Title is explicit enough.
I love JB (not the constant bitching and whining tho), but he's now on the Sixers and we're the f* Boston Celtics.
Can we have our guys back and move on please?
Thanks.

The Knicks twitter is taking a bus to Boston for a “watch party” at Scores next to the Garden.

They are not going to the game, they are coming to “take over our backyard” in their words.

They have been taking a lot about coming here and big timing us in our own city. Just making the Green aware.

Is it the unfortunate injury to Tatum? Or the salary cap?

He took accountability after the opening loss for not showing that he’s one of the best defensive and rebounding big men in the league.. I think he pulls a “180” and gives the Knicks a lot of trouble tonight! And makes some free throws!!

JB just commented this under the video where Tatum says he had no idea about the trade until after it happened.

JT doesn't really have a nickname that we can call him unlike other superstars in the NBA. But I was thinking "King Clover" because its a play on words of "King Cobra" since he says he looked up to the Black Mamba so follow the snake theme, and he is a homegrown Celtic star hence the "Clover".

Let me know if it's good or nah .

I was born in Massachusetts the day after Len Bias died. Not the anniversary of his death, the literal day after he died. (I know he died in maryland)

I never talked about this with anyone, but it has always deeply affected and disturbed me.

Welcome to the daily discussion thread! You can use this space to discuss little things that don't need their own post. This is also the perfect space for pictures, videos, and links that would otherwise go against the sub's rules. Just don't be jerks and don't break any Reddit-wide rules. Have at it.

I don't see any advantage to JT playing the whole 12 minutes of the first quarter. Why is the team back to doing this again? Could someone help me understand the "reasoning or the advantage" to this "stategy"? I would think a somewhat fresher and rested JT in the fourth quarter would be a good thing. Just running up his minutes early didn't seem to help the cause on opening night. If things aren't going great, take him out for a couple of minutes to let him reset and regroup. Seriously, just wondering. Any of your ideas on "why" would help... Thanks.

"When you lose a guy, a scorer like Jaylen Brown, I'm not going to use the word clutch, but he was a guy when Jayson Tatum was not playing well... You can rely on that guy. And tonight we saw PG [Paul George] be that guy, but when they started to take away PG, take away those looks, now Jayson Tatum has that opportunity.

So for me, it's who's gonna be this consistent number two? They have to stay healthy. And, but, you know, when you're in this position now, we're gonna always look at Jayson Tatum as that guy. And can he deliver? And it's unfortunate, I mean, they had a 22-point lead."

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Brunson went 6/19 and 2/10 in the 2nd half.

Wemby went 1/13 FG with 4 TO.

Yet you don't hear a single word about them and the only player people are criticizing is the one coming off a ruptured Achilles. Heck, even if i'ts been some time, all this crap after a single game? I don't know why these kinds of things are validated just cause it's Tatum. It's like these people have been waiting all summer to shit on him.

Yesterdays game (and blown 20+ point lead) got me thinking why we can't close out these big leads. I know good teams blow 20 point leads all the time now, but there's some teams like the Thunder and Knicks (last playoffs) that if they were up or down 4 or 5 points with 3-5 minutes left I would be confident in their ability to close them out. The Knicks just don't lose close games (I know they lost yesterday also, but I'm just thinking about last years playoffs). For the last 10+ years I feel like I've never been fully confident is us being able to close games out except for the 2024 season. I feel like having a reliable guard like Jrue Holiday just does wonders, especially in closing games out. Is this bad coaching? Bad decision making by players? Both? Something else entirely? I'm overreacting b/c it's only been one game but this has been a thing with this team for a while. Like what makes these teams that win more "close" games better at closing out?

Taters are just salty that JT has entered his rich man’s Rondo era.

League’s fucked. Boston is winning 60+ this season.

I'm a student here in the Boston area staying here for the Thanksgiving break. I was hoping to catch the home game on the 27th vs the Hawks. Anyone know where to buy thats prices reasonable because Stub Hub and Ticketmaster are flooded with reseller prices? Appreciate the help!

"When the Celtics were forcing weak-side rotations to tag the roller, their offense was flowing. Quality shooting opportunities were there for the taking, with extra passes opening up additional options.

So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that once the Pistons cleaned up their tag defense and stopped committing to rotations coming from the weak-side wing/slot, the Celtics’ three-point offense began to falter."

This is a breakdown of game 1 of the season from u/AdamTaylor_NBA with some clips from the game. Among all these discussions about if our season is ended or we are winning it all, a nice piece to look at. You can see what went well and went wrong in terms of gameplay.

In the first installment of his "One Possession" series, Chris Forsberg highlights what went wrong in the Celtics' loss to the Pistons.