We Are All Witnesses To The Truth!

I agree about needing something from Ray, but I don’t know if we’re going to get it from the Pistons series. If I remember correctly one of his lowest scoring games of the regular season was against Detroit when he had to chase Rip Hamilton around all the time. I anticipate something more along those lines- low scoring for Ray, but hopefully keeping Rip in check.

Just a classic Celtic performance from the Captain. Offense, Defense, Tommy Point hustle plays – vintage Celtic leadership in a defining game against one of the best.

Here you go illantari.

Here’s Ray stat line for the Dec 19 game (loss on the Billups pump fake)

24 pts, 9-13 shooting, 3-3 from free throw, 5 rebounds, 2 assists

The game your probably referring to is the March 5 game (90-78 win)
3 pts, 1-9 shooting, 1-1 free throws, 8 rebounds, 5 assists

So I guess in answer to your question it could go either way. Though its ironic the loss came with his better performance (statistically).

I watched the last 3 minutes of the game with 200 other Celtics fans crammed in front of the flat screen TV inside the Charlton Plaza rest stop on the Mass Pike. Driving up from a conference in Conn. I listened to the ESPN feed as long as I could, then switched over to Grandy and Max around Springfield. But, I had to watch the end. I’m sure that’s what the other 200 or so people were thinking. The collective roar when Paul Pierce dove for that ball was incredible. As was the giddy laughter when his free throw rattled in after bouncing 5 feet above the rim. I’m sure it’s nothing compared to being in the building, but we all appreciated the folks at McDonald’s allowing us to totally take over their establishment to experience a little taste of Celtics nation.

Thanks for the stats fairweatherfan. The March 5 game was indeed the one I was referring to. While I love Ray and would love to see everyone get off his back, I would still prefer the kind of game he had there and the win that came with.

Ray was around 16-32 from the 3 point line in the first 5 atl games: the celts were 3-2. Since then he is around 6-35 and the celts are 5-4. So I dunno. Bottom line is today PP scored 41 points and forced nothing. If ray goes 17-34 or so from 3 point line within the flow of the game and we play great d that could be a key to victory.

Maybe we should have green shirts like the Nike shirts that cleveland fans wore. Instead it would be green and have witness and Nike logo and last but not least is hard bold letters underneath that says “THE TRUTH”

So tired here in Tel Aviv. Went to sleep at 1:45 AM (7 hour diffeence…) and got up for work.
So worth it :-)

Great game!!!! The one thing Paul did which no one seems to be talking about is “stealing” the jump ball and having the presence of mind to call a time out, that could have made the difference in the game, if it had been an inbounds pass instead of a jump ball it is all everyone would be talking about, the net effect is the same!!!

We played three times, fairweatherfan06 (thanks by the way, good info) has the first and last games. The other game was in the middle, just when Ray came back from injury, he played less minutes, only 28 minutes. Ray had 9 points, 6 rebounds and shot 3-8 from the field including 2-4 from downtown.

I was looking over Ray’s last two seasons against Detroit also just to see how he did when the whole offense/defense was concerned about him. In 06-07 he played one game, shot terribly (29), but did everything else well leading into a big night of 27, 7, 6. The year before he played them twice, shot 45.5, put up 26.5, 6 and 3.5. Looked it up to have a better idea how he does with Rip defending him. Rip’s numbers himself were all around his averages when playing Ray in Boston or Seattle.

Great to see Paul perform like he did on such a big stage. Still believe to this day that his career has been very under-appreciated, but yesterday he showed that he is an upper echelon player that can go toe-to-toe with the best players in the league. We just need him to continue making difficult shots as it is not going to get any easier with Prince draped over him the next series.

Where a single possession can make a game two plays stood out for me in addition to the incredible performance by PJ Brown.
1. I forget when it happened, but it was Eddie House chasing down a loose ball into the Cav’s backcourt, diving for it and then having the presence of mind to get it to Posey who also had the presence of mind to stay in the play and throw up a shot while being fouled.
2. This was mentioned before, but it was PP stealing the tip by diving to the floor and Rondo having the presence of mind to call a time out before a jump ball could be called.

paul certainly stepped up and he needs to stay up because that is the stuff of legends and we need another one. others will pitch in and kg will see to that. in game decisions still have to be made and i hope doc is up to it. sounds like eddie was set up before the last 2 games to play. leon will be needed in this series and i hope doc doesn’t forget him.