Giant Killers No More
by Jeff Clark on Dec 7, 2008 8:57 PM EST
in Boston Celtics Games
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Big OT win over a team that has made a habit of taking down giants.
| Boston | |||||||||||||||
| Starters | Min | FG | 3Pt | FT | +/- | Off | Reb | Ast | TO | Stl | BS | BA | PF | Pts | |
| R. Allen | G | 41:00 | 13-21 | 7-12 | 2-2 | +11 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 35 |
| R. Rondo | G | 36:04 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 1-2 | +3 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| K. Perkins | C | 37:56 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 5-10 | +9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| P. Pierce | F | 43:42 | 4-12 | 2-5 | 7-8 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 17 |
| K. Garnett | F | 42:29 | 6-11 | 0-0 | 5-6 | +14 | 1 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 17 |
| Bench | Min | FG | 3Pt | FT | +/- | Off | Reb | Ast | TO | Stl | BS | BA | PF | Pts | |
| T. Allen | 19:51 | 5-10 | 0-2 | 2-2 | -7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12 | |
| E. House | 17:35 | 5-8 | 3-5 | 2-2 | +2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| G. Davis | 12:28 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| L. Powe | 11:13 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 | -7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |
| B. Scalabrine | 2:39 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | +4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Totals | 42-84 | 13-25 | 25-33 | 8 | 44 | 25 | 15 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 27 | 122 | |||
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Ugly Win
But who cares!! Defense was awful, points in the paint way down. Won it anyway. You’re gonna have these during the course of a long season (and long winning streak). The truly great teams still find a way to get it done. Kudos to the Pacers, they played hard. Just not quite enough to do it again.
- JoeB
Another big win..
But i dont like how Rondo play this one. he is so cold on the floor.
Almost lost this one, thanx for the heroics of PP and RA, big shots
from dying seconds.
Another 1 bite the dust!! Go…….
P.S. – KG seems quite tonight (no taunting) but nice to watch..
20 big rebounds….Mental toughnes won this game..
Ray is the Silent Assasin on the floor.. Always wonderful to watch, just caught early on foul trouble.
What Doc Rivers is doing? He put Scalabrine on that overtime? Leon Powe or Tony Allen must be better (imo).
Great play by Pacers- theyre so lucky on every position, almost not missing every shot.
I disagree
I think Doc made the right decision by putting Scal on the floor. Scal is one of the smartest basketball players on the team. He made a dumb mistake tonight, but is a lot less prone to these dumb mistakes then Tony and Powe.
RayRayRay
Cold-blooded. Geez, he’s on fire. Good gutty win over a good team. Obie has the Pacers playing good D and they’re deadly from long range. Granger had a great all around game.
The C’s showed some mental toughness gutting this one out.
Just watched on my DVR....
….which cut off with the Celts down 1pt after Perk missed both FTs with 22seconds to go. I don’t know if I’d be more mad if we lost, or that I missed the PP shot and OT.
From what I did see…
Paul was very flat.
If Ray wasn’t on fire, we would have been destroyed. Eddie too actually.
The defense was lackluster.
When Perk was asked what he thought of Howard winning the gold medal this summer, he responded: "What’s his impression of me after I won a ring?"
good old ray was really good. he won this one and kg ate up the boards. we were outplayed most of the night and the experienced players knew what to do to win. too many minutes for the starters and the 2nd team is looking vulnerable. eddie plays great but he can’t penetrate. try pruitt with eddie the shooting guard and tony the small 3. even tho pp made that 3 to save the tie, he’s looked tired or disinterested.
This is like 4-5 bad games in a row from Pierce. He hit the big shot at the end of regulation, but otherwise played poorly. He looks like he’s going at half speed and I think he may be hurting.
Thank goodness they have three days off.
Days off
Yeah, I really hope the time off will help Paul. I still have confidence in him, especially because there’s a lot more to his game than just shooting and scoring. Good to see him hit the game-tying three after that hussle rebound by Eddie.
If I were a huge pessimist, I would be worried right now about the prospects of a Ray shooting slump. If that were to happen, we might really struggle. But I still think we have so many weapons that we can afford for guys to go off and on during the season – if Ray started to cool off, I’m sure Paul would step it up. Of course, the way Ray’s going now it doesn’t look like he’s going to cool down anytime soon.
great team work at the end
house chasing down that rebound pierce with that clutch shot kg getting the rebound at the other end i’m so glad they pulled this one out it so noone would blame themselves for making a mistake in the final minutes of regulation ray allen was an assassin all night and that dagger three at the end was amazing hope they gets lots of rest and come out swinging against the wizards
Good to see...
Perk playing more than 30 minutes.
by The Real Large James 2 on Dec 8, 2008 12:05 AM EST reply actions
They didn't play their best but, they give up.
There was a point last night right after Perkins and Pierce combined to miss 3 of 4 FTs and Jack made all 4 that I thought well that’s it let it go and live to fight another day. Then of course Paul who’s been struggling drilled the 3 to tie it and send it into OT. 20-2 and with more offensive firepower.
Tony Allen > Dearly departed JP
20-2 and room to improve
great news,we can get much better…Eddie is better as a shooter….TA is better taking bigger 3’s off the dribble….so let’s get a point and make that happen….then get a tall guy with long arms…we need 2 pieces and have 4 months to get’m….for 35mins a nite the starters are much better than last year
Perk's Free Throws
My Doctor’s have refused to let me watch Perk shoot free throws.
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