Road Weary No Longer

Three terrific quarters of basketball. Great defense, energy, ball movement was there. Rebounding on both ends of the floor.

But … we’ve got to quit playing the score, and Rondo’s the biggest culprit of them all. He got lazy with the basketball with the big lead. He’ll learn – and hopefully this will help – that he has to play EVERY possession hard and intelligently with the basketball. He didn’t do that tonight in the second half.

Nice write-up, Roy.

That was probably the best road win of the year. Garnett and Perkins controlled the paint, and Pierce shut Prince down. It was the Pistons who became the jump shooting team tonight.

Having said that, the Pistons will undoubtedly use that little halfcourt zone trap going forward, and the C’s need to be ready for it in game 4.

What was up with them running no offense for Pierce tonight? He was the only one of the big three that shot a good percentage, but only 6 shots? Even Van Gundy and Jackson kept talking about that. They dodged a bullet with avoiding Pierce because you could see he lost his rhythm. Although, KG played well up until the misses at the end. Some of those were brutal.

The bench finally had a game in the playoffs like they had in the regular season. It was a joy to watch.

Great consistent D all around. Keep it up guys!

C’s beat Detroit DOWN with Pierce only scoring 11 points! Doesn’t bode well for Detroit imo.

IMAfan… I thought Pierce got some good looks in the 1st half. Fact is that he didn’t shoot it, and made the extra pass instead (for better or worse) many of them down to Perk. Foul trouble didn’t help matters.

Great game overall.
Side note, I know I am not the only one who hates the way Rip Hamilton plays the game? Dirty, dirty, dirty. And cheap. It’s the only way that little stick figure can play too. Someone needs to knock him out. >:(

all i got to say is KG took it to the paint tonight. its beautiful to watch him go outside AND INSIDE!!!!

Great, great win. Agree on Rip, dirty little SOB. Rondo was good overall but keep remembering he’s still learning his craft, only 2nd year. D was awesome. Not the biggest Perk fan here, but I’ll give him props for last night for sure. Gorman said interesting note last night on post game about how you check barometer of team’s play by how Perk plays. Billups’s got to be hurting, no? Does McDyess ever miss a shot? Could we hope for a Stuckey of our own in this upcoming draft? 76% of time game 3 winner wins series…

Run Hamilton into a Perk pick. Because of the terrible broadcast team I have to turn my sound off to watch the game. But I did turn it up for the Russell/Garnett interview. That was great and I think it showed what KG is really like. Quiet, respectful, maybe shy, appreciative, good sense of humor. He seemed to be in awe of Bill Russell as everyone should be.

agree with all about hamilton. replay every celt that’s been tripped this series and you will find rip’s foot. pierce played so-so—looked tired. he’s had a ton of minutes, but he did not take time off on defense. the detroit trap was effective and rondo seemed oblivious to it. we got some practice coming. if we lose the 4th, everyone will say, well we got the one. nope, let’s put them away and play d.