Magic Lose Again - C's Clinch 2nd Seed

by Jeff Clark on Apr 11, 2009 10:10 PM EDT in Boston Celtics Games

The Magic have lost 2 games in a row and now the Celtics have wrapped up home court for the first two rounds of the playoffs.

Also, despite losing to the Pacers, the Pistons have clinched a playoff spot (right now they are the 8 seed).

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Awesome!

Can’t wait for the playoffs! Let’s go C’s!

by C's09Champs on Apr 11, 2009 10:17 PM EDT reply actions

PLEASE START RESTING SOME

PLAYERS!!!

by celticinorlando on Apr 11, 2009 10:20 PM EDT reply actions

It does make for some interesting decisions tomorrow. Do the starters play at all? I bet they do, but if only because we have so few eligible players that they’d have to. I wouldn’t mind seeing Marbury, House, Walker, Moore, Tony, and Big Baby getting some quality minutes against the Cavs starters. Hopefully the starters play only about 24 minutes.

by Ersatz on Apr 11, 2009 11:26 PM EDT up reply actions

agreed

rest is more important than a regular season game.

orlando has looked just terrible for the past week (since beating cavs and hawks). weird team.

by csung on Apr 12, 2009 12:56 AM EDT up reply actions

Hedo rolled an ankle

It was a pretty bad one too. Rick Kamla said, “that’s a full roll over, folks” on Gametime tonight. It was a really ugly sprain. I bet he’s toast for 2-4 weeks.

by MetroGlobe on Apr 12, 2009 12:30 AM EDT reply actions

Great!!!

I would say rest Ray, Paul and Rondo!! The thing is, we still play the Cavs today though…:P

by greenwise on Apr 12, 2009 3:56 AM EDT reply actions

And? is that something special? who gives a crap about the cavs is what I say. rst PP and RA. cleveland is irrelevant until we potentially meet in the playoffs

by TheAncientRivalry on Apr 12, 2009 6:32 AM EDT up reply actions

hello gabe! give the poor guy 25 and give billy 26.

by nazzbo on Apr 12, 2009 8:00 AM EDT reply actions

orlando has some issues:

hedo’s ankle roll looked really bad

lewis has knee problems and is in a lot of pain

reddick has back problems…

orlando is going to go deep into round one with whomever they play

by celticinorlando on Apr 12, 2009 8:20 AM EDT reply actions

Orlando's s**t don't work in the playoffs...

They’re too dependent on 3s. Teams that are content to sit back and watch them jack up 3s in the regular season are going to chase them off the line in the playoffs. Even worse, over the past week they haven’t been able to even hit the open ones. I watched their game against the Knicks and were dumbfounded at how many open looks they got and kept thinking how they would never face defense like that in the playoff…and Orlando still lost.

by mattyweb on Apr 12, 2009 8:45 AM EDT reply actions

That's a great point mattyweb

Defenses always step up in the playoffs

by Surferdad on Apr 12, 2009 8:51 AM EDT up reply actions

And cleveland has the best defense in the league and homecourt advantage

by TheAncientRivalry on Apr 12, 2009 9:46 AM EDT up reply actions

I was wrong!

Just a couple games ago I stated that there was no way we ended up with the #2 seed due to the schedules. I guess I didn’t plan on Orlando falling apart. I figured we’d lose a couple games and they wouldn’t due to their easy schedule, but losses to the Knicks and Nets kind of ruined that for them! We still may lose a game or two, but thank you Orlando!

I don’t think there is a way that I would play anyone that has even sniffed an injury the past month or so in order to be healthier. Especially not KG. Rondo should also sit and give the minutes to Marbury and Giddens. Paul and Ray should see spot duty and Walker and House should see the floor more. TA is the lone exception. He needs to get time to see if he can produce. Other than one big alley oop reverse dunk he hasn’t done anything at all since he came back. He looks a whole lot more like turnover, can’t shoot Tony and we need to know if he should get PT.

by EJPLAYA on Apr 12, 2009 9:45 AM EDT reply actions

Looking forward to Billy's 1 crazy dunk/minute antics

Though if KG’s coming back for the Wiz game, I’d rather they rest the starters against the Sixers and have them play against the Wiz so Kevin can establish some rhythm with the first unit.

by illantari on Apr 12, 2009 11:42 AM EDT reply actions