The Key to Stopping the Skid: Defense

Maybe it would help if Perkins started playing basketball. He’s the one who blew the rotations in the Golden State game. Biedrins made him look like a complete chump.

They really have to start using BBD more and Perkins less. Perkins has had some good games, but he’s had way too many bad ones recently, even before he hurt his shoulder.

perk didnt play alot of minutes against G-state, and the only time the looked solid was when he was in.

Biedrins majority of easy baskets came against the kg and the shorties lineup when davis was just throwing the ball into the post high, so that powe and davis couldn’t match up with his hieght.

anyway, good to see the boys are aware of the problem, now to see wheather they can find the solution against the former fastest show on the hardwood. (former only because shaq slows them down.)

The reason Perkins played so few minutes is that he was stinking it up. He stank in the Denver game too. The Celtics are a better team with Glenn Davis on the floor.

In fact, generally speaking, I thought the bench clearly outplayed the starters in the last two games, largely due to Tony Allen’s stellar play.

It will be interesting to see hack-a-Shaq in action tonight. Pollard has been resting for months to prepare himself for games like this.

I think the Celts will lose in the ECF to Detroit I think the moves the West has made clearly makes the NBA finals favorites. LA, and Phoenix in my opinion are the two best teams.

Perk needs to come off the bench. We have a pick in this years draft? If so we need a center who can at least provide some offense.

they clearly were not ready for the fast west, especially with the rust and physical accomodations that kg is making to play. in points on the floor, they were a plus when perk was on the floor. i agree tho, that big baby has shown the quicker feet on d. and also big baby pollard gets his 5 mins. of fame against shaq. foul away great white shadow.

ChiefDK – Perk hasn’t been killing us lately with that, because he has been doing that his whole career. That isn’t the difference in us winning or losing because we were doing just fine earlier in the year.

The reason that we are not playing as well is defensively we have stopped rebounding the ball like we were, and we have stopped being as agressive rotating to the open man on defense. This results in more shots from offensive rebounds, and better shots being more wide open.

I also think we aren’t passing the ball quite as well as before, but that is a tiny issue.

You have to get back on defense quickly against teams like Denver and GS. Phoenix presents similar problems. It will be
interesting to see Shaq with his new team. I suspect the problems on defense have something to do with the layoff
at the All Star break. As KG gets back into game shape and back in the defensive rotations I think the D will improve.

i love thos whole thread. 2 losses 2 2 very good teams on thier home floor by 8 points in total and suddenly were an average eastern conferance team at best.

ya’ll crack me up.

I agree people are getting carried away with the problems we have had, but since our big win in Detroit we are 12-8. We have only had 5 of those being double digit wins. We are losing the close games and letting teams back into games. Almost all of our wins earlier in the year were double digit wins or blowouts. We were winning most of the close ones too. The sky isn’t falling, but we sure aren’t the team we were earlier in the year.

not, we are the same team, but now people have scouted us.

we were virtual unknown the first month and a half of the season, no one knew what we would play, how rondo would do, if they’d gel ect.

its not like other teams don’t watch game film you know.

Agreed, but if we were rebounding like we were, and as aggressive with our rotations like we used to be, it wouldn’t matter. Teams consistently can not shut us down offensively. Our defensive fire and hustle is not at the same level.