T. Ferox

The Season Is Upon Us medium.com/@transferox/...

A serious team should never find itself in OT against the Nets, but I LOVED the Derrick White drive to the rim late in the 4th, and the fact that Tatum used all the time available to him to get within 15 feet for the game winner

Update: Tatum has been awesome the last two games. A lot of jumpers made, but also plenty of hard drives inside that make me feel optimistic.

LOL I stopped watching when the game should have been sealed and now it's in OT. These Celtics are great.

This game is a good data point for the people that believe the answer to the late game woes is simply that the Celtics will finally attack the rim

I love Derrick White and I've never suggested he's old

Man I miss the Celtics having skilled size inside

I don't care if it's the second night of a back to back, you can't lose to this Nets team

Oh God reading this feels so good just pretending for a second what it would be like in a ... different ... context

I didn't call it but I'm going to pretend I did

By the way... and also worthy of note: the Celtics' floor is the only one in the NBA allowed to be made of red oak. (All others are maple.) Robbins Sports Surfaces of Cincinnati built this one.

Seeing the Nets court with actual colors is a strong reminder of how that franchise is actively sabotaging their ability to establish a fun and entertaining brand

Common joke about lawyers is that they lie all the time. In actuality what you learn to do as a lawyer is tell the truth strategically. I think about that distinction a lot when NBA rumor shit hits and stories seem contradictory. Lotta agents & front office people went to law school.

Almost certainly the context here is "if you don't give me the max extension, trade me" and it's obvious the team (a) knew a long time ago they weren't going to do that (b) knew Jaylen was going to want out as soon as they told him that

How are you still writing this shit www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

It's always fun when my pick for the NBA title goes up in smoke less than a week into the season

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

I'm going to post this knowing the Knicks will probably not lose a game for two straight months at some point: The needle is pointing toward "the title run was lightning in a bottle"

Couldn't feel any less confident with a ten point lead in the fourth against the Knicks

Tatum on tracks for 10 three point attempts and zero free throws

4 free throw attempts in a half is not gonna cut it against the defending champs

I wonder how much persuading Matty thinks his entire body of work has a accomplished

AJ Brown 3 for 48 Better than last game I guess

Giving up only 30 points when it was 20 at half is a solid accomplishment.

If you can't force the opposing QB into big mistakes, yours can't make any. Simple as that

Pats defense just can't tackle

That play feels like a summary of the game. You have to make that play on Caleb there.

Hot Air Balloon for Macintosh

Pats got a false start penalty that made them do the right thing, not go for it on 4th and a couple from the 50

I'd say the only way the Pats win this is if they pick off Caleb

A few years ago when the Pats were cheeks and Mac Jones was getting overtaken by career third string Bailey Zappe, I decided all I wanted was for the Pats to have a talented young QB and an offense that could make plays and go up and down. Even if the defense stank. This game is right on the money

Whew it's a good thing the Patriots spent all that money on a top cornerback

Not doubting my (regular season) predictions about the Sixers based on two games, but if you're a Sixers fan you've gotta feel very good about what they've shown with all of their top guys available in the first two games against two opponents that are gonna be good this year.

Pats defense has had a million injuries so I'm neither surprised nor upset about it, but they simply can't keep up with this Bears team.

The thing that's crazy about Drake Maye is that I genuinely think it's easier for him to throw a TD pass from the 50 than from the 15

That's totally on Maye and the throw. He knew that defender was there, that ball needs to go over and past the receiver to even try it, and it was right to the defender.

I feel that we can say with some confidence that whatever else he is good at, Drake Maye is really not good at reading pass coverage in the red zone

Good ol Drake maye

“please give us money so we can keep spamming your phone with unsolicited texts” is the worst deal I’ve ever seen

I always think that there's this bind the dem party in particular has been in since, let's say Clinton, where the political instinct is to affirm American values in a way that cuts against leftier approaches in order to appeal to the middle. As a political instinct it certainly had its day but