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Post by The Eye of the Q is upon you! on Feb 19, 2007 17:49:14 GMT -5
Guess Green and Pierce were the highlight of the weekend and the Celtics season. I am happy for the kid who won the Slam dunk contest. I really am.
Now go out and learn the game of basketball from Pierce the Master. You know Master and apprentice.
The Celtics should come back and try to win games to rebuild the chemistry and keep things together. They should fire the coach definitely and I don't think Ainge comes off clean here. When fully healthy, the Celtics are an average team that gets better with experience.
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Post by DERRENMATTS on Feb 19, 2007 18:30:23 GMT -5
When fully healthy, we are better than .500. But take this same team (healthy) and add chemistry to it and we are easily one of the top 5 teams in the weakened eastern conference. We wouldn't compete for a championship yet, but if we are fully healthy and have chemistry, we are a darn good team.
Who can replace Doc? (There's no way I'm getting rid of Ainge--he supplies us with talent) Any of you heard about the Suns assistant coach who might be a hot target this offseason? I hear he might be Toronto's new head coach since Jerry Colangelo has connections with the Suns.
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Post by Roadrunner on Feb 19, 2007 22:34:07 GMT -5
Guess Green and Pierce were the highlight of the weekend and the Celtics season. I am happy for the kid who won the Slam dunk contest. I really am. Now go out and learn the game of basketball from Pierce the Master. You know Master and apprentice. The Celtics should come back and try to win games to rebuild the chemistry and keep things together. They should fire the coach definitely and I don't think Ainge comes off clean here. When fully healthy, the Celtics are an average team that gets better with experience. Let's just hope Green doesn't say this year "now the circle is complete, when I left you, I was once the learner, now I am the master." -Darth Vader
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Post by freshnthehouse on Feb 20, 2007 2:37:03 GMT -5
When fully healthy, we are better than .500. Maybe in a few years, but right now, it would have to be considered a major overachievement for this team to be over .500. We were pretty healthy before Pierce got injured and we were still only 10-13, and that was a cremepuff part of the schedule.
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Post by DERRENMATTS on Feb 20, 2007 3:36:34 GMT -5
Yeah, but Jefferson and Delonte still weren't 100%, Rajon was not getting any playing time, and Tony Allen was playing poorly.
If we were to reset our record right now, with a fully healthy Tony and Wally, we'd be better than .500.
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Post by The Eye of the Q is upon you! on Feb 20, 2007 8:33:03 GMT -5
I'm not quite sure where we would be fully healthy and Doc Rivers as the head coach. I still think we need to replace the coach because I suspect that Doc Rivers is the Marty Schottenhiemer of the NBA.
Take a look at Nate McMillan, Sam Mitchell, or Bernie Bickerstaff. I want those type of coaches on our team.
If New Jersey is stupid enough to fire Laurence Frank, then I want him coaching the Celtics.
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Post by celtntexas on Feb 20, 2007 18:38:24 GMT -5
When fully healthy, we are better than .500. Maybe in a few years, but right now, it would have to be considered a major overachievement for this team to be over .500. We were pretty healthy before Pierce got injured and we were still only 10-13, and that was a cremepuff part of the schedule. How do you figure? We've never been healthy this entire season. *We were 10-14 when Pierce went down. He played the last three of those games with the same foot problem that sat him down. **Wally hasn't played a single game healthy and missed 7 of those 24 games altogether. ***Al missed 7 games during that same stretch ****Ryan missed 2 of the 1st 24 games *****Perkins has been playing injured all season and he missed 8 of those games. ******Delonte has been fighting back problems on and off this season which limited his minutes early on and made him miss 1 game totally. ********Even Tony Allen missed one of those first 24 games. That's a lot of missed games, all by players who have been in the starting lineup at one time or another. Add the games were players have played injured and we had a mash unit for a starting lineup in most of those 24 games.
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Post by freshnthehouse on Feb 21, 2007 4:06:10 GMT -5
I dunno, what makes you think we'd be better than .500 fully healthy? Our outstanding defense? Our plethora of veteran players? Our depth at the big man positions?
If you were grab ten random NBA talking heads and asked them the same question, my guess is that all of them would say no.
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Post by DERRENMATTS on Feb 21, 2007 4:10:22 GMT -5
Not because of our outstanding defense. But because when we are fully healthy, we are a dangerous offensive team. We've had many games where we easily score over 100 pts. When fully healthy, we'd be better than .500 because we'd outscore teams.
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Post by freshnthehouse on Feb 21, 2007 4:19:52 GMT -5
I just dont see it. I mean it isnt out of the realm of possability, but I sure wouldnt want to bet on it. Looks like this is turning into one of those old-fashioned 'agree to disagree' type of deals.
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