A Very Pleasant Surprise

A win is a win…except when you can pick up a whole game instead of a half game on the leader….I am thrilled! Of course, I never had a doubt…I seem to give our bench more weight than everyone else (sometimes they come through and sometimes they don’t, but it is a good bench and now has an all star on it). The closer to the end of the season, the better the bench seems to play, which is what you want.

Moore seems to be a good energy big man with a decent skill set for a backup and Marbury is going to help the bench by supplying a real point guard to run the second unit. Two of the main weaknesses seem to have been addressed. Add the improvement this season in Rondo, Perk, and comfort level of Ray Allen and you have to believe our chances are every bit as good as last season to win this thing

I had the same trepidations as Jeff going into last nite’s game. There was no way the C’s could win, but I had a gut feeling they would. The way they played, under the conditions they played, and winning that game shows why they are the Champs and it makes me proud to root for them. Doc had a great game plan, Armond Hill demonstrated the Cavs weakness and our bigs did the job they had to do. Oh yeah, PP was pretty good. Just a great win.

The composure shown by the C’s last nite was phenomenal.

What a great win. I think the C’s were a little tired of all of the Lebron/cleveland love that’s floated around all season(especially on the four letter network). It’s about time someone showed them whose boss.

top to bottom- from wyc., et.al. to pruitt and the rooks- this is a class team and it showed last night. we might or might not win it all but we have to be proud of the organization. they made the most of it and still have the ubuntu and now, it’s luck-the luck being the injuries. who’ll be nicked. who’ll have the right players on the floor. hope rondo can get some rest.

and keep in mind that one of our best potential weapons, marbury, will not be marbury for at least a few weeks. its obvious he doesn’t have his legs under him, and that’s affecting everything he does. if we keep giving him 10-15 mpg, by playoff time, he’ll probably have his legs back. at which point…damn…it will be fun to watch. when he’s right, he will either score a lot, or create easy looks for house, baby, and powe.

I cant lie im happy as crazy they got the W, They played hard, Hats Off to Powe, Big Baby, Moore and esp.PERK…..He showed up last night, i’ve always seen him put forth effort just didnt think smart. Now he seems more calm and he takes his time to get it done. Steph and Moore will find their way….im amazed that with 3 players down, 2 new guys, and Big baby ejected we still dominated the game!

   Rondo is my fav player in all the NBA right now. Sure there are a few things he can work on (shooting). But he helps out in so many other areas i.e assists, steals , rebounds and he can put up points..A True Point Guard…look at mo williams if he’s not scoring he’s not contirbuting to anything else- no rebounds,steals, lilttle assists, poor court vision-poor passer and no defense! He’s like iverson just an excellent scorer…albeit he did have a great game! but rondo was alil low defensively after ankle injury.. But anyhow i liked the way they played last night even if they loss….

I was going to write the beginning of this last night in regards to the whole “don’t think they can win” article…but at the time everyone seemed to be on the same page (I believe) and didn’t see the point in “rocking the boat” Now I wish I had…so here goes;

Pessimism is a code word for fear. When someone says the are pessimistic it just means they are afraid to dream big, afraid to aim for the stars and get shot down, they don’t want the pain of failing to get what the set out for so they don’t try (it’s safer that way!) but these people rarely taste true success because to get that, you got to put yourself on the line and go for it and be willing to fail. Sure it hurts but that’s what winners do. They don’t care what others around them say they “should” do. They are simple “unreasonable”… they are unreasonable in what they want to have, and what they say they can and will do. Unreasonable people change the world! It was unreasonable for a black woman (in her day) to say “NO I WILL NOT GO TO THE BACK OF THE BUS”, It was unreasonable for us to try and put a man on the moon, and last night it was unreasonable to think the Celtics could win with what they had… We are just lucky they didn’t listen to us and went in there with an unreasonable mindset …“WE ARE GOING TO WIN!” I think we owe them an apology…

I was very impressed with the Celts last night. I only get the national games but this was by far and away the best effort, execution, defense, etc that I have seen. It gave me NBA finals goose bumps.