Celtics/NBA 2024-2025 Part 1: Title Defense

[McGarnagle]

OKC just took Quintin Post from Boston College

Detroit up now, then our turn

 

[EverettMike]

DO IT BRAD AND BE A f***ING LEGEND

 

[Mione134]

OKC just took Quintin Post from Boston College

Detroit up now, then our turn

Post is a good player.


STEVENS NEEDS TO DO IT

 

[GatorMike]

From The Ringer:

PLUSES

• He’s an excellent at-rim finisher using either hand and has the ability to absorb contact. He can post up, although in the NBA he’d be most useful as a cutter, screener, and offensive rebounder.
• Are his flashes of shooting potential for real? He’s long had soft touch on floaters and hook shots, so despite a low free-throw percentage and the fact that he’s made only 30.7 percent of his 3s, maybe his future success is more dependent on revising his mechanics and improving his confidence than on his natural touch.
• Good decision-maker who limits his mistakes. Gonzaga used him to bust zones, and his NBA team will be able to use him in handoff situations.
• Versatile defender who spent time defending everyone from Zach Edey to scoring wings to small guards. Even though he’s quite large, he moves like a wing himself when navigating screens, so he should have positional range at the next level, too.
• Talented rim protector thanks to his feel, fundamentals, and length.

MINUSES

• Lacks creation ability as a ball handler.
• He’s a bit undersized as a traditional rim protector if that’s the position a team requires him to play.

 

[McGarnagle]

Damn Brad, making the actual intelligent basketball pick instead of the troll pick.

 

[Mione134]

I wish we did it lol

But I get it.

Bronny made a mistake declaring so soon. And I stand by it

 

[Johnnyduke]

JJ Redick
Bronny James

How embarrassing for the Lakers

 

[BernieMcAvoy]

Boo With the 54th pick and a championship team, being a jerk is better than team building

 

[EverettMike]

Transitioning from the missed opportunity to spite the Lakers and LeBron to laughing about the Lakers and LeBron wasting a pick on somebody who is not an NBA player and would not have been drafted by any other team.

I love being a sports fan.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

Are we taking Bronny at 54?

Should've done it. 54 is a stretch to make the league anyways, may as well take something another team will pay to get from you

 

[GatorMike]

It's all fun and games... until the Celtics are forced to use a first round pick on Deuce Tatum in 2036.

 

[EverettMike]

It's all fun and games... until the Celtics are forced to use a first round pick on Deuce Tatum in 2036.

Take him in 2035 just to be safe.

#DeuceRound2

 

[McGarnagle]

It's too bad Magic Johnson didn't pull this shit and make the Lakers draft EJ.

 

[BostonBob]

The Kyle Filipowski stuff that is coming out is disturbing. His brother and mother have come out and said that they haven't spoken to him in 2 years and that he's being groomed by his girlfriend who is mormon. Probably why he dropped to the 2nd round.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1806424983918477606

https://x.com/i/web/status/1806433501299773945

If Adam Silver had any Spaldings he would suspend Rich Paul but you can't do anything to upset King Lebron so nothing will happen.

 

[CDJ]

The Kyle Filipowski stuff that is coming out is disturbing. His brother and mother have come out and said that they haven't spoken to him in 2 years and that he's being groomed by his girlfriend who is mormon. Probably why he dropped to the 2nd round.

Believe she was 25 taking him to prom….yiiiiiikes

 

[Mione134]

Believe she was 25 taking him to prom….yiiiiiikes

Grooming galore.

Someone free this kid before they get sealed into that temple.

Absolutely horrific. At 28, I could not FATHOM even TALKING to a guy that young, let alone go to PROM.

Wtf.

 

[Mione134]

 

[Alicat]

Believe she was 25 taking him to prom….yiiiiiikes

Yes she was.

 

[BernieMcAvoy]

I know Danny Ainge loves drafting guys who were 5 star recruits out of high school but i feel like the Jazz were the last team who should have drafted Filipowski

 

[Mione134]

I know Danny Ainge loves drafting guys who were 5 star recruits out of high school but i feel like the Jazz were the last team who should have drafted Filipowski

I am appalled by this entire situation.

As a 34 year old woman, this entire situation disgusts me. That girls family should be ashamed. And she is a groomer.

Someone needs to help that kid asap.

 

[CDJ]

I approve

 

[BigGoalBrad]

Horford isn’t young and KP might be redshirted most of the season I wouldn’t trust the timeline.

Problem with Theis is he’ll find a way to get minutes when everyone else is healthy and he shouldn’t be playing. But he makes sense to forcefeed minutes before KP returns.

 

[McGarnagle]

Bronny is going to become the first third-generation player in NBA history with his father Lebron and grandfather Delonte West

 

[EvilDead]

No it doesn't. Not even a little bit. Zero percent includes the Celtics.

Yes it does, if you want to be convoluted. Fenway has stated it before that the Celtics as they exist today could technically be considered as the successor of the Buffalo Braves, because former Celtics owner Irv Levin and Buffalo Braves owner John Y. Brown traded franchises so that Levin could move a team to California. You could argue the original lineage of the Boston Celtics lies with the Los Angeles Clippers, since that is what the Buffalo Braves eventually became. Again this is convoluted, roundabout logic and is not what I believe, but someone could technically make that argument. They'd derserved to be laughed at if they do, but they could have a point.

 

[EvilDead]

JJ Redick
Bronny James

How embarrassing for the Lakers

JJ Redick has the ability to be a real talented coach. The issue is high risk, high reward factor given the other options available.

Lakers had no choice but to take Bronny, because LeBron would've been pissed if they didn't take him.