C's Hold On To The Win (Not The Ball)

Funny thing is when Blair was on the board, I was really lobbying for him while a lot of posters was saying that we didn’t need another Leon Powe. Guess tonights game shows different huh?

Given all the things that did not go well tonight. Agree with Hanz — this team really needs a backup point guard.

despite being outrebounded so badly. seemed everyone in green forgot how to block out.

Jeff hit all the positives except one—-forcing 19 turnovers. key to the win.

Perk and PP both had low quality games tonight. KG looked very energetic. Sheed was mostly in the post where he belongs and was effective.

What’s up with Doc not playing Williams and using Scal instead. Scal wasn’t doing enough to contain Bonner. Should have used Shelden to at least give Sheed some help on the boards.

what has sheldon williams done? besmirched doc’s mother? if he were in , the rebound differential would have improved a bit. the second team did not distinguish itself tonite. sheed when down low was fine and the first two 3’s were ok, but he got drunk on them. rondo and kg were great and the spurs were disjointed, except when blair erupted. but we won, and we were great in the 1st half. by the way, we need a backuo pg. try hudson or get one.

Celts are tough to beat…when they start games strong & aggressive.

They win when they come out breathing fire!
They lose when they passively allow the game to “come to them”.

Seize the game…C`s The Day!!!!

How this game shows we need a backup PG. Hearing that being yelled every other time, it’s just sounding like a fad to me. Our problem tonight was rebounding.

We need to stop letting teams get second chance points on us like that. Bonner and Blair had a combined 20 rebounds off the bench; I’m not sure Sheldon alone keeps them in check. I also don’t know if Bonner doesn’t score more with Sheldon guarding him. KG nor Rasheed looked like they could handle Blair and that bothered me. Overall, I think Doc was fine as far as matchups. Our bench can’t force Doc’s hand like that all the time. Maybe Doc could’ve brought in the starters a wee bit earlier, but I don’t want trends like what happened last year.

Anyways, offensively, I think we were great. We started off the game strong, and more or less rode that throughout the game on both ends. In the end, despite all the rebounds we gave up, we did keep the Spurs to only 83 points in the end, and considering the Spurs average a 100 points per game, it’s clear the Celtics found a way to get the job done defensively.

6 in a row definitely feels good. Considering that, let’s take it to OKC and show the Thunder what’s what.

Despite the close score, the Celts dominated the majority of this game and let the Spurs sneak in with poor rebounding. Of course, Duncan/Blair going on runs at different times helped the cause too. Loved what I saw from KG. Rondo continues to impress me, hit a big show in the 4th.

Lots of complaining about a win against a quality team on the road…

yeah right.. danny should blow it up, rebuild around youth. we’re so old and bad, lets trade ray for a 1st rounder and pulled pork sandwich… :-P

How did DuJuan Blair and Ty Lawson go far down in the draft that they got picked up by 2 title contending teams?(Denver & San Antonio).

When you watched college basketball last year, these were 2 players the commentators couldn’t stop talking about, they were practically drooling over Lawson, yet they go so late in the draft, when picks like Rubio were a total waste. I have no idea how these two players got picked so late, could have sworn both were a Top 10 pick by the way people were talking about them last year.

I think the Spurs might have played their worst game of the year. I’d never expect to see a Spurs team that sloppy…

Im sorry to bring this up after a solid win, but…
All this talk about Kevin getting his game back, and no realization that the 2 most important aspects of his game, defense, and rebounding have the longest way to go and are nowhere near where they need to be.
Its clear his rebounding was based off his leaping ability, unlike a duncan where positiong is key…duncans still averaging 11+ a night in the same minutes and grabbed 15 last night..
KG is maxing out at 7 a game, and getting outrebounded nearl everynight.. this is a guy who peaked at nearly double that a game.
so, really, who cares if he can hit an 18 foot jumpshot, the worst shot in basketball…the guy needs to rebound the damn ball

i agree with takeit re kg, and add; notice that there are many no blocked shot games for kg. he moved laterally very well last night and that has come a long way. i will also take the 18 ft. jumpers.

he was our best post player and our toughest guy down low. I guess the C’s determined that he wouldn’t be healthy this year or if he were it would be so late in the season as to not help us much but we miss what he brought. I didn’t see the game but how come shelden williams didn’t play? Wouldn’t he have helped on the boards and against blair?

but I bet San Antonio is wondering how they could out rebound us by 3 to1 in the second half and…still lose. That is insane.

I’m attributing it to some solid defensive work in the paint by the Celtics, and some missed open shots by the Spurs. It was an odd game. Though killed on the boards, the Cs kept the conversions just low enough to never loose control of the game.