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Post by FLCeltsFan on Dec 7, 2005 21:41:32 GMT -5
Back. Nice pass inside for a NO layup.... Celts had a defensive lapse on that one. Ricky gets fouled at the other end and makes both FT's. Lead is 11. Mason gets two on a layup again. Ricky shoots over CPaul and makes it. CPaul is fouled by Ricky. PP on the floor hurt. Got hit by CPaul flailing in the lane after a rebound. PP back on the court after the time out. CPaul on the line. Misses first makes second. NO extends the pressure on D. Nice give and go by Ricky but Delonte couldn't make the layup. NO gets the rebound. Perkins with a great block. Boston ball. PP misses a 3. NO rebound and Perk commits his second foul. Blount in for Perk. Blount, Raef, Delonte, PP, and Ricky on the court. CPaul was again flailing his arms around and caught Blount in the head this time. he makes the FT's Pierce goes hard baseline and misses the lay up. Referees blow a call. Delonte is set and they call him for a block. CPaul at the line. Makes 1 of 2. Blount is fouled on a shot and will go to the line.
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Dec 7, 2005 21:43:59 GMT -5
Blount makes them both. Blount with 2 blocks and Raef gets rebound. Delonte goest to the basket and gets his shot blocked. Ricky with a block and then Raef with a block and then Raef commits the foul (which was actually an offensive foul again but didn't get called). Makes 1 of 2. CPaul with the steal and all the way to the basket for a lay in. Lead is cut to 7
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Post by Celtic17 on Dec 7, 2005 21:45:45 GMT -5
Hope you all don't mind me not posting much during the games. I'm just enjoying all of the posts. Kinda feels like I'm at the games. Thanks for all the nice work people.
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Dec 7, 2005 21:53:51 GMT -5
Hornets playing good defense right now and are extending the pressure. Defensive 3 sec violation on NO. Pierce makes the FT. Lead back to 8. Boston inbounds Pierce fouled on a drive to the basket. PP, Ricky, Al, Blount and West are on the floor. Pp makes both FTs. Lead back to 10. NO miss and Blount the rebound. Beautiful pass inside by Blount to Al who missed the first lay up and then tipped it in. NO with a back court violation. Pierce gets stripped on the baseline and David West fouled by Delonte West. West made 1 out of 2. Greene in for West. nice pass by Pierce for a jam by Al. Ricky doing a great job defensively on CPaul. Tipped out of bounds by Celts and NO inbounds with 15 on the clock. Claxton misses inside and Al the rebound. Pierce gets hammered inside but no foul and No comes away with the ball. Good D by Al who blocks the shot and it comes back our way. Ricky gets fouled under the basket and will go to the FT line. Ricky makes them both and the lead is 15. David West hits a jumper.
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Dec 7, 2005 21:57:37 GMT -5
Ricky hits a shot and then is called for a foul at the other end. Ricky really playing good D. Paul makes both FT's. Lead is back to 14. Al inside with Mchalean moves for 2. Paul loses Ricky on a screen and gets to the basket for 2. Ricky to Al for another great move to the basket for 2. Claxton hits from outside. Score is 83-69. Gomes misses and NO gets the the rebound. Missed shot is tipped in with a second on the clock. Length of court shot by Celts misses badly at the buzzer.
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Dec 7, 2005 22:05:53 GMT -5
Al, Blount, Greene, PP and Gomes on the floor. NO comes out shooting and Al rebounds the miss. Blount misses a jumper. Greene tip won't go and NO gets the ball. Claxton scores and Blount comes back down down and scores and draws the foul. Blount makes the FT to complete the 3 point play. Gomes getting some nice playing time tonight - he is playing the 2 guard position and doing a good job. Al another rebound. pass from Al tipped out of bounds. Butler misses and Pierce the rebound. Pierce lost ball out of bounds. 3 second violation on NO. Vroman fouls PP on a drive. Misses the first - in and out - misses the second. NO the rebound.
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Dec 7, 2005 22:12:22 GMT -5
Greene with the steal and all the way to the basket but is fouled on the lay in and misses. Lead is 13 with 8:48 to go. NO cheerleaders doing their thing.... Greene at the line. Bench points are 34 - 12 in favor of the Celtics.... wow! haven't seen that before. Greene makes 1 of 2. Smith misses a 3 and Greene gets the rebound. Al makes more McHale like moves and hits another one. He looks GOOD tonight. Claxton goes to the basket and is fouled by OG. he completes the 3 point game. PP hits a jumper. Lead is 15. Claxton misses and rebound tipped around and Al comes down with it. Ricky back in and shoots ... goes in and out. NO gets the rebound. OG almost got it but it was taken away from him. Al commits the foul on the other end. Smith makes both FTs.
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Dec 7, 2005 22:20:06 GMT -5
Pierce is grabbed. West in for OG. NO makes a shot at the other end. Lead down to 11. Al takes a jumper and NO gets the rebound. Smith misses but NO gets the O rebound. Butler misses a 3 and Al grabs the rebound. Pierce scores under the basket on a beautiful pass inside by Delonte. Smith committed an O foul that wasn't called and missed shot. Celts the rebound. Blount scores with 1 sec on shot clock. NO turns it over. blount misses and NO gets the rebound. Pass length of court for a jam. Boston lead is 13. Pierce hits a pretty shot. NO misses and Pierce gets the rebound. Blount misses and NO gets the rebound. CPaul takes it hard to the basket and Raef fouls him. he completes the 3 point play. Lead down to 12. 2:50 to go. delonte missed a 3 and it goes off Blount out of bounds.
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Dec 7, 2005 22:27:41 GMT -5
Blount, Raef, Pp, Ricky and West in delonte good D on CPaul. Misses long shot and PP gets the rebound. Ricky drills an outside shot. PP gets a steal and fouled as he drives to the basket. 1:47 to go and the lead is 16 after PP makes them both. Crowd is starting to leave. The scrubs are in for NO. Blount with a block. Pp gets the ball. 24 second violation on the Celts as they try to use up the clock. Doc brings in Perk, Gomes Reed and Greene. perk misses a shot and NO gets the rebound. Delonte blocked the shot. Perk gets the rebound after a miss. Greene dribbles out the clock. and CELTICS WIN!!!!!!! Woohoo!!!!!! Super Cut of the game is a nifty 3/4 court pass to ricky for a jam. Big Al got the Tommy Award. It sure was good to get Tommy and Mike again. I hate having to listen to the other team's announcers!!!
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Post by Celtic17 on Dec 7, 2005 22:35:08 GMT -5
Much needed! ! ! Hey was Reed de-activated to make room for Allen? They have Allen in his place on the Yahoo boxscore.
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Dec 7, 2005 22:40:02 GMT -5
No, Reed played tonight and Tony wasn't in uniform so that may be premature.
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Post by Celtic17 on Dec 7, 2005 22:48:27 GMT -5
Thanks. Thought that looked a bit screwy. This team needs all the D it can get.
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Dec 7, 2005 23:22:47 GMT -5
Veal had a DNP and in my opinion he is the most expendable to go on the IL when we activate Tony. I had thought maybe Gomes but he played well tonight and with Veal's DNP it gives me hope.
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Post by Roadrunner on Dec 7, 2005 23:45:01 GMT -5
FL12, thanks for the inside on the game. Much appreciated. ;D
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Post by DERRENMATTS on Dec 7, 2005 23:58:35 GMT -5
Wow, awesome win and even better game calling. Terrific work, FL12. I just hope you don't wear yourself out doing all the work.
Awesome win. I can't wait to review the game for myself tomorrow morning. Sounded like Ricky had his shot falling early on. This is very needed. Without his automatic jumper, he becomes somewhat limited.
Some things that stand out was our low assist total. 13 assists is 10 off our season average. This tells me that we had a lot of individual scoring. Part of it may be the amount of times the Hornets fouled us. That takes away from our assists.
Another thing was Big Al almost getting his second straight double double, although he only played 21 minutes. 16 pts, 9 rebs, and 2 blks is a very good stat line for a short amount of time.
Blount had a nice scoring game, but Rivers cannot revert to playing him more at the expense of Perks' developement.
Delonte had a very invisible game from a stats perspective. But I know that with Delonte, is more than the stats.
Pierce with another double double. This must be like the 10th of the season for him. I think his career high in double doubles in a season are like 22 or somewhere close to that. He's very well on his way to demolishing that amount.
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