Celtics Stuff Live Playoff Edition 5/11

by Jughead on May 11, 2009 5:41 PM EDT

It's been 24 hours and Big Baby is still the talk of Celtics fans and the league as the rotund forward transformed the team from potentially being down 3-1 to tying their series with Orlando at 2 with a pair of games left to play at home. For some sports shows, that would be enough analysis to keep them full until Memorial Day... not Celtics Stuff Live.

Jon and Justin spent a lot of time talking about the man who made the pass to Baby on that play, Paul Pierce, and his effort on Sunday night in the context of his ability to come through when the Celtics need him most for his entire career. A fantastic email from John in Boston took this point to the next level in discussing Rajon Rondo's absurdly KG-like line and Justin made the point that we may be seeing the next Paul Pierce in the form of the former Kentucky point guard.

Be certain to follow us on twitter and Facebook and tune in to our next show on Friday when some guy named Mike Gorman makes his return to the bright lights of Celtics Stuff Live.

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Cool, look forward ta hearin' ya Jeff, plenty to cover all right...!

by jyrecelts on May 11, 2009 6:05 PM EDT reply actions

Big Baby

We are probably not expecting the C’s to advance past Cleveland, but I’m enjoying the no-quit attitude of Doc and what players are left. By the way, don’t y’all think Baby’s penultimate shot off a drive and stop was way more difficult than a catch and shoot at the buzzer?

Yeu Bog Ro

by Hanoi Ig on May 11, 2009 7:23 PM EDT reply actions

Who's this "we"? !

by jyrecelts on May 12, 2009 12:32 AM EDT up reply actions

sorry folks

I’ve got my own Big Baby issues – my 6 month old has her first cold and I’m trying to take care of her tonight – can’t make the show

hopefully some other time soon

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

by Jeff Clark on May 11, 2009 8:16 PM EDT reply actions

best wishes to junior

feel better!

-sw

The best of the 2008-09 Boston Celtics is still yet to come. Believe.

by Steve Weinman on May 11, 2009 10:06 PM EDT up reply actions

Jeff, you are awesome...,

And thanks for the BB background… to whomever deserves it… I enjoyed it!

by jyrecelts on May 12, 2009 12:33 AM EDT reply actions

Pierce Dynasty

It was a good listen, but I have to say, it was a little over dramatic when discussing the “passing of the torch.” It mainly came from the submitter of the email. Didn’t Pierce just come up super clutch in the Bulls series and win us a game with 3 consecutive shots?

I think you are about 4 years premature on this one. Pierce is still ball faking like a master and getting his pump shot to go with ease.

by VagrantWade on May 12, 2009 4:44 AM EDT reply actions

Actually, that was what we were kind of saying (not the e-mailer, us the hosts) that Pierce is far from done but that Rondo is the likely one to assume that role in terms of drawing the fanbase expectations in a smiliar fashion to Pierce (n response to the criticism Pierce has received for “not playing well” this series). We were drawing some early parallels as you noted…

by Jughead on May 12, 2009 7:57 AM EDT up reply actions

On Rondo, the problem is not expecting him to score or get triple-doubles. The problem is doing his job running the team effectively. That’s the most important thing, and what is most inconsistent about him. As Doc puts it “play with speed”, and that has nothing to do with amount of rebounds, assits, or points. Simply play with speed, quick decision making, good decisions, be aggressive, run the team as it should… set the pace. Everything else will take care of itself.

I think Rondo’s best game has been one that he scored 14 or so points this playoffs, but he ran the team very well and that is much much valuable to this team.

He’s dominating the ball, he has a huge responsibility on our offense. It would be different if we were playing through Pierce, like we did on Sunday which explains quite a bit why Rondo didn’t put up the assists. So whomever is dominating the ball and running our offense should be expected to carry out the responsibility of making it work. So far, Rondo has done it all through the playoffs, and when things are not flowing as they should, he’s the first one to be looked at for some portion of the blame (and many times it’s justified). Just the same as he should get a ton of credit when it’s running well. Last night Pierce delivered.

Then there’s his defense, that simply feels like a focus problem.

I’ll say this, he’s playing overall better than I thought he would this playoffs, but knowing his skills and talents, it simply feels like he could play much much better and it gets frustrating. And again, I could care less if he gets triple-doubles or not. My priority with him is running our team, making the right decisions and setting the pace for starters.

by BudweiserCeltic on May 12, 2009 11:16 AM EDT reply actions

Good post. I agree that at times it seems like he could play even better. We forget how young he is sometimes, but all the talent is there. I think teams that get real physical with him tend to affect his play and you add that to the pace that he needs to play at to stay effective and I don’t care how young you are, it’s has to be exhuasting at certain points in the game. I think you explained the psychology of it all pretty well…

by Jughead on May 12, 2009 12:13 PM EDT reply actions