pm

hugepatsfan wrote:
playa-hater wrote:
Fencer reregistered wrote:https://www.celticsblog.com/2024/10/21/24276023/boston-celtics-payton-pritchard-halfcourt-shots-nba-rule-change-heaves-g-league

The example that stood out to me was Malcolm Brogdon, who carefully avoided heaves during the regular season, then promptly made one in the playoffs.

Man am I happy to see this rule. It is just common sense to me. Meanwhile I would love to know how much PP's 3-percentage would go up if they started that rule last year. I bet 5+ % easy.

Bref says Pritchard was 1-5 on "heaves" last year in the regular season. So if that's consistent with how this rule would be applied he'd go from 147-382 (38.5%) from 3 on the year to 147-378 (38.9%). So it'd only be a half percent increase.

A 5% increase would take a CRAAAAAAAAZY amount of heaves to be taken off the stat sheet lol.

Didn't read the rule, but I am guessing a "heave" means behind the backcourt line.. But PP threw so many "chucks" from all over against the buzzer, including some just past half court that wouldn't count as a Heave.

My definition of a Heave would be an attempt that looks more like a rushed throw then a proper shot attempt. anywhere on the court just to beat the clock... Just semantics I guess.

Post #974 » by **165bows** » Tue Oct 22, 2024 5:14 pm

playa-hater wrote:
hugepatsfan wrote:
playa-hater wrote:
Man am I happy to see this rule. It is just common sense to me. Meanwhile I would love to know how much PP's 3-percentage would go up if they started that rule last year. I bet 5+ % easy.

Bref says Pritchard was 1-5 on "heaves" last year in the regular season. So if that's consistent with how this rule would be applied he'd go from 147-382 (38.5%) from 3 on the year to 147-378 (38.9%). So it'd only be a half percent increase.

A 5% increase would take a CRAAAAAAAAZY amount of heaves to be taken off the stat sheet lol.

Didn't read the rule, but I am guessing a "heave" means behind the backcourt line.. But PP threw so many "chucks" from all over against the buzzer, including some just past half court that wouldn't count as a Heave.

My definition of a Heave would be an attempt that looks more like a rushed throw then a proper shot attempt. anywhere on the court just to beat the clock... Just semantics I guess.

Yeah that makes sense - he’s just saying with 82 games and four quarters, the 320ish opportunities for heaves don’t make a ton of difference compared to the Celtics’ yearly totals of roughly 8,432,000 three point attempts.