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Post by FLCeltsFan on Mar 16, 2007 21:20:25 GMT -5
Dallas inbounds on the side. Dirk takes it to the basket and lays it in. PP misses a jumper and Howard rebounds. Dirk hits a jumper and Mavs take the lead. West drives baseline and lays it down to Al for a dunk. Perk with a block. Mavs rebound. Dirk misses a jumper and Perk rebounds. PP misses an off balance shot in the lane and Dirk rebounds. Dirk drives on Al and is fouled by Perk. He hits the first and misses the second. Al rebounds. Mavs playing zone. West misses a 3. perk rebounds. Al misses and Dirk rebounds. Mavs miss and Perk rebounds. PP hits a 3. Dirk hits a jumper from the top of the key. pp misses a 3 and West rebounds. PP spins in the lane and misses a layup. He looks like he is getting tired as he doesn't have his legs under the jumper. Dirk rebounds. Stackhouse misses a jumper at the buzzer. Score at the end of 3 is Boston 70 and Dallas 69. Dallas made a run but the Celtics didn't fold. Impressive 3 quarters so far. I expect Dallas to really come at us in the 4th.
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Mar 16, 2007 21:28:51 GMT -5
Dallas inbound to start the 4th. Howard hits a jumper. West, Powe, Al, Green Ray on the floor. Green hits a jumper off the catch. Mavs miss and Al rebounds. Al runs the floor and gets the ball as he cuts down the lane. he lays it in and draws the foul. He misses the Ft and Dirk rebounds. dirk hits a leaner in the lane and draws the foul on Powe. He hits the FT and game is tied at 74. powe takes it into the paint and is fouled by Harris. Celtics inbound on the side. Green misses a jumper and Dirk rebounds. Dirk hits a jumper. Al misses a jumper but gets the long rebound. Green misses a 3 and Mavs rebound. Dirk called for an offensive foul. Al slipped and went down but is ok. Stackhouse lands directly on Ray and both hit the floor hard. Celtics inbound on the side. Ray hits a 3. Harris lays it in and is fouled by Ray. Time out with Dallas up 78-77 and 8:58 left in the 4th.
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Mar 16, 2007 21:34:04 GMT -5
Harris at the line hits the FT. West brings it up. Green hits a jumper off the catch. Croshere takes it to the basket and lays it in. Green misses a 3 and Mavs rebound. Diop hits a jumper on the baseline. Mavs go up 4. Al is doubled every time he gets the ball. West misses a jumper at the SC. Mavs rebound. Howard hits a jumper. Timeout with 7:17 left in the 4th and Mavs up 85-79. The crowd is getting into it and the Celtics seem to be getting rattled.
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Mar 16, 2007 21:45:23 GMT -5
Celtics inbound on the side. PP is back in the game. Ray gets the ball and brings it up. Ray misses a jumper at the SC. PP rebounds. Green hits a 3 from the corner. Celtics with a steal. Green gets it inside from PP and lays it in and draws the foul. He hits the FT to tie it at 85. Celtics with a steal. PP drives to the basket and misses a layup. Mavs rebound and Stackhouse takes it to the basket and lays it in and draws the foul on West. He hits the FT. Green misses a jumper from the FT line and mavs rebound. Dirk is fouled by Green under the basket. He hits both FTs. West goes down the lane and passes to Al who is fouled hard on the Dunk attempt. He hits Mavs rebound and Green is called for a foul on the rebound. Celtics are over the limit and Dirk shoots FTs. he hits both FTs to put the Mavs back up by 6. West hits a jumper. Mavs miss a jumper and PP rebounds. 3 second violation on the Celtics. Dirk hits a fall away jumper. West gets it inside to Al who hits a short hook shot. Stackhouse misses a jumper at the SC and they get a SC violation. PP hits a 3 from the top of the arc. Terry misses a dunk. Dirk rebounds and hits a jumper. Green has it blocked twice and Howard saves it by throwing it out of bounds off Green. Time out with Mavs up 96-93 and 2:35 left in the 4th.
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Post by cfoo on Mar 16, 2007 21:46:32 GMT -5
I dont understand why we took Perk off of Dirk. I understand Doc is trying to get some more offense int here with Delonte, Ray and Green but we are getting killed on the boards and Dirk is shooting over Pierce.
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Mar 16, 2007 21:52:30 GMT -5
Mavs inbound and bring it up. Dirk is fouled by PP. Doc is complaining about the call on the side. he hits both FTs to put the Mavs up by 5. West brings the ball up. Takes it to the basket and misses a dunk but is hit hard and will go to the line. He hits both FTs to bring the Celtics to within 3 with 2:01 to go. Al knocks it away from Stackhouse. PP drives and lays it down to Al who is fouled as he goes up for the shot. Al hits both FTs. Stackhouse gets inside and he dunks it. PP drives to the basket and is fouled by Dirk. 1:03 left. PP hits both FTs. 1 point game
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Mar 16, 2007 21:53:30 GMT -5
Dirk drives to the basket and is fouled by Green with 47 seconds left. Dirk hits both FTs. Lead is back to 3.
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Mar 16, 2007 21:54:46 GMT -5
West brings it up. Ray misses a 3 and Stack rebounds. Dallas using clock. 4 sec difference between shot and game clock. Dirk hits a turnaround jumper from the FT line. Mavs up by 5 with 4.8 left in the game.
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Mar 16, 2007 21:56:00 GMT -5
Powe was actually the best defender on Dirk. He pretty much shut him down. Perk was getting beat by Dirk in the 3rd. But Powe was really defending him well. Why Doc took Powe off Dirk is the better question.
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Mar 16, 2007 21:57:13 GMT -5
Celtics inbound on the side. PP lobs to Green for a dunk. Celtics 101 and Mavs 104 with 3.9 left in the 4th.
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Mar 16, 2007 21:58:46 GMT -5
Mave inbound and Ray chases Terry in the backcourt and fouls him with 2.7 on the clock. Terry hits both FTs. and Mavs back up 5. Time out with 2.7 on the clock and Mavs up 106-101
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Mar 16, 2007 22:00:53 GMT -5
West misses a 3. Green rebounds and lays it in but didn't get it in time. Final score is Mavericks 106 and Celtics 101. Good game for the Celtics. Mavs were playing hard and we gave them all they could handle. Losing to the Mavs on the road by 5 is nothing to be ashamed of.
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Post by DERRENMATTS on Mar 16, 2007 22:08:28 GMT -5
Tough loss. We could have won this game. We had a rough patch in the 3rd quarter and we lost our 12 pt lead. But we still had opportunities to win. But can't cry over this one--we played the best team in the league and barely loss to them. It took Nowitzki hitting a clutch shot to keep us at bay. That's saying something about our guys.
If I were to nitpick this game, I'd say that Delonte should have shot the ball more. We need to do a better job of getting our shooters the ball (Delonte, Ray, Gerald, Pierce). For some reason, we went away from Jefferson in the 4th quarter. Our energy was poor in the 3rd quarter.
I did like that Gerald did not hang his head after going through some rough times--he's got tough skin. I like that Doc allowed Ray to stay out there in a tight game. Ray's beginning to find his shot (most likely getting comfortable out there and losing the butterflies in his belly) and that's going to be big for us.
I didn't think Rajon was playing poorly, but Doc excused him for much of the second half (same with Telfair).
Like CF said, Perk should have been out there guarding Dirk.
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Post by ferbo on Mar 17, 2007 0:01:49 GMT -5
Saw the game tonight----first live Cs game. enjoyed it. My daughter---who doesn't know diddly about basketball---took me. No small task, as I'm hobbling on a cane while still recovering from being run over by a pickup which broke a leg bone badly and fractured a hip. Got tripped by a 6-year old as I was on the way to the bathroom.
More importantly to the game: I don't have good visioin out of the left eye, and wear tri-focals on the other. So my observations may be influenced by a lot of things.
PP scored about 19 in the first quarter, then not much until the 4th. He, AJ, and Perk sat with 2 fouls before the first quarter was over. Don't necessarily think it was a home job. I was surprised that the box didn't show a higher number of TOs. Cs were moving along pretty well in the 1st, then had about 3 in short order. PP is a good shooter. But he is a poor dribbler for a wing man having been in the league this long. At this point, I'm not sure I would be devastated if DA traded him. He doesn't have the instinct and vision of a Bird, thus dribbles into triple coverage.
General impression is that the team is a poor-passing team. Lots of time I thought the pass was made to an appropriate man, but without good timing or placement. Remember a game I saw in the year after whoever was running team decided against bringing DJ back. Was the year they got Ray Williams late in the year. Think it was Heinsohn who went ballistic in game coverage. Said it was obvious that Red wasn't running the team, or he would bring DJ back. Talked about DJ knowing when to pass to a guy, what position on the court a guy wanated to get the ball, and the placement of the ball. Tonight, for example, West broke the defense down and passed to AJ in gthe lane---but the pass was about waist-high, and AJ fumbled it. I think this is one of the problems that both Rondo and Telfair have.
Green can be a superstar. Not sure AJ can---really won't know until he is playing with a PG who can deliver the ball to him the way DJ did to Bird and McHale. Most impressive play fo the game for him: he got a defensive rebound, passed it to a guard, and beat everyone to the other end, where he got a pass back for a layup. AJ scored on a variety of shots: jumper, drive, slam, b ank shot.
Perkins has the best outlet of any big man the Cs have had in a good whiel, perhaps as far back as Walton.
Green his a number of jump shots which reminded me ofe Bird's curl. Seemed to me that he was rolling of a Powe screen.
If I NEVER have to see PP trying again to guard Dirk with the game on the line I will die a happy man.
Cs didn't have much of an inside-outside game.
With about 4 seconds left, West made an inbounds pass toward the bucket which Green turned into a dunk. Beautiful play, but almost too quick to see.
in the warmup, there was a tall African-American male in sweats (not uniform) working with AJ. Probably 30-45 minutes. He would pass the ball to him from the wing. Someone handed him another ball, and he did it again. Fed him a variety of passes. Swapped sides of the lane. Then he let someone else feed AJ, and he sort of defended him, mainly leaning on him some to give him the feel of pressure. I assume it was Ray.
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Post by ferbo on Mar 17, 2007 0:02:37 GMT -5
I wouldn't say Perk was fast of foot, but he wasn't limping.
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