Celtics Steamroll Over Raptors For Undefeated Preseason!

i call him “steamboat.” Moore was very impressive. bass deserves the nickname no pass bass. kg, jo, ra, and rr looked good but toronto looks like a bad team. did not like donny marshall’s implication that the c’s are hot to trade rondo west.

Starters looked good but then again, they’re playing Toronto

Steimsma and Moore look like good finds by Danny. JJJ still looks a little raw but there’s some talent. Bradley looked good on D but needs a clue on O.

Gilbert Brown wlll be gone. I see the C’s looking for another FA wing or keeping 14 players and waiting for the waivers or trading deadline

i was one of few being optimistic about steimsma with lil more exp he maybe can be better than JO……..

For real. I want that hat in the pic.

How tall is JJJ and how tall is jeff green. Because of his frame, I wonder if JJJ would be a better fit as a small forward. I like the kid but I cant see him banging in the paint for rebounds against centers and real pfs. Anyone else feel the same?

7-8 from the floor, led the Magic with 18 points in a victory over the Heat. Not bad.

Rondo looked great & engaged last night, no reason to bring the trade talks back to the mix of an already emotional roller-coaster of a pre-season (CP3 buzz, missing out on D.West & losing J.Green). Rondo is an emotional guy and that type of trade buzz can lead to uncertainty and really hinder his focus and aggressiveness.
I will however add my 2 cents on the guessing game of “surprising” West team, before putting this to rest for good and say that my gut feeling tells me that Russell Westbrook will be the target.
He will be a restricted free agent and had some issues with being 2’nd fiddle to K.D (A bit like early days of Marbury and K.G)
OKC has plenty of offense with the emergence of J.Harden as the 2’nd leading scorer and need a true point guard next to K.D (Plus Rondo and Perk are best buddies).
Having said all that, I LOVE RONDO!!! Keep him here & keep him Happy!

He looked pretty good playing point and his defense was better tonite. He does have a habit of showing the ball when he drives and maybe all his drives have been blocked. He probably needs to get one step closer to the basket.

We used to have a player that did the same thing, Chauncey Billups. Rick Pitino solved that problem by trading him away. I think he gave him a few months to learn. Fortunately, Rick ain’t walking thru that door. I’ll bet by the end ot the year that Moore will start scoring big on those drives.

Let the regular season pre-season begin. We should be ready for alot of sloppy basketball for awhile.

Want to trade a good point guard for “serviceable PGs”? Witness the Toronto Raptors. Calderon talks a good game and Bayless runs north to south. If they didn’t have Bargnani making his own offense and making some deft passes they wouldn’t score 30 points a night with those two at the point..

From my seats I can hear all the talk on the court. You know who was talking the most on defense? Stiemsma. I never heard Erden or Krstic. Garnett never shuts up. Baby was a yeller too. I think I like what I see in Stiemsma. His first basket was a quick turn with his left hand. His 2nd shot (a miss) was the same with his right hand. He didn’t hesitate on his face up shot and he ran the floor for a dunk. Yes it was the Raptors but they are pros too and this is a 12-14 roster spot guy. Nice pick up, Danny

Bradley. He did a good job taking DeRozan off his game. But you could tell his shot was a miss the second it left his hand. I was surprised when he hit the three. As Ray flattered Moore for slowing the game down, that was as much a pointer for Bradley. Either he can’t shoot (I hope not) or he has to disconnect his brain and just go with it. The old simple “See the ball, hit the ball” that you hear baseball hitters espouse. Whatever that is in basketball.

Pavlovic. I have talked him up here and he also can play defense but, Wow, replace Pierce’s offense with his no offense and you lose a lot. I overrated him.

I thought JJ looked better as the game progressed. Nervous in his first couple of minutes and more aggressive in the last minutes of the game.

He was totally robbed by that bogus traveling call on a beautiful post-up spin move. The replay was pretty conclusive that he did not travel and it should have been a basket-and-one. I’d love to see him use that move a lot. Kinda reminded me of a young ’Sheed.

I think the youngsters did a much better job of staying poised and withstanding the storm down the end of the game this time.