Crowder: the pain on his ankle went away two weeks ago

[greece66]

sauce

[arctic 3.0]

Tough as nails

[Clench123]

From day 1, he's being the embodiment of what it is to be Celtic.  You don't trade a guy like that.  He's got a KG in him.  He came in and was against the whole idea of tanking...he wouldn't stay down or roll over.  You want a guy like him in your corner every time.  I really hope he has a very long career in green.  My favorite Celtic without a doubt, not because he's the best player on the team but his spirit is very pertinent to the team. 

[jpotter33]

Yeah, those high sprains can last for a long time. He was just so terrible during the playoffs that you knew his ankle was pretty bad.

[max215]

Yeah, those high sprains can last for a long time. He was just so terrible during the playoffs that you knew his ankle was pretty bad.

It was painful to watch him. I think a lot of people have forgotten how awesome he was prior to the injury. Jae's a beast.

[rollie mass]

how tough is marcus,his high ankle sprain was severe-it sabotaged his rookie season
-all those that said he couldn't get to hoop,well he had no lift or first step
 on top of being a rookie-he had a merry go round of players-

[KingofDaPlayazBall]

From day 1, he's being the embodiment of what it is to be Celtic.  You don't trade a guy like that.  He's got a KG in him.  He came in and was against the whole idea of tanking...he wouldn't stay down or roll over.  You want a guy like him in your corner every time.  I really hope he has a very long career in green.  My favorite Celtic without a doubt, not because he's the best player on the team but his spirit is very pertinent to the team.

I second that, Crowder thoroughly Embodies the celtics spirit, check out this quote from him

"Is it frustrating at all that there may be role players the Celtics sign who will make more money than guys like you and Isaiah Thomas?

Crowder: I make $7 million per year. I’m not going to be mad at a guy making $10 million. We’re still millionaires. I got another contract coming up soon. Four [more years], I get to redo it -- three, actually [if they explore extensions]. I’m not worried. Money -- why I am mad? I make millions of dollars. That would be selfish of me. Why would I be mad about that?"

[chiken Green]

We all knew how bad his sprain was.. We knew he was not the same player when he came back but the Dude never used it as an excuse.. He just gave the Team everything he had and never complained..

Those are the kinds of guys you win wars with.

[jpotter33]

I think we could've still beat Atlanta if Jae was healthy, but losing both Bradley and Olynyk in addition to Jae was just too much.

[ImShakHeIsShaq]

I don't know any player who gets mins on our team who isn't tough. People call KO soft but he was out there trying to play with a shoulder that doctors told him he shouldn't play on about a month after the season ended. If a month of rest after the season didn't make it better and multiple doctors had to convince you not to play without having surgery, you sure shouldn't have been playing in the playoffs.

[SHAQATTACK]

Smart has been playing with injuries since he came to the Celtics .  The spoilers of him playing without thinking about looking after damaged body parts were teases of what he can be .

We had no chance of suscess with AB, Crowder and KO barely playing at seasons end. 

Amir played with foot issues at least 1/2 the season.......i had the same and it took 7 months clear up completely .

I'm curious how AB injury is healing .

[biggs]

From day 1, he's being the embodiment of what it is to be Celtic.  You don't trade a guy like that.  He's got a KG in him.  He came in and was against the whole idea of tanking...he wouldn't stay down or roll over.  You want a guy like him in your corner every time.  I really hope he has a very long career in green.  My favorite Celtic without a doubt, not because he's the best player on the team but his spirit is very pertinent to the team.

I love Crowder too, but he needs to take it easy and stay healthy. Having the heart of a lion doesn't help much if you can't play when the team needs you most (the playoffs.)

Between him and Bradley we had two no-shows in the playoffs this year. Add in IT's ineffectiveness and 3/5 of our starters were toast in the playoffs. Makes all the regular season stuff seem wasteful.

Here's to hoping that all three of them can be effective (and healthy) next year in the playoffs.

[BitterJim]

From day 1, he's being the embodiment of what it is to be Celtic.  You don't trade a guy like that.  He's got a KG in him.  He came in and was against the whole idea of tanking...he wouldn't stay down or roll over.  You want a guy like him in your corner every time.  I really hope he has a very long career in green.  My favorite Celtic without a doubt, not because he's the best player on the team but his spirit is very pertinent to the team.

I love Crowder too, but he needs to take it easy and stay healthy. Having the heart of a lion doesn't help much if you can't play when the team needs you most (the playoffs.)

Between him and Bradley we had two no-shows in the playoffs this year. Add in IT's ineffectiveness and 3/5 of our starters were toast in the playoffs. Makes all the regular season stuff seem wasteful.

Here's to hoping that all three of them can be effective (and healthy) next year in the playoffs.

IT averaged 24ppg in the playoffs, including a 42 point game.  He struggled in game 5, but he wasn't a non-factor like he was against the Cavs, and he certainly wasn't "toast"

3/5 of our starters were toast in the playoffs, though, but IT wasn't one of them.  It was AB, Jae, and Sully

[greece66]

It's breads like this that make me want to print //IT did nuffin wronk// on a T-shirt and wear it; as if it was his fault that he was our sole efficient scorer in the Atlanta series.

[Surferdad]

I think we could've still beat Atlanta if Jae was healthy, but losing both Bradley and Olynyk in addition to Jae was just too much.

If those guys were healthy, I feel the Celtics should have beat Atlanta, and perhaps in 6 games.  Now we replace Sully with Horford (upgrade) and Turner with Brown (TBD if this is an improvement or not).  Toronto doesn't scare me.  Indiana is deeper now but are they better?  Not clear.  It really should be BOS-CLE in ECF in 2017.