Dogs and bands. A good thread.

Although sorry for your dog’s decline, Z-Man. I haven’t had a dog in a dog’s age (or a few of them), too much travel. Someday perhaps…

just looked at a sheepdog pic…that is one furry critter…i remember as a kid watching this family show with a big ‘ol sheepdog…

the maltipoo used to be really furry, poor thing couldn’t see for shit…speaking of which, a furry bottom ain’t always gonna be your friend…

can’t remember what concert it was but, was running late but needed to do some dog grooming cuz the back blast area wasn’t cleared…

plan is to keep her hair short going forward, so she can see and poop away carefree…

Not that it ended up mattering. But I kind of adopted it from there as part of my identity. I still think about getting together with my old crew and recording again – the bassist went on tour with the Scorpions and never left, the guitarist moved in to Britney Spears and I lost touch with him, but my partner is in Memphis where he played with Al Green and we’re still tight, so I’d go to Memphis and see if we could take advantage of all this living the last few decades to make better music… It would be nice for Rama to live again before I can’t jump around anymore…

But he’s a perfect fit within the switchable 3&D archetype that lets you run modern offenses and defenses, even if he doesn’t excel at any of those skills.

At the end of the day he makes Dallas better defensively, even if that says more about his teammates than it does about him.

He’s +5.3 when he’s on the court because he often plays in lineups that are among the very best in the entire NBA.

He plays a lot with Tatum. That’s his #1 two man combo (1274 minutes together this year).

Every lineup the Celtics put out is one of the best lineups in the league.

He’s the worst player in a rotation that, when healthy, features a player one year removed from winning DPOY as 2nd worst in BPM and 2nd team All-NBA Jaylen Brown as the 3rd worst.

Somebody necessarily has to have a negative on-off unless every single player is at exactly 0.0. It just happens to be him.

Jaylen Brown had a -3.8 on-off this year, but nobody would say he was a bad player this year, quite the opposite!

Again, doesn’t mean he’s great, but looking at On-off just doesn’t work when it comes to evaluating players, especially on the Celtics. He’s got problems but it’s not a fair way to diagnose them.

Celtics are +5.3 & +4.5 with Grant on the court the last 2 seasons

If you’re referring to his on-off, then of course he’s negative. Their other PFs are Tatum and Timelord

He’s +5.3 when he’s on the court because he often plays in lineups that are among the very best in the entire NBA.

He plays a lot with Tatum. That’s his #1 two man combo (1274 minutes together this year).

He also plays a lot with Robert Williams who plays more C, though RB didn’t play a lot this year due to injury.

In his career he has played in a variety of lineups both starting and coming off the bench, yet somehow the team is fairly consistently better with him off. IMO, it’s not just that there are other good players on the team. It’s that his defense is overrated. He’s undersized at PF, slow, and he’s doesn’t do a lot on offense other than shoots 3s.

He’s not a bad player. He’s just not that good and I don’t think he solved any of Dallas’s problems. Dallas’s problem is almost entirely related to the lack of both interior and perimeter defenders and a highly suspect teaming of Kyrie and Doncic.

Maybe he’ll surprise me and be better than I think, but I still don’t like what Dallas is doing. They are better than their tanking record last year. Plus they have a couple of decent young players, but I think they are going to wind up at the bottom of the playoffs in the west.

i’m ok with donte, but would have preferred grant williams and duarte to what we did.