Great post. I feel a little better now.

Last night the turnovers weren’t bad, we lose anyway. The d is pretty good, we lose anyway. We again lose and Houston doesn’t even have Battier or McGrady.

Almost all the criticism has some truth to it even if its not wholy correct. We have almost universal agreement that we are short a long big who is physical, one outsider shooter, and better back up play at the point. A not so small minority has though we might already have the answer to one or two of those points on the team with Pruitt so there is some Doc blaming going on too. KG, Perk and PP all look like they are playing hurt to me. Tony Allen has been hurt for weeks, I think.

If the Celts can add a shooter, a big, play the bench more to get the starters rest and they get healthy, and we get the home court advantage, I think we win it all again. We need for the Cavs and Lakers to hit the skids too. There is a decent shot this all happens. The celtics have an advantage late this year that is not often mentioned. The Lakers had Kobe and Gasol play in the Olympics all summer. Cle had Lebron doing the same. I would think at some point we will see fatigue kick in for them and it may be at just the right time for the Celtics

It’s how they are losing that creates a concern: older players fading in the 4th quarter.
Part of it is Rivers’ poor rotations: he plays his starters too long in the second and third quarters.

I do not blame the bench or the composition of the team. Those are just red herrings. They need to use the players they have differently.

And contrary to Rivers’ published views, I thing Garnett, Pierce and Ray Allen could benefit tremendously from a week off. Send each one to a top notch resort with a good spa, under instructions to relax and do absolutely nothing for a week.

Based on the bizarre commentary that I read during and after the Charlotte game and the losses before:

-The bench sucks
-The bench lost the game
-Scalabrine should never play basketball again
-The bench has no size and no PG (forget Brick’s commentary pointing out the Charlotte game where we had a size advantage and still got beaten inside)
-O’Bryant can’t play
-Pierce is the greatest basketball player on the planet
-The bench sucks
-Garnett’s antics only enhance this team and it’s ridiculous to call his antics a distraction.
-We should cut our entire bench and bring in Marbury, Latrine Sprewell, Mark Blount, Ricky Davis, and Marcus Banks because KG will shine his godly light upon them and they will play like all stars like they did when they were his teammates. The CBO be damned, they’re no risk because they can be unconditionally cut if they don’t behave.
-The bench sucks
-If I forgot to mention it, the bench sucks.

Now, I’m going to watch the game.

wow, thanks for that, that makes me feel better. there is no denying the trend, the natural tendancy, in those numbers.