Celts Declaw Cats

I don’t think I’ve ever seen more blown fast break opportunities in my life.

yeah, they wob,but doc coached a putrid game. perk was having one of his better games and doc keeps him on the bench for the majority of the 4th quarter , bringing him in with 2 minutes to play after the cats wittled the lead down. meanwhile we play small ball and hang around for 3’s, and let the cats smashmouth in for boards and easy put backs. stupid doc— stupid. is this what you’re getting the team ready to do in the playoffs? small ball, hang around the outside and let garnett get swarmed on his 18 footers with no one down low to rebound. don’t blame the players- the coach sucked. it was good ball when perk was playing ,or when powe was in and we had a down low presence.

while i’m steamed at doc, even though we were winning like crazy, where the heck was powe in the beginning of the season and why the heck was scalabrine consuming his minutes. and as well as rondo played tonight, why was he standing around taking jump shots at the end of the game?

The Celtics were just bad. Had they been playing a good team, or even a bad team on the road, they would have lost by double digits. They made mistake after mistake after mistake.

Charlotte does seem to match up well with the C’s and Richardson just about owns Pierce. Can’t blame Doc too much on Perkins. It’s not as if the big lug can be counted upon to do much positive.

Nevertheless, a win is a win (except when you lose a player to injury), so the C’s got the W and everyone gets to play another night. It almost seemed as if the Celtics were trying to keep it close. Better check the betting action.

Brick, it could also be said the Celtics would have played better in a game against a good team. I hate when this kind of thing is brought up ‘if they would have played a good team th y would have lost by double digits’ How many times have the Celtics done that this year? Once. Against the Bobcats.

I was watching Perk closely last nite. Some here and in the media seemed concerned about his lack of rebounds. Last nite, and I think this happens every nite, he is usually out of position to rebound. The reason, in my opinion, is that he’s playing help defense sometimes out to the foul line extended. He stopped alot of plays last nite when guys got away from their own defenders. Often he just doesn’t have the time to get back to rebounding. Also, with Charlotte shooting so many three’s many rebounds go long. He did get a big offensive rebound at the end of the game though. I also think he’s the one that poked a ball away late which led to an important bucket.

Sometimes you just don’t have a good night! Sometimes a poor team just matches up well against you. A championship team overcomes that and wins anyway. Even if it is ugly…

Come on guys, we are complaining about a win!! We are 45-12 and on pace to win 60 games. Sometimes I think people just want to whine about something…

Brick have the Celtics ever won this year and you been happy with it? :D

Goals for next 25 games:
1. Incorportate PJ and Sam into the rotations.
2. Pollard and Pruitt are deactivated, Pruitt sent to NBDL one
   more time.
3. Scalabrine becomes chief bench cheerleader, will see playing
   time only when up by 25 with less than 2 minutes to play.
4. End regular season with best record in East.
5. Limit Big 3’s minutes to 30-35 mpg.
6. Work on game end situations in practice.
7. Play with intensity and emotion, knowing that it will be time
   to shift into another gear post regular season.

I was a bit concerned about Cassell coming here and messing up chemistry. Some of the Boston talk show stuff and Mike and Tommy basically said there isn’t enough time for him to do that. Also, they said Danny Ainge talked to Rondo about it and Rondo is okay with it. That’s the way to be a GM. The only thing is Sam may not be here too long because Rondo said he’s going to get him back at practice.

halfman/halfoyster, as to Scals, he’ll probably be on the inactive list with Pruitt and Pollard. I can’t see inactivating Powe and BBD.

I’m happy when they play good basketball, Frankly, I haven’t seen them play a really good game since Garnett came back from his injury. They are out of sync. Garnett still looks rusty and Pierce looks tired. PP is playing at half speed out there and settling for jump shots.

Brick, I agree that the Cs haven’t been playing at full efficiency, but did you happen to watch the last half of the win at Portland?

That was the only sustained stint since the all star game where the Cs looked like they did during the 29-3 run. As KG gets healthier and Sam gets integrated into the team, I expcet the Cs to play that commanding style of basketball heading into the playoffs.

Anyone know why tony did not play?

And yet we are still 45-12 and winning. Stop complaining!

What a mystery to us basketball ’’experts’’ about why a team can’t re-insert one of their key players who has been injured and rusty and not automatically be in perfect form. Do you honestly think think that anyone out there doesn’t realize we need to get better by playoffs? You’re the only one who sees that we aren’t playing perfect basketball? We ARE however getting better as a team and should be able to get on a roll and peak around playoff time.

Stop dragging down everyone who would like to enjoy this run at a title. I guess misery does indeed love company, but many of us would like to have SOME positives in the posts.

Bidder225 said:
  Anyone know why tony did not play?

Thigh injury and flu.

Brickowski said:
  I’m happy when they play good basketball, Frankly, I haven’t seen them play a really good game since Garnett came back from his injury. They are out of sync. Garnett still looks rusty and Pierce looks tired. PP is playing at half speed out there and settling for jump shots.

I think KG also has been playing with the flu the last 2 games. Last game Tommy noted he wasn’t sweating as he usually does (dehydrated). PP hasn’t looked right to me either. He could be sick or hurt. For awhile against the Bobcats they were playing great. Offensively the ball was really moving. Unfortunately they didn’t keep it up for 48 minutes. I think we will see them play better against the better teams. Wed. will be interesting.

What a blowhard.