4 In A Row, C's Beat Heat

is still better than wannabe golden child.

The Cs were awful in the 3d, but don’t you think Sheed stood out? His defense was atrocious.

I’m tempted to let him off the hook for Beasley, who’s just so much quicker and probably a mismatch. But Wallace’s feet were in cement on the defensive end. What sealed it for me was watching Jermaine O’Neal sail by as Wallace played flat-footed turnstile defense. O’Neal just isn’t all that quick any more. I don’t expect Sheed to be able to abuse him the way Perk was doing, but I did expect him to at least offer a little resistance.

From my perspective, most of Wade’s damage that quarter consisted of him taking tough jumpers over Ray – who stayed in front of him, and close, but wasn’t tall enough to really contest .

its only there for those who don’t know the game.

I don’t think Wade flopped. He just hit a stone wall. Usually such picks work that way from the side where the guy getting picked doesn’t see the picker. Wade was coming straight on and had to see Perk. My take on this is that he didn’t flop, but hoped he’d get the call. It was suicidal on Wade’s part.

And thinking of calls. How about the one where O’Neill stepped on Sheed’s foot twice as O’Neil was falling backwards and Sheed gets called for a foul. It was either a walk or charge on O’Neil. The importance of that play is it demonstrates how far Sheed has come in controlling his temper. If there was ever a play where he would explode, that was it.

Perk gave us a mismatch on nearly every play. Just swallowed up O’Neal on defense, and couldn’t be stopped cutting to the hoop.

He did to O’Neal what Beasley did to Wallace, but more dependably and within the team scheme.

Also, as usual, Perk played phenomenal team D.

It doesn’t matter now, so no point in bringing it up

Way to early to be pushing a panic button esp after this game. LOL

add it to the list of #1 things the Celtics lead the NBA in. would love to type more, just can’t fit the rest on 1 page, probably have to print a million page book.

Not always, obviously — just 75% of the times.

lots of people still think we play in the Meadlowands and our team is from NJ, actually no. Kevin Garnett.

That if the Celtics were 16-1 now instead of 13-4, people would just say it was another tough win that proved their superiority to the rest of the league, kind of like in our 27-2 run last year. The Celtics are clearly not where they want to be, but beating the Heat in their house while preventing them from scoring 90 points is easily a good step into the right direction.