How To Lose To The Suns

but I wish he had played Hudson more and Rondo less…a lot less…tonight.

everyone assumed we were going to lose, so no one played like we could win (see Box Score – Rasheed Wallace). except maybe House, who thrives in a run and gun style. wish the young guys could have gotten more minutes, but I think both Giddens and Walker suck so it wouldn’t have made any difference. just want to forget these past few days.

No energy, Rondo was closer to 50 percent than 100 percent, Ray and Rasheed looked old…. they didn’t stand much of a chance out there, and the defensive rotations were pretty terrible, as you pointed out.

Two of our SFs (including the starter) were out, two of our PFs (including the starter) were out, and our starting PG was playing on one leg. And the Suns like to shoot 3’s all day, sleep on D all night. Fun. : (

You’re not going to win many games that way. We had a chance in the 3rd, but the Suns shot us out of it. Oh well.

….And I’m sorry, but give up on Giddens, folks. Walker and Hudson may still have a chance…but no more Giddens. Please.

is INJURED. Yes, Giddens = ROFL. Walker and Hudson I’ll give passes for now. Scal’s fine. Sheldon is just fine for insurance when BBD’s out, even though BBD is much better. But BBD and Daniels can’t stay off the injury list. But our bench has yet to be fully healthy, and when it is, then let’s judge this team.

If, as Doc said, he is more worried about Rondo’s injury than KG’s, WHY did KG sit and Rondo play? If, as was said, Rondo has a real hamstring strain… HOW does Doc think he will heal? By magic? Because he hopes he will, somehow, with no rest and constant retweaking? Weird, Doc. (Can’t say it was because he wanted to win this game… first because they weren’t going to win it anyway, and second, that’s a very bad reason if the price is your (only) PG’s health.)

It is good to lose some games. Several reasons – like refocusing the guys, identifying your flaws, stabilizing your image in the league so that maybe not every crappy team gets maximally fired up to beat you, etc. And yes, this game was hopeless… but I had hoped that the D would still be there. I had thought that every member of the team was bought-into the D that the team says its built on. What happened? My guess is they just took the night off. Gave up on this one before it started. I hope that’s all it is… that’s the best it could be. Don’t wanna think about the the worst.

Why did Rondo play at all?

Scali needs to develop a 15 ft jump shot or something. He is killing us. I cant remember when he last scored a point and Sheldon Williams scored 14 points and he isnt even a scorer and i think his points tonight surpassed scalis point total for the entire season.

Its not Scalis fault as much as it is docs, because even if Scali scored 12 points in his 23 minutes this game was out of reach,but i blame doc because the two prior games ,both loses to inferior teams saw scali play many minutes and he had zero points and zero rebounds in both games combined.
Doc plays Sheldon and Baby so much less than Scali and they still out produce Scali by miles… so thats why i blame it on doc , he needs to play scali maybe 7 minutes or less not half the game

There’s nothing wrong with the Celtics that a couple of young all stars wouldn’t cure.

They’ll have to do without KG and PP and BBD, again. And Rondo is not going to be 100% by Saturday… takes a week at the very least to get over a hamstring strain, and that’s if it’s the most minor grade. But maybe Ray will wake up and maybe the team will remember what defense means to them.

Still… Saturday looks like another tough game, against a team that has won their last 4.

but only averaging 1 ppg in the NBA west were scores exceed 110ppg is too much for team mentality to overcome. he needs to develop a 14 footer and put up some points

You give up easy games to teams like the Clippers and GS and then when stuff happens (injuries in this case) you’re gonna lose more games on top of that (now they are 1-3 on this trip instead of 3-1). Not good.

At least Eddie has hopefully found his shot again (or it could be a fluke and as someone said he hits when it doesn’t matter). I hope SOMEONE is going to play on Saturday (going to the game and paid 120 bucks per ticket…. ugh figures).

Doc keep running Ray and Rondo into the ground too. It’s only gonna help them out in the long run. You can tell Rondo is hurting and Ray is tired (hence the poor shooting night – no lift in his legs).

And where is this “best 6th man in the league” everyone was talking about earlier in the season? Don’t tell me it’s that 6ft 11" guy standing behind the arc waiting to jack a 3.

It’s a lot easier for me to pretend they didn’t happen if I don’t see them.

doc was brain dead this whole trip except for orlando. the celts don’t scare anyone right now and they’ve repeatedly demonstrated that if they get a lead they;ll give it up because they are too full of themselves. I just don’t see this as a championship team. Our bench is weak, our stars are aging and injury prone and we play down to the competition. we haven’t established anything on our home court and unless we’re rested we’ve shown that we get tired easily when playing lots of game in a short time. I keep hearing how we’re built for the playoffs but other than rondo I don’t see it. the rest of the guys are old and tired and jurt. Perk can’t control his anger and Sheed is even worse. The refs hate us and with good reason because we complain after every play. Yes, I think we’re victimized by the refs more than other teams but as Doc says we earned it. Sheed is out of shape and baby appears to have ballooned again. It’s never good to post after a game like last night since right now the glass definitely looks half empty but I think last night’s game exposed all of the weaknesses in our team. Iknow we’re better than that and the good news is that all of the other top teams have flaws as well but there is a lot we need to improve on before we have ANY chance of winning a title.

last year-xmas and after was like this year. xmas gives coal in the c’s stockings. they are not going to win anything with the youngsters but they’re on the roster and they deserve to play and they are there because you need depth when there are injuries. and don’t give me the "you have to prove yourself in practice’ routine. the c’s don’t practice that much and everyone knows that the game is where you get your seasoning. wake up doc- get your head out of the shade and remember- it’s a team game and the team is made up of more than the vets. and an old team gets hurt and needs rest for its fogies.

Matt Light goes down and Pats didn’t go outside first. They went to Vollmer. Untried rookie who has been on team for a reason. What does Doc do? Shortens the bench and plays Scal more. I know I stuck up for Scal quite a bit in the past but he has been lousy this year. If he can’t nail the perimeter three he does not do enough other things to justify playing him over Walker, Giddens. Scal may be a great practice player and the others not but my lying eyes aren’t wrong on nearly all games I’ve watched.
This was the perfect game to play the other guys more. Our core guys were stinking the joint out, it was Suns pace (which favors youngs on our side), and we’ve got to determine if they have an NBA future at some point.
Doc won’t ever admit this is his blind spot but Danny ought to lean in a bit.

not surprised that in the game where Doc could have used the youth, more than any other game this year, due to injuries to many other players, he still chose to run his starters into the ground and rely on Veal and Eddie for lots of minutes.

Seriously, an 8-man rotation where House, Veal and Williams are the only bench players you use? What’s it going to take for the youth to get some game time? If it didn’t happen this game, it’s not going to happen for the rest of the season.

Expect to see the vets burnt out by the playoffs again, particularly Ray.