This Celtics Signing Looks Like An ABSOLUTE STEAL | Boston Celtics News

This Celtics Signing Looks Like An ABSOLUTE STEAL | Boston Celtics News

[Music] A few videos ago here on the channel, we discussed the Celtics potentially having a hidden gem in the form of new signing Josh Minat. But that was before he even stepped on the floor for your Boston Celtics. Now, we have three preseason games of evidence here that tell me that Josh May not is looking like an absolute steal by Brad Stevens in free agency. A two-year $5 million deal. Oh my goodness. This is looking like highway robbery for your boss Celtics. We’re going to discuss his performances and what everybody’s saying about number eight in just a moment. But speaking of number eight, we’re eight days away from the Celtics regular season getting underway. Josh, my not days away from the SE’s regular season tipping off. And if you guys are fired up about it, if you are hyped for this new look Celtics team to get out there on the real floor, the real meaningful basketball floor, show me. Go down below, hit that thumbs up icon, like today’s video. Look, in the pox score, Josh might not, I’d say, has been pretty solid for the most part. nothing that’s jumping off the screen entirely. Did have 16 points in the Celtics dominant win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. But what really jumps out to me is that Josh might not has been a net positive every single time he’s been out there on the basketball court. Against the Memphis Grizzlies, a plus eight against the Toronto Raptors, a game with the Celtics lost, he was a plus 15 in that game and then a plus six against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Look, what we know about Josh May not is he is physical. He is an athlete. So it’s that’s evident by the rebounding numbers there. I do put up the three-point uh attempts and and makes there because that was obviously a drawback of Manat’s game coming in. But I really do believe that he can kind of progress in that area and be at least a league average low volume three-point shooter here. Two of five against Cleveland, one of three against Toronto. Look, if we’re going three of eight, I’ll take that every single time from Josh May not because we know what he can do with the ball in his hands. Uber athlete, a human highlight film, and this windmill was was just I think scratching the surface of what we’re going to see from Josh May not and TD Garden this season. Expect multiple Garden moments from him on the offensive end. And you know what actually generated this this open windmill slam was Josh May not jumping a passing lane, getting active, creating disruption, creating a turnover, and then getting points on the other end because of it. I think it’s going to be something that we see very very frequently throughout his tenure with the Celtics here this season and beyond. May not said this about the TD Garden crowd that he got to experience for the first time. He said it was surreal. I feel like all across the league, fans aren’t really at all these games or putting any importance on them. It’s usually just scattered around people, diehard fans, but there it’s just like, man, the whole city, it seems like everybody is a diehard fan, dude. I mean, it it’s absolutely awesome. And look, Josh May not was said talking about the TD Garden crowd. He said that they might have to know chill out a little bit because he was feeling unstoppable. He was feeling invincible out there. I mean, for a guy who is essentially on his last legs of his NBA career, right? Because he spent a couple few seasons in Minnesota, didn’t really catch on into the rotation. Now he’s here with the Celtics on a really cheap veteran minimum type of contract. And if he doesn’t really shine here, then that could be the end of his NBA career. But now he’s hungry and I love that the TD Garden crowd is infusing him with this level of confidence that he can take onto the court this season and hopefully beyond. And look, he understands that this is a place where he is going to grow and a place where he must grow in order to remain in the NBA. And he said more about this experience with Boston here. He said, “I usually know why I’m coming out and just see it as a lesson every time. We’re just learning. It’s preseason. I understand that it’s a lot of new people and is trying to just instill that Celtics mentality for those of us that are new. Now, Joe Missoula has been kind of in a weird like spot this upcoming season with how much how many new faces and how many new archetypes are on this team. So, he’s really experimenting with a lot of lineups here in the postseason, seeing what works before the regular season gets underway. And, you know, it’s it’s crazy because Joe Misoula is a freak. He he has a different way of of be being a relationship with everybody out there on the court. And as as far as his relationship with with May not goes, he said that even when he thinks he’s playing hard, Joe makes him go out there and play even harder. So like he wants him to push the limits of what Josh might not is able to do. And I think that’s an awesome player to be able to have that mentality with because he’s so freakish athletic. He’s got such a high motor. He wants to get better that uh I I think it’s inevitable that we see that. Missoula has been subbing guys out here for a multitude of mistakes and reasons. That’s what my May not was alluding to a little bit there. He’s some guys out for allowing offensive rebounds or, you know, miscues on defense, being in the wrong spots. And that’s what my not is saying here. He’s like, I’m I’m still learning. I’m still getting in the groove here. And and Missoula is kind of just letting us know that that’s going to be the standard. The standard has to be execution all the time. And I I love the confidence that that my not here is carrying with that. Now, show some love to him down in the comments section before we talk about what his new teammates had to say about him because I think Josh might not is going to be a real big rotation piece. We haven’t really even talked about his defensive versatility yet and we’re going to get to that in just a moment. But before we do, go down below in the comments section, type his jersey number number eight because Jaylen Brown said this about playing with Josh Mina. He said he’s a long athletic wing and something that we could have used over the past years or so. Somebody high energy, super athletic. We need that that defensive pressure, intensity, and he’s been showing that he can knock down a shot and he can take a guy off the bounce as well. He’s been great all training camp. He’s been great all preseason. We’re gonna need him to be great all season long. And then this is what Derek White had to say about the whole situation. He definitely comes in with that excitement, that joy, and he’s one of those guys that is excited for this opportunity. He comes in and he can definitely be a pest out there. Wants to keep getting better and show us what he can do. He can do a little bit of everything out there. Look, I I I know when we look at and judge NBA players in 2025, like we we look at can you get buckets? like can you can you know affect the box score like everybody’s more more so a box score watcher a highlight watcher today than ever but I really do believe that Josh Mana can contribute to winning basketball games whether or not he puts in 15 points or whether or not he puts up eight rebounds in a game he’s going to make winning plays day in and day out we know the hunger that he has crashing the offensive glass for rebounds the hunger he has jumping passing lanes to create turnovers rising up for blocks at the rim as well like all that stuff are intangible things that effort. That is energy. And look, he’s got the frame. He’s got he’s six foot eight, a damn near seven foot wingspan. Uh he can jump out of the gym. That stuff can only get you so far, though. What Josh May not is going to do to separate himself here is the effort, is the in is the IQ, being in the right spots, and just making winning plays and disruption at the end of the day. Because we know that’s what Joe Missoula wants to do. Wants to speed it up, wants to run these hockey subs, and he wants to just create total chaos on the other end for the Boston Celtics defensively. Missoula said this on my not. He said he has to keep keep that up. Has to play hard. Has to be able to rebound. Has to be able to sprint the floor. Has to crash, shoot the ball if he’s open, has to defend at a high level. So you see with all the stuff there that he said Josh might not has to do. But you notice that he didn’t say that he had to do anything as far as his offensive polish goes. So that stuff’s going to all come in time for my not. But the role that he’s going to be playing for the Boston Celtics here is energy guy, is get out in transition guy. Is honestly when Missoula is talking about this new philosophy offensively of being super fast, the player that he’s talking about the most is Josh May not like a guy that they haven’t had with the ability to get out in transition fast and rise up uh above the rim over the past few years. Like yeah, Tatum can do that. Yeah, Brown can do that. But they have so much else on their plate. Now we have a specialist in the athletic department that uh that we can employ here in a lot of different situations. Now, this is interesting because as far as the offensive polish goes, the jumper does look a little wonky here. I mean, we’re looking at forms here. Uh this one in TD Garden, this one in the other game that they played a couple of week a couple of days ago. But, uh the reason that maybe he’s not the most efficient three-point shooter is because this and this like are not the uh the best ways to be to be going about it here. I do think that they are fixable. And I want you guys to comment down below whose jumper you think this kind of resembles a little bit because I think with a little bit of mechanical reworking, we can get it looking like a player that we saw previously with the Boston Celtics. Can we get it looking a little bit more like this Al Horford jumper right here? I mean, wouldn’t it be a little bit better? Look, my not’s not going to be a player who is consistently taking guys off of the dribble or is sizing up defenders for pull-up jumpers beyond the arc. I don’t even think he’s going to do that much in the mid-range either or on and short corner jumpers or anything like that. So, it’s going to be mostly stationary stuff. Who’s to say we can’t get the uh the the form jumper looking like Al’s which was also mechanically reworked in Boston as he became a much better three-point shooter once he started wearing green. So I I it’s absolutely possible and with a philos with a coach like Joe Missoula who you know relies on the three-pointer so much I think he’s going to get his staff working uh on Josh Manat’s mechanics in that area and we’re going to see a much higher percentage as the season goes along. We’ll talk about this guy unfortunately as we wrap up today’s show in just a moment. First I got to tell you guys these awesome deals. Celtics hats still on sale over at chatports.com/seldics hats. This one with the retro looks cool. This one with the khaki is also is awesome as well as fall is approaching. Love this one with the skyline in the back too. The flat brim. These a lot of these with the rope and the flat brim. Those are all in right now. Celtics hats to get yours today. That link is in the comment section and description of today’s video. Oh my god. Oh my god. I I I don’t like this at all. I I don’t like this one bit. But it’s reality. Al Horford is a Golden State Warrior and he just spoke on his departure from the Boston Celtics after signing a two-year roughly 11 million contract with a player option in the second year with the Golden State Warriors. And before we get into what Al said, he’s going to play fantastically in Golden State. It makes me super upset that he’s not going to be here anymore, but all the power to him. Go out there and get yourself a better opportunity to win a championship. And that was kind of the big reason why he left the Boston Celtics. Here’s what he said. I think that where Boston was as a team, even though I called them my home and everything was there for me, they just weren’t in a position to offer me the opportunity that I wanted. There were two things there. I think the financial part was a component, but more than that, it was the winning part of it. Trying to contend for a championship, and I think that there’s a lot of things up in the air, and it just like felt like they weren’t in the same that same vision obviously because JT getting hurt, that takes a big toll. So I think at that point I really had up until then I was staying in Boston the whole time. So if JT doesn’t get hurt, we don’t lose Big Al. That makes me sad. That really makes me sad, man. It’s an unfortunate situation, the unfortunate reality. But I I would have loved to see Al Horford retire at Boston Celtic. I still I still do think it’s possible, but um that article that I just pulled that quote from did conclude with Al Horford saying that he wants the Golden State Warriors or at least is hopeful that the Golden State Warriors are his last stop in the NBA. Can opt out of the player option next offseason. Maybe if he wants to go rejoin one more run with JT JB and the boys in Boston, he could do so, but doesn’t look like that’s all too likely at this point. Best wishes to Al. He’s a champion. one of my favorite Celtics of all time. So, super happy that he’s going to be in a spot where he can go out there and probably have a better shot at winning the title this year, but it definitely hurts, especially considering the way that the Celtics front court looks like at this point. That will do it for today’s edition of Celtics by Chat Sports. Give me a follow over on Twitter, TylerJ Smith, two Hes because the name’s common, but I am not. And make sure you are subscribed to the channel as well. YouTube.com/seltics TV. Keeping you with the latest and greatest on your seas leading up to the regular season, eight days away. Subscribe, turn your noties on. We’ll see you guys in the next one. As always, let’s go seize. [Music]

Boston Celtics news today comes after a few Celtics preseason games and Celtics highlights from Josh Minott that make this Celtics signing by Brad Stevens look like an absolute steal in NBA Free Agency. Josh Minott Celtics highlights have burst onto the scene due to his elite athleticism, big frame and nose for the basketball. Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla has taken notice of Minott’s energy and effort as has Celtics players Jaylen Brown and Derrick White. Celtics Today host Tyler Smith breaks down all the latest Celtics news and rumors on Josh Minott as well as Al Horford news about leaving Boston on today’s Boston Celtics YouTube video.

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Josh Minott Highlights & Stats During Celtics Preseason:
– vs. MEM (26 MP, +8): 8 PTS, 7 REB, 0/5 3PT
– vs. TOR (26 MP, +15): 13 PTS, 6 REB, 1/3 3PT
– vs. CLE (23 MP, +6): 16 PTS, 6 REB, 2/5 3PT

Jaylen Brown On Josh Minott
“He’s a long, athletic wing. Something that we could’ve used over the past years or so. Somebody high-energy, super athletic. We need that. That defensive pressure, intensity. And he’s been showing that he can knock down a shot and he can take a guy off the bounce, as well. He’s been great all training camp. He’s been great all preseason. We’re going to need him to be great all season long”

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Al Horford On Signing With Warriors, Leaving Celtics:
“I think that where Boston was as a team, even though I called them my home and everything was there for me, they just weren’t in a position to offer me the opportunity that I wanted. There was two things there. I think the financial part was a component, but more than that, it was the winning part of it, trying to contend for a championship. And I think there was a lot of things up in the air — and it just felt like they weren’t in the same, that same vision, obviously, because JT getting hurt, that takes a big toll. So I think at that point I really had to — up until then I was staying in Boston the whole time”

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