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By Conor Roche The first full month of the NBA season is down, and the Celtics look the part of a team that’s attempting to win a second straight title. Boston has gotten off to a 16-3 start as November concludes, winning its seventh straight game on Friday night. With their win over the Bulls, the Celtics sit just a half-game back of the Cavaliers for first place in the Eastern Conference and for the best record in the league ahead of their matchup on Sunday. While the Celtics are off to a hot start, there are a couple of things that are a little bit different about the way they’re finding success this season. So, let’s take a look at how this season’s team stacks up to where last season’s team was at the end of November. 2023-24 points per game: 116.3 (ninth in NBA) 2023-24 field goal percentage: 47.2 percent (17th in NBA) 2023-24 3-point percentage: 36 percent (16th in NBA) 2023-24 assists per game: 24.8 (24th in NBA) 2023-24 turnovers per game: 13.6 (10th in NBA) 2023-24 offensive rating: 116.9 (ninth in NBA)* 2024-25 points per game: 121.2 (second in NBA) 2024-25 field goal percentage: 46.4 (14th in NBA) 2024-25 3-point percentage: 37.8 (eighth in NBA) 2024-25 assists per game: 25.9 (14th in NBA) 2024-25 turnovers per game: 11.6 (first in NBA) 2024-25 offensive rating: 121.5 (first in NBA) (All 2023-24 stats through the end of November) The Celtics’ offense is off to an even better start this season than last year. There are a few reasons for that. First, Boston’s greater reliance on its 3-point shooting has paid off. Even after leading the league in 3-point attempts last season, it’s shooting over seven more 3-pointers per game this season (50.7) than it did at this time last season (43.3). As you can tell, the Celtics have also shot 1.8 percent better from deep to start this year compared to this point last season. Jayson Tatum, Derrick White, Payton Pritchard, and Al Horford are the main players responsible for the Celtics’ improved 3-point shooting on high volume this season. They’ve each have seen increases in their 3-point shooting percentage and 3-pint field goal attempts from this point last season, helping offset the 3-point struggles Jaylen Brown, Sam Hauser, and Jrue Holiday have had so far this year. Pritchard and White, particularly, have seen a heavy increase of production from 3-point territory to start the year. Pritchard shot 39.3 percent from deep on 3.7 attempts per game at this point last season. This year, he’s shooting 44 percent from deep on 8.4 attempts per game. White, meanwhile, 40.2 percent from deep on 5.5 3-point attempts per game at this point last season. This year, White’s shooting 41.9 percent from deep on 9.1 3-point attempts per game. The stellar 3-point shooting from Pritchard and White has helped earn them early consideration for high honors, such as Sixth Man of the Year for Pritchard and an All-Star nod for White. But Tatum’s performance on the offensive side of the ball has also been award-worthy as he’s among one of the three early favorites to win MVP. Tatum actually shot better from the field through this point last season than he is so far this season (49.4 percent last season vs. 46.1 percent this season). But he’s made more pull-up 3-pointers this season (35.3 percent to 31.7) than he did at this point last year. That has seemingly provided more opportunities for Tatum and the Celtics to score. He’s averaging more free-throw attempts per game this season (8.2) than he did at this point last year (6.6). He’s also averaging nearly two more assists per game this year (5.8) than he was averaging at this point last year (4.0). For whatever it’s worth, the Celtics are also shooting better in the restricted area this season, with their 71.1 percentage on those shots ranking third in the league. However, their 20 restricted area field goals per game are also the third-fewest in the league, going to show that they’re even more 3-point reliant this season. 2023-24 defensive rating: 107.1 (second in NBA) 2023-24 field goal percentage against: 43.9 percent (third in NBA) 2023-24 steals per game: 6.4 (26th in NBA) 2023-24 blocks per game: 5.6 (10th in NBA) 2024-25 defensive rating: 111 (eighth in NBA) 2024-25 opponent field goal percentage against: 46.5 (18th in NBA) 2024-25 steals per game: 7.3 (24th in NBA) 2024-25 blocks per game: 5.3 (13th in NBA) As the Celtics’ offense has climbed to being the best in the league, their defense has fallen to a fringe top-10 unit from where they were last year. Kristaps Porzingis’s injury is likely the cause for that dropoff. They’ve allowed their opponents to shoot 68 percent from the restricted area through the first month of the season, which is the 10th-worst mark in the league. At this time last year, the Celtics allowed their opponents to make just 60.6 percent of their shots in the restricted area, which was the third-best mark in the league. Porzingis was a shot-blocking machine in his first season in Boston as well, averaging 1.9 per game. Derrick White has kept up his shot-blocking prowess (at least for a guard), averaging 1.1 per game so far this year. But no one else outside of Porzingis or Whtie is averaging more than 0.9 blocks per game this season. Boston’s rim protection stats might also be a symptom of Joe Mazzulla’s strategy to control the 3-point line. Thirty-nine percent of the Celtics’ opponents field goal attempts are from 3-point territory, which is the second-best mark in the league and up nearly 20 spots from where it ranked in that stat at this point last season as well. Additionally, the Celtics’ opponents haven’t been able to hit 3-pointers with great efficiency when they’ve taken them. Their opponents have made just 34.4 percent of their 3-pointers this season. At this time last season, the Celtics’ opponents were making 35 percent of their 3-pointers, so a very slight improvement there. 2023-24 record: 14-4 2023-24 point differential: 9.6 (best in NBA) 2023-24 net rating: 9.7 (best in NBA) 2024-25 record: 16-3 (second in NBA) 2024-25 point differential: 10.6 (second in NBA) 2024-25 net rating: 10.5 (second in NBA) Through the first month of the season, the Celtics are statistically a better team than they were at this point during their title-winning season last year. Obviously, their climb up the offensive ranks while holding a top-10 defense is the reason why their net rating and point differential have improved, even if they’re second to the Thunder in both categories. What is interesting to note, though, is that Boston has seemingly become Tatum-dependent. The Celtics have outscored their opponents by 199 points in the 690 minutes Tatum’s been on the floor this season, per Celtics radio announcer Sean Grande . However, they’ve only outscored their opponents by two points total in the 237 minutes that Tatum’s been on the bench this season, per Grande. It isn’t necessarily uncommon for teams to be heavily reliant on their star player. In fact, the Celtics have been pretty reliant on Tatum in the past. But last season, Tatum actually had a -1.2 on/off rating, suggesting that the Celtics were just as good when he was off the court than when he was on it. Sign up for Celtics updates🏀 Get breaking news and analysis delivered to your inbox during basketball season. Be civil. Be kind.
Kinkead Dent and diverse ground game powers UT Martin past New Hampshire, 41-10 in FCS 1st roundThe union representing striking postal workers says most provinces, including New Brunswick, turned down a free offer for its members to voluntarily deliver welfare cheques to those in need at their homes. Critics say the New Brunswick Liberal government’s decision could force hundreds, if not thousands, of the most impoverished people in rural areas to travel many kilometres to get their monthly social assistance cheques from government offices. On Friday, Premier Susan Holt told reporters at the legislature that government staff had worried the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, or CUP-W, wouldn’t deliver the Dec. 1 cheques on time. “Originally, the reason for the rejection was because of the timing. There was concern that CUP-W wouldn’t be able to deliver the cheques in as timely a way as the department felt they could, and there was an urgency to making sure those cheques were getting out to the people who need them.” In the face of criticism, the premier said the department is re-evaluating its position. “They perhaps do have the ability to deliver to the timelines that we want to see and help get those cheques to people as soon as possible. So the conversation is happening.” The day before, the minister of social development, Cindy Miles, told reporters at the legislature she didn’t know why her department had turned down the offer, but insisted that welfare recipients could visit with their case workers to get the monthly social assistance cheques in person or set up automatic bank deposits. When it was pointed out that some of people in rural New Brunswick live very far away from government offices, she said civil servants could travel to the recipients in person to deliver their cheques. The revelation about the spurned offer raised concerns in question period on Thursday, with opposition Progressive Conservative critic Margaret Johnson demanding answers. “We’re talking about serving our vulnerable populations who struggle with transportation and financial insecurity. How could the department ignore this reality?” Johnson is the Tory MLA for Carleton-Victoria, a sprawling riding in the northwest of the province. She said for many poor people, it would be tough to get to a provincial office. “For some in my riding, getting their cheques means finding a way to get from Juniper to Woodstock or Perth-Andover – that is 71 kilometres or 53 km – and then back home again,” she said Thursday in the House. “If they live in Plaster Rock, that means driving 39 km and back. If they’re in Nackawic, they have the choice of 64 km to Fredericton or 47 km to Woodstock and back home. “As I said, we’re talking about serving vulnerable populations who struggle with transportation and financial insecurity. “Gas costs money. We all know that, which is why it causes me to shake my head.” In an open letter sent to supporters last week, the CUP-W’s Atlantic national director, Jeff Callaghan, said the union’s striking postal members had delivered cheques to communities around the country, as outlined in the “Socio-Economic Cheque Memorandum of Agreement” with Canada Post. The document states that unionized workers have agreed to voluntarily process and deliver government payments to senior citizens, low-income people and others who receive pension cheques and other forms of social assistance. “Despite our offer to continue this service during the strike, there were no provincially issued cheques included in these deliveries from the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, or Prince Edward Island,” Callaghan wrote. “Canada Post reached out and offered the Socio-Economic Cheque service to all provinces and territories. Only three accepted, and one has since backed out.” Brunswick News contacted the union’s Atlantic office to learn more details, but no officials were made available. Miles provided no insight as to why the provincial government turned down the offer. “That’s something I’d have to get back to you on,” the Liberal minister told reporters on Thursday. “I don’t know what that conversation looked like. But as I said before, relationships are so important. And folks have relationships with the folks in the central office or their regional office. There will be accommodations for folks in order to receive their cheques that they so desperately need.” Miles said she’d speak with her staff about the possibility of allowing the union workers to deliver the cheques. She also said special arrangements could be made for government employees to travel to recipients who have no vehicle or gas money. “We can have staff go out and meet them where they are at.” But such a task would be a logistical nightmare if every welfare recipient wanted their cheque delivered personally to them. The latest statistics for November show that 24,709 cheques went out, helping more than 37,500 people and their families. Green Deputy Leader Megan Mitton also criticized the Liberal government’s decision to turn down the offer. “That’s unacceptable. It’s putting the burden on the most vulnerable to travel to get their cheques. I think that’s wrong.” In a news release on Wednesday, the Department of Social Development said that due to the postal strike, December’s social assistance payments had been sent to its regional offices for preparation by staff. The release also encouraged clients who do not receive their monthly payments by direct deposit to pick up a form at their local office to set it up. About 55,000 Canada Post workers went on strike Nov. 15 over wage and benefit demands. The two sides – Canada Post and The Canadian Union of Postal Workers – are said to be far apart on the issues. Negotiations broke down Wednesday.
49ers QB Brock Purdy remains severely limited by injury to his throwing shoulderVICTORIA — British Columbia Premier David Eby says his fellow premiers and the federal government have hatched a game plan to fight U.S. tariffs, with conservative premiers lobbying Republican counterparts, left-leaning provincial leaders courting the Democrats, and Ottawa focusing on president-elect Donald Trump. The premiers and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talked about using their political diversity and connections to thwart the prospect of Trump's proposed 25 per cent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, Eby said Thursday in a year-end interview. He said it was discussed that conservative premiers Danielle Smith in Alberta, Doug Ford in Ontario and Nova Scotia's Tim Houston are well-placed to lobby Republican governors and business leaders. Eby said as a New Democrat he will likely have more in common with Democrat governors and business leaders from the West Coast states. "I can easily have conversations with governors and businesses down the West Coast of the U.S., where we have close relationships and our politics are very similar," he said. "Premier Smith can have conversations with Republican governors. That would be more challenging for me, and (she) would have more connections potentially with the Trump administration than an NDP administration in B.C. would." He said a meeting last week between the premiers and Trudeau discussed Canada's diversity of representation, and how it could bring leverage and advantages in tariff talks. "It's interesting, there was a lot of talk about what unity means in terms of Canada's response to the tariffs," he said. "There's obviously a diversity of views around the Council of the Federation table of all the premiers. Certainly, mine is not the same as Premier Smith's or Premier Ford's or Premier Houston's, and that diversity of views is actually potentially a significant strength for us as we enter into these discussions." Eby also said he was prepared to appear on American's right-leaning Fox News TV network, as did premiers Ford and Smith. "Anything that I can do to support the national effort to protect the families in Canada from the impact of tariffs and also families in the U.S. from those unjustified tariffs," he said. "Absolutely, if I thought it was helpful." This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 5, 2024. Dirk Meissner, The Canadian PressShamrock Rovers midfielder Aaron McEneff has emerged an injury doubt for next week’s Conference League clash away to Rapid Vienna with a new hamstring issue. The 29-year-old has started the Hoops’ last two League Phase wins over Larne and TNS, but is now set for a scan on his hamstring after coming off injured in Rovers’ 2-0 friendly defeat to HJK Helsinki on Thursday night. Despite there being no contact to his leg, McEneff felt his hamstring tighten and left the pitch midway through the second half as Bradley shared the latest on the midfielder, who returned to Tallaght Stadium last January from Perth Glory. “Right now, Aaron has come off there, that was a strange one. He passed the ball and felt his hamstring tighten up. There was no contact, nothing, so that’s definitely a worry,” said Bradley after the friendly defeat, ahead of next Thursday’s trip to the Austrian kingpins. “It was the same hamstring (he injured before), but a different area. I was just talking to him there and he felt fine, no issues. He felt good and just one pass and he felt it really tighten up. “Hopefully it’s not bad and he has just come out quickly, but you are looking at him coming off, hopefully it’s not bad. You are just not sure until he gets it scanned. He knew as soon as he passed it. It wasn’t as if it was a sprint or just after full-time, he was moving well, said he felt nothing at all and then it happened. Hopefully it’s just a little tweak and he’s not too bad.” While Bradley awaits news on McEneff, he admitted he had hoped to play more senior players in the friendly against Finnish champions HJK, but it wasn’t worth risking those who are currently carrying knocks. “This week was just about getting them going, getting minutes into the legs,” added Bradley, with a home date against Borac to come next month before the final League Phase clash away to Chelsea, as the Hoops target the Last 16 stage next year. “We have a few knocks, six or seven who have knocks, that we didn’t take chances with and we won't on Friday (second friendly against HJK) either. “It (Thursday’s team) was younger than what we probably would have liked overall, but there is no point in taking risks this week. We’ll just get them ready for next week and it’s three brilliant games to be getting ready for. “We knew HJK were in a similar position to us, we know they are a good side. It was hard to work on certain things, because there were so many changes with players that we couldn’t play. But it’s still good to get the game and just get minutes into the legs again before next week.” After his players enjoyed a week off before their three upcoming Conference League clashes, Bradley says it was important to give them a rest ahead of the huge ties. “We had a week off which was needed. It was nice mentally and physically to switch off. It was good to get that, then come back in this week and get ready,” he added. “The players know we’ve got three big games coming up, so it was not as if it was a month off, it was just a week. It was important they had that time away. A break like that always helps, especially after a long season. We play until late December, so it was important that the players enjoyed it and came back in good spirits.” “We like Alex (Noonan),” added Bradley, after the 16-year-old goalkeeper came on for the second half to earn his second appearance for the club. “We think he has got a good future ahead of him, he just needs to keep working hard. He has a great attitude and really good attributes. It was good to get him on the pitch. For a goalkeeper he’s obviously very young, but we like him.”
THOMAS TUCHEL'S first game as England manager has been revealed. The Three Lions' 2026 World Cup qualifying group sees them come up against Serbia, Albania, Latvia and Andorra. Tuchel was at today's draw but does not officially start as England boss until January. A date has been set for his first game in charge, with the German's reign kicking-off on Friday night at Wembley against Albania on March 21. Three days later, there is another home clash for him versus Latvia. Tuchel's third match in charge on June 7 is away to Andorra. READ MORE IN FOOTBALL They will then play a friendly afterwards in the same international window against an unnamed opponent. Three Lions chiefs then have a venue headache to deal with as Andorra come to England for the return fixture on September 6. Wembley Stadium is seemingly out of action that night due to Coldplay concerts on the days either side, meaning the match will have to be played elsewhere. England then take on Serbia on September 9. Most read in Football FOOTBALL FREE BETS AND SIGN UP DEALS Albania (H) - March 21 Latvia (H) - March 24 Andorra (A) - June 7 Andorra (H) - September 6 Serbia (A) - September 9 Latvia (A) - October 14 Serbia (H) - November 13 Albania (A) - November 16 Another friendly follows before Lavia away on October 14. Then the qualification campaign finally comes to an end with a double-header against Serbia at home on November 13 and Albania away on November 16. Tuchel's squad could be very different to the ones picked by Gareth Southgate and Lee Carsley as the ex-Chelsea boss has promised a fresh start to all players , including the self-exiled Ben White. The new manager said today: “It should be a clean start and a clear narrative. It starts from January. "I will be in the stadiums from January. The players should just know, 'okay, the boss is there from January'. “Then I will of course try to speak to them, but also be respectful to the schedule that they have, because the schedule is busy in January, especially in the Premier League." Asked about White, Tuchel said: “Yes. I will reach out to him." Group A : Winner GER/ITA, Slovakia, Northern Ireland, Luxembourg Group B : Switzerland, Sweden, Slovenia, Kosovo Group C : Loser POR/DEN, Greece, Scotland, Belarus Group D : Winner FRA/CRO, Ukraine, Iceland, Azerbaijan Group E : Winner SPA/NED, Turkey, Georgia, Bulgaria Group F : Winner POR/DEN, Hungary, Ireland, Armenia Group G : Loser SPA/NED, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Malta Group H : Austria, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, San Marino Group I : Loser GER/ITA, Norway, Israel, Estonia, Moldova Group J : Belgium, Wales, North Macedonia, Kazakhstan, Liechenstein Group K : England, Serbia, Albania, Latvia, Andorra Group L : Loser FRA/CRO, Czechia, Montenegro, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar
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