Celts Steal Their Clippers, Shear The Beard! Victory Cigar vs LAC 11/25

[Froob]

Porzingod

[GreenBloodedC]

It is just unfair when the team is healthy.

[Shak_Celts]

FIRST NAME CELTICS LAST NAME GREATEST!!

[ConstableGeneva]

"Including today’s game, over the past two seasons (including playoffs), Boston is 44-1 when hitting over 40 percent of its 3’s.

The Celtics went 22-51 (43%) tonight against the Clippers.

Boston is 51-23 in games it shoots 40 percent or worse over the same timeframe." -- via Tim Bontemps

We have the shooters. And it's not like they're just jacking up threes out there. Most of these are good looks off manufactured advantage (screening, drive-and-kick, OREBs, post-and-kick, etc).

[ConstableGeneva]

Celtics had a defensive rating of 92.2 when KP was on the floor. They had an offensive rating of 155.1 when Queta was on the floor.

LMAO.

[fallguy]

DW a monster.

[Fierce1]

PP is really special.

When the Cs were about to lose the lead in the 3rd, PP came in and BANG!!!

[Fierce1]

Nice bounce back game for Q.

KP was KP and totally nothing wrong with that.

The Celtic defense and rebounding is just on another level when KP is playing.

[Jellybeans]

Havent enjoyed game this much from ring ceremony night

[Fencer reregistered]

KP was +3 in 23 minutes.
Queta was +29 in 25 minutes.
Each shot 5-6 from 2pt range.
KP further shot 1-6 from 3.

Does anybody know who Zubac got most of his 11-14 shooting against?

[ConstableGeneva]

KP was +3 in 23 minutes.
Queta was +29 in 25 minutes.
Each shot 5-6 from 2pt range.
KP further shot 1-6 from 3.

Does anybody know who Zubac got most of his 11-14 shooting against?

8/11 FG + 1/4 FT vs. KP
3/3 vs. Queta

[He_Got_Game]

Walsh and Springer are both explosive athletes. Boy this team is deeeep. Walsh pump faked and absolutely exploded to the rim. That was unbelievable.

[He_Got_Game]

My observations:

Even if Porzingis missed every shot on offense his rim protection was sorely needed. We're going to see more blowouts because other teams are no longer going to have a field day in the paint keeping the games close.

Jordan Walsh looked like he was juicing out there. He was FLYING around making plays. Knocked down a three and had a monstrous dunk. I'm not going to lie. I think a lineup of Pritchard, Springer, Walsh, Hauser, Queta can hold their own against lesser teams. This team is extremely deep and I feel they can hold their own out there.

Derrick White is electric. This guy is very very good. He's draining contested threes on the move, off the dribble, hands in the face. He's hitting off balance runners in the lane. He's absolutely lights out in fourth quarters. It's obvious to me that this guy is clearly the third best player on this team. He should make at least 1 all star game in his career. He's that good.

[ConstableGeneva]

Fun Fact: This is the 38th 30-plus-pt win by the Celtics in the Brad Stevens era. They have won more games by 30+ points in the Derrick White era (18 out of 208 games) than in the KG/PP era (15 out of 475 games).

[Smart2Nesmith43]

22 threes and 8 dunks. Mazzulla ball at its finest.

[tfribs45]

Celts are rolling right now......add zinger and were a serious juggernaut!

[Celts17Pride]

A lot of nice performances tonight but this was really the Pritchard, Queta and Hauser show for me tonight. The trio went 15 for 22 (68%) and 9 for 13 (69%) from three point range. 51 points, 13 rebounds, 7 assists, 4 steals, 4 blocks and +86. I am going to go with PP for VC and Queta for CP. Great to have Porzingis back!

Edit: This is the most fire and energy I've seen from Queta ever. He needs to play with that energy every night.

[Gant]

A lot of nice performances tonight but this was really the Pritchard, Queta and Hauser show for me tonight. The trio went 15 for 22 (68%) and 9 for 13 (69%) from three point range. 51 points, 13 rebounds, 7 assists, 4 steals, 4 blocks and +86. I am going to go with PP for VC and Queta for CP. Great to have Porzingis back!

Edit: This is the most fire and energy I've seen from Queta ever. He needs to play with that energy every night.

Queta got fed so much information in such a short time he got paralyzed by overthinking. For two rough games he was in between on D, drifting off his own man but not committing to the driver. On offense and rebounding, same thing, thinking instead of playing.

Sitting out the Minnesota game did Queta good. Last night he was back to his impactful self.

It's clear that Mazzulla sees the potential and is bringing him along. On the games when both Horford and Porzingis play, it will be interesting to see if Queta also plays and if so, who he's paired with.

Just to see what it's like, the KP/Q twin tower combo has got to happen sometime.

[165bows]

A lot of nice performances tonight but this was really the Pritchard, Queta and Hauser show for me tonight. The trio went 15 for 22 (68%) and 9 for 13 (69%) from three point range. 51 points, 13 rebounds, 7 assists, 4 steals, 4 blocks and +86. I am going to go with PP for VC and Queta for CP. Great to have Porzingis back!

Edit: This is the most fire and energy I've seen from Queta ever. He needs to play with that energy every night.

Amazing how those guys have grown, esp. PP and Hauser.

It's almost not fair when this team is clicking - best starting lineup in the league, then PP and Hauser roll in off the bench and go 9/13 from three. Bench was amazing and they sit one of the elite 3+D bigs in the game to save him for later.

[ConstableGeneva]

VC/CP:

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This was our 5th best defensive performance of the season (filtering out garbage time).