Celtics Stuck In Tar Pits, Extinction Threatens

Was nice to see him get as pissed as the rest of us have been, but Im not sure its all on the players. Clearly frustration has set in. This team needs to find an identity, be it with or without rondo,KG, etc…AND FAST!

There has really been no shortage of frustrating losses for the Celtics this season. From the opening tip you would know that they want to give Toronto a freebie instead of having pride in avenging a tough loss the night before. They were simply going through the motions.

I’m very disappointed they didn’t come out the gate with a good start and not give Toronto a chance at this game. Worse game I’v seen Rondo play, just awful, no offence, no defence, should have been benched in this one.

I’d like the one I saw after the first few games and prior to the last two. Which one is the real Celtics?

No, it’s not. You know what’s embarrassing? A front court of Aaron Gray and Amir Johnson out rebounding our team. You know what’s embarrassing? Our supposedly Top 5 PG getting outplayed by Jose Calderon. Time to face reality. Same old, same old.

With the monster game… let the barrage of excuses flow.

we are not that good in back to back games especially when the starters play 30+ Minutes. thus, no energy, no legs and no entushsiaim

And this ain’t nothing compared to the upcoming schedule! In all honesty I’m happy the Big 3 brought us a championship, but it’s time to go old fellas. Thanks for the wonderful times and our two trips to an NBA Finals. They were unwilling, groggy, beat, uninspired tonight. But yet it was obvious that had this game not been a back-to-back involving a previous OT game, the C’s would have done alot better. Now it’s time for Celticsblog to start panicking and rant once more the “Blow it up” story! I see a 14-13 record by the end of the week. You know what? I can’t wait for this brutal SEASON to end!! The mere curiosity of this team’s future is interesting as it is scary. I’m not gonna be surprised if come March Danny ships out Rondo and seals the fate of the Big 3: missing the playoffs. Guess I won’t be buying any Rondo Boston merchandise, cuz it’s more than obvious he’s a goner once the opportunity arises for DA to trade him away. Sad sad indeed, I had nothing but high hopes for the PG. But seeing D.Rose surpass him greatly in the East and the arrival of D-Will to NJ, the ranks for the once considered “best pure PG” diminishes into an abyss of shame. And until we acquire a big to get REBOUNDS, we will forever dwell in the bottom of the barrel regarding the such.

He got so heated because they couldn’t even execute out of a time-out. Said one person didn’t know the play and that wasn’t professional. I wonder who? Also said he probably should’ve gone back to Bradley. Uh, yeah.

this team lost a game. they’ll probably lose another at some point. rondo looked terrible tonight. he’ll probably be fine. couldn’t rebound tonight. probably won’t again, in the future. still a pretty dang good team.

Hurhur

We have some great players on our teams. They are talented individuals and who know how to play the game. As a unit they are not so great due to experiences-years. They really could help other teams climb the playoff ladder more than they can help us get to the playoffs. The schedule94 games/per week is too brutal for them.

I needed it.

and spot on.

Just got home from the high school musical production in my town. From what I have heard about the game, it was much better than the Celts’ performance tonight.

Fork meet Celtics.

The detonator is about to go off.

are u a fan of george rr martin jeff? i am.
anyway i figured doc doesn’t want to rest his starters because he doen’t want to hurt their egos. and that way their bodies will break down faster and they will retire earlier then doc can employ the young turks more often. LOL

am glad they’re pacing themselves. finish just above .500 and do your damage in the playoffs, fellas.. could use a center though. or two.

putrid. i should just leave it at that. i won’t even write them off. rondo was the main culprit- he flat out stunk, stank and worse than that. i think doc left him out there to punish him. if he’s not hurt he is sulking. played ole on calderon and made soft passes and no penetration. if he is sulking, he’s a major head case.if not, he should be resting and not on the floor.

getting paid millions for that crap. Who does he think he is?

Where I kept watching and waiting for something to happen, for them to turn it on, and it just never did. Very disappointing.

After the Laker loss last night so many kept saying ‘only a one point loss’ ‘nothing to worry about’ ‘Rondo isn’t at fault’ ‘this team is in good shape’ and countless other positive thoughts.

Now after the Celtics got dominated by a terrible Raptors team wonder what can be said now? Tonight was absolutely pathetic. No excuse for the Celtics to play this poorly. Rondo.was awful but he had plenty of company. The Celtic offense looked as if they decided to execute their horrific late game offense for a full 48 minutes. Hard to fathom that a team featuring Rondo and 3 hall.of famers can’t break 80 points against the Raptors.

Inexcusable effort tonight from which even the most optimistic will find little to celebrate…

It’s sad to see how NOBODY in the NBA respects Rondo’s shooting and probably never will. He’ll keep this up and I promise to anyone that not only is he gonna get traded, he’ll probably become a bench PG, as the emergence of amazing PG’s will without a doubt continue. Look at how Irving on his FIRST season is leading the crappy Cavs, how Ricky Rubio is giving Minnesota relevancy once more since KG took sail to Boston. D.Rose not only leads the Bulls, he is a 2x MVP, the youngest ever. The CP3 and Griffin duo is all the talks in LA and in the league, Jeremy Lin is creating a MASSIVE buzz! Westbrook is destroying the west alongside Durant and Harden. John Wall and D-Will aren’t getting much love cuz they’re playing for horrid teams, but if they weren’t, the league would be shamelessly pondering “Rondo who?”. Where does Rondo stand now? In the tier of Nelson, Chalmers, Shumpert, man that hurts me inside to see how a perceived great player is sinking into the shadows of others little by little. The Big 4 are coming to an end, and we’ll probably be a bad team again. But then again we might not be, I DUNNO!! So frustrating!!! Maybe I should lay-off the basketball ambiance for a while. sigh

Lakers and Celts don’t matter anymore. How long before the Jeremy Lin-led Knicks pass the Celtics in the standings?

They played like they didn’t care, that was really the bottom line for me. I’m sure these guys were tired physically and mentally, but they played like they weren’t trying. It was a disgrace really.

Calling guys unprofessional (though he did not name them), saying they were mentally weak, etc. etc. Only two guys he really said anything positive about were Pietrus and KG. Gotta wonder who the screwups are and if Doc will sit these guys.

Total waste of money

… just about says it all. We’re on the ground, and they’re tazin’ our twitching corpses.

I know every team has bad games, 1 or 2 bad nights don’t mean they can’t be great again, they will probably bounce back, yada, yada, yada…. but it doesn’t feel that way right now. It feels like…. don’t taze me bro.

..He might get lucky and get a Jeremy Lin :)

Jeremy Lin put on a clinic that I wish Rondo would attend. LA got beat…. one day late.

Celtics were outrebounded again but that doesn’t really matter I guess.

Looking at the 74 points for the Celtics I keep waiting for it to update thinking the 4th quarter points haven’t been factored in. Forgetting everything else it’s just hard to believe how inept the Celtics offense can be.

Not a huge fan of the +/- stat but some use it to defend a player’s performance. Rondo was 2-10 from the field with 5 TO’s and a +/- of -16 that makes sense.

Judging by the +/- Doc needs to find more minutes for Marquis Daniels ASAP. He scored 4 points and only played 9 minutes but myst have been the catalyst for the Celtics brief period of great play. The C’s were a startling +10 in his limited minutes so maybe he is the mysterious cure to the Celtics offensive woes!

But TRADE FOR STEVE NASH! He is leading the league in assists right now and is one of those few guys (like Ray Allen) who doesn’t seem to age. He plays his heart out every game and has been cursed having to lead poorly assembled squads most of his career. With Steve Nash, teams can no longer play 5 on 4 defense when the ball is in our possession with Rondo at the helm.

PHX gets to rebuild with an all-star talent point guard in/approaching his prime and Nash gets to go the distance with a quality team for once in his career. If we can throw in draft picks or O’Neal rather keep him for big man depth) in order to get Gortat (or to a lesser extent Lopez), MAKE IT HAPPEN! With Nash filling the huge-gaping hole in our offense which is a point guard who is unable to shoot the ball, then we suddenly have the deadliest shooting offense in the league!

I don’t care what anybody says, and granted, the lack of a legitimate big man to bang around in the paint and grab boards and properly compliment KG is a close second, Rondo not being able to buy a basket from the field is KILLING us! The main advantage of Rondo is his speed, if he’s not using that, defenders back way off him and offer better help defenders to our other players who can actually shoot and dare him to take the shot.

If he’s not running and constantly pushing the ball, wearing defenses down, and being forced to take more shots than anyone cares to see him take, then he is rendered useless and is a huge offensive liability. I really did love the idea of signing Howard and him, Rondo and Green flying up and down the court like noble steeds across the plains of the mid-west blowing by the opposition like figments of their imaginations, but enough is enough.

Rondo is a head case and is NOT the future of this franchise. Trade for Nash, that’s a HUGE start. Get another big in the process if you can pull off that general managerial trickery Ainge to help us THIS year, and after we go all the way (Banner 18) and our new and improved “Old four” show the world that experience, heart and basketball smarts will always prevail, Dwight Howard will realize his destiny and how our Jurassic 4 can legitimately compete for another 2 or 3 titles with him (DH12) manning the middle.

Your line up this year
PG:Nash, Dooling, Bradley
SG:Allen, Daniels, Moore
SF:Pierce, Pietrus, Pavlovic
PF:KG, Bass, Johnson
C:Gortat, Wilcox, O’Neal or Stiemsma (depending what deal is made to get Nash)

This team goes all the way and is ultimately what makes DH12 choose Boston and then to make it work, Nash, Allen and Garnett all come back on a fraction of their current salaries so we can give Dwight his pay day and keep our current bench all-stars Bass and Pietrus (lock these dudes up Ainge!) and then give Green a one year “prove yourself” deal which he gracefully accepts for all believing in him, and sticking by him in a time of need. And look at that same roster next year with a few tweaks and upgrades.

PG:Nash, Dooling (maybe), Bradley
SG:Allen, Daniels (maybe), Moore
SF:Pierce, Green, Pietrus
PF:KG, Bass, Johnson
C:Howard, Gortat, Wilcox

I say between Dooling, Daniels and Pavlovic keep whoever plays the best the rest of the way and see if there’s anything better in the 2nd and 3rd tier free-agents market this summer, but overall, I don’t have any major problems with them. It’d be interesting to start Pietrus and let Ray be our 6th man, 3-point threat off the bench to lead the second squad.
I know I went on a bit of a fantasy rant, but the bottom line is get rid of Rondo, I don’t care if our average starting five age would be like 35, with the Big Three on the brink of dismantlement and Nash with his last true shot at a ring and no contractual obligations beyond this season, you pull that trigger. Nobody believes we’re going anywhere this year so why not do it with former 2x MVP, current league-leading in assist, SHOOTING point guard instead?

Ive never seen DOC go off like that before. I didnt see the game. Who was he reffering too?

So it all typed out pretty quickly actually. Forgot to mention how, say we don’t go all the way with that Nash in green scenario, that would leave us with even more cap-space for Celts rebuild 2012 (Howard and Williams, perhaps?).

I really think its not the players. Its the coach, I love doc but hes gotta use all the tools hes got in his bag. Its not like the young ones havent proven themselves useful. The blow it up button? Sheesh. Some fans are really fickle minded. Please remember that you cant win them all. The best teams have bad days. The worst teams have good days.

Glad to see Jeff has the same mentality I do… this team is boring. Who cares. Either fix the massive problems to make us a contender… or blow it up. Until then… “yawn”…

I too missed this game. DIdn’t even care to watch it. I haven’t been this bored watching the Celtics in years.

Why not just make Rondo come off the bench see how he reacts to this change? If he starts being moody and acts up the a trade would be justified. But if he somehow takes the challenge positively we just might see the Rondo that went headto head with DRose in that playoff series with the bulls.