T-Mobile Player of the Week (You Decide)

by Jeff Clark on Mar 8, 2010 5:00 PM EST in Boston Celtics Articles

This post is sponsored by T-Mobile.

Seems like every week someone disagrees somewhat with my pick for player of the week, so this week I'm tossing it back to you folks. I'll give you 4 candidates and you can chose who is most deserving.

Nobody had a perfect week but all of these guys stepped up and contributed to the 4 game winning streak.

Ray Allen: Scored 18, 3, 16, and 25 points last week. In fairness, he only took 2 shots against Charlotte in just 17 minutes due mostly to the blowout nature of that win (and Paul's hot hand). Without Ray, we don't win that Washington game. Period, end of story.

Paul Pierce: An up and down week for Paul. Scored 9, 27, 7, and 17 points (after missing the previous 3 games). He had perhaps his best game of the year against the Bobcats, entertaining us with a vintage Pierce performance. However, he had some much quieter performances as well - which we've become a little too familiar with lately.

Kevin Garnett: KG is rounding into shape, it would seem. He averaged 14 points and 8 rebounds last week, which is about what you'd expect from him at this point. But like his teammates his efforts were a little uneven. He followed up a 22 point effort with an 0-7 from the field stinker last night. That said, he still got praise from his coach for his defense and pulled down 10 boards.

Rajon Rondo: Our All Star point guard probably had the most consistent (statistical) stat line - with 15, 8, 16, and 15 points to go along with 11, 6, 11, and 7 assists. Once again, the worst game of that stretch came against the Bobcats where he wasn't called upon to do much. Of course, with Rondo it seems that for every 2 good quarters of play he disappears for 1. I think he's still trying to seek that balance between taking over and deferring to his teammates.

So cast your vote. Who deserves to be the T-Mobile Player of the Week this time?

By the way, heads up: CelticsBlog will be giving away 70 tickets to the next home game courtesy T-Mobile. You read that right, 70.

Poll

Who should be last week's T-Mobile Player of the Week?

Ray Allen

813 votes

Paul Pierce

20 votes

Kevin Garnett

64 votes

Rajon Rondo

275 votes

1172 votes | Poll has closed

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Nice idea.. As you said, this last week was overall quite uneven. To me the previous winner should’ve been easily KG, but this week seem like hard to argue against anyone winning over the other.

I’m going to go with Ray Allen, because he’s been shooting lights out. And it that game against the Bobcats, where he only took 2 shots, he played masterful defense against Jackson. So props to him.

But, I see a ton of merit going for Rondo with how he took some games over (Philly) and the clutch FT’s against Detroit.

KG has been awesome too though, and I’m kinda hesitating not giving it to him. He’s been quite productive in the previous games, but last night when he’s shot was off, one could argue that him getting under Blatche’s skin and such might’ve been a pivotal moment as we made our comeback.

But still, I still need to give Ray his due. Often overlooked.

by BudweiserCeltic on Mar 8, 2010 5:25 PM EST reply actions

Ray Ray all the way!

He is unstoppable since the All-Star Break, and as much as I enjoy Rondo’s consistent awesomeness, my preference goes to Ray and his smooth shots.

by Drucci on Mar 8, 2010 5:39 PM EST reply actions

+1

by wdogg72 on Mar 8, 2010 7:24 PM EST up reply actions

The Cap'n

While you’d probably want to pick Ray for his play, I think Paul’s statements this past week shows that the leadership we’ve been looking for from him is still in there somewhere. Responding to the less than inspiring quotes from Perk and Sheed, Paul took the opportunity to speak the Truth about the value of regular season games as an opportunity to get ready for the playoffs. His words certainly inspired me, and one would hope that he’s having a similar effect these days in the locker room. Anyhow, my two cents. Certainly can’t dispute Ray’s contributions on the court tho!

by Hal Jordan on Mar 8, 2010 5:52 PM EST reply actions

Ray is Da Man.

Nothing but positive play all week – even in the Bobcat ‘3-point’ game, his effort on defense was huge in setting the tone for that game. He just didn’t need to take any more shots.

And we don’t win at least two of the other games without him.

by mmmmm on Mar 8, 2010 6:24 PM EST reply actions

None of these guys

None of these guys deserve any award because the team continues to play like crap. Its a team game man and as soon as they start playing for each other with some CELTIC PRIDE then none of them deserves anything. How many times this year have they played well? Any games in Jan, Feb or Mar?

by timpiker on Mar 8, 2010 7:30 PM EST reply actions