Starting Five - 3/19

by Jeff Clark on Mar 19, 2009 8:43 AM EDT in Boston Celtics News & Links

No major stories today, but enough little bits and pieces that I can toss together for a Starting Five.

The Celtics clinched the Atlantic yesterday. Yawn. Paul..., tell 'em: “It really doesn’t mean anything to the Boston Celtics,” said Paul Pierce. “They don’t put that banner up. Maybe in other arenas they put that banner up, but here it really doesn’t mean a thing.”
The league is looking into the Doc Rivers ejection. I couldn't care less. Unless someone had a mic on them, it seems like a he-said-he-said thing. Probably didn't cost us the game anyway.
I love it: From the Globe: "The Garden staff put even more pressure on Pierce before the final play of regulation, playing the "Superman" theme while flashing a close-up of Pierce on the Jumbotron."
Mikki Moore is very foul-ly: "Over the last five games, he has been whistled for a league-leading total of 26 personal fouls."
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need

they’re going to need moore going down the stretch and in the playoffs.
he’s this year’s pj brown and needs to step up
so he needs to get all these ridiculous fouls (warrented or not) out of his system now.
because they need to hang banner 18 this season and repeat.

Don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk

by mcpu40 on Mar 19, 2009 8:47 AM EDT reply actions

It shouldn't matter whether the ejection cost us the game

If a referee is exerting personal bias on a game, there is a BIG problem there.

by CelticsWhat35 on Mar 19, 2009 9:44 AM EDT reply actions

fair point

still not sure how that is “proved” one way or the other

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers" Henry V

by Jeff Clark on Mar 19, 2009 9:59 AM EDT up reply actions

If they want to fix it....

they should mic everybody up. The coaches and the refs (obviously the players would be hard to mic). Then they could actually review these types of plays and hold their refs accountable when they decide it’s their time to shine.

by IowaGuy on Mar 19, 2009 2:35 PM EDT reply actions

NBA ref overprotected

Funny, this is America where freedom of expression is championed, The players and coaches can criticise the Prez but can’t say a thing to and about the refs and the league.

by greennwin on Mar 19, 2009 9:54 PM EDT reply actions