I like how some dumbass writer from Fox Sports says blame KG for the Celts woes. Yes KG had a bad game last night but Varejo* did a great job defending. If it wasn't for KG in game 1 Cleveland would have won. KG deserves some of thte blame but where does Pierce and Allen fit in? Hell what happen to the C's Bench? Cassel and Powe both sucked it up. But Boston isn't even that great of team and their showing it. They can't defend on the road. Their role playrs can't do anything, The Big 3 really isn't the big 3. Boston isn't showing that their a great team.
Because they aren't. I was saying this at the beginning of the season. The East this year is full of raging frauds. The real basketball is being played out west.
Regular season is borderline meaningless, though. I have a sneaking suspicion that Boston's biggest accomplishment this year will be ending the Rockets' win streak.
Watching this team play on the road is sickening, watching Paul Pierce shoot the ball is sickening, watching Sam Cassell shoot the ball every time he gets it only to miss is sickening. Almost everything about this team on the road is sickening. This is a pathetic showing for a team that went 31-10 on the road this season.
god I'm so sick of the officiating in the Association. It's pains me to watch an entire game now adays. The home team gets way too many calls going there way constantly.
Nothing is more disturbing than listening to Stan Van Gundy attempt to "motivate" his players. His voice is like a male version of Mariah Scary.
A shame to see Orlando knocked out so quickly considering every series is going to a Game 6 or more. If Celts can't wrap theirs in 6, I wonder if they'll have enough in them to face the Pistons.
I don't think so. He was there, he just never got a good grip on it before Hamilton got his hands in there. He certainly worked for it. But that was the story of the whole game. I'd say Detroit grabbed about 80% of the loose balls. The Pistons badly needed the extra rest and they played like it. They had enough to get by the Magic without Billups, but they need him at 100% if they play the Celtics. For a team that has been derided for lackadaisical play when their backs aren't against the wall, they hustled and worked HARD tonight. I questioned the decision to sit Billups tonight, but Saunders made the right call; they had enough to get by the Magic, and Rodney Stuckey looked pretty good.
I tell you what if The C's get past the Cavs I thikn I'll go with the Pistons in 5. Yeah Pistons are no team to look down on.
I figured they needed the extra rest but I was also hoping to see the Celtics rested up as well so this could be one heck of a series. I don't really follow the Pistons other than to follow a former classmate of mine.
I'm not going to go that far. Even if the playoffs have exposed some warts, there's no way the Celtics would go down in 5. Whatever happens, Boston-Detroit will be at least a 6 game series, and probably 7. However, where I previously felt it would be Boston in 7, I now think it will be Detroit in 6, as long as Billups is healthy. If he's not, forget it: Celtics in 6.
I still maintain the prediction that it will be Hornets vs. Lakers and Pistons vs. Celtics. That has been my prediction since the playoffs started.
The Magic are very close to being a really good team; the Howard-Lewis-Turkoglu-Nelson core is plenty good enough to be a chamionship contender, but their roster falls off dramatically after that. Maurice Evans is a good 7th or 8th man, but has no business starting for a good team. And apart from Howard, no one in their rotation has any clue how to play defense. A defensive stopper at the 2 spot (think of a young Bruce Bowen) and a competent big man off the bench would probably be the things atop my shopping list if I were Otis Hill. The Rashard Lewis contract absolutely cripples their cap structure, and they're going to want to re-sign Turkoglu after next year, so any changes will have to be on the cheap. The Magic could do worse than to call the Pistons and offer them their first round pick for Arron Afflalo, who looks like he has the chops to be the defensive stopper they need at the 2. As for the big man, they'll just have to hope that the oft-injured Tony Battie can be a quality physical presence as a 6th man.
I liked him a few years ago, and think he can be entertaining at times, but he's become a broken record spewing generalizations, and fellating anything related to reality TV or the city of Boston. He rags on Doc Rivers, rambles about the Red Sox, routinely throws players under the bus like he did to Ray Allen in that article, and fails miserably at trying to handicap football games. He also knocks Billy King, Zeke, and jokes about being the next Milwaukee GM, even though he gushed about Adam Morrison as the next Larry Bird, and said he wouldn't touch Yi Jianlian with a ten feet pole.
That article is dead on though. Doc Rivers is literally trying to lose this series and the playoffs in general. He's one of the worst coaches I've ever seen in the NBA, why they kept him after last year is beyond me. No sense making huge trades and stacking a roster just to have this idiot throw it in the trash can.
LOL that article is dead on, the speech was the best Rivers is a horrible coach, anyone can win games with that line up. Rivers doesn't know when to rotate guys in. Gods sake he left KG, Allen, and Rondo for the whole 3rd QT then benched them for the first 4 mins of the 4th. He is horrible and there is no way in hell they beat the Lakers if they met.
His rotations are appallingly bad. Bench players do best when they: a. know their role and b. play in a set group. Rivers has absolutely no concept of this, however, and jerks guys around willy-nilly. I was afraid this would happen to the Celtics when they signed Cassell and Brown, and sure enough, here it is. When Rivers had a shallow bench, he HAD to use an 8 man rotation. Now, he's got Cassell thinking it's still 2003, while every minute that PJ Brown gets at the expense of the comically underrated Leon Powe hurts the Celtics.
he was a good coach in the regular season. And he was heralded because of the famous Heart and Hustle team in Orlando that won a lot of games that they had no business winning without one star player on the team, led by Darrell Armstrong, Bo Outlaw, and Ben Wallace.
LeBron's started hot. Too soon to say, but this might be The LeBron James Game I've been saying we were due to get.
Game over. The Cavs want this game more than the C's. Maybe next year for the Big 2 featuring Ray Allen.
