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 couple of assists on 8/11 from the sphere and seven/9 from three.
LeBron and Steph will hang-out me eternally however these guys hang-out everybody, Caleb Martin hasn’t been good this season for the 76ers.
7 for 9 is unbelievable capturing 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 harm.
He has harm the Celtics so many instances.
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 and so they did, which is infuriating as a result of he has not had a recreation like this all season. In fact, Caleb Martin has an enormous recreation in opposition to the Celtics.
Tonight was the ninth time Caleb Martin has shot 40% or higher in opposition to Boston on six or extra makes an attempt from 3. He is carried out it twice v. Detroit and by no means greater than as soon as in opposition to anybody else.
It is his fifth time capturing higher than 50% vs. Boston. He is by no means carried out 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, except for Recreation 2 the place Martin scored 21 factors on 7/12 from the sphere and 5/6 from three. He at all times 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 received MVP.
In that sequence, Martin averaged 19.3 factors and 6.9 rebounds per recreation on 60% from the sphere and 49% from three. In that years Finals, he averaged 7.4 factors and 4.4 rebounds per recreation on 38% from the sphere 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% in opposition to a workforce within the final two calendar years:
Derrick White vs. the Warmth
Michael Porter Jr vs. the Lakers
Stephen Curry vs. the Thunder
Caleb Martin vs. the Celtics pic.twitter.com/YLevlK7XdD— Automated (@automaticnba) December 26, 2024
There are three elite shooters on this checklist and CALEB MARTIN!
All of those stats make it much more clear how 1 unbelievable all of those video games Martin has in opposition to the Celtics are. But, he simply continues to have them and they’re at all times in opposition to the Celtics.
I don’t assume the Celtics ought to change the way in which they guard Martin both. He isn’t 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.
Nonetheless, that doesn’t imply when he does hit all these threes, we needs to be stunned. He at all times hits these pictures in opposition to the Celtics.
As Joel Embiid stated in his postgame press convention, “he was enjoying in opposition to 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 known 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 believed 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.
