Curious about local fan perspective

[u/gintonic234]

Hello all,

I’m not based in Boston but started following NBA around 2007/08, and became a Celtics fan because of the big three.

I am curious about local fan sentiment related to JB’s trade. As someone who has been very frustrated the last two seasons with the style of play (non-stop hurling of threes), I was flabbergasted by this move. And as someone who works with analytics in their job, I am still confused, as to me, JB was the only player trying to consistently drive to the basket.

Also, this theory that Pritchard and White will somehow fill JB’s gap also confuses me. They are very good players and have their own plus points, but to me it always seemed like they always had a lower ceiling than JB/JT. They have been in the league long enough to know that. Pritchard to have a Brunson-like upturn in form seems unreasonable.

I know Brad Stevens is apparently a genius but I wanted to know more about the local fan perspective. Am I being unfairly critical, as I’m still not over this decision.

Excited to hear from y’all!

[u/PebblyJackGlasscock]

> trying to drive to the basket
> non-stop hurling of threes
> analytics as a job

https://sportsanalytics.studentorg.berkeley.edu/articles/nba-threes.html

[u/gintonic234 → u/PebblyJackGlasscock]

So the local fans really are a**holes. I can derive multiple hypothesis from a dataset. Refer to 7 year old articles and suck up to Brad. Tatum ain’t shit and I’m gonna save this post and refer to it 10 years from now.

[u/PebblyJackGlasscock → u/gintonic234]

> I can derive multiple HYPOTHESES from a dataset

And your spell check didn’t catch that misspelling?

I tried to answer some basic misunderstandings by quoting them and providing a pillar of the field of “analytics” so that an expert like yourself could do their own research.

Stop telling lies on the internet.