Tony had one huge game against Detroit where he scored 23 points.

Outside of that game he’s averaging 6.5ppg in 9 contests.

Looking at the game log his scoring is up and down. Three of those 9 games he had double digit figures scoring 11-14 points, in three games he has between 0-2 points, and in three other games he has 4-8 points.

Seems they’ve only been motivated in games against legitimate postseason opponents cleveland detroit houston and sleepwalked through the rest. That loss in Indiana gave them the little push for their road games and I think this early loss coupled with the near misses this week should give them that extra spark. Now that they’ve learned they can fight their way back from large deficits its time to get to work.

Any team that has decent inside players are going to be able to outwork the dynamic duo that is Davis and Powe. Nene, Balkman, Kleiza all outworked them tonight. Hope Ainge is keeping his phonelines open.

you can’t win them all. denver wanted it more. the c’s put in the effort. that being said, the second team was awful and lost them the game. i like leon who tries hard, but he flat out stank. and he stank the game before, and he has been woeful at the charity stripe. i don’t know if o’bryant has some kind of communicable disease or what, but he needs to be given a shot and not lost on the bench like leon and ryan were in their first years. zippo from tony. zippo from rondo. when perk was not in the game, we got no boards. kg is boarding and playing help d but you’re right ,he’s pop shooting and shying from the hole. it’s only one game, but…

We need to stop playing half the game on the defensive end. This thought that they can just turn it on whenever they want is going to bite them like it did tonight. They need to come out, clamp down on defense, and get a good sized lead. Then when a team makes a run on them it is cutting the lead to 5-10 pts and not pushing theirs up to 10 pts. Good teams won’t let you just come back 3 times like they needed to tonight. At least ones who can score. Remember what got you that championship guys. Hard nosed aggressive D. Stop this nonsense before it becomes a habit.

Look although our starters are solid and probably the best in the league, they are followed by T Allen, House, Powe and Baby. not the best bench in the league with the unnamed gentleman who went to NO gone. We blow key threes tonight. we also mishandle the ball, which we got away with last year frankly.

MAIN ISSUE:without pose, we go to house for outside shooting which pulls out rondo for directing the offense.

repeat: pose gone means house in for offense and no rondo for direction

need an outside shooting big man who can play d.

good luck with that

Not re-signing Posey was a HUGE blunder by Ainge. It is a glaring deficiency with the bench.

is perfect. There will be a lot of over reactions to this ball game.

But your 8-2, you lead your div., and it take some time to jell at the start of the season. keep your chin up C fans. After all you dont win 17 championships by overreacting and panicing. You are a solid team that will jell and defend your crown well.
PS my Hawks lost, and didnt play well against NJ. Hope we havent overachieved, I dont think so, but its hard to believe in the Hawks til we win awhile. Anyway dont panic! The C’s are a class act!

As far as overreacting is concerned I think is justified. From what I can tell looking at the box scores for the 10 games so far is the team always comes out a bit lethargic. So if they don’t get that worked out they will fail miserably in the playoffs that is assuming they make it. TA, yes, I was a huge supporter of his coming into the season and although there is a lot of basketball to be played he is proving me wrong so far. Rondo flat out cannot shoot, his floater is ineffective 90% of the time and he misses a staggering 75% of his layups! Yes, he steals the ball and has huge hands to help create other intangibles. How long can this help them win for though? Obviously against C. Billups (Denver is now a playoff contender) not very long! He(Rondo) has got to become a better FT shooter (52.5%) in order to manufacture points. In my opinion, Maybe P OBryant needs so more time but I might now try Walker off the bench. If anything for a spark and to lite a fire under TA’s butt. I also agree with people regarding Pruitt. He can shoot far better then Rondo and he is athletic as well. Mayo and Pruitt were supposed to be one of the best back courts in all of College basketball a couple years back at USC. This is not to say Pruitt will become starter but we need help off the bench or so it seems. Dubai is 9 hours ahead so I wake up to these results it kinda sucks!

As always thanks for the info!

Is it lethargic or is the other team extremely ‘up’ to beat the champs? I think it they look lethargic because of the other team is so energized. I suppose the C’s could match that level but every night? I think it is important they don’t wear down come late in the season and the playoffs. The Big 3 is not getting any younger.

Does anyone know why Bill Walker was not on the bench last night ? Has Patrick O’Bryant played well enough to beat out Walker, or is he injured ?

it isn’t just this game- it’s all the games this season where we’ve fallen behind and had to spend an incredible amount of energy to catch up. sooner or later that’s going to cost you games and it did tonight. clearly the bench is a big issue. we are small and we lack outside shooting. Powe, Baby etc do a good job considering that they are undersized and weren’t first round picks. sooner or later though that is going to catch up to you and it happened tonight. add to that the fact that 2/5 of our starting lineup can’t or won’t score and the fact that garnett has not post presence and you can see why teams are getting out to big leads on us. we need more talent pure and simple. danny made a huge mistake not signing posey and not finding a replacement for PJ. If McDyess was watching last night he sure as hell is not coming here especially after the pistons beat the lakers in LA. Why not start tony and make ray 6th man?

Powe and Baby cannot play together and Tony cannot play at all….Walker and Eddie can fill in for Allen/POsey for now….and Joe Smith is a younger,more athletic PJ…we need 2 more guys by April

The difference in the game was that Perkins did a bad job of staying low and guarding Nene and Kenyon Martin off the dribble. Now seriously, who would game plan on having to guard those two on dribble drives? My guess is, the Nuggets didn’t plan to try that option. It simply worked the first time they tried it, and they went back to it repeatedly after that.

If we played them again, Coach Ray would have Perkins all set to do what needs to be done. We know Perkins can stay low when he’s focused on it. And maybe O’Bryant would get a serious chance to see if he could help out. So I’m not greatly troubled.