Flat Celts Get By

Really ugly.

But how much did Doc Rivers pay the refs under the table oin those last finals seconds..seriously…that should have been a foul on Garnett..not a Jump Ball…Rondo was Holding Jonny Flynn’s Jersey on the Jump Ball preventing him from Jumping…The Wolves should have had more than 0.9 seconds to shoot the last shot and Perkins fouled Jefferson on the the desperation shot…It wasn’t a win you guys deserved..it was a win that was handed to you.

6 games in 9 days will make any team look elderly.

+8 in less than four minutes to lead the team, but a bunch of zeroes (and a personal foul)

Nice win on the road against a team that was having a career shooting night. Missed called on both sides (Rondo getting hammered under the basket, for one)

can’t believe they still won. no business winning that game. The box score blows my mind because I thought the starters were laying bricks yet everyone but PP has a decent percentage. Defense was horrible on the first unit. Rondo and Garnett made Flynn and Pecherov look like all stars.

Minnie is a long way from the playoffs based on tonight’s game. Keep Al, Gomes (anyone who says he can’t play needs to take a look at this game), Flynn, Sessions and Love. If Pecherov keeps shooting like that, keep him too. Dump everyone else.

The Celtics STILL haven’t allowed a team to score MORE than 90 points. The Timberwolves and Bulls have scored 90, but no more than that.

That includes only allowing 18 points in the 4th quarter. More or less, one part of our game showed up tonight, and that I can sleep comfortably knowing.

And eventually they are going to lose, no need to get overworked every game (I know probably will still). Two things I noticed:
Rondo still doesn’t have confidence in his jumpshot. Wouldn’t it be nice if he could just learn a spot-up three point shot and we’d never have to worry about teams playing off of him again? That being said, I loved his energy and movement off the ball in the third quarter.
And the bench wasn’t perfect tonight, but they kept us in the game in the first half and got us the lead for the first time in the second half. Last year, the bench probably would have set the starters back even farther. This bench knows how to extend the lead when we’re up and, at the very least, weather the storm when we’re down.

the really good vets know how to win without their best stuff, and that’s what this game was all about. that being said, i wish this talk about being the best defensive team ever, and winning 72 games would stop. we need luck with no or non damaging injuries, and we need kg to heal and get his hops back. flynn looked very good and so did big al in the 1st half.perk was the beast and why they left rondo to roam is the question i have for rambis and his staff.

I think the reason they left Rondo alone is because that is Rambis’ strategy. He was a coach for the lakers last year and one of the teams he scouted for them was Boston. It was probably his idea for the lakers to leave rondo alone by having kobe roam.

  I was unable to get the game on TV, so had to watch the text msgs on CBS. Was Olaf that good or was he just not being guarded or was it just a freak day for him?

It’s hard for any team to do back to backs. danny’s looking to make a trade midseason. hope it’s another 2 or 3

—Road game
—Back end of back-to-backs
—Playing an inspired team looking for a big upset
—Getting out-shot badly from the floor {52% vs. 44%}
—Getting out-rebounded

Yet, still getting the “W” !!!!

Upstart team plays tough for 3 1/2 quarters and the vets simply do enough in the last few minutes to win. Last night was not a bad sign, but a very good sign.

I actually fear the young teams on the road than the good teams a lot of time. Teams like the Wolves have nothing to lose in these games. Everyone expects them to get smashed so they can just come out and play loose and have fun. They just build confidence over the course of the game and make it a close game with a team who is just trying to get through the game and playing on a back-to-back. That’s why the Nets game worries me more than Phoenix..

That sure didn’t look like the Celtics. It looked like they needed to be introduced to each other. People wide open and someone hoisting up a contest shot. Unforced turnovers. I can’t believe we only had 9 TOs. It seemed like 25, course Minn really did’t play much defense.

Going back to TOs, many of them last night and every night have me worrying. Many are so stupid, that you’d think a veteran team wouldn’t make them. That’s the lone weakness I see from this team.

Last nite the Celts looked like they didn’t have their legs with many shots hitting the front of the rim. We say it is because they are old and were tired, having played the previous nite.
My theory is this__In past seasons KG, Ray and Paul used to play a lot of pick up games. Thus their legs were in game shape at the start of the season. All did something different this summer. KG was rehabbing, Paul was conditioning, changing his diet and losing some weight and I don’t think Ray played much pick up this summer. They all seem to be tinkering with conditioning because they are older and have been playing longer seasons the last two years. Thus, none are really in game shape yet. As the season goes on the legs will become stronger. KG’s timing also seems to be off. Let’s not make too much of these guys being old and tired. All teams, including young ones, have games like this. But when the game was on the line KG didn’t look too tired when he made a big shot and then that great defensive play at the end. And I believe Paul blocked Gomes’ last shot. So the tired old guys seemed to have it when they needed it. The bench this year will give the other guys the time they need to really get in game shape.