Pick swaps and draft picks were part of the deal, buddy

He doesn’t owe you shit but I hope you’re enjoying trying to sound pretentious & talking down to people. People like you are obnoxious 

He hit like 98 tonight though, can’t be a dead arm, right? I’d guess more control issues that he has to sort out. But I wouldn’t be shocked if he got a DL stint in near future regardless of whether there’s a tangible injury to point to, just so he can work on his mechanics.

Fuck off

Of course, the 2013-2014 Pacers didn’t have an injured all-star probably set to return in late March at its position of greatest need...

I love it, Oleg.

Maybe subtract Derozan or Lowry from the Raptors to mirror the loss of Gordon Hayward (who’s better than either), then reevaluate.

and Jarret Jack! Knicks’ perimeter D in the fourth was mindblowingly bad

Then why over the past several years have the Celtics’ opponents shot unusually poorly from 3P range? At a certain point it becomes a question of scheme and defense, not luck.

Tom Brady will forever be the best example of this.

Yeah, it’s really not that crazy; Crowder has lost a lot of his lateral quickness and in 2016-2017 Celtics fans got resigned to watching his man blow past him over and over, which felt jarring after the year before, as another commenter has noted. He took and made a lot of 3s, but I think Kevin O’Connor at the Ringer…

Uh he shot 41% from 3 in college, that’s a big part of why he was the #1 pick. You’re right that he was awful at the line, though, and I’ve read that college FT% is a better indicator of future success than college outside shooting. Seems to be the case here, in this incredibly limited sample size.

lol what? I love the randos who come out of the woodwork to snark on Danny Ainge. Tatum looks fantastic early; Fultz can’t shoot a jumper; Rozier & Jaylen Brown are showing strong improvement year-over-year; and Shane Larkin just put away the Sixers two nights ago. Why does he need a pass?

Injuries are indeed fucking up the season, but a 26.9 usage rate isn’t too crazy... last season IT put up a 34% usage rate for the Celtics and that was a good thing (mostly b/c of his absurd efficiency). Kyrie’s been playing off-ball pretty often for the Celtics so far this year—hell, they closed last night with Shane…

Go fuck yourself you insufferable douchebag

It’s kind of an indictment of Charlotte’s recent draft picks though; they picked in the top ten 3 times in the past five years, chose big men each time, and came away with Vonleh (traded for Batum, who’s at least decent), Zeller (better than his brother but unremarkable for a #4 pick), and Kaminsky (looking pretty…

IT had a torn labrum, so of course he looked like “a shell of himself.” Avery Bradley shot 39% from 3 during the regular season, so him shooting well isn’t too wild. (Interestingly, what is somewhat wild is the success the Cavs had from 3% range in that series, which was unsustainable, and unsurprisingly vanished…

Oh, Thomas will get $20-25m/yr at least, but even that’s a far cry from the 30-35 mil per year he’d be entitled to. And honestly I’m increasingly doubtful he gets that max deal, if only because it seems impossible that he will maintain his scoring efficiency from this season, injury or no.

Ah, yes, Hollow_Log, that famous judge of NBA talent. Continue to weigh in, please; yours are the opinions I really want.

It does seem increasingly questionable whether that happens...I wonder if there really are that many (or any) teams in the NBA clamoring to offer that contract to Isaiah Thomas, especially after his labrum tear. The consensus is that’s where the Celtics are headed, but Ainge has always been pretty ruthless; I can see…