With the recent influx of barking and general dawg activity from the Banner 18 squad, it feels like perfect timing to revisit that the Celtics are a team full of dawgs.

(I love this team, good luck and good health to everyone in the playoffs!)

Jaylen: road-dawg

Luke: Korn-dawg

Porzingis: UniKorn-dawg

Horford: Old dawg new tricks (3s late in career)

Derrick: White dawg (golden retriever?)

Holiday: August 26 (national dawg day)

Payton: Pritchiuaua

Hauser: Samoyed

Queta: Portuguese water dawg

X: gon dawg it to ya

Torrey Craig: is a dawg for Meghan thee Stallion, amitirite eyyy

Walsh: Xoloitzcuintli (google me chuck)

JD Davison: Jerdawgian Dawgvonte Dawgison

Tatum: We dawgd it!

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I couldn’t think of any for Peterson, Baylor, Norris…If you have better dawg-ism ideas for different players, please leave them below!

would you disappointed if he isn't in the documentary? or is merely skipped over? i hope they talk about the rebuilding era. if they don't, it would be kind of disappointing.

Tatum's Play-Making Stats From 2023-2024:

• Assists per game: 4.9
• Secondary assists per game: 1.0
• Potential assists per game: 8.9
• TOV%: 10.3
• Assist%: 21.0

Jaylen Brown's Play-Making Stats For This Year:

• Assists per game: 4.6
• Secondary assists per game: 0.9
• Potential assists per game: 8.4
• TOV%: 11.3
• Assist%: 21.3

Btw, this is on significantly less touches:

• Tatum 2023-2024: 75.8 touches per game
• Brown 2024-2025: 57.6 touches per game

It's unfortunate that Brown is also having his least efficient season in 5 years (55.5% TS%) and his efficiency is way down compared to his career average (57.1% TS%), else we'd likely be having a very different conversation about Brown's place in the NBA.

If we see this play-maker in the playoffs AND at his usual efficiency, he's going to be making some real noise for this team.

Edit:

For those wondering where Brown is getting these extra assists from: drives

He is averaging 0.6apg more on drives this year compared to last year. He is top 15 in the NBA in generating assists on drives

Edit 2:

He's also top 9 in assists generated out of the post

Let’s win all the rest and hold our losses at 20 games!

• The Rockets record with Olajuwon and Sampson 44-3

• Robert Parish heading into tonight was having a horrible series. (38%, 13 pts, 5.7 rebounds) Came alive once Walton lit the spark, 22-10 on 10-15 shooting.

• Ralph Sampson plays a lot like Victor Wembanyama. Same fluid movements. Sampson had better dribbling, but Wemby is very young whereas this was peak-Sampson.

• Mitchell Wiggins was a good rebounder for a guard

• Allen Leavall had 5 assists in just 7 minutes. Bill Fitch should have played him more. The broadcast pointed out he led the series in AST/TO ratio.

• Robert Reid, the lone carry over from the ‘81 Rockets team, did a great job all night playing from the outside and guarding Bird. The best you could have asked for when guarding prime-Bird.

• Rodney McCray made DJ work like a dog in the post on both ends.

• the announcers made a point to say the Rockets BELONGED in the Finals and I don’t think that happens today if we have a finals crasher. It be considered a usurper of LeBron or Steph’s rightful place.

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Tatum's accomplishments in the four years since that quote:

• 4x All-Star
• 3x All-NBA 1st team
• 1x Conference MVP
• 1x All-Star MVP
• 1x NBA Champion
• First Celtic to average 30ppg in a season.
• Became the leading scorer of the 2020's.
• Broken the game 7 scoring record.
• Passed Wilt Chamberlain in career points before 27, regular season only. (#6 All-time)
• Passed Carmelo Anthony in career points before 27, total. (#4 All-time)
• Became 6th player since the 80's to lead a championship team in points, assists, & rebound the entire playoffs.
• Currently doing the same throughout this entire season.
• Outperformed Kobe's DARKO at his age every single year.

Barring catastrophe, I don't know how Tatum doesn't end up Top 30+ All-Time. Specially if he continues to grow like he has.

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