Boston, MA
Mailbag answers: Great offense, nicknames, and destiny
You already know the drill by now. I requested for mailbag questions, you offered them! Listed here are my solutions. Hope you get pleasure from.
Celtics65
Query 1: What’s the single most shocking factor about our early success this season?
(Waives a hand within the route of the offense)
Severely, I anticipated this staff to be good, however the best way they’re good is shocking. I figured they’d be superb defensively and just a little higher offensively. As a substitute they’re a wagon on offense and began off sort of sluggish on protection (choosing up extra recently). Which is what you get into in your 2nd query…
Query 2: How a lot of our offensive effectivity do you credit score to Joe Mazzula? Appears to me your entire id of the Celtics has shifted, from defensive juggernaut to offensive juggernaut. How does that occur to a staff that went all the best way to the Finals whereas hanging their hats on the defensive finish? Is that this one thing that simply occurred, or was it Joe, placing his stamp on the staff?
I clearly didn’t issue within the sort of enhancements a number of of the gamers made in their very own video games. Clearly Tatum took one other step, however so did Grant, and Sensible, and White. Then there’s the brand new guys. Brogdon we knew would assist. Hauser and Kornet have been higher than we may have hoped. So I put a number of it on the gamers.
With that stated, Mazzulla has them taking part in quick, he’s received them shifting the ball (beginning with the celebrities), and he’s clearly letting them play (generally to a fault). I feel he ought to get a number of credit score for the best way the offense has gelled.
ALittleBitOfSocialism
Final season, some individuals wished to contemplate bringing Al Horford off the bench to protect him. Ought to those self same individuals be suggesting bringing Robert Williams off the bench in the event that they need to be constant?
Fascinating thought. Maybe at first, with a purpose to ease him again into form and to be conservative together with his knees. I’m up for something that preserves him at this level. As well as, I may make a case that taking part in the double huge lineup isn’t as essential when we’ve so many guard weapons. So you may even see Joe stagger our bigs greater than we did final yr.
With all that stated, if Robert is totally wholesome, I don’t see any concern beginning him and watching his minutes. No matter works greatest for him.
chicagogreen
We must always speak about Jayson Tatum’s lacking piece, as nice as he’s, he has a evident weak spot that there’s actually no excuse for. He has no left hand across the basket. Its so apparent each sport. We have to make this a narrative and hope it will get his consideration.
About that…
Aspect observe: Congrats, your bit received you right into a mailbag. Can we consider one thing else now?
Kander111
What do you assume Sam Hauser’s official nickname ought to be? I’m on report as being a fan of Sammy Swish, Sniper Sam, & Sir Samuel Swishalot. There are many prompt classics on the market although, reminiscent of HausMoney, to not point out Eddie Home’s marketing campaign for 30-with-a-Scope. Is a single moniker even sufficient for a pointy shooter of Sam’s caliber? Is it too unorthodox to only scream a brand new nickname each time he places the ball via the ring, seamingly with out even grazing the web? Ought to we simply seek advice from him by his +/- ranking at this level? How can we play this, Jeff? That is the sort of hard-hitting query I hope you ready your self for.
Wonderful query that requires a lot deep meditation and analysis for me to adequately reply. Sadly I’m a lazy procrastinator, so that you’ll have to simply accept this shoot from the hip response for now.
I like Hausermatic. Possibly not as a nickname, however simply one thing to scream on the TV when the ball is within the air (since you already know it’s getting into).
I additionally approve of the thought of a brand new nickname each sport. Jogs my memory of SportsCenter within the 90’s.
overseasfansince1984
Will Grant give us any low cost in the summertime? We are able to promise to hold batsuit together with his quantity on the rafters.
Nope. His agent could be negligent to provide any sort of low cost this summer time. In truth, he ought to be seeking to entice presents from different groups in any approach potential. That doesn’t imply he’ll pull the “get me out of right here in any respect prices” routine that some free brokers pull. Simply don’t be shocked when rumors begin linking him to groups with cap area this summer time.
The excellent news is that the Celtics have the proper to match. So there’s nonetheless an important probability that he’ll nonetheless be in inexperienced subsequent season and past.
Katahdin
One factor I’ve appreciated about GM Brad Stevens is his willingness to shuffle gamers 11-17. Now I actually like our two approach gamers and don’t see us loosing them except somebody actually likes Davison in a commerce. Vonleh and Jackson contracts don’t change into totally assured till January 7. Vonleh particularly has slot in. Each match as an skilled however nonetheless younger to go along with our core. Wing depth and Jackson’s affect appear to place him on the more than likely to be lower. We do have the harm exception that offers us a bit greater than the veterans minimal albeit at a big worth. Any wings on the free agent market match what we’d need-length with capturing as Danny appreciated to say?
I might assume that if there have been any choices that they appreciated higher than Vonleh and Jackson that they might have picked them up within the offseason. Each are good guys to roll the cube on and see how they develop. I doubt there’s any urgency to make any strikes for the time being.
The place you would possibly see some motion is after the commerce deadline. The Celtics may very well be available in the market for buyout guys who’re on the lookout for an opportunity at taking part in within the Finals.
CelticsWest
Who has the least constant kind/follow-thru on their jumper?
Tatum has probably the most exaggerated observe via – I really like they approach that shot seems to be.
What’s the perfect side of Sam Hauser’s protection?
Scal and Grande have been joking about this final evening. He will get focused due to the best way he seems to be. Individuals go into isolation on him and discover that he’s not as a lot of a pushover as he would seem. They drive up one thing that isn’t a excessive proportion shot and as a rule it’s a miss. Let’s name it the Billy Hoyle impact.
Do you assume Kabengele will get any ground time with the Celtics this yr?
Sure. I don’t know when, however it should occur sooner or later. Would possibly solely be rubbish time on an evening when Horford is getting relaxation and earlier than Robert is again. Or perhaps Vonleh will foul out in 5 minutes. Who is aware of.
What’s the most recent information on Yam and Juhann?
I feel Keith is retaining tabs on them. I haven’t been following alongside to be sincere. Type of just like the inventory market, I strive to not monitor that sort of stuff too usually.
mayhem24
I hate to be that man however i gotta deliver it up. Now we have to get the J’s minutes down. All i can take into consideration is them sporting down within the finals final yr. Is it too quickly to be this nervous about that?
No, it’s by no means too quickly to be nervous about that. It is among the few points that individuals have with Mazzulla so far. It’s paying off with wins, however sooner or later I might hope we will discover the Jay’s (and actually all of the starters) some longer breaks.
CelticFanOnly
It’s a fantastic factor. No additional questions.
Agree!
Mitch’s Dad
Is that this a “staff of future”? They positive appear to be they’ve the “it” issue. Is there such a factor as a “staff of future”?
To win the Championship it’s important to be superb and really fortunate. Generally being superb makes you very fortunate (good habits result in good breaks). However there’s at all times a component of dumb, blind luck concerned as nicely. Make of that what you’ll.
Additionally, it’s a lengthy season. You don’t win titles in November (however you’ll be able to lose them). Let’s let this play out and benefit from the trip!
wvcelticsfan
After we win the championship this yr, do the 2-way gamers get rings?
I don’t see why not. The gamers usually determine who will get rings.
Stolid Citizen
Longtime Celtics fan who’s delighted to date. Possibly that is the yr.
Great, thanks for becoming a member of!
MidcoastPerson
Why does Celtics Weblog permit clickbaity headlines just like the Poeltl one?
Maybe to get individuals to click on them?
Severely although, to me, it could be click-bait if it have been deceptive. Saying he was “linked” to the Celtics is legitimately what Windy was saying. That’s fairly delicate “bait” should you ask me.
Generally it’s enjoyable to mixture tales that aren’t actually arduous information, however an excellent matter for commenters to debate. A storyline all yr has been the shortage of depth at heart. There’s an excellent heart doubtlessly available on the market. The Spurs and Celtics have made a deal within the final yr. Windy introduced up the Celtics and Spurs. That’s a subject to me, however to every his personal.
scue
With a need to at all times improve the roster, the place do you see upgrading wanted and based mostly on TPE’s and movable gamers what would you be prepared to peel off the asset lists to enhance the roster?
Ideally if we will improve with out sacrificing rotation guys, we may at all times drop one of many deep bench guys. Then once more, sooner or later you get too many guys seeking to get minutes and also you begin messing with the chemistry.
Proper now it looks as if Kornet is an effective sufficient stopgap on the heart place and we’ll be set when Robert comes again. I wouldn’t thoughts extra wing depth to provide the Jay’s a while off. In concept you could possibly use Pritchard to get some good worth again, however I’ve actually appreciated the power and capturing he brings when we’ve accidents on the guard place.
For the time being, nevertheless, I’m very proud of the roster as it’s. I’m not in any rush to repair what ain’t damaged.
Thanks for the questions everybody! Take pleasure in this staff!
Boston, MA
Boston Celtics vs. Toronto Raptors: Where to watch free NBA live stream
A pair of division foes in the Eastern Conference meet up on Wednesday, Jan. 15 when the Boston Celtics travel to take on the Toronto Raptors at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.
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The Celtics are looking for their first winning streak since they beat the Raptors, Timberwolves and Rockets consecutively to end December and start January. Boston enters this matchup at 28-11 while Toronto is 9-31 and winless in two previous matchups with the defending champions.
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Court papers say ex-NBA player Jontay Porter laid out betting scheme in a text; 6th person arrested
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A sixth person was charged Monday in the federal sports betting case involving ex-NBA player Jontay Porter, and authorities disclosed a text message Porter allegedly sent explaining how to cash in on his plans to bench himself in a January 2024 game.
The former Toronto Raptors center already has pleaded guilty in the criminal case and was banned from the NBA for life. He admitted that he agreed to withdraw early from games, claiming illness or injury, so that those in the know could win big by betting on him to underperform expectations.
Although the new developments don’t affect the legal case against Porter, they put the scheme in what a court document says were his own words.
“Hit unders for the big numbers,” Porter wrote to an alleged conspirator on Jan. 26, 2024, according to a court complaint against yet another alleged schemer, Shane Hennen. He was arrested Sunday at the Las Vegas airport while boarding a flight to Panama.
“No blocks no steals. I’m going to play first 2-3 minute stint off the bench then when I get subbed out tell them my eye killing me again,” Porter wrote, according to the complaint. It identifies him only as “NBA Player 1” but makes clear through references — such as the details of his guilty plea last year — that it’s Porter.
He had scratched an eye during a game on Jan. 22, 2024, keeping conspirators in the loop by text even from the arena, according to the complaint. But he wasn’t on the injured list when the Raptors faced the LA Clippers four days later.
Porter ultimately played about 4 1/2 minutes in that game before saying he had aggravated the eye problem. Then he pulled out of a March 20 game against the Sacramento Kings after less than three minutes, saying he felt ill. His performance in both games fell well below what sportsbooks had anticipated.
Porter told a court in July that he got involved in the plot to try to clear his own gambling debts. He’s set to be sentenced in May. He could face anything from no jail time to 20 years behind bars; prosecutors have estimated his sentence at about 3 1/2 to four years in prison.
A message was sent to his lawyer Monday to seek comment on the developments.
Hennen was released without bail after his arraignment Monday in Las Vegas on charges including wire fraud conspiracy. The court complaint alleges that he placed bets through proxies after co-conspirators alerted him to Porter’s plans for the Jan. 26 game, and that he also got a heads-up about the March 20 game and likely told other gamblers about it.
A message seeking comment was sent to his attorney.
Besides Hennen and Porter, four other people also have been charged to date. Two have pleaded guilty, a third has pleaded not guilty, and the fourth hasn’t entered a plea.
The complaint against Hennen alleges there were still more conspirators involved. It’s unclear whether more people may yet be arrested.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
Boston, MA
Constantine Manos, photographer for landmark ‘Where’s Boston?’ exhibit, dies at 90 – The Boston Globe
Among Mr. Manos’s books were “A Greek Portfolio” (1972; updated 1999), “Bostonians” (1975), “American Color” 1995) and ”American Color 2″ (2010). Mr. Manos’s work with color was notably expressive and influential.
“Color was a four-letter word in art photography,” the photographer Lou Jones, who worked with Mr. Manos on “Where’s Boston?,” said in a telephone interview. “But he was making wonderful, complex photographs with color, and that meant so much.”
Yet for all his formal skill, Mr. Manos always emphasized the human element in his work. “I am a people photographer and have always been interested in people,” he once said.
That interest extended beyond the photographs he took. He was a celebrated teacher. Among the students he taught in his photo workshops was Stella Johnson.
“He’d go through a hundred of my photographs,” she said in a telephone interview, “and maybe he’d like two. ‘No, no, no, no, yes, no.’ Costa really taught me how to see. I remember him looking at one picture and saying, “You were standing in the wrong spot.’ Something like that was invaluable to me as a young photographer.
“He was a very, very kind man, very generous. But he was very strict. ‘How could you do that?’ He was adored by his students and by his friends, absolutely. We were all lucky to have been in his orbit.”
Mr. Manos, who moved to Provincetown in 2008, lived in the South End for four decades. The South Carolina native’s association with the Boston area began when the Boston Symphony Orchestra hired him as a photographer at Tanglewood. He was 19. This led to Mr. Manos’s first book, “Portrait of a Symphony” (1961; updated 2000).
Constantine Manos was born in Columbia, S.C., on Oct. 12, 1934. His parents, Dimitri and Aphrodite (Vaporiotou) Manos, were Greek immigrants. They ran a café in the city’s Black section. That experience gave Mr. Manos a sympathy for marginalized people that would stay with him throughout his life. As a student at the University of South Carolina, he wrote editorials in the school paper opposing segregation. Later, he would do extensive work chronicling the LGBTQ+ community with his camera.
Mr. Manos became interested in photography at 13, joining the school camera club and building a darkroom in his parents’ basement. After graduating from college, Mr. Manos did two years of Army service in Germany, working as a photographer for Stars and Stripes. He joined Magnum in 1963. This had special meaning for him. Mr. Manos’s chief inspiration as a young photographer had been Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of Magnum’s founders. He was such an admirer he made a point of using the same equipment that Cartier-Bresson did.
That same year, Mr. Manos entered a seafood restaurant in Rome that was around the corner from the Pantheon. Prodanou, his future husband, was dining with friends. Noticing Mr. Manos, he gestured to him. “Would you join us for coffee?” The couple spent the next 61 years together, marrying in 2011.
Mr. Manos lived in Greece for three years, which led to “A Greek Portfolio.” He undertook a very different project in the Athens of America. Part of the city’s Bicentennial tribute, “Where’s Boston?” was a slice-of-many-lives view of contemporary Boston.
Located in a red-white-and-blue striped pavilion at the Prudential Center, it became a local sensation. The installation involved 42 computerized projectors and 3,097 color slides (most of them taken by Mr. Manos), shown on eight 10 feet by 10 feet screens. Outside the pavilion was a set of murals, consisting of 152 black-and-white photographs of Boston scenes, all shot by Mr. Manos.
“The most important thing I had to do was to keep my picture ideas simple,” he said in a 1975 Globe interview. “Viewers are treated to a veritable avalanche of color slides in exactly one hour’s time.”
In that same interview, he made an observation about his work generally. “I prefer to stay in close to my subjects. I let them see me and my camera and when they become bored they forget about me and then I get my best pictures.”
Among institutions that own Mr. Manos’s photographs are the Museum of Fine Arts; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Library of Congress; and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
In addition to his husband, Mr. Manos leaves a sister, Irene Constantinides, of Atlanta, and a brother, Theofanis Manos, of Greenville, S.C.
A memorial service will be held later this year.
Mark Feeney can be reached at mark.feeney@globe.com.
Boston, MA
Below freezing temperatures again today
The winds are still going Wednesday, but the air temperatures remain at respectable levels. Highs will manage to weasel up to 30 in most spots. It’s too bad we’re not going to feel them at face value. Instead, we’re dressing for temps in the teens all day today.
Thursday and Friday are the picks of the week.
There will be a lot less wind, reasonable winter temperatures in the 30s and a decent amount of sun. We’ll be quiet into the weekend, as our next weather system approaches.
With mild air expected to come north on southerly winds, highs will bounce back to the low and mid-40s both days of the weekend.
Showers will be delayed until late day/evening on Saturday and into the night. There may be a few early on Sunday too, but the focus on that day will be to bring in the cold.
Highs will briefly sneak into the 40s, then fall late day.
We’ll also watch a batch of snow late Sunday night as it moves up the Eastern Seaboard.
Right now, there is a potential for some accumulation as it moves overhead Sunday night and early Monday morning.
It appears to be a weak, speedy system, so we’re not expecting it to pull any punches.
Enjoy the quieter spell of weather!
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