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Re: Celtics (41-24) at Nuggets (29-35) Game #66 3/10/17
« Reply #255 on: March 10, 2017, 11:40:37 PM »

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See you guys call me hater, but the fact nobody is bringing up how horribly Smart has played shows how bad the bias is here. His plus/minus is -16, shooting less than 30% from the field. You tell me now why I should be harsh on him at all?  Or at least criticize his performance
Smart has played well.

Those of us that watched the game and dont hate him saw that.

Hes a flawed player, and he is a terrible shooter and finisher but his compete level kept us in the game.

You are a hater. simple as that. You got called a hater because your solution was Terry fricken Rozier.
No my solution is that if a player isn't making plays and can't space the floor, which hinders the offense, you sit him. I don't really care who it's for tbh.

And you say those of us who watched the game?
I watched the game. He played hard, he hustled. Beyond that he threw up terrible shots, he was flailing all over the place, and despite his label of a stopper he was playing sub par defense.

If he played well his +/- wouldn't be in the sh1ts and he wouldn't have shot 30% from the field period.

Any other fan from any other fan base would recognize that, but the blinding Smart bias here is ridiculous

Yeah, this is just simply untrue. Smart was the only one to play consistently good D all night long. AB and Amir did good for the most part, too, but IT, Horford, and especially Jae, let alone the bench, were all completely terrible defensively.

And that's such a BS excuse using +/- lol You want to know why his +/- is so terrible? Because he constantly has to play and lead the second unit with scrubs like Rozier and Green. Rozier, KO, JJ, and Green were all no-shows once again tonight, and it's up to Marcus to keep that bench unit afloat.

I
think we all know at this point which poster here has the bias with Smart.

You are right we should ignore all the lineups where he's in with Horford, IT, or Bradley? He plays 25 plus minutes fper game and he plays with many different lineups. I think his plus/minus is a perfect representation of his performance tonight.  I think it's funny the retorts to my criticism of Smart is, "He plays hard!", "He's a fighter!". Guess what it would show up, as it usually does, in some form of statistic. I think it's a complete cop out for Smart to say that we shouldn't ever judge him by the stats.

Does he make hustle plays and plays that don't show up in the stat sheet? Yes, but more often than not that is reflected in his +/-

Only players that showed up to play are Brown, Bradley, and IT

Smart's an embarrassment to basketball. He should take up acting. Bum

Smart needs to be on the bench.  Put Terry out there. He's not playing good defense, he's not finishing at the rim, he's not spacing the floor, and he's not making plays. Why is he out there? At least Rozier can space the floor

Brown = -21 +/-, 14 pts, 5-8 fgs, 1 TOs

Rozier = -12 +/-

Bradley = -3+/-, 16 pts, 6-14 fgs, 3 TOs

Smart = -17 +/-

Smart's Plus/Minus Net Per 100 Possessions - + 3.1

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/smartma01.html

IT's Plus/Minus Net Per 100 Possessions - +0.9

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/t/thomais02.html

Further proof of your bias and that you have no idea what you're talking about with regard to this +/- BS.

Re: Celtics (41-24) at Nuggets (29-35) Game #66 3/10/17
« Reply #256 on: March 10, 2017, 11:42:00 PM »

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Smart is my second favorite player on the Celtics but at least I hold him accountable. He played average today actually. He should be getting the minutes he doesn't, he's better than Rozier. However he really needs to improve on his offensive game, like seriously. I don't understand how people aren't frustrated with it. Don't we want him to be a two way player? Would we be okay with Crowder shooting like this for an entire season? I have been patient with Smart, but at some point he has to start showing signs of improvement. Look at how much Jaylen improved this year? Why can't we see that type of development from Smart? He's only marginally better from last year imo. I really think it is fair to demand Smart to become a better offensive player.
Thank you!! I'm not saying trade Smart or cut him or anything crazy, but just hold the player accountable. I do have a Smart bias, I can't lie, but  guess who my favorite player besides Brown on this team is? IT. And I will be the first to say that his defense kills us in games and is horsesh1t bad. Thankfully his offense is so [dang] good it can make up for it more often than not, but either way I'm not going to continue to never hold IT accountable as you people do with Smart

Re: Celtics (41-24) at Nuggets (29-35) Game #66 3/10/17
« Reply #257 on: March 10, 2017, 11:43:23 PM »

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See you guys call me hater, but the fact nobody is bringing up how horribly Smart has played shows how bad the bias is here. His plus/minus is -16, shooting less than 30% from the field. You tell me now why I should be harsh on him at all?  Or at least criticize his performance
Smart has played well.

Those of us that watched the game and dont hate him saw that.

Hes a flawed player, and he is a terrible shooter and finisher but his compete level kept us in the game.

You are a hater. simple as that. You got called a hater because your solution was Terry fricken Rozier.
No my solution is that if a player isn't making plays and can't space the floor, which hinders the offense, you sit him. I don't really care who it's for tbh.

And you say those of us who watched the game?
I watched the game. He played hard, he hustled. Beyond that he threw up terrible shots, he was flailing all over the place, and despite his label of a stopper he was playing sub par defense.

If he played well his +/- wouldn't be in the sh1ts and he wouldn't have shot 30% from the field period.

Any other fan from any other fan base would recognize that, but the blinding Smart bias here is ridiculous

Yeah, this is just simply untrue. Smart was the only one to play consistently good D all night long. AB and Amir did good for the most part, too, but IT, Horford, and especially Jae, let alone the bench, were all completely terrible defensively.

And that's such a BS excuse using +/- lol You want to know why his +/- is so terrible? Because he constantly has to play and lead the second unit with scrubs like Rozier and Green. Rozier, KO, JJ, and Green were all no-shows once again tonight, and it's up to Marcus to keep that bench unit afloat.

I
think we all know at this point which poster here has the bias with Smart.

You are right we should ignore all the lineups where he's in with Horford, IT, or Bradley? He plays 25 plus minutes fper game and he plays with many different lineups. I think his plus/minus is a perfect representation of his performance tonight.  I think it's funny the retorts to my criticism of Smart is, "He plays hard!", "He's a fighter!". Guess what it would show up, as it usually does, in some form of statistic. I think it's a complete cop out for Smart to say that we shouldn't ever judge him by the stats.

Does he make hustle plays and plays that don't show up in the stat sheet? Yes, but more often than not that is reflected in his +/-

Only players that showed up to play are Brown, Bradley, and IT

Smart's an embarrassment to basketball. He should take up acting. Bum

Smart needs to be on the bench.  Put Terry out there. He's not playing good defense, he's not finishing at the rim, he's not spacing the floor, and he's not making plays. Why is he out there? At least Rozier can space the floor

Brown = -21 +/-, 14 pts, 5-8 fgs, 1 TOs

Rozier = -12 +/-

Bradley = -3+/-, 16 pts, 6-14 fgs, 3 TOs

Smart = -17 +/-

Further proof of your bias and that you have no idea what you're talking about with regard to this +/- BS.
But wait wasn't Brown playing with the bench unit that was so terrible and you can explain his +\- away that way right??

Re: Celtics (41-24) at Nuggets (29-35) Game #66 3/10/17
« Reply #258 on: March 10, 2017, 11:45:11 PM »

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Smart is my second favorite player on the Celtics but at least I hold him accountable. He played average today actually. He should be getting the minutes he doesn't, he's better than Rozier. However he really needs to improve on his offensive game, like seriously. I don't understand how people aren't frustrated with it. Don't we want him to be a two way player? Would we be okay with Crowder shooting like this for an entire season? I have been patient with Smart, but at some point he has to start showing signs of improvement. Look at how much Jaylen improved this year? Why can't we see that type of development from Smart? He's only marginally better from last year imo. I really think it is fair to demand Smart to become a better offensive player.
Thank you!! I'm not saying trade Smart or cut him or anything crazy, but just hold the player accountable. I do have a Smart bias, I can't lie, but  guess who my favorite player besides Brown on this team is? IT. And I will be the first to say that his defense kills us in games and is horsesh1t bad. Thankfully his offense is so [dang] good it can make up for it more often than not, but either way I'm not going to continue to never hold IT accountable as you people do with Smart

This says it all.

We are not debating whether or not Smart should be held accountable. But a lot of your comments goes beyond what you claim is holding him accountable. Its in the HATER zone. And now at least you admitted it was Bias and we are right. Thank you. =)

Re: Celtics (41-24) at Nuggets (29-35) Game #66 3/10/17
« Reply #259 on: March 10, 2017, 11:46:25 PM »

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Smart is my second favorite player on the Celtics but at least I hold him accountable. He played average today actually. He should be getting the minutes he doesn't, he's better than Rozier. However he really needs to improve on his offensive game, like seriously. I don't understand how people aren't frustrated with it. Don't we want him to be a two way player? Would we be okay with Crowder shooting like this for an entire season? I have been patient with Smart, but at some point he has to start showing signs of improvement. Look at how much Jaylen improved this year? Why can't we see that type of development from Smart? He's only marginally better from last year imo. I really think it is fair to demand Smart to become a better offensive player.
Thank you!! I'm not saying trade Smart or cut him or anything crazy, but just hold the player accountable. I do have a Smart bias, I can't lie, but  guess who my favorite player besides Brown on this team is? IT. And I will be the first to say that his defense kills us in games and is horsesh1t bad. Thankfully his offense is so [dang] good it can make up for it more often than not, but either way I'm not going to continue to never hold IT accountable as you people do with Smart
tankcity says Smart played decent today. You said he sucked today.

those are different things.

Smart is really flawed. Smart was not half as bad as you made him out to be today.
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Re: Celtics (41-24) at Nuggets (29-35) Game #66 3/10/17
« Reply #260 on: March 10, 2017, 11:47:18 PM »

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Also it wasn't Smarts fault we lost this game. He's pretty consistent what he gives the celtics night to night. The team needs to play better defense. This team is so much softer than last year

Re: Celtics (41-24) at Nuggets (29-35) Game #66 3/10/17
« Reply #261 on: March 10, 2017, 11:48:01 PM »

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See you guys call me hater, but the fact nobody is bringing up how horribly Smart has played shows how bad the bias is here. His plus/minus is -16, shooting less than 30% from the field. You tell me now why I should be harsh on him at all?  Or at least criticize his performance
Smart has played well.

Those of us that watched the game and dont hate him saw that.

Hes a flawed player, and he is a terrible shooter and finisher but his compete level kept us in the game.

You are a hater. simple as that. You got called a hater because your solution was Terry fricken Rozier.
No my solution is that if a player isn't making plays and can't space the floor, which hinders the offense, you sit him. I don't really care who it's for tbh.

And you say those of us who watched the game?
I watched the game. He played hard, he hustled. Beyond that he threw up terrible shots, he was flailing all over the place, and despite his label of a stopper he was playing sub par defense.

If he played well his +/- wouldn't be in the sh1ts and he wouldn't have shot 30% from the field period.

Any other fan from any other fan base would recognize that, but the blinding Smart bias here is ridiculous

Yeah, this is just simply untrue. Smart was the only one to play consistently good D all night long. AB and Amir did good for the most part, too, but IT, Horford, and especially Jae, let alone the bench, were all completely terrible defensively.

And that's such a BS excuse using +/- lol You want to know why his +/- is so terrible? Because he constantly has to play and lead the second unit with scrubs like Rozier and Green. Rozier, KO, JJ, and Green were all no-shows once again tonight, and it's up to Marcus to keep that bench unit afloat.

I
think we all know at this point which poster here has the bias with Smart.

You are right we should ignore all the lineups where he's in with Horford, IT, or Bradley? He plays 25 plus minutes fper game and he plays with many different lineups. I think his plus/minus is a perfect representation of his performance tonight.  I think it's funny the retorts to my criticism of Smart is, "He plays hard!", "He's a fighter!". Guess what it would show up, as it usually does, in some form of statistic. I think it's a complete cop out for Smart to say that we shouldn't ever judge him by the stats.

Does he make hustle plays and plays that don't show up in the stat sheet? Yes, but more often than not that is reflected in his +/-

Only players that showed up to play are Brown, Bradley, and IT

Smart's an embarrassment to basketball. He should take up acting. Bum

Smart needs to be on the bench.  Put Terry out there. He's not playing good defense, he's not finishing at the rim, he's not spacing the floor, and he's not making plays. Why is he out there? At least Rozier can space the floor

Brown = -21 +/-, 14 pts, 5-8 fgs, 1 TOs

Rozier = -12 +/-

Bradley = -3+/-, 16 pts, 6-14 fgs, 3 TOs

Smart = -17 +/-

Further proof of your bias and that you have no idea what you're talking about with regard to this +/- BS.
But wait wasn't Brown playing with the bench unit that was so terrible and you can explain his +\- away that way right??

What?? Do you even listen to yourself?

I'm calling out your bias and different treatment of players, and then you do just that same thing in response? lol Smart and Brown BOTH had crappy +/- numbers due to the rest of the bench sucking. Take away Smart and Brown and the rest of the bench is 2-10. +/- is a junk stat, bro. It doesn't tell you hardly anything.

By the way, here's Smart and IT +/- per 100 possessions:

Smart's Plus/Minus Net Per 100 Possessions - + 3.1

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/smartma01.html

IT's Plus/Minus Net Per 100 Possessions - +0.9

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/t/thomais02.html

Re: Celtics (41-24) at Nuggets (29-35) Game #66 3/10/17
« Reply #262 on: March 10, 2017, 11:49:45 PM »

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Smart is my second favorite player on the Celtics but at least I hold him accountable. He played average today actually. He should be getting the minutes he doesn't, he's better than Rozier. However he really needs to improve on his offensive game, like seriously. I don't understand how people aren't frustrated with it. Don't we want him to be a two way player? Would we be okay with Crowder shooting like this for an entire season? I have been patient with Smart, but at some point he has to start showing signs of improvement. Look at how much Jaylen improved this year? Why can't we see that type of development from Smart? He's only marginally better from last year imo. I really think it is fair to demand Smart to become a better offensive player.
Thank you!! I'm not saying trade Smart or cut him or anything crazy, but just hold the player accountable. I do have a Smart bias, I can't lie, but  guess who my favorite player besides Brown on this team is? IT. And I will be the first to say that his defense kills us in games and is horsesh1t bad. Thankfully his offense is so [dang] good it can make up for it more often than not, but either way I'm not going to continue to never hold IT accountable as you people do with Smart
tankcity says Smart played decent today. You said he sucked today.

those are different things.

Smart is really flawed. Smart was not half as bad as you made him out to be today.

Yeah it's pretty hard for a player like Smart to play badly because one, he is the second best ballhandler on the team, and second his defense is consistent. He does a amazing job boxing out. The guy is a freaking winner. Players hate playing against him. I actually play basketball for fun, and I can understand the type of impact he has on winning. I think maybe it's hard for people to understand because they don't play the sport?

Re: Celtics (41-24) at Nuggets (29-35) Game #66 3/10/17
« Reply #263 on: March 10, 2017, 11:51:48 PM »

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See you guys call me hater, but the fact nobody is bringing up how horribly Smart has played shows how bad the bias is here. His plus/minus is -16, shooting less than 30% from the field. You tell me now why I should be harsh on him at all?  Or at least criticize his performance
Smart has played well.

Those of us that watched the game and dont hate him saw that.

Hes a flawed player, and he is a terrible shooter and finisher but his compete level kept us in the game.

You are a hater. simple as that. You got called a hater because your solution was Terry fricken Rozier.
No my solution is that if a player isn't making plays and can't space the floor, which hinders the offense, you sit him. I don't really care who it's for tbh.

And you say those of us who watched the game?
I watched the game. He played hard, he hustled. Beyond that he threw up terrible shots, he was flailing all over the place, and despite his label of a stopper he was playing sub par defense.

If he played well his +/- wouldn't be in the sh1ts and he wouldn't have shot 30% from the field period.

Any other fan from any other fan base would recognize that, but the blinding Smart bias here is ridiculous

Yeah, this is just simply untrue. Smart was the only one to play consistently good D all night long. AB and Amir did good for the most part, too, but IT, Horford, and especially Jae, let alone the bench, were all completely terrible defensively.

And that's such a BS excuse using +/- lol You want to know why his +/- is so terrible? Because he constantly has to play and lead the second unit with scrubs like Rozier and Green. Rozier, KO, JJ, and Green were all no-shows once again tonight, and it's up to Marcus to keep that bench unit afloat.

I
think we all know at this point which poster here has the bias with Smart.

You are right we should ignore all the lineups where he's in with Horford, IT, or Bradley? He plays 25 plus minutes fper game and he plays with many different lineups. I think his plus/minus is a perfect representation of his performance tonight.  I think it's funny the retorts to my criticism of Smart is, "He plays hard!", "He's a fighter!". Guess what it would show up, as it usually does, in some form of statistic. I think it's a complete cop out for Smart to say that we shouldn't ever judge him by the stats.

Does he make hustle plays and plays that don't show up in the stat sheet? Yes, but more often than not that is reflected in his +/-

Only players that showed up to play are Brown, Bradley, and IT

Smart's an embarrassment to basketball. He should take up acting. Bum

Smart needs to be on the bench.  Put Terry out there. He's not playing good defense, he's not finishing at the rim, he's not spacing the floor, and he's not making plays. Why is he out there? At least Rozier can space the floor

Brown = -21 +/-, 14 pts, 5-8 fgs, 1 TOs

Rozier = -12 +/-

Bradley = -3+/-, 16 pts, 6-14 fgs, 3 TOs

Smart = -17 +/-

Further proof of your bias and that you have no idea what you're talking about with regard to this +/- BS.
But wait wasn't Brown playing with the bench unit that was so terrible and you can explain his +\- away that way right??

Lol exactly what we've been telling you. You thought Smart played bad and brought up his +/- yet you said Brown played well but showed a different standard. You just contradicted yourself lol.

Re: Celtics (41-24) at Nuggets (29-35) Game #66 3/10/17
« Reply #264 on: March 10, 2017, 11:53:46 PM »

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Smart is my second favorite player on the Celtics but at least I hold him accountable. He played average today actually. He should be getting the minutes he doesn't, he's better than Rozier. However he really needs to improve on his offensive game, like seriously. I don't understand how people aren't frustrated with it. Don't we want him to be a two way player? Would we be okay with Crowder shooting like this for an entire season? I have been patient with Smart, but at some point he has to start showing signs of improvement. Look at how much Jaylen improved this year? Why can't we see that type of development from Smart? He's only marginally better from last year imo. I really think it is fair to demand Smart to become a better offensive player.

This is a totally rational post, tankcity. TP. There's nothing wrong with these types of criticisms that are fair.

As for Brown versus Smart, Brown clearly has a higher overall "star" ceiling than Smart, especially offensively as a big-time scorer, so it's not surprising that he's learning much faster than Smart.

But I think people are discrediting Smart's improvement. He's actually been much better scoring the ball in the last month or so. He's mainly done it by getting to the line more rather than shooting better, which is still a problem, but that's still significant progress. Here's a post I had earlier about his progress:

People are sleeping on Smart's development. He's been much better at scoring the ball in the last month and a half or so.

13 of 19 games in February/March he's been in double figures.

19 of 33 games since the New Year he's been in double figures.

He still needs to work on efficiency, but he's been much better at scoring the ball since the New Year.

He's averaging 11.4 points since the New Year, 12.4 points in the last month and a half. He averaged 13.7 points in February.

This is the kind of in-season improvement we've been looking for from Smart scoring-wise. He still has to shoot better, which comes in the summer. But expect an even bigger leap next year in the contract year. Hopefully that will be the primer to make him reach his overall ceiling.

Re: Celtics (41-24) at Nuggets (29-35) Game #66 3/10/17
« Reply #265 on: March 10, 2017, 11:55:49 PM »

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Also it wasn't Smarts fault we lost this game. He's pretty consistent what he gives the celtics night to night. The team needs to play better defense. This team is so much softer than last year

It's crazy isn't it? I don't understand how the character of this team changed that much in one summer.

Re: Celtics (41-24) at Nuggets (29-35) Game #66 3/10/17
« Reply #266 on: March 10, 2017, 11:58:01 PM »

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Smart is my second favorite player on the Celtics but at least I hold him accountable. He played average today actually. He should be getting the minutes he doesn't, he's better than Rozier. However he really needs to improve on his offensive game, like seriously. I don't understand how people aren't frustrated with it. Don't we want him to be a two way player? Would we be okay with Crowder shooting like this for an entire season? I have been patient with Smart, but at some point he has to start showing signs of improvement. Look at how much Jaylen improved this year? Why can't we see that type of development from Smart? He's only marginally better from last year imo. I really think it is fair to demand Smart to become a better offensive player.
Thank you!! I'm not saying trade Smart or cut him or anything crazy, but just hold the player accountable. I do have a Smart bias, I can't lie, but  guess who my favorite player besides Brown on this team is? IT. And I will be the first to say that his defense kills us in games and is horsesh1t bad. Thankfully his offense is so [dang] good it can make up for it more often than not, but either way I'm not going to continue to never hold IT accountable as you people do with Smart

This says it all.

We are not debating whether or not Smart should be held accountable. But a lot of your comments goes beyond what you claim is holding him accountable. Its in the HATER zone. And now at least you admitted it was Bias and we are right. Thank you. =)

My acting comment yes that was hating. My sitting Smart comment wasn't out of bounds? After Smart threw up 3 brick layups and was trying to tie up and get chippy with everyone he should have sat. There's difference between playing hard and playing out of control and Smart was playing out of control. But on here I can't say sit Smart without everybody defending this guy as if he was MJ. 

It's okay. Once Smart has made minimal improvement over 2 years and we let him go because his positives outweigh his negatives people on here will be like why did we like that guy so much?

Smart plays hard and he makes some great plays without the basketball. But at this point Smart's negatives outweigh his positives and once we add a highly skilled PG in this next upcoming draft people will see this.

Re: Celtics (41-24) at Nuggets (29-35) Game #66 3/10/17
« Reply #267 on: March 11, 2017, 12:01:27 AM »

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Also it wasn't Smarts fault we lost this game. He's pretty consistent what he gives the celtics night to night. The team needs to play better defense. This team is so much softer than last year

It's crazy isn't it? I don't understand how the character of this team changed that much in one summer.

Just like how different we were in the last game and this game!

Re: Celtics (41-24) at Nuggets (29-35) Game #66 3/10/17
« Reply #268 on: March 11, 2017, 12:02:15 AM »

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https://twitter.com/Marc_DAmico/status/840425864139542529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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Avery Bradley with strong words: "You get up to play hard for that game, and then you lay an egg in this game. It doesn't make sense."

AB as perplexed as the rest of us about this team's inconsistent effort this season.

Re: Celtics (41-24) at Nuggets (29-35) Game #66 3/10/17
« Reply #269 on: March 11, 2017, 12:04:44 AM »

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https://twitter.com/Marc_DAmico/status/840425864139542529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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Avery Bradley with strong words: "You get up to play hard for that game, and then you lay an egg in this game. It doesn't make sense."

AB as perplexed as the rest of us about this team's inconsistent effort this season.

Ab still not playing well but the effort is there. I give him a pass for a few more games so he can go back to his pre-injury level.