Hooray.

we stink right now

Well, Pierce is playing championship caliber basketball…with all the “old” talk hes having an underrated season….

 I like what doc is doing playing rondo with the 2nd unit, and rondos energy late was key to the win

pp was the zen master and an all around game. rondo is the girl with the curl, when he is good…he was bad in the third, actually had a wide open layup and he passed it out. no defense to speak of which is becoming routine. i agree- too many 3’s.

for Pierce. 27, 6, 6 with 0 turnovers(handling the ball quite a bit), 10-15, 3-7 from three and 1 huge charge taken late. Doc also mentioned the Captain’s leadership in timeouts and at halftime, believes he is playing the best he has since he has been here, MVP level. Now if the rest of the team would just follow his lead, things will improve.

I’m tired of seeing Sheed setting picks & stepping out for a three! You’re 7feet tall for christ sake! Play in the paint….you have a post game! You can get offensive rebounds for your team! Teams have to respect you down low! That opens up other things!!! The three will be there when needed!!!!!!!!

No question.

But where was the perimeter defense? Maybe if they had done a little of that the game wouldn’t have been so close. They’re lucky that Kapono missed the first free throw.

Philly is a depleted sub-500 team and they struggled to pull this out.
Celtics were 13 pt favorites.
Philly lost to the Wizards just last night.
I dunno guys. I’m a true blue fan, but this team just ain’t what it was last year.
not now anyway.
will reserve judgement til Baby comes back.
His presence is missed more than i thought.
His passion and camraderie with the other players is missed

Right now, it is simple: THIS TEAM STINKS. The only disappointment was they only took 27 3’s. Would have been nice to reach 30. Imagine if Philly had their starting point guard and power forward. Disgusting.

This team stinks.

LOL

11-4 is very respectable.
Think about what Cleveland fans are saying now. "We boosted out talent by getting Shaq and he’s clogging up the lane and making it impossible for the King to drive."
And Orlando fans "Is Jameer ever gonna be healthy, his always injured, is he gonna be the same when he comes back?"
And Spurs fans "We added Jefferson and now out main guys are been big pansies again and getting injured"
And Lakers fans "Why do all our players look gay" or "There’s a fish wet fish on the court! Oh no is just Pau Gasol".
I go on many other team blogs and we are by far the biggest bunch of worry mongers.

We’re still winning over 70% of our games. Bad teams don’t do that. The way people on here moan you would think we were the Nets..

What an appropriate heading. They were really hanging by a thread throughout the game, even when they were up 6 or 8.

 Watching PP carried the offense tonight brought back memory of the bad Celtics teams of a few years ago. Back then, PP carried the team but the team lost. Now PP seems the only one who can create shots, but the team win games, barely. But it was not supposed to be this way when they brought in KG and Ray. They were supposed to spread the wealth around. No one needs to play 40+ mins and score 30 points for the the team to win. They did it in the first year the Big 3 were here, but not anymore.

Round now, this team will barely get out the first round of the play-offs.

Was at the game last night, here’s my impressions.
(just to please Pump I’ll get the obligatory “this team stinks” out of the way up front—>because they really stunk)

• there was no defense anywhere on the court for the C’s last night until that brief few minutes in the 4th where Rondo also asserted himself offensively. Perimeter defense was horrible as was the interior defense.
• rebounding was awful. no blocking out by the big guys leading to so many offensive rebounds for Philly, particularly at the start of the game. Part of that was that either Garnett or Perk had to leave their man to stop the penetrator. Of course that left their man open for either the pass for a layup or in position for the rebound. When they didn’t, Rondo’s or Ray’s man just went in for a layup. If they had stopped the penetration and blocked out Philly, Philly wouldn’t have scored for the first 6 minutes.
• To take that a step further, there was no help defense at all. No one was rotating. That’s something that’s definitely missing from the last 2 years. Sheed was the worst offender. His pick and roll defense (and the guard’s defense in general) was lousy.
• They had more cohesion on offense to start the game but about midway through the 1st they went back to sloppy, sloppy play. Passes weren’t crisp or on target. Still a lot of standing around—not as much as other recent games—-but still lots of it.
• Way too many 3’s being chucked up and too often way too early in the shot clock. Until this team starts hitting at a higher rate, they definitely need to move in the circle a few feet to get a more makeable shot.
• Too many drives into the lane kicked out for outside jumpers. When in the paint, shoot it, don’t throw it out for a 3 that’ll clank off the rim or as happened several times, get thrown away. Team starting pulling away once Rondo actually tried to score when he got in the paint instead of passing.
• Marquis was stationed outside the 3 point line on offense. What’s with that? He can’t shoot from out there, can offensive rebound and isn’t really going to drive from that far out. Blame that one on Doc for bad use of a player’s skills.
• Many missed layups and free throws. No excuse for that. None.
• Refs weren’t great but only a couple of questionable calls late in the game. Can’t blame the close game on them.

Did I focus on the negative, yes I did. Why? Because there was nothing positive at the game except Pierce. Just Pierce and nothing but Pierce.

For those thinking the team is doing great based on their record, enjoy the delusion while it lasts. Once they start facing better teams on a more regular basis, the losses will start piling up IF they continue to play this way and you won’t be able to point at their record as a beacon of hope. Can they play better? I still believe they can but they haven’t shown much reason for optimism. If this level of play continues until January, I would be stunned if Danny didn’t do something big to shake this team out of its lethargic attitude at the deadline.