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Post by The Eye of the Q is upon you! on Feb 21, 2008 0:46:06 GMT -5
Q at 5:47 mark - KG taken out and Powe was put in a minute ago. Forcing TO's and getting inside is Tony Allen wreaking havoc. Tommy Point for TA!
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Post by The Eye of the Q is upon you! on Feb 21, 2008 0:57:03 GMT -5
Man GS might pull this out against the Cletics - I think Doc made some tactical errors like bliyzing the pick and role. THe rotations underneath are no good. At the Offensive end - the Celtics are not getting looks due to poor execution.
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Post by CelticsLoyalist on Feb 21, 2008 1:08:52 GMT -5
I think I liked it better when KG and Perk were out. hehe. But in all seriousness, I think KG needs more time out and I also think we have to stop playing to the opponents. There really is no reason to be scoring over 110 points. Thats GS's game. Oh well.
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Post by The Eye of the Q is upon you! on Feb 21, 2008 1:36:37 GMT -5
GS made one more shot than the Celtics...... Too bad.
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Post by The Eye of the Q is upon you! on Feb 21, 2008 1:41:15 GMT -5
I think I liked it better when KG and Perk were out. hehe. But in all seriousness, I think KG needs more time out and I also think we have to stop playing to the opponents. There really is no reason to be scoring over 110 points. Thats GS's game. Oh well. We had trouble with their quickness and they simply made all the right plays and got all the right matchups and took the game rather than Boston giving it away. I don't like the blitzing of pick and rolls because it is too easy to give up easy baskets underneath and that is what happened. |
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Post by afceltic on Feb 21, 2008 1:41:38 GMT -5
Doc's poor coaching and Posey's terrible play cost us this game. I wonder is something is wrong with him? Baby should of played more and Posey should of played less once he showed that he didn't have anything to bring to the table tonight.
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Post by CelticsLoyalist on Feb 21, 2008 1:48:34 GMT -5
Yeah especially blitzing a team as quick as GS. They totally took this one and we did make it at least hard for them to take it. We didnt give it away, thats for sure. However, Baby has proved to be such an asset, I am more than a little miffed that Doc drops him in the game in the fourth. When clearly he could've helped in the middle and with adding some much needed bench points that only TA was giving us. I mean 5 minutes for Baby who gave us 4pts and 2 rebs (1off/1def) vs Posey 20mins 1pt, 1to, 0rebs, 0asts, 4 fouls. I didn't like being outrebounded and I surely didnt like Fat Webber getting 3 blocks on us.
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Post by cfoo on Feb 21, 2008 17:08:35 GMT -5
I just think we were a bit slow in our rotations with garnett and Perk a bit out of sync defensively. We were playing their game and were getting beaten up and down the court. back to back games against 2 high potent offenses. I find it interesting that when the defense plays well Thibodeau is a genius but when it faulters it's Doc's fault. We played a great offensive game imo. Just came up against 2 tough teams that are really on fire offensively and we were getting a few guys back that aren't completely up to speed underneath. We were trying to play their game instead of bearing down defensively which we were doing before when Perk and Garnett were healthy. We were slow in rotating underneath and were getting beaten to the spot at the basket because our big men were not fully back yet. I didnt see us blitzing the pick a whole lot. I think people assume when our defense breaks down we are blitzing the pick or something when we weren't doing that.
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Post by runrondo on Feb 21, 2008 18:08:35 GMT -5
^Well it's not hard to score a lot offensively when you face teams that don't know what defense means(devner and golden state)
Anyway, I attribute these losses to Garnett and Perk...It takes many games to get back into the "NBA" mindset and we saw a little bit of Garnett's intensity but not 100% of it...Our defensive rotations are very slow which is probably due to the fact Perk and Garnett are not all back yet mentally...I think this was the worst case scenario to try to play our defense again against two teams that thrive on offense alone and focus on it..Phoenix will be another high scoring game until we get a game or two off to practice and polish up everyone to get back to what we were doing before...It's bad enough Garnett and Perk had to work back and mold back our defense but we had to do it against great offensive teams on the road...Baby's a little hurt still i think too, that's why he's not playing...
I was really only disappointed with Rondo(though i'm just being a bit harsh)...I thought he did not play half of what he was playing when Garnett was out and i really don't understand why...I see Doc tries to run the offense more through Garnett which is the right thing to do but that seems to take Rondo out of the game totally and he doesn't seem to be driving much at all against a team with Webber as their center, c'mon...Our offense scored alot but i didn't like what i saw...When it mattered most we did NOT MOVE THE BALL!! that's the most important thing especially agaisnt these west teams and at the end we settled for three's from Rondo of all people! I thought there was poor movement in the crunch time which is due to probably fatigue on Garnett's part and chemistry...Garnett missed a lot of time..We can't expect him to come back and just hit it off right where he left off...
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Post by cfoo on Feb 21, 2008 18:10:55 GMT -5
Exactly.
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Post by runrondo on Feb 21, 2008 18:21:20 GMT -5
^luckily no East teams made any moves for big players...Cavs upgraded by getting players like Wally, West, and Wallace???...Wallace averages like 5 points and 8 rebounds...West doesn't play and Wally is averaging 13 points...
Gooden averages 11 and 8...Larry Hughes averages 11 points...Not much pluses to me at least...Not to mention the other guys they gave up average like 3 or 4 points each....
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Post by afceltic on Feb 22, 2008 2:37:32 GMT -5
The only thing that worries me about Rondo is his FT shooting. We are going to need him to make those in the playoffs.
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Feb 22, 2008 11:22:39 GMT -5
With the whole team missing 23 free throws over the last two games, I worry about everyone's free throws except Ray's, maybe. And Pierce has been hitting his, but everyone else has been dismal.
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Post by cfoo on Feb 22, 2008 13:35:50 GMT -5
yeah our ft shooting has been pretty bad. I dont know what is up with that. The good news is pierce continues to shoot really well from the line. Knocking on wood, but he really has corrected his motion from the ft line. That's one thing that hasn't been pointed out is how well Pierce has improved in that area of his game.
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