Isaiah 41:10 - Al Will Strengthen You and Help You: Official 2016-17 Boston Celtics Season Thread

[JarrodG]

i don't want no part of melo

 

[William F. Russell]

Nice hustle play/assist from Al

 

[JarrodG]

Tommy H needs to retired.

 

[William F. Russell]

Isaiah is so money

 

[William F. Russell]

Our perimeter defense

 

[Stress Welker]

Pathetic defensive effort by everyone involved

 

[SchoolboyC]

Celtics lost this game because of Horford's explicit awfulness, getting killed on the boards and their bench destroying ours

 

[606onit]

Yall losing to the bum ass knicks

 

[Stress Welker]

I am offended by our effort on defense and our lack of rebounding. These issue ain't new ether. Something has to be done. This is bad.

 

[JarrodG]

Horford a sham

 

[Stress Welker]

Horford had a bad game, nothing more to read into it than that. Having him on the team is a good thing.

 

[William F. Russell]

Isaiah is the big snub from the All Star Game starting lineup. :CmonJae:

The 5-foot-9 point guard lost a tiebreaker to Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan in the revamped All-Star starter selection process, which combines voting from fans, media and players into a formula that determines the starting lineup for both conferences. DeRozan joins Kyrie Irving in the East’s starting backcourt, while LeBron James, Jimmy Butler, and Giannis Antetokounmpo were voted in as frontcourt starters.

Fan voting counted for 50 percent of the overall vote, while player (25 percent) and media (25 percent) voting accounted for the remaining tally.

Thomas and DeRozan tied the weighted vote for the second guard spot behind Irving with 2.75 points. The tiebreaker was fan voting however, and DeRozan finished third among guards at 796,112 votes, just ahead of Thomas in fourth with 755,102 votes.

Isaiah Thomas misses out on All-Star starter spot due to tiebreaker

 

[William F. Russell]

Mid-season grades for our players:

Demetrius Jackson: Incomplete
Jordan Mickey: D
James Young: D
Tyler Zeller: C-
Gerald Green: C
Jaylen Brown: C+
Terry Rozier: C+
Jonas Jerebko: B
Kelly Olynk: B-
Amir Johnson: C+
Marcus Smart: B
Avery Bradley: A-
Jae Crowder: A-
Al Horford: B+
Isaiah Thomas: A

Midseason Grades for Each Boston Celtics Player

 

[William F. Russell]

Caron Butler has Horford as an East ASG Reserve yet then said on NBA TV that Embiid doesn't deserve to be an All Star :cmonbreh:

 

[William F. Russell]

Yet, even when healthy, the Celtics have a noticeably worse defense than they did last year. Have they lost a step, or is it connected to the number of gargantuan individual performances that other players are putting on this year? I won’t hesitate to lay out criticism where it is due, but is there a single defender or even a defensive scheme that can restrain the likes of Russell Westbrook, James Harden, and Demar Derozan? Probably not, but the numbers show that some Celtics aren’t pulling their weight on the defensive end.

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