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On the Celtics and Sixers. The Celtics are using positionless basketball to slow 'The Process' | Boston.com

It makes some fair points. Boston is so adaptable, that you can't really take them out of their game, but they can take you out of your game. That's what happened in game 1.

Stevens is great and Ainge is very sharp. The two of them being in lockstep really makes the talent acquisition work. For those that don't know, Stevens and Belichick have a mutual admiration society of sorts. There are many similarities when you look at how they both see great value in versatility. The Celtics are bringing in guys who can play all over the floor. Smart, for as limited as he is in some respects, is a great defender, plays very hard, and poses matchup problems. If Brown is healthy, I think Boston will win this series.
 
HuskyHawk said:
On the Celtics and Sixers. The Celtics are using positionless basketball to slow 'The Process' | Boston.com

It makes some fair points. Boston is so adaptable, that you can't really take them out of their game, but they can take you out of your game. That's what happened in game 1.

Stevens is great and Ainge is very sharp. The two of them being in lockstep really makes the talent acquisition work. For those that don't know, Stevens and Belichick have a mutual admiration society of sorts. There are many similarities when you look at how they both see great value in versatility. The Celtics are bringing in guys who can play all over the floor. Smart, for as limited as he is in some respects, is a great defender, plays very hard, and poses matchup problems. If Brown is healthy, I think Boston will win this series.
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Brown isn't playing game 2, definitely worrisome as Boston got the one-game rally the troops bump, but now will need to pull out all the stops as Philly will throw everything into trying to win this game. Solid contributions needed from each of Baynes, Smart, Morris and Shane Larkin (yet another example of Stevens making a scrap heap PG look great), cuz their new BIG 3 isn't putting up 75+ again.
 
intlzncster said:
I wonder what JJ will do next year. Philly's paying him an absurd 23mil for this single year of service. Will he want to resign (obv for a lot cheaper)?
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Crazy thing is that 23 mil is probably good value for Redick with how bloated salaries have become under the new cap (Al Horford is better than Redick, but the same applies).

But yeah, that's maybe the most difficult question facing Philly this offseason. It feels like they're going to be second guessed either way.
 
Dogdeacon said:
This is 3 paragraphs of bad, over analysis of the obvious even without mentioning immense salary/contract disconnect. Tatum's upside vs Reddick is silly, Tatum's length & versatility NOW makes it sillier.

Next time on insane over-rating of white shooters, why Cleveland won last night, because Kyle Korver's quick release makes him better than either Lowry or DeRozan
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That's kind of what I do.

In all seriousness, I think you're underrating Redick. The fact that you lumped him in with the first white shooter you could think of makes my point.
 
I might have to take back my comments about Mitchell not being a future superstar. He's so ahead of schedule.
 
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Dante Exum HAMMER dunk.

Quinn Snyder is a top 10 NBA coach
 
Robertelamin said:
Well he is A Dukie after all. He flamed out so bad at Missouri that it kind of blows my mind he is a good NBA coach. Plus it looks like he does meth.
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Not a good coach, a great coach. That was a long time ago, he's put in his dues. One of my favorite people to listen to in the NBA.

Interesting tidbit, Snyder was married to Larry Brown's daughter and Larry remained close with him even after the divorce.
 
champs99and04 said:
That's kind of what I do.

In all seriousness, I think you're underrating Redick. The fact that you lumped him in with the first white shooter you could think of makes my point.
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I said that l listen to Reddick’s podcast, if anything I overrated him coming into season and was surprised he didn’t put up bigger or more consistent numbers. But I didn’t watch their run late. Nonetheless last I watched JJ hasn’t moved needle in playoff series either with Clips (4th best player?) or when he had trouble keeping up with old Ray Allen in Magic-Celts series. Korver was perfect for the joke, that’s all.

Someone must take a pint of blood off Quin Snyder every halftime. Tonight I think they ran it thru a centrifuge and ignited D Mitchell for that dunk.
 
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Dogdeacon said:
I said that l listen to Reddick’s podcast, if anything I overrated him coming into season and was surprised he didn’t put up bigger or more consistent numbers. But I didn’t watch their run late. Nonetheless last I watched JJ hasn’t moved needle in playoff series either with Clips (4th best player?) or when he had trouble keeping up with old Ray Allen in Magic-Celts series. Korver was perfect for the joke, that’s all.

Someone must take a pint of blood off Quin Snyder every halftime. Tonight I think they ran it thru a centrifuge and ignited D Mitchell for that dunk.
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Dogdeacon said:
I said that l listen to Reddick’s podcast, if anything I overrated him coming into season and was surprised he didn’t put up bigger or more consistent numbers. But I didn’t watch their run late. Nonetheless last I watched JJ hasn’t moved needle in playoff series either with Clips (4th best player?) or when he had trouble keeping up with old Ray Allen in Magic-Celts series. Korver was perfect for the joke, that’s all.

Someone must take a pint of blood off Quin Snyder every halftime. Tonight I think they ran it thru a centrifuge and ignited D Mitchell for that dunk.
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The problem with those Clipper teams was always the bench. They'll be remembered as a failure for not getting to a single conference final when they aspired to win titles, but they had a lot working against them between some of the injury luck they suffered and the fact that they played in a loaded conference. The CP3-JJ-Blake-DeAndre core was no joke. (I'll grant you that J.J.'s last couple postseasons' in LA were bad)

I'm not saying he's the best player ever, but I think he's a dude who was obviously hyped coming into the league and then by the time he got his footing, a lot of people had stopped paying attention. Over the last five years he's putting up over 20 points per 36 minutes on 46/43/90 shooting splits. Those are elite offensive numbers from a shooting guard.
 
champs99and04 said:
The problem with those Clipper teams was always the bench. They'll be remembered as a failure for not getting to a single conference final when they aspired to win titles, but they had a lot working against them between some of the injury luck they suffered and the fact that they played in a loaded conference. The CP3-JJ-Blake-DeAndre core was no joke. (I'll grant you that J.J.'s last couple postseasons' in LA were bad)

I'm not saying he's the best player ever, but I think he's a dude who was obviously hyped coming into the league and then by the time he got his footing, a lot of people had stopped paying attention. Over the last five years he's putting up over 20 points per 36 minutes on 46/43/90 shooting splits. Those are elite offensive numbers from a shooting guard.
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On our next exciting double episode of Insane Over-rating of White Shooters...
Why Steve Kerr who made one GW shot and not Robert Horry should be known as Big Shot Bob.

And how Danny Ainge would own all of Steph Curry's NBA 3-pt season shooting records if players of the 80's were better at math.
 
champs99and04 said:
The problem with those Clipper teams was always the bench. They'll be remembered as a failure for not getting to a single conference final when they aspired to win titles, but they had a lot working against them between some of the injury luck they suffered and the fact that they played in a loaded conference. The CP3-JJ-Blake-DeAndre core was no joke. (I'll grant you that J.J.'s last couple postseasons' in LA were bad)

I'm not saying he's the best player ever, but I think he's a dude who was obviously hyped coming into the league and then by the time he got his footing, a lot of people had stopped paying attention. Over the last five years he's putting up over 20 points per 36 minutes on 46/43/90 shooting splits. Those are elite offensive numbers from a shooting guard.
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You think JJ Redick is an elite shooting guard?
 
superjohn said:
Not a good coach, a great coach. That was a long time ago, he's put in his dues. One of my favorite people to listen to in the NBA.

Interesting tidbit, Snyder was married to Larry Brown's daughter and Larry remained close with him even after the divorce.
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One of my friends is a big Duke guy, and wants them to throw big money at Snyder when Coach K retires rather than giving the job to Hurley/Wojo, etc. Not sure if his coaching will translate back to college (although Duke is probably the easiest job in the country to bring talent into), or if Snyder would even want to leave the NBA, but that would be pretty crazy.
 
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superjohn said:
You think JJ Redick is an elite shooting guard?
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Of for forks sake, don't bring the sportsradio trigger word into this. Just the incantation summons twenty boneyard trolls to compile 3 pages quibbling about what and who defines the league's best players.
Although now that you mention it Reddick did go to a blue blood school for the nation's elite.

In Sunday's bonus episode of Insane Over Rating of White Shooters we will cover how one meme (albeit before such a word or concept even existed), changed Craig Ehlo's destiny from perennial all-star to a life of drugs & pornography.
 
UConnStats said:
One of my friends is a big Duke guy, and wants them to throw big money at Snyder when Coach K retires rather than giving the job to Hurley/Wojo, etc. Not sure if his coaching will translate back to college (although Duke is probably the easiest job in the country to bring talent into), or if Snyder would even want to leave the NBA, but that would be pretty crazy.
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If his success continues, no way he goes back to college. He clearly struggled to run a program at the college level. The difference in the two jobs is so much bigger than people tend to think.

A MCBB HC is a general manager, coach, salesman, promoter, mentor/father figure, media personality, talent developer etc etc. Got about 20 different hats.

A NBA HC is a coach, pure and simple. And usually it's scheme and personality related. You've got tons of guys to work on skills for you. And you have a bunch of self motivated, hungry professionals to work with.
 
UConnStats said:
One of my friends is a big Duke guy, and wants them to throw big money at Snyder when Coach K retires rather than giving the job to Hurley/Wojo, etc. Not sure if his coaching will translate back to college (although Duke is probably the easiest job in the country to bring talent into), or if Snyder would even want to leave the NBA, but that would be pretty crazy.
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Can't see Snyder leaving the NBA after sniffing success. So...which Hurley?
 
This Jazz team with Rubio is really growing on me.

I’ve always loved Rubio and I’m infatuated with Mitchell as a rookie basketball player.

I also have always liked Snyder a lot. That includes his hair swirl and Duke background.
 
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