Game 6 Thoughts

We have GOT to get better minutes at the 5.

How about POWE.

We are down by 8 rebounds. Guess what the team who controls the boards wins the game.
Wake up Doc or you will back on TNT.

doc is pathetic.

start these 5 in the second half..

pg – rondo
sg – house
sf – pierce
pf – posey
c – garnett

put posey on lebron and let pierce guard wallace. wallace just stands there on the offensive side so pierce will be able to rest.

our offense is sucking because the cavs are big clogging the middle. play small and spread there asses out.

of course, this won’t happen because doc will stick with ray allen even if he goes 0-40 and is getting schooled by wally.

Rondo has been as bad tonight as he was good Wednesday night.

its horrible. i cant explain these home / road splits.

is powe injured?

Eddie played well tonight. I wanted him to be the backup point for the playoffs but since he was sitting so long without competitive minutes – 29 days – I was very worried about his first game if put back in the rotation. He did great tonight though, he should be the backup point the rest of the playoffs.

we lose on the road / win at home cause Ray Allen is MIA this whole series/playoffs and Rondo is MIA on the road. Wally and west hit their shots at home but clank on the road so we can live with Ray-Ray being horrible at home. But not in Cleveland. And we have got to get better size for next season. perkins is horrible, he’s a back up. on the road offensively we are playing 2 or 3 vs 5 offensively. of course we’re only going to score 70 pts.

Eddie should play with Rondo some instead of Ray-ray. we need the House money.

Very disappointing game from the Celtics.

Rondo was awful. Lack of penetration, lack of ball movement, lack of scoring threat, lack of involvement and average defense. This was easily his worst game but this has been for the most part a poor series from Rondo. His poor play forced Doc to look to his bench for the fourth time in five games. Rondo has got to do better.

Pierce worked his socks off tonight on both ends. Offensively it was tough but at least he tried to attack the rim tonight.

KG was solid. Ray was a non-factor. Glen Davis was good in the second quarter but god-awful in the fourth and cost the team big. Bad call by Doc leaving him in so long. Perk wasn’t much, his silly fouls cost the team. Posey was grand but didn’t have as much of an impact as earlier in the series. PJ was fine.

why do we lose? easy, the nba won’t let lebron lose. i called it before the playoffs began. the nba has already crowned lebron king. why make him play at all? just give him the trophy and let him shoot commercials instead of free throws. it is going to hurt Cleveland fans bad when LeBron sells out in a few years to go to the nets.

The Cavs deserved their free throw advantage. They attacked the paint harder than the Celtics.

LeBron James had more FTs than the C’s because he put more pressure on the Celtics defense and drew more fouls than all Celtics. Then their cutters and big men went inside off of James’ feeds.

The Celtics didn’t have much in the paint. Pierce had a few drives but was defended very well for the most part. Rondo didn’t penetrate. Ray didn’t penetrate. Eddie didn’t penetrate. Posey didn’t penetrate. Perk did what he normally does. Garnett avoided contact and took a lot of jump shots. Glen Davis was the single most aggressive Celtics in the paint but his shot is easy to block and Cleveland did a good job of stopping him down there.

The Celtics didn’t deserve more FTs. The Cavs deserved a very large advantage in FTs.

At this point, I’m having serious doubts about the Celtics and “number 17”. There’s certainly enough blame to go around. Doc’s coaching is questionable at best, Ray is no-show in the playoffs, and with the exception of a couple games, so has Rondo. I know it’s a Eddie House lovefest around here, but Sam needs more minutes. He’s just too proven of a player over the years (especially playoffs) to discard for some poor shooting. When he nailed two threes and basically saved the win in game 1, it wasn’t a fluke; he’s been doing that stuff since his Milwaukee days. Maybe Eddie and Sam combo? I don’t know.

I saw Ray-KG-Pierce-Rajon-Davis on the court in the fourth and Boston has Rajon drive and force a tough pass to Davis which he can’t control and it’s a turnover. That’s what we get with those 5 guys on the court? It’s mind boggling sometimes. KG is the only one who has shown up in this series.

If they manage to face Detroit, I think it’s lights out for Boston. Call it a Piston-Lakers final, or maybe Pistons-Hornets.

Lebron had more FT’s than the Celtics because he’s Lebron James.

The Celtics are finished. D-O-N-E. They were due to win a road game just like they’re due to lose a home game but they just couldn’t do it. If you like money, do yourself a favor. Bet a good portion of it on the Cavs. And if you like great upsets and historical basketball moments, set your VCR to record game 7. Lebron IS going to do something special. write it down and don’t say I told you so.

This whole season has been the biggest dingaling tease.

Lebron James in post game press conference: “Lebron James gets fouled all game long. Take away Lebron’s free throws and he’s just… Paul Pierce.”

Oh please, the Cavs didn’t deserve that big of a free throw edge. Tons of those free throws came on non-shooting touch fouls and they got free throws because the Celtics were in the penalty all game for…non-shooting touch fouls.

The C’s went into the paint alot but did not get nearly the calls Lebron got—by himself. What would Lebron do without the calls?

Typical Boston fans. It’s sad.. really.

Since when has Pierce been switched over to point guard? He must have taken the ball up the full length of the court more than three times in the second half, and he slows the pace of the game down like Cassell. Get in the box where you belong Paul!

WHERE WAS POWE?!! Doc finally wakes up that we have an instant offense player in Eddie House, then forgets we have an equally dominant rebounder in Leon Powe. Doc’s rotations make absolutely no sense at any time.

I don’t like to say this but the ref’s were absolutely horrible yesterday.

9:02 in the 2nd BOS 25 CLE 19
0:09 in the 2nd BOS 33 CLE 39

In those 9 minutes 10 fouls to 1. They put the cavs in the match. And of course, they save them at the end with that ridiculous foul on pierce.

I think the replay showed that wasn’t a goaltend — the ball actually hit the side of the backboard.

Careful about game 7 predictions for the Cavs. We looked worse in Cleveland before heading into game 5 and we pulled it out. I think Pierce might have another big scoring game in him.

I wandered into this blog yesterday. I’m happy to join in the venting. So please bear with me.

It’s hard not to come up with a conspiracy theory with that obscene charging call and the free throw disparity. This is a game where the Celtics actually went into the paint. For one player to have more free throws than our entire team is as obscene as that charging call.

It’s almost like the NBA has sent a directive to NBALP, TNT, and ESPN when every broadcaster is practically wetting their pants at the mention of of the messiah’s name.

The rebounding disparity seems simple to me. The defense in the playoffs is looking more and more like that “defense” that worked so well for Doc during the glory days of 2005-2007. Perk is picking up silly fouls because he is defending (well, sort of) above the 3 point line. Unless Perk is trying to get rebounding position for half-court shots, I don’t know how he can rebound from out there. Garnett just plays out there anyway. Against one of the best rebounding teams in the NBA, the two best rebounders probably belong in the paint, Doc.

This is a game that would fit in perfect on ESPN classic sandwiched between AWA Championship Wrestling and olympic figure skating.

if anybody doesnt think the refs ever change the outcome of a game should review this one. Dick Bevetta lost all the respect he once had as an official with the calls he and his crew made last night. it was a truly a shame that the fans have to be put through this (and the players). I still don’t understand why doc doesnt get at least one Tech. he needs ride the refs the whole game or they will continue to screw the C’s.

Funny, I thought we might be on an even playing field when I saw Bavetta was one of the refs last night. Little did I know! as far as the rebounding goes, the Cavs have guys out on the perimeter blitzing the pick and roll very well and are not getting killed on the glass. I believe we have won three rebound battles in the three wins. garnett must be doing something right on the glass. Perk, I will grant you, frustrates me no end.