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NZStreetBaller
03-17-2015, 10:41 PM
What happened to these franchise juggernauts man. next season doesnt look any better either.
Roundball_Rock
03-17-2015, 10:43 PM
Aging. Kobe, Gasol; KG, Pierce, Allen all got old and those teams were disbanded.
SouBeachTalents
03-17-2015, 10:43 PM
Oh my god, they don't make the playoffs every single year? The audacity! 33 combined championships be damned
k0kakw0rld
03-17-2015, 10:48 PM
Oh my god, they don't make the playoffs every single year? The audacity! 33 combined championships be damned
Bill Russell rings are irrelevant. People criticized Wilt for dominating bunch of midgets. What about them Celtics? What an amazing playoff runs they had. Beating amazing talent, oh wait...
SouBeachTalents
03-17-2015, 10:51 PM
Bill Russell rings are irrelevant. People criticized Wilt for dominating bunch of midgets. What about them Celtics? What an amazing playoff runs they had. Beating amazing talent, oh wait...

Only beat players like Reed, Baylor, Pettit, West, Oscar, and Wilt
plowking
03-17-2015, 11:00 PM
Bill Russell rings are irrelevant. People criticized Wilt for dominating bunch of midgets. What about them Celtics? What an amazing playoff runs they had. Beating amazing talent, oh wait...

A large chunk of the Lakers championships weren't even in Los Angeles, yet Laker fans still like to mention them. :oldlol:
Hittin_Shots
03-17-2015, 11:05 PM
Bill Russell rings are irrelevant. People criticized Wilt for dominating bunch of midgets. What about them Celtics? What an amazing playoff runs they had. Beating amazing talent, oh wait...

Best players in the world divided into less teams means better players on each team..

Oh but they were all Shit guys cz players were Shit back. Then... Oh so players being Shit back then makes it less impressive that someone was much better than them. **** off with these stupid things that can be argued either way and no one convinces anyone from the other side of the argument that they are wrong. Because they're both right and wrong in some regards but go hyperbole ****tard on everyone.
Pushxx
03-17-2015, 11:05 PM
Celtics aren't missing the playoffs, brother.
CavaliersFTW
03-17-2015, 11:23 PM
When your number one scoring option is Tyler Zeller or Tarik Black your franchise is in big ****ing trouble.
Hittin_Shots
03-17-2015, 11:25 PM
When your number one scoring option is Tyler Zeller or Tarik Black your franchise is in big ****ing trouble.

Which franchise would that be?
Jameerthefear
03-17-2015, 11:38 PM
When your number one scoring option is Tyler Zeller or Tarik Black your franchise is in big ****ing trouble.
what
have u seen a celtics or lakers game this season?
CavaliersFTW
03-17-2015, 11:39 PM
Which franchise would that be?
I'm just messing, happy St Patty's day :pimp:
Hittin_Shots
03-17-2015, 11:45 PM
If all goes well we could be two games out of 6th tomorrow.
coin24
03-17-2015, 11:49 PM
Celtics have a good shot of making it this year, be good to see them make it..

Lakers will hopefully be back next year depending if Mitch wakes the fu*k up and actually signs some players.. Hopefully a top 5 pick, and a ton of cap space to play with plus healthy randle and hopefully kobe..
JohnFreeman
03-17-2015, 11:50 PM
Celtics can still do it
bigt
03-18-2015, 01:33 AM
Don't be writing the Celtics off yet, they're still in the running for the playoffs out East
Rolando
03-18-2015, 05:28 AM
Fingers crossed.....we may just make it.
JT123
03-18-2015, 05:49 AM
Kobe chasing off superstars and taking a huge contract he didn't deserve is what happened to the Lakers. No star is even gonna think about joining the Lakers until he is gone for good.
Boston might make it this year though.
MMM
03-18-2015, 01:43 PM
i'm pretty confident the Celtics will make it...

there are a lot of signs that they are actually a legit playoff team.

Their improving defense
their record in back to backs has been impressive
they are defending their home court and starting to compete well on the road
hawksdogsbraves
03-18-2015, 02:19 PM
i'm pretty confident the Celtics will make it...

there are a lot of signs that they are actually a legit playoff team.

Their improving defense
their record in back to backs has been impressive
they are defending their home court and starting to compete well on the road

It would be nice if they made it, but I'm not sure you can ever really call a 38 win EC playoff team 'legit'. Not when the Pelicans and Thunder are duking it out for the 8 seed over on the other side.
Springsteen
03-18-2015, 03:59 PM
Not to promote the tanking mentality, but wouldn't the Celtics stand to gain more by missing the playoffs this year, considering their stockpiles of draft picks?
Smoke117
03-18-2015, 04:04 PM
Celtics have a good shot of making it this year, be good to see them make it..

Lakers will hopefully be back next year depending if Mitch wakes the fu*k up and actually signs some players.. Hopefully a top 5 pick, and a ton of cap space to play with plus healthy randle and hopefully kobe..

http://media.giphy.com/media/5oRdzHWlVGe8U/giphy.gif

Good luck with that.
Derka
03-18-2015, 04:19 PM
Not to promote the tanking mentality, but wouldn't the Celtics stand to gain more by missing the playoffs this year, considering their stockpiles of draft picks?

Given Brooklyn's current trajectory and the fact that we own several of their 1st-round picks over the next few years, I'm less worried about our own draft position.

We're not gonna land a marquee free agent this summer...we probably aren't going to make any earth-shattering trades...and unless the world goes completely crazy, we're not going to win a title anytime soon. But I'm beginning to see the strands of Danny's and Brad's long-term plans and I like what I'm seeing. I trust them completely to bring the right guys in to make us a better team, no matter where we draft. Had you told me that we were going to dump Rondo and Jeff Green in exchange for Isaiah Thomas, Jonas Jerebko, Jae Crowder and Luigi Datome...and we'd have one of the best post-deadline records in the East as a result, I'd have called you crazy. But...that's why I'm not the guy in charge of the Celtics.

So frankly, I don't care about tanking to get a better draft spot. We have more 1sts right now than we'll ever use...teams are going to want them for one reason or another. We're going to have cap space to play with, which Danny loves. In the meantime, I want to see the guys we have right now fighting it out as hard as they can, win or lose.
ImKobe
03-18-2015, 04:21 PM
http://media.giphy.com/media/5oRdzHWlVGe8U/giphy.gif

Good look with that.

Thank you. Appreciate that. Good luck to you as well.

Just remember that the Laker bandwagon is closed.

2016 champs :cheers:
MMM
03-18-2015, 06:00 PM
It would be nice if they made it, but I'm not sure you can ever really call a 38 win EC playoff team 'legit'. Not when the Pelicans and Thunder are duking it out for the 8 seed over on the other side.

Fair point but i was comparing them to the Toronto\Chicago\Washington and Bucks of the world. Feel like their current trend has them playing at a comparable level. I'll say the Celtics defense is playing at a similar rate right now compared to when the Raps were a better defensive team.