Re: Post Game - Celtics vs. Pacers - Monday, January 08 (L)

by **cowens/oldschool** Tue Jan 09, 2024 11:44 pm

Another thing I love about Jaylen is his work ethic, he keeps getting better and better. He’s definitely always putting in the time and as he’s improved, his strengths keep getting stronger and stronger. He was a one man wrecking crew on 2nd night of a b2b with no Tatum. Pacers have plethora of young able wing defenders, he took them all on no problem.

by **worcester** Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:20 am

Yes he did, and yes he does.

by **cowens/oldschool** Wed Jan 10, 2024 1:48 am

Oh he’s 2nd option, he’s got no left hand and has to drive the open seams off the defense concentrating on Tatum. It’s amazing how strong he is, I saw a bully getting to his spots as close to the basket as he wanted and just jumping thru and over defenders. Very few mortals or even all time great wings could get their shot off like that.

by **bobheckler** Wed Jan 10, 2024 5:29 am

cowens/oldschool wrote:Oh he’s 2nd option, he’s got no left hand and has to drive the open seams off the defense concentrating on Tatum. It’s amazing how strong he is, I saw a bully getting to his spots as close to the basket as he wanted and just jumping thru and over defenders. Very few mortals or even all time great wings could get their shot off like that.

Cow,

You're right about his left hand, it's pretty useless unless he's near the rim. It's one of the few areas that hasn't improved. Having said this, do you remember Avery Johnson? A small (6'1"?) point guard who played for Pop for years (and later became a coach)? He had no right hand, a point guard with a weak handle going right in an era when offenses ran through the point guards, and yet somehow always managed to get to his left. Thaddeus Young, another player who always goes left. Thaddeus is old now but had a great, and effective, one-handed career.

Jaylen's a 2X All-Star WITHOUT a left hand. If that's what he focuses on this summer we're in excellent shape because that might be his last remaining foible.

Bob

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by **dbrown4** Wed Jan 10, 2024 7:34 am

I only hold the Celtics to answer only one question. Despite all the free throws missed, bad calls by the refs, players out, etc., were we in a position to win the game? That's all they have to answer. Crap happens. Leads vanish. Players are out for any and all reasons. The answer to that question for this game was yes. And it has been yes for all our games except those where it was predetermined whom we trounced the competition long before the final buzzer went off. The only game I recall we really lost was to these knuckleheads in the IST, and that was because they were hitting the broadside of the barn and throwing it in the ocean out 15 miles from shore. I'll take that.

#1 in the East vs #1 in the West on deck.

db

by **cowens/oldschool** Wed Jan 10, 2024 9:57 am

bobheckler wrote:
cowens/oldschool wrote:Oh he’s 2nd option, he’s got no left hand and has to drive the open seams off the defense concentrating on Tatum. It’s amazing how strong he is, I saw a bully getting to his spots as close to the basket as he wanted and just jumping thru and over defenders. Very few mortals or even all time great wings could get their shot off like that.

Cow,

You're right about his left hand, it's pretty useless unless he's near the rim. It's one of the few areas that hasn't improved. Having said this, do you remember Avery Johnson? A small (6'1"?) point guard who played for Pop for years (and later became a coach)? He had no right hand, a point guard with a weak handle going right in an era when offenses ran through the point guards, and yet somehow always managed to get to his left. Thaddeus Young, another player who always goes left. Thaddeus is old now but had a great, and effective, one-handed career.

Jaylen's a 2X All-Star WITHOUT a left hand. If that's what he focuses on this summer we're in excellent shape because that might be his last remaining foible.

Bob

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My first sentence was sarcasm, he’s got a very good left hand

by **bobheckler** Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:30 pm

cowens/oldschool wrote:
bobheckler wrote:
cowens/oldschool wrote:Oh he’s 2nd option, he’s got no left hand and has to drive the open seams off the defense concentrating on Tatum. It’s amazing how strong he is, I saw a bully getting to his spots as close to the basket as he wanted and just jumping thru and over defenders. Very few mortals or even all time great wings could get their shot off like that.

Cow,

You're right about his left hand, it's pretty useless unless he's near the rim. It's one of the few areas that hasn't improved. Having said this, do you remember Avery Johnson? A small (6'1"?) point guard who played for Pop for years (and later became a coach)? He had no right hand, a point guard with a weak handle going right in an era when offenses ran through the point guards, and yet somehow always managed to get to his left. Thaddeus Young, another player who always goes left. Thaddeus is old now but had a great, and effective, one-handed career.

Jaylen's a 2X All-Star WITHOUT a left hand. If that's what he focuses on this summer we're in excellent shape because that might be his last remaining foible.

Bob

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My first sentence was sarcasm, he’s got a very good left hand

Cow,

My first sentence, and the qualifiers after it, were not.

Bob

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