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Bobby Krivitsky: Mitchell Robinson on not having his normal impact on the offensive glass: “I gotta figure it out soon.” 🎥: @nbcsceltics.bsky.social
Bobby Krivitsky: Per the Celtics, Paul George is out for the second half of the team's back-to-back. After missing yesterday's win against the Magic, Mitchell Robinson returns tonight against the Rockets. Devin Carter - Illness - OUT Paul George - Rest - OUT
“If you didn't play here, if you didn't grow up here, and even if you do play here, you may not know what a ‘Tommy Point’ is,” Reynolds told Celtics On SI. “[It was] really just giving these guys a little window into how our fans view their play, and so we just [talked] about Tommy Heinsohn for a little bit, and then showed some plays over the years of Tommy getting excited for the guys getting on the floor, taking a charge, getting an offensive rebound, and connecting that to to the identity that we have as a group here.” The overtime win over Brooklyn showed just how much that message hit home. Sam Hauser and Baylor Scheierman both dove for a loose ball late in the third quarter of the game, waking up a sleepy crowd and triggering a run that sent the building into a frenzy and forced the Nets to call a timeout. As Mitchell Robinson walked back to the bench, he said “That’s a lot of Tommy Points out there.”
Later in the show, Buha was asked about adding another athletic big man to the roster and pointed toward Cisse as the type of minimum-level option he believes could thrive alongside Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves. "To me, Moussa Cisse – I don't wanna overrate Moussa Cisse – but I think he's the exact type of big that would just eat with the Lakers," Buha said. "And he would be a dynamic lob threat with Luka and Austin, and he just has to screen, roll, finish. He could do that." "He's also a solid rebounder and rim protector, at least by bench-big standards," Buha continued. "So to me, Moussa Cisse, like, you're not asking for the moon. You're not asking to draft an Aday Mara. You're not asking to add Mitchell Robinson to the bench." "Keeping it realistic with a minimum-level player, Moussa Cisse is the archetype to me."
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Former Knicks big man Mitchell Robinson posted an Instagram Story hours after besting his former team Friday in his first contest since leaving for the Celtics in free agency, in which he called out a fan who apparently believed he still played for the blue and orange. “Hey, tell me why a fan, bro, said that we lost tonight?” Robinson said while wearing a pink Bass Pro Shop hoodie and seemingly in a car after Boston’s 107-103 home win. “I think he still think I play for the Knicks, and I’m like, ‘You dumb motherf–ker. He a fake fan, bro.”
Robinson laughed off the remarks, adding that he’s “out here in Boston having the time off my life” before going off on the fan, labeling the person as “stupid as a b—h.”
Speaking with a few reporters before facing New York in Boston’s home opener Friday, the center took his relocation in stride despite a sense the Knicks did not want him back. “That’s what it felt like,” Robinson said. Because they never made an offer? “Yeah. I was like, cool. There wasn’t bad blood behind it,” he said. “Fresh start.”
“Anything can happen, I can be traded at any moment,” Robinson said. “I was in so many of those trade talks. I’m like, ‘I just got to see it as a business. You can’t let your feelings in it.’ That’s kind of what I did.”
Only a year ago, Mike Brown began the regular season by juggling his starting five. Mitchell Robinson was set to enter the first unit but was load managing, so the Knicks platooned. Sometimes, a center would start in Robinson’s stead; other times, it would be a shooter. Landry Shamet would start or Miles “Deuce” McBride would close. Josh Hart was never the fifth player originally. Hart struggled with a reserve role, which Brown noticed, amending his first unit in November and then riding that group — which included Hart — to a title. “You could say it’s like trial and error,” Jalen Brunson said. “He’s not afraid to go out there and just try things, and if things don’t work, then we’re gonna figure something out. But he’s always willing to seek suggestions, seek help and figure out what’s the best way to actually prepare a team.”
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gary washburn: Mitchell Robinson told the Globe he'll be OK after tweaking his ankle but was hard on himself about his performance: “I got my ass kicked on the glass. I can’t have no starts like that. It’s cool to get out there and put on that Boston jersey for the first time in a regular-season game, but overall, I still didn’t do what I needed to do. I gotta compete better. I feel like I didn’t compete at a high level that I normally do and I was kind of slow on a lot of things.”
Noa Dalzell: Joe Mazzulla on Mitchell Robinson, who seemed to hurt his ankle in the first half: "He's good to go."
Karl-Anthony Towns: "I would say the person that's toughest is probably going to be like DeMarcus Cousins or Steven Adams. I've probably in my life ever had to tag the roller. During defense, you're on the other side and you come over to tag the roller to hold him up so he doesn't DeAndre Jordan, alley-oop dunk, Blake Griffin, alley-oop dunk like that, Mitchell Robinson, alley-oop dunk. You try to slow down the roller so it makes it easier to deal with the pick and roll, the player, two offensive players and the two defensive players. It makes it easier and gives them more time to figure out the situation with the PNR."
