Celtics 2025-26, Season Thread

Post #361 » by **bisme37** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 5:03 pm

Our NBA Cup court:

Post #362 » by **djFan71** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 6:44 pm

bisme37 wrote:Our NBA Cup court:

Whoa, that's actually not ugly. Has it been approved? I thought they had to hurt the eyes to be legit.

Bill Lumbergh · Post #363 » by **Bill Lumbergh** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 8:38 pm

bisme37 wrote:Our NBA Cup court:

Hopefully people won't be slipping all over it like they have previously. Seemed a little dangerous in the past.

Curmudgeon · Post #364 » by **Curmudgeon** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 9:00 pm

The NBA cup is just so bush league...

Post #365 » by **Parliament10** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 10:06 pm

Bill Lumbergh wrote:
bisme37 wrote:Our NBA Cup court:

Hopefully people won't be slipping all over it like they have previously. Seemed a little dangerous in the past.

2025 NBA Cup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_NBA_Cup

Prize money [2025]
Players on teams advancing to the knockout stage received prize money as follows:[4]

Players on teams that lose in the quarterfinals: $51,497 each
Players on teams that lose in the semifinals: $102,994 each
Players on the tournament runner-up team: $205,988 each
Players on the tournament championship team: $514,971 each

Two-Way Players earn half, each. -- (Prize Money increases 3% every year.)
https://www.nba.com/news/in-season-tournament-financial-incentives-motivates-players

Two-way players on those rosters only get half as much as those on standard contracts.

redslastlaugh · Post #366 » by **redslastlaugh** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 10:14 pm

hey now!

it gives the mafia more high profile games to wager on, lol

Curmudgeon wrote:The NBA cup is just so bush league...

cloverleaf · Post #367 » by **cloverleaf** » Sat Oct 25, 2025 3:08 pm

Bill Lumbergh wrote:
bisme37 wrote:Our NBA Cup court:

Hopefully people won't be slipping all over it like they have previously. Seemed a little dangerous in the past.

At least not as hideous as some of the cup courts.

Post #368 » by **djFan71** » Sat Oct 25, 2025 6:07 pm

I'm ready for something like this lineup

White, Simons, JB, Hoogo, Queta
Pritchard, Hauser, Minott, Boucher, X

Injuries/foul trouble, etc: Walsh, Garza, Scheierman.

Starting all the guys that know what they're doing together leaves the bench in shambles. Simons could use to play with White & JB some. Pritchard & Hauser can settle the bench. Could possibly flip Hauser and Hoogo, since X & Boucher know things as well.

cloverleaf · Post #369 » by **cloverleaf** » Sat Oct 25, 2025 8:04 pm

Already, these predictions are so sad:

https://www.audacy.com/weei/sports/celtics/10-bold-predictions-for-the-2025-26-celtics

cloverleaf · Post #370 » by **cloverleaf** » Sat Oct 25, 2025 9:48 pm

That'll leave a mark:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nba/article-15225893/Boston-Celtics-star-Jaylen-Brown-suffers-awkward-hairline-humiliation-defeat-New-York-Knicks.html

brackdan70 · Post #371 » by **brackdan70** » Yesterday 1:25 pm

Brown playing 36 minutes and White 34.5 needs to stop.
I love Joe but I don’t get this. His job this year is to develop young guys. Get to it Joe.

Fierce1 · Post #372 » by **Fierce1** » Yesterday 1:27 pm

brackdan70 wrote:Brown playing 36 minutes and White 34.5 needs to stop.
I love Joe but I don’t get this. His job this year is to develop young guys. Get to it Joe.

Joe made it clear, winning comes first.

Curmudgeon · Post #373 » by **Curmudgeon** » Yesterday 1:34 pm

Fierce1 wrote:
brackdan70 wrote:Brown playing 36 minutes and White 34.5 needs to stop.
I love Joe but I don’t get this. His job this year is to develop young guys. Get to it Joe.

Joe made it clear, winning comes first.

No it doesn't. That's BS for the masses. If they really wanted to win they would put Simons tushie on the bench and keep it there. They are willing to lose and lose and lose to showcase Simons in the probably futile hope that they will be able to trade him.

Fierce1 · Post #374 » by **Fierce1** » Yesterday 1:44 pm

Curmudgeon wrote:
Fierce1 wrote:
brackdan70 wrote:Brown playing 36 minutes and White 34.5 needs to stop.
I love Joe but I don’t get this. His job this year is to develop young guys. Get to it Joe.

Joe made it clear, winning comes first.

No it doesn't. That's BS for the masses. If they really wanted to win they would put Simons tushie on the bench and keep it there. They are willing to lose and lose and lose to showcase Simons in the probably futile hope that they will be able to trade him.

Like I said, 20 games.

Fierce1 · Post #375 » by **Fierce1** » Yesterday 1:45 pm

If it's about losing then JB wouldn't be getting 36 minutes and DWhite 34.5 minutes.

Curmudgeon · Post #376 » by **Curmudgeon** » Yesterday 2:14 pm

It will be about losing until they put guys on the floor able and willing to play defense. And, BTW, they are already laying the groundwork for shutting down Brown.

Post #377 » by **Parliament10** » Yesterday 4:03 pm

brackdan70 wrote:Brown playing 36 minutes and White 34.5 needs to stop.
I love Joe but I don’t get this. His job this year is to develop young guys. Get to it Joe.

Agreed. Basically, no one should be playing more than 30 mins.
Get more of the Bench in there. Especially with the Personnel that we've lost.

redslastlaugh · Post #378 » by **redslastlaugh** » Today 3:11 am

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

Fierce1 · Post #379 » by **Fierce1** » Today 3:22 am

redslastlaugh wrote: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

.
.
.
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.

Post #380 » by **Parliament10** » Today 3:32 am

Fierce1 wrote:
redslastlaugh wrote: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

.
.
.
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.