No Excuses, No Finger Pointing, Team Has Meeting

I appreciate him challenging the team, but I wonder about his game behavior and the comments. JJJ has a brain fart and so Doc seems to make him pay the rest of the game by benching him? It just seems sometime he bites off his nose to spite his face. I mean, aren’t his vets PHYSICALLY tired coming off the LA loss? And wouldn’t we have benefited from matchups involving JJJ and Wilcox? And not to digress, but are a better team with Rondo out?

Glad to see Doc and the team are trying to address these issues now before it becomes something bigger. Celtics don’t have the luxury of another prolonged streak of bad play in this shortened season.

LOVE where Doc talks about not making EXCUSES for the game last night. Refreshing to hear the coach echoing the same sentiments instead of coming up with so many excuses night after night.

I believe this team has a legitimate chance at making some noise in the playoffs, but only if its needs are addressed. If we were take one lesson from the Lakers game, it should be the fact that the team is lacks depth at the center position. I am not trying to take any credit away from Wilcox for at least trying, but if he is the only other option besides Jermaine, then we are going to continue getting killed on points in the paint, rebounds, and toughness.

I am a firm believer that this team is in desperate need of scoring and athleticism. Besides Bass, no other player can come in the game and score consistently. But then on and off, we get some contributions from Moore, Avery and Pietrus and then everyone thinks this is it. This is the spark we needed to win night in, night out. I’m sorry. I am not convinced. DA must, must, must figure out a trade or two comes March to bail this team out. There are no others way to winning. This team needs help.

Now, let us stop with all the excuses, meetings…. GO GET SOME HELP AND LET THE SCORE DO THE TALKING

Here’s my two cents. I know what it’s like sitting around in icebaths and getting taped and having a coach make you run until you legs cramp and you’re still sore from the day before and your ankle hurts. It’s hard.

What it came down to for me is being RAW, it’s a no apologies, aggressive competitive warlike mindset that isn’t necessary in other areas of life but was crucial to me since I didn’t have physical gifts to rely on. It’s also crucial to winning in competitive leagues in my humble opinion. As a player I never really rationalized losses, they just angered me (I know this is a clean language site but you get the idea haha)

I know different players have different ways of operating to be effective but that’s how I looked at it.

D’Antoni got desperate and had to try Lin. Well, what do you know! That Toronto game was a perfect opening for Doc to throw a Hail May pass with his end of bench players. His starters were lifeless. What does Doc do? Same old, same old. Yank the first young guy who makes a mental error, which is not quite as bad as the dead legs-dead hearts of his starters.

C’mon Doc. Yes I know we’ve never traded away any young bench guys who have gone on to show you wrong but when your starters stink, gamble a little for Chrissake!

About time Doc went off on this team, because they’ve played poorly the last 2 weeks. In recent games they’ve lacked aggression and urgency and fans are taking notice.

The Celtics have no room for error and need to be consistent. Let’s hope the C’s get the message as they play the Bulls tomorrow.

winnable games vs raptors — or @ home in OT to lakers when stars dont execute down the stretch (kg 0-7 fg) pp poor decision making.
bad loss to cavs @ home also decided by poor execution down the stretch (blew 13pt lead)

if celts cant win 3 0f next 5 games – we are looking @ .500 record (again) after working so hard to get to 14-10 —
could be looking @ 15-16 record.

but if rondo was still injured, we would’ve beat the lakers and blown out toronto

We are becoming the team that had Toine, PP and Blount and Ricky Davis; Good enough to reach the playoffs but that is as far as we go. We got to start rebuilding intelligently – Lets get Pitino back. lolololololololol> Sorry, I had to say it. If I dont laugh, then I’d have to cry. lol

I was little concerned the other day when Avery Bradley couldn’t keep this kid out of the paint. Four games later this kid shows that he has the complete package for a NBA point guard. Have the the Knicks noticed they play better with Lin than they do with Amare “small game” Stoudamire, and Carmelo “the team Cancer” Anthony. Can we trade Rondo straight up for Lin???

You’re old and getting older, you have very little interior strength or scoring, and on the second night of a back-to-back, you’re on your own.