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bbb but the passing and initiating the offense
He plays timid. Would rather always pass than take the shot.
Badly hesitated on an open 3 and of course missed it.
And his defense is overrated, I often see players blowing past him and scoring over him.
bbb but the passing and initiating the offense
He really hasn't played consistently well at all in the playoffs or regular season for Boston.
Need more production than passing the ball. And I don't see so much initiating the offense.
thats what ive heard on here. He can help them when he gives that occasional 20 point outburst because bos desperately needs another scorer. When he isnt hitting which has been often this season hes practically useless
White is a Spur type of player. Really lacks explosiveness to the basket.
Spurs have a team built around these type of players.
C’s fans are quickly turning on Derrick in forums and on Twitter after another stinker tonight. His lack of confidence in his jumpshot and inability to hit open threes kills the Celtics. He had two wide open looks tonight early in the fourth that would’ve helped stifle Warriors runs. He hesitated on both, and bricked both. Then he got blown by for a couple easy layups and that one huge Andrew Wiggins dunk. Just a bad all around game from him.
Luckily most of the attention is being focused on Tatum, who’s been dog- in the 2nd half of every game this series. Dude is now shooting 22% in 4th quarters of this series (!!). And he’s already set the record for most turnovers in a playoffs with 95, surpassing Lebron. Just horrible. Cost his team the series at the end of game four with all his chucking. C’s blew it.
Derrick White had that monster game against Denver and has never reached that level again. This is why he's a role player -- he'll turn in very nice games but can't be counted on for every game.
He's not the reason the Celtics are losing the series, though.
nobody is blaming white for the c's losing. He is the very definition of fools gold
Yes sir. Derrick “Don’t look at me” White. 1 point in a very, very important game 5.
there is a reason pop&co were willing to part with him
One of the reasons as he isn't helping them much.
Agree, beware of trading with the Spurs.
They don't trade away anyone good, especially sine they are not deep in talent to begin with.
Wasn't Shaq shooting something like 65% for the series? I remember seeing a stat where Shaq was doing great, but I don't think Kobe was trying to get him the ball. I think Kobe was trying to show up Tayshaun Prince since everyone was saying how good of a defensive player he was and how good of a defensive team the Pistons were, I think Kobe went off script trying to show them up, but it cost them the series. Even with Karl Malone hurt, I still think the Lakers could have won that series. The Pistons played great team ball, but I don't think they were the better team.
This is going to be a bit of a shot at Ime, but maybe he remembers himself being put in for Bruce Bowen in the 2008 WCF and costing us the game. Maybe he was trying to avoid something similar by keeping them in. Bit of a low blow from me, I just can't seem to forgive him for that game. Bruce Bowen had Kobe locked up, then got into foul trouble and Ime went out there to replace Bruce and Kobe exploded. Really sucks cause the Spurs were dead tired sleeping only a few hours on the plane after winning game 7 in NO. That game could have cost them the series, plus the Derek Fisher foul on Brent Barry didn't help in game 5 I think it was. You know what, the Lakers. I'm starting to remember how much I disliked those s.
Last edited by Ice009; 06-14-2022 at 06:55 AM.
Pistons were the better team in that series. Without Karl Malone the Lakers were the less talented team. Malone was the reason why they got to the finals. Without him the Spurs would have swept the Lakers or beaten them in 5. The Pistons deserve a lot of credit for winning that series because a lot of teams would have folded in game 1 when Shaq got 36 points on above 76 percent shooting and then game 4 where he got 34 points on above 80 percent shooting. It takes discipline to weather those out of this world type of performances. The Pistons could have crumbled in those games but showed resilience. That's the difference between them and the current Celtics who can't weather Curry's storms.
Last edited by daslicer; 06-14-2022 at 10:53 AM.
Imes offensive is Pop level low IQ.
Would be interesting to see how White would do when Game 1s ball movement was continued vs Tatum ball / stand around ball.
i just don't know if the celtics have a true top tier player or superstar. brown and smart are potential all stars and tatum is a legit all-star but he's not in that upper echelon yet (and may never be). last night, they all just kind of shrunk at the worst time.
Agreed Tatum is a legit all-star but like you said I don't think he will ever reach true supers om. He's very good but just a tier below Giannis, Durant, Kawhi, etc. He doesn't have another gear like those guys do to takeover a game against a great opponent. Jaylen Brown is what I would call a good second option but unfortunately Tatum doesn't come through like a real number 1 so Brown can't always capitalize like a true number 2 would. Marcus is a very good role player much like how Bruce Bowen was for the Spurs but better offensively. He could possibly fluke his way to 1 all-star game in his career.
If the Celtics had Durant instead of Tatum they probably beat this Warriors team in 6 games.
He has though. The only inconsistent thing about his game is his shooting but folks don't realize just how important other areas of basketball are. That's why you will constantly see guys like White and Poeltl at the top of impact stats while his offensive numbers might not look like much. The Celtics acquired White while they were on the lower part of the table of teams getting into the playoffs, they are now two games away from winning it all. I would say the White acquisition has been a monumental success for them.
derrick white could have averaged 30ppg for the finals, made the game winner and become finals mvp and it still was a good trade for the spurs
I do agree with this though. There just wasn't a fit for White here.
Why not if he's so good to take a team to the championship?
Where has he been so good, passing the ball? His shooting has been bad everyone can agree on that and his defense he's getting scored on players are blowing past him and counting stats blocks and steals are not high, how is he so great defensively.
You have your Spur blinders on and see him as a former Spur so he's been so good for Boston but really he hasn't with the exception of a few games.
the bottom line it was a good deal for sa. His production for Boston means nothing for the spurs now.
Spurs were lucky to have a chance to move away from White with the trade.
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