It's Always Sunny In Boston

Game ball goes to Scalabrine for his outstanding defense on Stoudamire. As I said earlier, if you stop Stoudamire, you stop the Suns, and the Cetlics did.

This is probably the best game I’ve seen Scalabrine play as a Celtic.

How the first unit maintained total intensity in the 3rd quarter following a 30 point half time lead. Very impressive, and hard to do.

First group was outstanding, Rondo and Scal especially. Liked Bill Walker’s aggression a bunch off the bench – but the rest of the bench was garbage, especially O’Blount.

Bring me a 5 and a shooter, and we’re ready to take on Cleveland, Orlando and LA.

1st team was dominance tonite. scal = good spacing on o and solid fronting of amare on d. rondo the magnifico. hitting jumpers, setting the pace. bbd good in quarter 2 as was eddie.these type of games are fun to watch because you see team ball, hustle and everyone playing like they mean it. bravo.

…we saw that quietly, Rajon has developed his jump shot. It was there tonight, and deadly. That is a great step forward… if this continues, woe to any team that lays off daring him to shoot. Walker had an excellent game. Got a feeling we’re gonna need him later on. Scal was great on D, but missed every jumper he took. Ugh. POB is… well… still befuddled out there… good on D, but seems to have a short attention span when it comes to protecting the ball. We might be able to win as we are, but it sure would be great to get a reliable big.

Great win. The bench was great during the meaningful playing time. Wish they’d have dominated the garbage time. How badly hurt is Tony Allen? He wasn’t there today and I don’t think he was around for the two games last week.

I realize you probably mentioned trading Perk as a joke, but in truth, I doubt any team would take Perk in a trade given that his shoulder is so delicate it can go out and ruin his career at any moment. For example, if Perk were to take a hit like Elton Brand took to his shoulder, you’d have to say goodbye to Perk FOREVER. Cs seriously need to get a reliable backup big, because Perk is not likely to make it through this season. And it would be hard for them to get through the playoffs with Scal starting against the really big guys, like Z, Bynum, etc…. too much to lay on KG.

Turning points don’t come with big neon signs declaring themselves. You get a game, one game, in which a player suddenly starts doing something he hasn’t done in a long time (or ever). Like when Pierce played those 48 minutes and said he felt great and could have played another 12 (after his hyperbaric chamber, remember?). That was Paul’s turning point, because until that game, he had been pretty lethargic in every game. Or last year, when Ray had his major slump and then all of a sudden, in one game, started hitting again. Turning point. I believe Rondo has been working on his jumper – with lots of help and encouragement from the coaches – and beginning with the 2nd Nets game, he may have taken a leap forward, created a turning point. He has never taken this many jumpers with such confidence. And hit them. All of which is great news for the Cs. Now if we could just get another PJ, we’ll be ready for #18. (Even if we don’t, I think the Cs can win it all. But you can bet that D. Howard will be a lot harder to handle than fat, old, slow Shaq.)

Did anyone hear these comments well? It was something like Thibs was telling KG something about playing Shaq and KG saying something like—-here’s a guy who’s never played in the NBA telling me how to guard this wall. It wasn’t detrimental, just really funny.

sorry if it makes me sound stupid but what does BA mean on the stat sheet?

baby is playing better than leon right now which is why he’s the first big off the bench but these guys seem to go back and forth in terms of who has the better game. I think defenses are keyed more to leon and he sees a lot of double teams whereas baby is never double teamed. I also think that leon still isn’t getting the respect he deserves from the refs. He gets hacked a lot with no calls. He had the one nice 3 pt play in the first half but in garbage time he became a black hole. He needs to pass out of the DT more often and then repost or he needs to get into his move quicker. the one pass by POB to leon was a beauty and it shows that with a high post center leon has more space to operate so perhaps doc ought to play leon and pob together more. I think leon will get his groove back. he was 2-7 tonight but missed a bunch of in close shots. those will fall for him next time. Meanwhile scal is ripping it up as a starter so why should doc mess with that? How about bringin Perk off the bench to anchor the second unit’s defense? it would also give perk more scoring opps.