Celtics comments

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on Pritchard... and Simons:

https://x.com/bballstrategy/status/1969563708377743802

[Crow]

0W-3L. Ranked in 20s on offensive and defensive efficiency and net rating.

Detailed review postponed til later.

[Crow]

A Simons is about the same on BpM as last season. But his raw team +/- is 12 pts worse than team average and 24 pts worse than his subs.

Jaylen Brown +/- numbers are almost as bad. Boucher's are somewhat worse.

The big minute lineup units look quite good but there must be significant trouble lower down.

And there is.

6 most used lineups average +24pts / 48 min. The remaining 66 lineups average -9.4.

"Flexibilty", "creativity", "warfare" deception is not working on average in the dink lineups and not close.

Modestly more pairs are negative than positive. Simons - Brown is -38pts / 48 min. at 15 minutes per game and the worst of non-trivial minute lineups.

[Crow]

Brown scores 32 but has team worst +/- total of -21. Magic score big from 3.

[Crow]

Celtics lineup analysis after earlier loss:

https://x.com/bballstrategy/status/1985 ... 11745?s=20


Last night, the starters were bad and 2 of next biggest horrendous and overall 14 pf 21 lineups picked by Mazzulla negative or neutral.

Up to 146 different lineups after 10 games.
61% non-positive.

[Crow]

Jaylen Brown good boxscore stats ronight. But about -25 pt / 48 min.team +/- on court. Celtics without him about +75 / 48 min in remaining minutes.

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Celtics go from least FT / FGA allowed last season to 3rd highest. 8th best at defensive rebounding to 24th. Shot defense still great. Opponent turnover rate jumps from 23rd to 9th.

Offensively, own turnover rate remains great. Own FT/ FGA remains dead last. Offensive rebounding got better. Shooting got a lot worse.

Overall 4 top 10 factors, 4 bottom 10 this season. Last season 5 top, 1 middle, 2 bottom.



Jaylen Brown -7 on / off so far for season. 4 main subs at SF all positive, from mild to wild.