2nd Effort

If Pierce has had a worse game this year, I don’t remember it. One fears that all of those minutes are catching up to him. Ray Allen was no ball of fire either.

Nice cameo for Tony Allen, who was effective. And of course Rondo was the star (and almost the goat— how can you blow a 4 on 1 fast break in a close game?)

Rondo has been playing better and better since Marbury joined the team. Could it be the positive result of competitions and practising with a true (and once very good) point guard?

we were lucky to get this win. we got really sloppy at the end

yes we were lucky to win. yes rondo, but how about perk-very nice. and the 2nd team really gelled. eddie and marb and mikki and welcome back tony. pp was playing pool, not basketball.

Watch out NBA!

Rondo and Perk MVPS
good play off the bench from Eddie, Marbury and Moore

Ray and Speciffically Pierce didnt look very good out on the floor, BBD seen better days as well

Marbury completes our bench…

is looking promising.

Marbury, house, allen, BBD, moore/powe situational.

Have you heard? Bynum is coming back to the Lakers tomorrow? In the meantime KG is beginning to breakdown. Last year was his one and only chance to win a title and he should ride off into the sunset. Many Celtic fans are talking with this glass half full mentality but that does not make a difference. The Celtics are a team of the past, at least this current line up is. Many of the young players might be around for a while but the big three cannot win this year because KG is not 100%. Last year the Celtics got taken to seven games every series and that was with home court advantage. This year, if the Celtics are lucky they might get home court advantage in the 2nd round of the playoffs. I can only imagine what Howard will do to KG. Every Celtic fan is so proud of the defensive scheme that the Celtics have. But, the heart and anchor of that is KG and although he will try and play he is not going to be the same. Every Celtic fan knows that the reason the Celtics won last year was because they had home court advantage and the best defense. You already lost one of those things and the only thing left is to hope that the defense holds up with a gimpy KG. Face it! It’s over! It is also obvious how much hope Doc Rivers is trying to inject into Boston fans by not necessarily committing when KG will be back. It is like seeing a politician being asked about a controversial issue. Some of you may even hold on to his comments as if to think that everything is ok with KG. It isn’t! Also, I don’t buy that “he’s just resting him” mentality. That is just false hope. This year either the Cavs or Orlando will represent the East but it won’t be the Celtics. Just get used to more decades of irrelevance. GO LAKERS!

….that was last year. What about my comments about this year? Any recollection of what is happening now. There is even a post speaking about why KG should be MVP this year. It goes into detail about how important KG is to this team, especially defensively. So if he is the MVP how good are the Celtics with him not being 100%. You were lucky to get past the Hawks last year. What would happen if that challenge faced the Celtics this year?

let’s just see during the playoffs

no matter what’s the outcome during the playoff i’m still a celtics fan.

Lakers will be upset by Dallas or Utah

this Faker fan is really true to its name coz he faked his name just to get in this site….I don’t even bother to take a look at every lakers site

And better than the Celtics, too, unless Garnett is 100%.

So I expect that it will be another frustrating NBA finals for Kobe and the gang.

Why can’t a person selected “Lakerfan” or something like that as his (or her) name on this forum? What rule says that everyone here has to be a Celtics fan?

you’re right Brick…why can’t Faker fan just go to their own site

As you all can see everyone is passionate about the Celtics. Great! No one takes that away from any of you. You have braggin rights for now. I don’t care that Kobe is a jerk or any of those comments that any of you can make about him. You cannot take away his talent and ability. This game is not a popularity contest so who cares what people say about Kobe. Some of you may know this but Jordan slapped the hell out of Steve Kerr in practice. But, no one ever uses that to tarnish his image. Yet you have this guy in here CELTICZ4LIFE getting all puffed up in the chest talking about things that do not even matter and that is exactly the type of Celtic attitude that I am talking about. As far as why can a Laker fan go to his own site it is because ever since the Celtics won they have reacted as if their current roster is a dynasty. I have actually heard comparisons to Bird, Mchale and Parish. That one was a stretch. But either way, the Celtics are good now but they will not get past the second round if KG isn’t healthy. No matter what! GO LAKERS!

“Big Picture” That is exactly what I am talking about when it comes to KG’s injury. By the way, thank you for taking us all back to your trip back to memory lane. So what does being older have anything to do with calling someone names. You are who you are.

I would come to this site no matter what happens in the playoffs. Just think, right now the Celtics own the Lakers because of last year’s beat down. Yet I’m still here defending my team against all of you.

is the king of obviousness. yeah, if kg isn’t right, we’re probably not winning the title. shocker. if kobe or lebron aren’t right, those teams are done as well. unbelievable! if kg is 70%, i think we at least get to the ECF, where i think cleveland (plus the refs trying to coronate king james) beat us in 7. if kg’s any better than that, who knows…we could still lose to cleveland, beat cleveland and lose to LA, or win it all. the top 3 teams are boston, LA, and cleveland…any one of those three could win the title. LA’s test is going to be physical teams in the west (utah, particularly), but i don’t see them not coming out of the west.

The Lakers don’t defend well enough to win a title, it’s as simple as that. They have some good individual defenders (e.g Kobe, Jordan Farmar), but their team defense is lacking. And while Andrew Bynum gives them additional length, he’s the second coming of Al Jefferson on defense, and that’s just not good enough.

Cleveland is the best defensive team in the league right now, and they’ll be even better wehn Ben Wallace returns.

The real NBA championship will be the ECF between the Cavs and the Celtics, a series that Cleveland will win. Even if the Celtics play brilliantly, the refs will take the series away from them. The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost couldn’t beat the Cavs at home right now.

Celtics for life, I’m a Lakers fan too, but honestly, you’re talking a little too much. This is celticsblog, a good sports blog too, so respect it, respect the people here, and stop giving us a bad name. There’s no need to pull this “they did it to us so I’m gonna do it to them” nonsense. Leave that to middle-schoolers. Thanks

Celtics for life wrote:
> …. I will sleepy easy knowing our Center is coming back
Come on! How can you be so sure and so overjoyed? Your Center has not played a single second of NBA ball since Kobe knocked him down. We Celtics fans were as excited as you are now when we heard KG was coming back a couple weeks ago. Look what happened. God forbide the same will happen in “your Center”. If I were you, I will sleep with one eye open.

Kobe can have the MVP trophy and whatever individual glory he can dream of, but we will keep the title this year.

Here is a reality check for both teams. Neither is in a great cap situation to role for the next three years. Odom expires this off season and Gasol I believe comes up soon. Kobe has got years on his tires like Paul, Ray and KG. Will the Lakers win it this year? Perhaps, are they a lock for the WCF? No but close. Bynum is good but Perk plays him very tough. Odom makes the LA bench much stronger but that’s not saying a whole lot. Then again I don’t like our bench that much either. Celtics this year prob not. However, even if the Lakers win, because of Bryant and O Neil’s antics the Lakers will never be as dominant as they could have been. Bynum will never be a Shaq! Period! I agree with him though the Cavs will be tough and quite frankly I’m not sure the Lakers can beat Cleveland either. I have the utmost respect for Magic, Kareem and Kobe however the rest of the organization I despise much like I did when Gasden and ML Carr were a part of ours. Don’t hate on this blogger! Just simply look at LA in general. South Cenntral, only 2 good universities, Hollywood, Beverly Hills and really only one team to cheer for! Oh, I believe the state of California, although boasting the 7th largest economy in the world can’t handle any of it’s fiscal responsibilities. Then again neither can MA. At least our faces won’t begin to melt when the temp rises outside. So I kinda feel for the guy,,,or girl…whichever.

for a Laker fan to type the word “Celtics” and add “for life” just to be able to post on some messageboard/blog.

I don’t believe I could ever lower myself to use “Lakers” in any fashion just to be able to thumb my virtual nose at a group of folks.

Then again, maybe my intelligence level is greater than the average Laker fan.

But apparently all we have are trolls.

Magnificent game, Rajon.

Honestly, this fellow is an amazing player. In fact, he could be a beast off the bench, if he gave it his all. Unfortunately, for Laker’s fans, he’s a bench captain who’s handed in his resignation, upon the start of any important game. Now in contrast, for the Celts, we have Powe & Eddie, giving it their all and they’re not doing it simply for a paycheck. So I don’t fear LA’s bench unless LO gets his mojo back.