We’re daring the other team’s non-stars to beat us, and they are.

The problem is other teams are daring our non-stars to beat them, and they can’t.

Let’s give Tony Allen some burn, come on Doc!

This is why I was not thrilled with the Cassell signing. Why did he get so many minutes in the 4th quarter? House is a better option for us against the Cavs, but he’s hardly played the last month (thanks Doc).

I’m not surprised by the lack of offense. It’s been our weakness all season. Lack of inside scoring hurts come playoff time.

What puts me into an absolute panic is the though of losing the series and then keeping Rivers. If losing is what it takes to get rid of him, I’m fine with that.

I’m pretty sure Doc CAN’T handle this. I don’t even recognize this team right now.

That three all world players do you speak off? I see three all-star players coming up short. I also see one super-star playing doing everything he needs to do to lead his time to victory.

LeBron is out the box right now it’s going to be hard to stop the Mamba Killer.

Wouldn’t it be easier for you to just recycle your posts from the other four away game losses? It’s the same old song. Wake me when the Cs lose a home game. 16 and 12, baby.

The Cs won 66 games with House as the backup PG. Him not playing is what will send Doc out of town.* You cannot drop off
him to help on someone else. He also pushes the ball up the court much faster than Cassell. The Cs cannot win playing at
a pace that only nets them point totals in the 80s. They HAVE
to get easy baskets in transition against a very good Cle D.
The Cs should be running Ilgauskas until his tongue is hanging out. One of the “hallmarks” of the Rivers era is the certainty
that the closer the score going down the stretch in games the
slower the Cs play. This is madness.

• a reasonable consolation prize.

When LeBron came slashing down the lane for that hammer dunk,
why didn’t the Defensive Player of the Year at least attempt to
block the shot?

House should be in there more. This team did a lot of damage during the season from three land with Allen, Pierce, Posey and House. Now we can’t due to various reasons and situations. Doc, Eddie is waiting for your call?? I think Garnett is playing very well, giving his all. He can only do so much. Pierce and Ray-Ray have to step up.

No panic yet…that will set in if they lose tomorrow night.

I am with most people, not sure where this team came from, so odd rotations. Also, the seem hesitant on offense, lots of standing around, nobody driving to the hoop to force the action. KG should not be getting the ball 17 ft from the basket…the offense starts with KG on the block and 4 guys cutting and moving…not seeing any of that!

One big point everyone is ignoring is the Celtics OVERreliance on their defense.

Here’s the problem: The Cavs a re a very limited offensive team to begin with. As a result, they know how to win low-scoring games.

The Celtics, on the other hand, averaged 100 points during the regular season. They need to put points on the board to win. And they haven’t been doing that on the road.

77 points isn’t going to get it done. They can’t rely on defense to get them through. They need to score the ball, period.

All I want is the Celtics All-Star player to start playing like Super-Stars. Maybe they just can’t do it, maybe there is a reason behind them not winning anything. They can go out and play very well tomorrow but they have to prove it to me on the road.

Cousin It the Cav’s are not a limited offensive team when they’ve won 2 against the league’s best record with their star off his game. I give some credit to Pierce and Posey for LeBron being off but the Cav’s found the open man better than we did and had more easy baskets too.
Either their defense is terrific or our guys have run out of gas. No easy baskets for us.

Perk has played the worst out in Cleveland. He has heart but his slowness is hurting.

Of course I hope that they get their act together in the Garden but they were flat out outplayed in a key 4th Qtr and we had no one in foul trouble.

It is not looking good. Hope I’m wrong

My heart says they can pull it off, but my head says no way. LeBron hasn’t even played the game we know he’s capable of playing. If he does, watch out.

Doc is just not capable. It’s frustrating to see the best team we’ve had in years in the palm of some fool’s hand.

Before the playoffs started I predicted that the Cs were not going to win a championship. The NBA is a weird game. You can’t go from being garbage to a champion in one season. It just doesn’t happen. It usually takes a couple of consecutive appearances in the playoffs to eventually win in the Finals. That said, had we a first-tier coach, we wouldn’t be looking this bad. Doc is over his head. Anybody who can justify those substitutions last night is crazy.

BTW, that mammoth Lebron dunk was aided by a serious moving pick. PP played his ass off defensively last night.

There’s no need to fear PJ Brown is here!

Nobody’s really sure that Doc can handle this.

Enough us are sure that he can’t, though.

i just looked at the playoff stats and eddie house is 1-12. i was all over that bandwagon for letting him play but after i saw that it changed my mind some. i do agree something needs to change. shoot…cassell can go 1-12 in one game! might as well give it a shot i guess…something needs to be done.

At least we can say the refs aren’t making or breaking games for either team. In fact, I would say that the referees are doing a heck of a job in this one.
On a side note, I am not going to watch another road game live. I will DVR it, check the score, and if we lose, delete it. I simply can’t take watching a team I hardly recognize play that poorly.

lebron has not played well but has done what is necessary and is energized and has played good d himself. when he or if he hits his stride—ouch.

A few points about this frustrating road loss:

1. The rotation is not to blame. The same rotation has produced wins at home.

2. It seems odd to blame Doc for playing Cassell and Brown when his boss is the one who disrupted the chemistry of this team by bringing them in to lay the exact roles that Doc has been allowing them to play. If anyone is to blame it’s Danny for not trusting in the roster that he put together.

3. What happened to the old Paul Pierce coming across the lane play, with Garnett passing him the ball from the high post (a la Antoine Walker)? We seemed to use it to great effect early in the year, but now Paul is getting the ball in an iso position on the wings about 17-20 feet out which allows the Cavs to double him easily.

4. Credit LeBron and Mike Brown for making the adjustment to the Celtics defensive rotations. The Cs always leave the weakside shooter open; it’s just that LeBron makes that cross-court pass so accurately and so hard that we can’t get there in time. I’m not sure what you can do about that if you’re the Celtics. That’s the pass you want teams to have to make because it often leads to a turnover. With LeBron making the pass, ans the Cavs shooters being this hot, I don’t know if there’s a way to stop it. The only option is to play him straight up, which would put way to much pressure on our interior guys to help on the inevitable drive as he blows by that first defender. And please don’t try to convince me that Tony Allen could play him one on one. That’s a joke.

5. As long as Rondo cannot make a 15 foot jump shot, good defensive teams like the Cavs will be able to shut our offense down. Sad to say it, but we all saw this coming all year. Every couple of games, Rondo makes a few and forces the defense to cover him. But, for the most part, he’s not confident enough to take that shot in big moments. There’s nothing Doc can do about that. Only another off-season of improvement by Rondo will fix it. And he’s shown that he can really improve; so that’s encouraging…for next year.

6. Where is Ray Allen? Is it just me or does he also look a step slow? Injury perhaps?

6. Where is Ray Allen? Is it just me or does he also look a step slow? Injury perhaps?

Have you paid attention all season? He’s been a step slow the whole year. Yet we continue to let him handle the ball in pick and roll/pop situations, where the defense ALWAYS forces him way out to near half court. Every time, without fail.