Celtics comments

[Crow]

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.