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Previously, With The CELTICS . . .





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Regular Season, VC Count, 2022-23
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Victory Cigar
(1) Jayson Tatum



Ties go to the Team. – Cutoff Time, is when the Game Thread is made.
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(1) Team/Mazzulla


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I think they're gonna have to win this one if they wanna go 82-0.

Undefeated szn.

Heat are gonna be hungry for this one. We send them to the golf course last season and I don’t expect Jimmy and friends to have forgotten about it. Will be a good test against a much tougher, better coached ball club

This will be another tough battle.

You know Miami wants revenge for losing to us in the ECF.

They have all their guys healthy I think.

A little bit of a different challenge than Philly. Philly has 2 dominant scorers who can score 1 on 1 facing up, in the low post or out of PnR with a good shooter in Maxey.

Miami isn't as potent with individual scorers but they're better defensively. They might not be quite as good defensively though without Tucker.

Another good test to start the season. Let's crush them!

They'll be small, even smaller than us but a much more cohesive team than the sixers. More of an identify there and better coaching but less talent comparatively with the sixers. Bam might go off on horford but vonleh should be a decent matchup there. He won't get bullied at least. Expecting another 60+ night for the jays. W.

We've gotten better, they have stayed the same/worse.

Butler is a year older and while 33 going on 34 isn't terribly old it's the twilight of his prime. I think he has to do too much at times and he looked gassed in the play offs. And some games a no show...

Bam, while good, I think is limited and we had something of a formula to slow him down...of course Timelord was a huge factor...Will be interesting to see Vonleh/Blake and what they can do to body Bam.

Herro to me has always been slightly overrated, yes he was injured in the play offs...But he's no world beater. Between him and Bam I look at them as two 3rd options, hence why Butler sometimes has to do too much.

And of course they lost Tucker.

Then there's Lowry's fat, old ass. Not gonna sugar coat it, like everything he eats.

Herro is gonna have a rough night between smart white and jaylen covering him

Vonleh next victim is Bam.

KamikazeK wrote:I think they're gonna have to win this one if they wanna go 82-0.

22-0 seems more realistic. Beat the Heat.

I hope they don't plan to play Brown and Tatum 38 minutes in many games. Ditto Smart playing 36. Not needed at all. This specific game is meaningless and no one will remember it in June.

Granted with all the stoppages the league is implementing and games taking 7 hours to complete, maybe it's not that big of a deal.

Meh could be a scheduled loss between the Cs injuries, and the game is in Miami who will looking for revenge.

steefP2 wrote:Herro is gonna have a rough night between smart white and jaylen covering him

I think he's kind of like Maxey in terms of the way he plays, his role on his team, how good he is. Herro is taller but Maxey is quicker.

The challenge Miami poses is that they have more shooters. Philly just has Maxey but Miami has Herro, Strus and Robinson. Being able to get out on their shooters will be key. Luckily, Miami doesn't have a dominant inside scoring 7-footer like philly does so we can focus more on their shooters than a big dude going to work in the paint.. Bam obviously doesn't scare me as much as Embiid..we match up better with Bam..

The Heat Defense will be much more for challenge then the 76rs.

Lets see what our turnover count will be at the end of the game to see if we have addressed this issue.

my favorite teams to watch the Celtics beat -- I'm assuming MIA is top 5 but we'll see:

1. LAL **** the lakers!
2. PHI drop the confetti
3. GS ugggghhhh but seriously, we've played them well for a long time
4. NYK and MIA are about tied but I've gotta give the historical edge to the Knicks go NY go NY go
5. MIA **** the Heat! I don't know why they're on this list, must be Wade and LeBron and their McDonald's ass arena

in this game btw I've got Celtics by 20 letttttt''''''sssssss gggggooooooooooooo

Have a wedding to go to….can’t watch until like 1 am. Go c’s

Fantaxp7 wrote:
Then there's Lowry's fat, old ass. Not gonna sugar coat it, like everything he eats.

They traded Achiuwa for him. Wonder if they have some buyer's remorse now. I would.

I live in Miami and was really considering going to this game.. But I'm just going to Christen my new Big TV.. That and all the people I would have went with are MiamI Heat fans so hell NOO

We go from the Embiid/Harden flopping straight to Lowry’s thicc ass flailing everywhere.