I hated this win.

Seriously… it took overtime and a buzzerbeater to beat the Knicks…

Celtics are clearly still in a hole and their defense was once again crappy.

Pathetic…

overtime and buzzerbeater to win against Knicks?! whatever, at least we won.

A win is a win….but not happy about win at all! KG look like his knee is killing him he just playing through it…..they look very very very SLOW

For a lot of the game it was 3 on 5 out there. Ray & KG were bad.

It was Perk, along with a great night by Pierce, that kept us alive. What a game Perk had. He’s been our best player this year- hands down.

KG needs time before we know what his level of ability is. When we get to the trade deadline let’s revisit his ability. Not to trade him, but to see how his body is.

Big Baby would’ve really helped these last two games. A guy who can knock down the mid range jumper.

They need to work on timing and spacing. Passes are not crisp, are often in traffic and because people are not where they should be, they are settling for way to many threes. They need to force themselves to drive inside, or position themselves for the pass inside. Once they are inside they can either go for the basket and a foul, or pass it outside when the defense has collapsed. And whatever happened to the fastbreak?

When Pierce is happy with his role on the floor, he goes all out, like he did on that defensive play at the end (which reminded me of the stuff on Kobe in the Finals).

When Pierce is not happy with his role on the floor, he sulks and feels sorry for himself, and KG has to shove him from behind to get out on his man.

I think the C’s can fix most of their problems.

1 – KG has no lateral movement, and is playing at 50%. He’ll be a lot better by spring. I would rest him more when BBD comes back to give him a chance to round into shape. (Curse you BBD and your Tae Kwon Do.)

2 – There are times when the team expects too much of Rondo. With so many stars, it can’t be all on him. He can’t be the only one running around, while the rest jog around the perimeter. It was smart to mix it up a bit and let Pierce handle the ball and initiate the offense. This helped out Rondo, and it got Pierce into the game. Rondo will improve his FT shooting. He’s looking better. That will help his whole game.

3 – The team is having a tough time integrating all the new guys. They need to simplify their roles and put them in position to succeed. Wallace can be just as valuable on D and rebounding as scoring. If this is a defense first team, then he needs to play inside-out rather than just settling for the 3 point line. Daniels, House and BBD (when he returns) can contribute more. Neither Daniels nor House should be handling the ball. The 2nd team is better with Pierce play point forward.

4 – Doc needs to be smarter with TO’s. When the team gets a 14 point lead but starts to falter and stall out, he needs to call TO and get them to refocus or get an energy sub in the game.

5 – I continue to think the major problems are mental/attitude/chemistry/effort/roles/focus/confidence rather than physical ability (other than KG). The communication, interaction, body language among the starters is not good. Did you see KG screaming in Pierce’s face on the bench during the 3rd Q of the Orlando game? And Pierce wasn’t even looking at him; he was just trying to tune him out.

The C’s have to reshuffle the deck and reorganize at a higher level. I believe they’ll get there. These guys are not that old. They are not that injured (except KG). And they will not have to play that many minutes, with such a deep bench. They are still capable of winning the Championship.

But right now, a lot of the play is really sloppy.

it’s pretty simple; we need to weather the storm until we become more cohesive. KG is far from 100% and we are in a bad shooting slump. The bad shooting has become contagious and I think there may be more to it than just the law of averages. I think the bad shooting is from a lack of cohesion and that guys are tentative and are overpassing. that puts pressure on the shooter when they are open. we’re not flowing right now. we had a 14 point lead in the 4th because we came out strong in the 3rd and played hard for 5 minutes. But you could see that we eased up at that point because we thought we had the game in hand. I’m not sure ray and kg have the stamina anymore to play a quarter of hard defense so we’re not going to be able to separate ourselves from teams like we used to. other teams don’t fear us now and until we get back to playing at least 2 quarters of really hard d every game we’re not going to be the team we can be. Ray allen CAN NOT defend a pick and roll. twice he let his man beat him and tommy was right that the knicks purposely went at him. Ray is still a great weapon but right now his d is killing us. I would seriously consider benching him and starting daniels

I’ve only gotten to see a few games this years and unfortunately most of them were losses.

what I see is a perimeter defence that’s borderline atrocious, especially out at the three point line. it just kills them when the opposing team is shooting moderately well.

1) On O, the Cs were open most of the night (mostly because NY doesn’t play D at all). They just missed a lot of the shots they normally make. It happens. Nothing to worry about… shooters keep shooting, the ball will go in.

2) The guys worked hard today. Decent D. Rondo active. Mostly good stuff.

3) The refs were just terrible. Tried HARD to throw the game to the Knicks. Many, many bogus fouls (esp offensive), the travel call on Paul in Q1 (when he didn’t even have possession), the missed 3-sec call with Harrington on D all alone in the paint for 10 seconds, the missed goaltending call in PP’s shot, etc., etc.

4) If Ray or Sheed or KG had hit a normal % of their shots, this would have been an easy win. If the refs had been anywhere close to competent/fair, this would have been a blowout. All in all, not bad.

What does worry me is:
- Ray is no longer anywhere close to par. He’s a TO machine – can’t dribble or hold on to the ball – and missing way too many 3s. What’s left? Ugh. Looks like he’s entered his decline, sliding fast.
- KG is still working his way back. I put him at about 70%-75%. Probably take him to the All Star break to get close to where he once was. For now, the Big 3 are reduced to the Big One (Paul, of course).
- Sheed is sucking air. Actually air-balled a 3 today. Uggglllyyy. Ok, but he can be expected to get better (we hope).

oh wait!! WE HAVE GARNETT!!

Reggie could still shoot when wide open and could still hit his free throws but he’s retired because he couldn’t get open anymore and he couldn’t guard a stone. That was Ray today.

=18th banner

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=sheridan_chris&page=celtics-091122

criticizm for rondo taking the last shot in regulation (pretty sure someone else wasnt where they were suppose to be and he had to take it, simple to figure it out)
and not one spec of criticzm for KG? yeah i know he hit the game winner, but he arguably played his worst game of his career…thought that mightve been mentioned…

Rondos speed, energy and passing ability, and Pierce simple making his shots won us this game

I almost dont want to give KG any credit for knocking down the game winner, instead credit Pierce for setting him up and giving the ball to a ice cold teammate