Observations & Questions

but i agree with your observations i just wish someone from doc’s staff take notice and blow it. .no shout it on rivers ear.

We have been the worst 4th qtr team in the league right now for how can doc explain how we can hang around even with the best or worst teams in the league yet get obliterated when it truly matters.. Doc should really just simplify the offense as what you have said. NEWYORK for example runs PnR almost exclusively for lin and look where they are now riding on a 7 game wining streak..
We should just accept it..big 3 are washed up..they would probably just come off the bench at this stage of their careers if they are not on the C’s right now.

P for putting at least part of my same rant into a readable form!

Have come to appreciate your well thought out posts, or rants!

My anger is becoming more focused on Doc. Obviously the players love him. He is a great motivator, and truly believe a friend to his guys! But that alone a coach does not make. If he can’t get the offense going, get somebody in there that can. Always heard the C’s had six basic plays, with about a zillion options off of each. Well lets just cut it down to the basic six or so then!
And, Doc, enough of the schoolgirl- “I’m mad at you, so you’re not going to play for a week” BS. Your rooks didn’t have a preseason to learn. They get almost no practice time. So how about cuttin’ them some damn slack!!!!!!!!!!! Almost more than their real skill that they do have, we need their freakin’ energy they bring to the floor! And maybe when Ray is in a 0 for infinity shooting slump, we could maybe, just maybe give ETM a look. Been so long since we’ve seen him, forgot he was still on the team!

Ok, that’s my rant-I’m so frustrated with this coach and team, ugh…………………………………

J.O. even with his old knees/shoulder is a better defender than Wilcox but I would rather play Wilcox for movement/offense. WIth KG there the defense will still be solid and Wilcox can learn enough to not be a bad defender. Practice wise I think they did need time earlier in the season to learn the defense, because for the most part it is now at a very high level. Wouldn’t mind different offensive sets, it is possible Doc is getting too predictable, and we all have seen the Rondo dribble at the top of the key for 10-15 seconds waiting for the play to run too many times.

I think & hope the last 5 games, la, Toronto, Chicago, Detroit, Chicago, has shown Danny Ainge and Doc that March 1st – 15th will be tough. Tough trades to do and not do. I have thought pierce should be the moved piece cause teams like S.A., Dallas, Chicago, indy can use a SF with play off experience so you can get a pick plus a young wing.

I would LOVE a

K. Leonard from the spurs, or a
T.Gibson from Chicago.

And pierce can get you one of them plus a pick to help that team to get passed Miami or okc.

If indy can give up a Paul George for pierce than you HAVE to do any of these trades just to not get back to the 20 win season.

Rondo at the very least has shown he can put numbers up, and make average players better…Wilcox… so let’s just get young, let contracts go. Say thank you to kg, ray, Paul retire the jerseys at the last game no matter if they play or not next year Aka pierce.

Is the Celtic situation similar to the lakes situation when Shaq was asked to give up shots and touches to kobe. Has doc, by saying rondo has to start to take 15+ shots a game. Alternated how pierce and ray feel.

Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not saying rondo is as good as kobe. But its been a big 3 team. To a rondo team.

Are the questions answered as easily as egos have become an issue behind the scenes, not just rondo but pierce, ray etc.. are they now seeing the writing and becoming stubborn and saying give me touches and I can do it. Than when they get the ball and try to hard.

Does Ray really only hit wide open 3’s on fast breaks at a 42% clip? Or are you considering his overall 3pt %? Because if that’s the case, then you should consider a Pierce/Wilcox field goal at around a 50 % chance of going in… if you want to compare apples to apples that is.

I don’t have exact numbers— my point is that most teams will finish a 4 on 2 at much highrer rate than RA making a three point shot. It is more about settling for the three, and the inability to finish around the rim. When your power forward and small forward miss dunks, resort to finger rolls, and/or throw the ball back out for a 20 foot jumper you have a problem.

on occasion the three point option is a good one – especially with RA. But we tend to RELY on this option , often not even looking to make a simple pass-catch-finish play.

and statistically its probably a wash. Again, my main point was that this lack of ability and/or mindset to settle for jumpers permeates the entire offensive approach (not to mention rubbing off on Pietrus, and others who are less stellar shooters than RA). This is only one of many points in my OP, and the sum of those points illustrates (IMO) why we are inconsistent— and in need of some changes.