Did they get a stop the entire 2nd half?

Scal played best defense. What’s going on?

things are going bad when you think Scal played a better game than most C’s today

and they say the stars come out in NY? i guess kg and ray forgot about that…good job pierce, you were the only celtic that made me proud tonight…and speaking of scal, how many times did pierce find him wide open for a knock down 3? those were poseys shots….

Doc back to his crazy rotations. Kg will never be physical enough to make up for small ball. house not having a decent run in awhile. Tony is playing as bad as ever. Rajon has no jumper still. we have no one to stretch the defense
our best news today? big Z is out for probably 6 weeks. I know that’s awful i am just telling you its a fact. we again blew a chance to gain a game on cle but cle is down a key man for awhile…we have, HAVE to have home court
And we don’t allow trolls here right???? just asking

As bad as it is nothing has changed: we need a big man. we need a shooter, preferrably a big guard or taller

Hard for me to write this, but at the present time, this is not a very good team. Have lost four out of the last 6, two of those against pretty bad teams, including the two worst defensive teams in the NBA. Not time to overreact, but something has got to change.

The Celtics looked old and slow. Terrible effort. Bech played well, though. It was the starters who sucked.

where the team ate dinner last night? maybe they were poisoned???

kg and perk took way too long to do anything once they got the ball down low. eddie was on the floor way too long because he was doing diddly on o and his man was beating him off the dribble. tony looked like he was lost. they have some hurt bodies and egos and the knicks wanted it more and doc was outcoached. powe and baby should have plaayed more and yes scal played well but he has big holes on offense when he’s out there too long.hope kg is ok- he looked cooked and that leg/ankle looked cooked as well.pp is the gamer on this team and he’s not getting much help.

Just got home from the game, I did not recognize this team as the one that terrorized the league for the first quarter of the season. They did look old and slow, maybe one fast break attempt all night. No pride on defense. The Knicks wanted it more, played better ball than us and were in control for the entire game.

Maybe I missed something live, but keeping Rondo and Perk on the bench for last quarter was killing me. Scal was not horrible, but House was and they did not spread the floor as I assume was intended. It just reeked of Doc trying to play on the Knicks terms instead of forcing our own style of ball.

Vintage Pierce, though he never took over the game at any point. And Lee outplayed Garnett. I will not panic, but patiently await them to wake up and start playing with Celtic pride again. But a bummer of a game to go to I’ll tell you that much.

Knicks played tough D, but…

Rondo must attack attack attack— they shadowed him on his probes under the basket… then he gave up attacking.

Doc: no adjustment re Jeffries guarding Rondo— just clear out and have Rondo attack! in 3rd knicks getting all the hustle rebounds, until we insert our hustle rebounder, Mr. Powe, who starts cleaning up. So why Scal over Powe in the 4th? Also, needs to rest Ray & PP earlier, get a consistent rotation… but that’s old news.

When will Perk learn to keep the ball up & not to dribble when he’s wide open under the basket? and why can’t he hustle for rebounds? He could get hands on half the rebounds he gives up on. We need a consistent Perk.

Ray struggled… Garnett struggled… but as a 7 footer, just turn and shoot j’s all night… no need to dream-shake Lee, just turn and shoot… Sometimes there’s too much game in KG’s game…

T.A.— I’ve been a card-carrying member of the fan club since that stretch before the blown knee against Indiana, but he’s lost his mojo. Anyone else ready for the Bill Walker era?

Despite the point differential in the last game with the Knicks I was very worried about this game. Lately the Celtics have been making the physical effort but not the mental effort. It takes a mental commitment, especially for the Celtics, to play defense against teams like Golden State and the Knicks. The Celtics certainly got screwed by the officiating on their West Coast swing but they didn’t tonight. The Knicks employed a modified Tortoise versus the Hare strategy and the Celtics fell far it — again! In the last Knicks game they turned up the defense and the Knicks faded. It didn’t work tonight, they kept right on going. If the Celtics force the Knicks into their game they win, The Knicks were playing at home and chumped the Celtics into playing their style until it was too late for the Celtics to force a change. The lack of mental commitment by all the starters is noticeable. The reduction of their lead just before half time was clear evidence that they were not making the necessary mental effort. Their unforced turnover rate continues to be a sympton of lack of mental effort. Tonight Rondo kept trying to force passes that weren’t there and not taking the shots that were. Quite frankly I thought Scal played the most consistent defense of any of the Celtics. Harrington missed a lot more shots with Scal guarding him than KG.

scal is scal— let’s not get too gigged up

i know why eddie house was out there so long in the 4th, but… where was eddie house in the 4th?

so why we’re at it… yeah, FREE GABE!

Oh god, to make it worse, the Knicks had lost 8 games in a row!!!! pathetic

They won it last year. mentally, thats enough for the veterans, except for Paul. We dont have as good a team as we had last year and a lot of teams are a lot better than last year. Last year we surprised even ourselves and that momentum carried us all the way. This year, well, blah! if we win it fine, but we dont want it as bad and it will show at crunch time unless Doc finds himself again and we get some new players. We didnt want Possey bad enough and it will show in the Playoffs. The owners know that and if the owners knew it and didnt care, why should all the players care? Its a domino effect. The proof is in the pudding and the pudding we are preparing does not have the same quality engredients as last year. Thas all. No surprises here, really. Enjoy the season cause we will win more games tahn we will lose. Another Flag? No creo.

I hate to say this…but the Celtics seem to have gone south after Christmas day. They are playing physical, but they don’t seem focused. This isn’t only the players, but right up to Doc aswell.

Anyone else think that the loss in LA has anything to do with what’s happening here?

I was at the game. Putting Harrington on Rondo totally confused the Celtics in the 2nd half, and seemed to limit him to a jump shooter, which is usually bad for us. Garnett looked exhausted after the fourth quarter, and we seemed to play better tonight when he was not in the lineup. I don’t understand why Doc took Powe out in the 4th quarter. He was the only player besides PIerce with any energy in the 2nd half. It was a big disappointment to see our team look very ordinary tonight.

I hear you, Birdnerd. I got my tix as a birthday gift from my wife, and they were very expensive seats. Happy birthday, huh?

Havent exactly been playing well, and I’m not at all mad at them for it, because both of them played out of their heads the entire season leading up to this stretch.. but its kinda exposed the big 3, and the fact that they havent been all that great this season, Ray Allen may be playing better and more effiecently than last year (not tonight) but big deal, this team is gonna live and die with PP and KG, and these 2 guys have not a had that great of a year, Pierce is starting to get it going, but nagging knee injuries are hurting him defensivly and hes shooting an abysmal fg% for the season, KG is far more concerning, hes truly a unique player to say the least, but right now hes more talk and cheap shots than he is a good basketball player, time to look in the mirror and pull it together a little bit

Just hope they are ok. Both Paul and KG seemed to bang knees and hobbled a bit at different times. BBD landed on Ray and that had to hurt!

rrrrrrrrRRRRR

…. I think we are going to find out real soon what are team is made out of… The year isn’t over by any stretch if we have a sub-par performance this month, but hopefully this doesnt turn into a situation where the C’s know that they can fall apart at any time.