Around the NBA 2018 (Non-Celtics Talk)

[GoCeltics123]

And we could be staring at Cleveland in the first round. hmm

Round 2 or 3, maybe. Doubt they slip that far

[Wes-J]

And we could be staring at Cleveland in the first round. hmm

Round 2 or 3, maybe. Doubt they slip that far

Either way it goes, the days of Cleveland getting a lot of rest between series is over.

[CeltsfanSinceBirth]

Cavs got porked. Nobody on their team is capable of scoring more than 15 a night besides lebron

I think this board really needs to start a gofundme page and raise money so we can send Kevin Pritchard an Easter basket as a way of saying "Thank you!" for flaking out twice.

Think about it. He flaked on a deal that would have resulted in Kyrie going to Phoenix, Josh Jackson going to the Pacers, and Bledsoe and George going to Cleveland. Bledsoe/PG13/Lebron/Love/Kardashian would have been competitive enough to convince James to stay.

Then he flakes out on us where we would have sent Crowder/AB/Memphis pick/Clipper pick/our own pick for George. If we do that deal, we don't have Kyrie and are stuck with gimpy IT.

Cheers to you, Kevin Pritchard.

(EDIT.....now that I think about it, the Cs still had assets to get Kyrie even had we traded for George. It would have cost us one of Brown or Tatum though.......Ainge makes that deal IMO.
Kyrie/George/Hayward/Horford with one of Tatum or Brown would contend immediately. Luxury tax would sting ....but damn).

[Jakeopp]

Great to see Isaiah ball out tonight, even if he's wearing a Laker's jersey. Gave up on that pick a while ago...hope he keeps balling out just to make the Cavs look dumb for moving him for a couple of role players.

[K For Three]

And we could be staring at Cleveland in the first round. hmm

Miami, Detroit, (and possibly Indiana) won't let that happen.


Whoever we play in the first round, Celtics in 5.

[K For Three]

And we could be staring at Cleveland in the first round. hmm

Round 2 or 3, maybe. Doubt they slip that far

So hard to say right now. Top two seeds are a lock for the Celtics and Raptors in either order. After that just about anything could happen but the Cavs likely stay 3 to 4. I don't think I trust Washington enough either to be consistent. Bucks/Sixers are in a weird spot too and are trying their hardest to climb up the rankings.

[jfs1000d]

Cavs got porked. Nobody on their team is capable of scoring more than 15 a night besides lebron

Exactly.

The media was driving me nuts. But that entire team after Lebron is guys who are all 10 ppg or under guys. What do you do when they just have their average game?

They are Lebron and a team of nice role players until Love gets back.

The team has hit its ceiling.




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[GoCeltics123]

D'Angelo Russell is straight trash dude. He has talent but is so f***** immature and dumb. Perennial loser type.

[ConstableGeneva]

Cavs got porked. Nobody on their team is capable of scoring more than 15 a night besides lebron

I think this board really needs to start a gofundme page and raise money so we can send Kevin Pritchard an Easter basket as a way of saying "Thank you!" for flaking out twice.

Think about it. He flaked on a deal that would have resulted in Kyrie going to Phoenix, Josh Jackson going to the Pacers, and Bledsoe and George going to Cleveland. Bledsoe/PG13/Lebron/Love/Kardashian would have been competitive enough to convince James to stay.

Then he flakes out on us where we would have sent Crowder/AB/Memphis pick/Clipper pick/our own pick for George. If we do that deal, we don't have Kyrie and are stuck with gimpy IT.

Cheers to you, Kevin Pritchard.

(EDIT.....now that I think about it, the Cs still had assets to get Kyrie even had we traded for George. It would have cost us one of Brown or Tatum though.......Ainge makes that deal IMO.
Kyrie/George/Hayward/Horford with one of Tatum or Brown would contend immediately. Luxury tax would sting ....but damn).

We're getting Kawhi.

[K For Three]

Okay I admit, I am trying to ignore this Lebron to Philly rumor stuff. If this happens I will be very very upset. Go out west Lebron!!!

I guess if the Lebron to L.A. thing don't work out then maybe maybe IT has a shot now at a future as a Laker? Or at least a shot somewhere again?

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[Moose23]

I think lebron picks philly.

Easier trip to the finals.

They have young pieces the6 can trade away as he sees fit (cleveland the second trip) i could see simmons and fultz being trade for pg/sg that he wants leaving him with himself saric ajd embiid as the front court and guys like walker or the like as his pg.

I mean he had the cavs trade #1 picks for love, philly has pieces to do the same thing for him.

It reeks of a lebitch move to me

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Defended him after The Decision, and again after his return to CLE. Would defend him for leaving the Cavs again.

But let's face it, if he goes to Philly, he's a ****.

Lol

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[Green89]

Young Philly is still trying to figure out how to play with each other. Throw egomaniacal Lebron in there and it could spell disaster to to the rise of their young talent. They'd not only have to continue to get better within their own games as NBA players, they'd have to learn how to be a Bron teammate!

[Moose23]

Young Philly is still trying to figure out how to play with each other. Throw egomaniacal Lebron in there and it could spell disaster to to the rise of their young talent. They'd not only have to continue to get better within their own games as NBA players, they'd have to learn how to be a Bron teammate!

Lebron would have most of them traded IMO.

Fultz and 2018 LAL first and Philly First for Kemba

Simmons, Saric for Porzingas

Walker
Covington
Lebron
Unicorn
Embiid

That would make lebron happy, surround him with 3 allstars and a great 3andD player.

[GoCeltics123]

Young Philly is still trying to figure out how to play with each other. Throw egomaniacal Lebron in there and it could spell disaster to to the rise of their young talent. They'd not only have to continue to get better within their own games as NBA players, they'd have to learn how to be a Bron teammate!

Lebron would have most of them traded IMO.

Fultz and 2018 LAL first and Philly First for Kemba

Simmons, Saric for Porzingas

Walker
Covington
Lebron
Unicorn
Embiid

That would make lebron happy, surround him with 3 allstars and a great 3andD player.

Simmons is his guy, despite him being a terrible fit next to LBJ he won't be traded.

[Moose23]

Young Philly is still trying to figure out how to play with each other. Throw egomaniacal Lebron in there and it could spell disaster to to the rise of their young talent. They'd not only have to continue to get better within their own games as NBA players, they'd have to learn how to be a Bron teammate!

Lebron would have most of them traded IMO.

Fultz and 2018 LAL first and Philly First for Kemba

Simmons, Saric for Porzingas

Walker
Covington
Lebron
Unicorn
Embiid

That would make lebron happy, surround him with 3 allstars and a great 3andD player.

Simmons is his guy, despite him being a terrible fit next to LBJ he won't be traded.

perhaps, or he is driving up his value...

[Green89]

Crowder with 6 straight double digit scoring games off the bench for Utah. He didn’t even have more than 3 in a row in Cleveland.

[OFWGKTA]

Crowder with 6 straight double digit scoring games off the bench for Utah. He didn’t even have more than 3 in a row in Cleveland.

Pretty **** shooting splits in that stretch though, 39/29.4/75

[celticfan42487]

And we could be staring at Cleveland in the first round. hmm

Round 2 or 3, maybe. Doubt they slip that far

Either way it goes, the days of Cleveland getting a lot of rest between series is over.

Today is the first day I'm considering that CLE may not be the team the second seed will play.

I'm really shocked.

Maybe the stats are for real? They win a ton for a team with a 0.3ish point differential which I'll just put down to LeBron winning games himself in the fourth after trying to conserve some energy.

But man they've been on a bad run.

The entire season after Hayward went down all I was hoping for was that we'd avoid CLE in the second round. And maybe the way to do that is ended up in the second spot in the East.

I guess they are missing their other all-star in Love. But these issues coming back up post trades are concerning. Maybe they really have taken a step back and are beatable.

I'd **** love to see them face the Raptors in the second round and us take the Wizards or 76ers on. I honestly have a ton of confidence of this version of the Celtics team going up against any non CLE/TOR team in the playoffs... and even before today I really thought TOR could beat CLE in a series.

That said I just want them to collide in round 2. Let them duke it out. Let us get to the ECF and do what we can. If it plays out like that then it'll be either LeBron turning it on or we're going to have a hell of a series against TOR where it will truly come down to how physical we're allowed to get against their wings to bog down their offense.

Also RealGM servers would shatter 5 days before Game 1 of an ECF Raps v Boston

[3D Chess]

Soup's on!

[2Mas]

Great to see Isaiah ball out tonight, even if he's wearing a Laker's jersey. Gave up on that pick a while ago...hope he keeps balling out just to make the Cavs look dumb for moving him for a couple of role players.

Yeah. Weird to say but i'm rooting for the Lakers to win these games.

1- I want IT to get a nice contract. Even if it's 2yr/24mil w/ Indy. Still a dope pay raise.
2- I want LAL to win for the Philly pick. If we're not getting it, I want Philly to pick 13th lol.

Cle lowered their ceiling. Shoulda sat IT out that first month to let him get in shape. Yeah he peaked w/ us, but he still coulda gotten Cle 20+ ppg on good efficiency once he's healthy.

Instead went for Clarkson. & When LBJ doesn't get 30-10-10, their gonna struggle.

I'm pissed cause i took Philly+3 & Min+8.5 last night. & these mu***** wanna lose by 9 smfh.