Is Caleb Martin the last word Celtics killer?
In Wednesday’s 118-114 Celtics Christmas loss to Philadelphia, Martin delivered 23 factors, 3 rebounds and a pair of assists on 8/11 from the sector and seven/9 from three.
LeBron and Steph will hang-out me endlessly however these guys hang-out everybody, Caleb Martin hasn’t been good this season for the 76ers.
7 for 9 is unbelievable taking pictures the ball as poorly as Martin has this season. If it was anybody else, I’d have rolled my eyes and stated ‘no matter’ however since it’s Martin, it damage.
He has damage the Celtics so many occasions.
It wasn’t just like the Celtics didn’t dare Martin to beat them.
It was clearly the Celtics gameplay to let Martin’s threes beat them they usually did, which is infuriating as a result of he has not had a recreation like this all season. After all, Caleb Martin has an enormous recreation towards the Celtics.
Tonight was the ninth time Caleb Martin has shot 40% or higher towards Boston on six or extra makes an attempt from 3. He is completed it twice v. Detroit and by no means greater than as soon as towards anybody else.
It is his fifth time taking pictures higher than 50% vs. Boston. He is by no means completed it greater than as soon as vs.…
— John Karalis (@John_Karalis) December 26, 2024
The Celtics dominated the Warmth within the first spherical final 12 months, apart from Sport 2 the place Martin scored 21 factors on 7/12 from the sector and 5/6 from three. He all the time haunts the Celtics and I’ve not even talked about the 2023 Japanese Convention Finals but, a sequence I nonetheless imagine he ought to have gained MVP.
In that sequence, Martin averaged 19.3 factors and 6.9 rebounds per recreation on 60% from the sector and 49% from three. In that years Finals, he averaged 7.4 factors and 4.4 rebounds per recreation on 38% from the sector and 33% from three.
How does somebody have that large of a drop off from one sequence to the following?
Gamers with 45+ 3PM on 45%+ 3P% towards a crew within the final two calendar years:
Derrick White vs. the HeatMichael Porter Jr vs. the LakersStephen Curry vs. the ThunderCaleb Martin vs. the Celtics pic.twitter.com/YLevlK7XdD
— Computerized (@automaticnba) December 26, 2024
There are three elite shooters on this listing and CALEB MARTIN!
All of those stats make it much more clear how 1 inconceivable all of those video games Martin has towards the Celtics are. But, he simply continues to have them and they’re all the time towards the Celtics.
I don’t suppose the Celtics ought to change the best way they guard Martin both. He isn’t a very good shooter. If he’s going to maintain burying above the break threes than he’s going to try this. That should not result in an overreaction from Joe Mazzulla.
Nevertheless, that doesn’t imply when he does hit all these threes, we needs to be stunned. He all the time hits these photographs towards the Celtics.
As Joel Embiid stated in his postgame press convention, “he was enjoying towards Boston. He hates Boston as a lot as I do.”
Martin and Embiid are two gamers who go in precisely totally different instructions after they see the Celtics.
Embiid additionally referred to as Martin, “the Boston Killer.”
He actually is the Boston killer. He prevented one other journey to the Finals for the Celtics in 2023 and now he has ruined Christmas in 2024. I assumed this nonsense was supposed to finish when he left Miami and their black magic. It seems, Martin is the magic.
I’m so over this dude.
