Trade "Losers"

We’re a trade loser, you guys are so clueless? This team beat Cleveland at home on opening night, Orlando at home without Pierce… while you guys are climbing out of the Charles River I’ll be here on my couch

Nate is as good as it gets as a 6th (or 8th man). Geesh.

Do the experts also wanna tell us why other GMs are pressuring teams (like the Wiz) from not dealing with Boston?!

I think Nate will be helpful. The starters are tired, they need to lean on the bench more often. The bench was ineffective on the offensive end all season. Eddie was great two years ago, but he can’t dribble, he can’t play D and he hasn’t been scoring all that well lately. I would have liked to see more of Bill Walker, but he wasn’t playing so it doesn’t matter. If nothing else, Nate Robinson will score and he is a better defender and ball handler than House. Plus he’s an exciting young player that the Celtics could keep around.

Nate is Great!

By the way, Jeff – I appreciate the solemn nature of your posts about the Nate/House transition. No hype. Let him earn praise as a teammate.

Get used to Nate being on the team; at least for the remainder of the year, and probably beyond.

better put take this trade as a chip on their shoulder… if they dont like playing with nate too bad, if they were able to compete for 48 minutes, no trade wouldve ever happened.

It’s all meaningless. Their opinions, that is.

Meanwhile, at halftime, the Cs are looking like the fire is back. In all of them. If this is a true indication (and we’ll see what happens in Q3 and Q4), then they really will be ready for the playoffs and could really take it all. (And btw, it doesn’t matter if they actually lose this game in a squeaker or if they win… the important thing is that they’re playing the way they need to be playing. No team can win every game.)

Nate’s deal, while good (I believe), pales into insignificance when compared to the state of our top 6-7-8 guys. If they play from now on like they just played the first half… we’re gonna be good to go.

Does anyone remember the bad blood between rondo and kirk in the playoffs?

and you guys will love Nate…we finish 57-25

amen, funky brother

…is the CBS Sports writer really criticizing the Celtics because they didn’t go get Kirk Hinrich? Really?

who unfortunately seems to have replaced Perkins as the Celtics’ permanent center in the 4th. Hopefully Doc et al will wake up to the fact that this guy is slow, selfish and stupid. Never boxes out, slow to rotate, careless passes, a whiner.

I liked House – always played with heart. And I hear the arguments above, but I’m open to see what Nate’s more versatile offense will bring to the team. Truth is nobody knows how a player will mesh until he plays with the team.

btw is Doc saving all his timeouts for the playoffs?? I just saw the Celtics go from 80-71 to 80-80, no timeout.

and the fact that it’s just a one point margin does not help it one bit

I got to hand it to the Lakers. Playing without Kobe, they should have won. Damn they’re good. I don’t think we have it anymore. We’re too old and no one wants to face the facts. We should rebuild. Dump the big three while there still is value

F- for Berger. – Flip Ray for Hinrich’s and some other bad contract(s)? Bulls fans would have thrown a parade in Danny’s honor.

C- for Sportsnation – Why not have a guy who can initiate his own offense on the 2nd unit?

C- for Frank Hughes – Don’t know how the chemistry will be, but unless he’s a complete dope, he’ll behave or he won’t get much of a deal next year. He’s certainly walking into a stronger locker room. Otherwise the on court logic’s very simple – Nate’s a better player than Eddie or as Kenny the Jet said Eddie on steroids.

who was the focal point of offense in the second unit before Nate joined the team? Eddie? Sheed? I don’t think Nate will do any worse than those two offensively. We don’t have enough guys who can create his own shots.

I like Sheed, but he made one good move tonight, tha baseline drive and 1 against Gasol. Marquis had 1 rebound, 0 points in 17 minutes.

  Who was the last Celtic guard to score over 40 pts in a game?

Taking a wait and see on Nate and hoping for the best…. who really knows how much Danny was trying to move Ray. Unless they get lucky with a buyout this season will be on KG and Pierce. Danny will have his work cut out for him this summer.

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/insider/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&page=TradeGrades-100218

I am ok with the trade, and the non-trade. I do think the celts needed a true point guard for the second unit. The change from going from a point lead offense to a non-point lead offense, and having Pierce, Allen and Wallace altering their game around that, I don’t think was ideal. Regardless of how great a shot House was. And he was good.

I also think that when you play every game with some non-point offense, and have that as a significant part of your daily scheme, its easier to slip into that at toward the end of a close game when you get more focused, and want to take it upon yourself to make it happen.

And I think the celts drop off a peg, stop moving as much, when it turns into a one man game.

Whether or not Robinson was the best PG we could get. I’m glad we did not make the Ray trade. I think you have a better shot at another banner if you tweek the roster a little, than starting down the road of starting over.