Mavericks @ Celtics Monday November 11, 2019 at 7:30 PM EST Game #9

All honors to all the veterans who have sacrificed so much for our freedom and our values.  A personal thanks goes out to my Uncle Harry who fought in Sicily, France and Germany under General Patton and my dad William who fought in France and Germany and my nephew Gregory, Special Forces, Afghanistan.


About The Game 

Should be great game, can’t wait to see how we defend Doncic with Smart, Brown and Tatum, in a wing dominated league, we are really built to defend wings. Also looking forward to see how Timelord does against the Unicorn, tomorrow night will be a good test.

cowens/oldschool wrote:Should be great game, can’t wait to see how we defend Doncic with Smart, Brown and Tatum, in a wing dominated league, we are really built to defend wings. Also looking forward to see how Timelord does against the Unicorn, tomorrow night will be a good test.

Cow

It is great to see so many of the young players on this team develop

Robert Williams is on the road to becoming an important player on this team. He has a long road ahead.

dboss wrote:

cowens/oldschool wrote:Should be great game, can’t wait to see how we defend Doncic with Smart, Brown and Tatum, in a wing dominated league, we are really built to defend wings. Also looking forward to see how Timelord does against the Unicorn, tomorrow night will be a good test.

Cow

It is great to see so many of the young players on this team develop

Robert Williams is on the road to becoming an important player on this team.  He has a long road ahead.  

True dboss he does have a long road, but heard a quote from Danny during camp, he said of Tatum something to the effect that JT was embracing the work that has to be put in to be a great player. I had said last year, Tatum needs to work all summer on his long ball, it seems that work is already paying off. Seems after the wasted Kelly O pick, Danny has been drafting prime time athletes, if he’s gonna miss, don’t miss because the player is not athletic enough. I like that philosophy....if Robert Williams keeps working/developing, scary how much he could help this already stacked young team going forward.

The KO pick was Danny's biggest Draft mistake.  But I do not want to think about what could have been.  Danny hit home runs drafting Marcus, Jaylen and Jason.  Will be interesting to see how RW from last year's draft and the guys from this  draft class work out.  RW is on the verge of being our starting center.  Maybe next year he will get that job.

dboss wrote:The KO pick was Danny's biggest Draft mistake.  But I do not want to think about what could have been.  Danny hit home runs drafting Marcus, Jaylen and Jason.  Will be interesting to see how RW from last year's draft and the guys from this  draft class work out.  RW is on the verge of being our starting center.  Maybe next year he will get that job.

He could get it this year down the road....

dboss,

Although the has nothing to do with the game tonight against Dallas, the guy Ainge drafted out of Syracuse a few years ago was the worst of all of his draft picks. At least Kelly O was at least a serviceable NBA player.

Tonight Doncic will get his points, but the Cs must find a way to severely limit Porzingus' scoring to have a much better chance to win this game.

Luka is special, and a lot of fun to watch.


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bobheckler wrote:Luka is special, and a lot of fun to watch.


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He is special and he’s not an Uber freak athlete, reminds me of a combo of Pierce and Larry Bird, and that’s high praise.

Will be fun tonight, he will be going against our best, so will be big test for him too.

I don't know. MS likes a challenge. Doncic will be putty in his hands. I would imagine Smart is starting. Is Enes coming back tonight? Thought I heard that somewhere. I'm going to play my bet that Doncic will have his worst game of the year tonight.

This game will be more like I was expecting the SAS game to be. Both West teams are playoff bound. It will be close. I'm guessing the line is BOS-2. Let me check...Close..should have been a bookie...BOS-3.5.

What's to watch tonight is our bench and Brad. How do they respond to the temporary blaring hole left by Hayward's absence. The only starter I'd be watching and concerned about in a good way is JB. He could go off for 40 tonight easily. He could literally make up for all of GH's stats. He's playing like he's trying to prove right out of the gate Boston is getting their money's worth. What a treat! Better lock down JT soon GMDA!!

db

wideclyde wrote:dboss,

Although the has nothing to do with the game tonight against Dallas, the guy Ainge drafted out of Syracuse a few years ago was the worst of all of his draft picks.  At least Kelly O was at least a serviceable NBA player.

Tonight Doncic will get his points, but the Cs must find a way to severely limit Porzingus' scoring to have a much better chance to win this game.

Now you have forced me to tell you what I really think.  The predraft analysis on KO was spot on.  Slow laterally limited athleticism could not rebound out of position.  SHORT arms.  Danny jumped over Giannis to get KO.

I do not want to hear about what other teams did.  Danny traded up and still missed.  Talent wise Melo was horrible but missing on Giannis and drafting KO is like making 2 mistakes at once because you traded up.

The key to winning is all about Doncic. The Mavs play through him.

He's the head of the snake.

And I'll bet my wife's paycheck MS has a machete sharpened and ready.

db

I think we will see the Celtics rotate different guys on Doncic. Smart, Brown and Tatum will get their turn.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/robert-williams-201844788.html



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Something's amiss with NBA Power Rankings. LAL still #1 after losing at home to TOR? I say, "Come on, man!" We just creep up one spot at a time?! And have the best record in the league?! WTH, Bo!!

db

Jay King @ByJayKing
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Enes Kanter just fist pumped after meeting with the training staff. “They just cleared me,” he said. “So I’m good to go tonight.”

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dbrown4 wrote:Something's amiss with NBA Power Rankings.  LAL still #1 after losing at home to TOR?  I say, "Come on, man!"  We just creep up one spot at a time?!  And have the best record in the league?!  WTH, Bo!!

db

DBrown,

Ask and ye shall receive...





bob



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That's better BobH! Where did you find those?!! Not off ESPN I can assure you!! They are still having delusions of grandeur!!

db

dbrown4 wrote:That's better BobH!  Where did you find those?!!  Not off ESPN I can assure you!!  They are still having delusions of grandeur!!

db

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John Karalis @RedsArmy_John
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I think you guys will like the new NBA.com power rankings pic.twitter.com/ufM9dImkSb

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dbrown4 wrote:Something's amiss with NBA Power Rankings.  LAL still #1 after losing at home to TOR?  I say, "Come on, man!"  We just creep up one spot at a time?!  And have the best record in the league?!  WTH, Bo!!

db

In the end these rankings are partly influenced by a team's record and the perception of the team.

In some respects rankings are meaningless at this stage in the season although teams like the Knicks are not likely to move up much.

I look at how a team plays against different levels of competition.  How they play on the road.  How they play in B2B games and how they play at home.  As the season progresses numbers gain a high measure of credibility.

So far Boston is off to a fantastic start having won 3/4 against .500 and above team and having won 4/5 on the road and going 3-0 at home.  They are also 4-0 against the scrubs.  Those are really impressive numbers.  We have an extended 5 game road trip coming up.  That will help me to better judge how good this team can be.

Right now they remind me of the 2017-18 team in terms of how well our two young studs are playing.  The difference however is that our two young studs have gotten a lot better.  I see the same defensive discipline.

Agreed, dboss.  They are kind of silly at this level.  I was subtly hinting at the death grip ESPN has on LAL. They will soon be inevitably faced with the unwelcome and uncomfortable task of rearranging the deck chairs.

db

P.S. One week from today starts the Suns, Clippers and Nuggets away games! That will just about answer everything for us IMHBAO.

dbrown4 wrote:Agreed, dboss.  They are kind of silly at this level.  I was subtly hinting at the death grip ESPN has on LAL. They will soon be inevitably faced with the unwelcome and uncomfortable task of rearranging the deck chairs.

db

P.S.  One week from today starts the Suns, Clippers and Nuggets away games!  That will just about answer everything for us IMHBAO.

db

stars sell tickets and stars push the ratings.

The talking heads have been so enthralled with the LA teams that they completely underestimated what is happening in Boston.   

That is a good thing for us.

There is a ton of competition in the East.   Boston could come out of the East.  We'll know more further into the season.  LAL could come out of the West.  A Celtics/Lakers final would blow the ratings out of the water.  I don't want to get too far ahead of myself.  But I cannot help but sneak a peak into the future.