Boston Celtics 2009-2010 Thread

[italstallianion]

L.A. may or not be better than Cleveland.

 

What it comes down to is individual match-ups.

L.A. is going to have trouble if they face the Celts in the finals.

 

 

 

Trouble as in it won't be a sweep.

[Spudboy]

:lol:

[schillingouttheks]

Put away the bong. Read my post in the morning.

 

What the hell is that supposed to mean? I was quoting your post and offering my insight into the LA vs Cleveland debate. "You" was used as a generic term, not you personally. Put away the assumptions.

[BucShot]

I think the Celtics are a lot better team than most people realized. They played great in Orlando and earned those 2 wins. :thumbsup:

[Palodios]

I disagree - I think LA is a better team than Cleveland although I absolutely think the Celtics can beat the Lakers in the Finals. I know' date=' I know, neither series is over but realistically it's a serious longshot that either Phoenix or Orlando comes back and wins.[/quote']

 

If you think Cleveland is better than LA, you're quite mistaken. Take out Lebron, and the cavs falls apart. Take out Kobe, and LA will still win-- that being said, Kobe has been scoring at will this post season, and is a better closer than Lebron any day of the week. Lakers have size and speed-- something that the likes of Shaq and Ilgauskas do not.

 

Celts/Lakers would be a great finals, but the celtics would absolutely need Pierce to go basket for basket with Kobe. With the way they're playing, I see the Celtics winning out over them, unless they fall apart, which is likely.

[TheMino007]

C's looking good so far tonight. Shooting got a little cold in the middle of the 1st, but they are rolling again

[TheMino007]

THIS IS AWESOME

[WhiskeyBreath]

LOVE the play where Rondo dove for the ball, scooped it up and laid it in.

[yeszir]

This is a good basketball team

[yeszir]

Garnett just took Van Gundy out

[WhiskeyBreath]

Garnett just took Van Gundy out

 

Van Gundy? I thought it was Ron Jeremy.

[yeszir]

DAMMIT this team is good

[TedWilliams101]

Trouble as in it won't be a sweep.

 

Trouble as in they may very well lose to the Celtics. The C's are for real. Don't let the injury riddled regular season fool you, this team is healthy, hungry, and peaking at the perfect time. Watch out Lakers.

[Spudboy]

Van Gundy? I thought it was Ron Jeremy.

 

:lol:

[riverside sluggers]

The Magic showed no fight entering an 0-2 deficit... Beat LA!!!

[Wasatch]

Excellent game by the Celtics last night, they could win it with one more win.

[See Red]

Excellent game by the Celtics last night' date=' [b']they could win it with one more win[/b].

 

Really?

[bsox0407]

Celtics not looking good to open game 4. Not enough energy but are only down 5. 31-26.

[bsox0407]

51-47 at the half. Some good energy. ROndo has not played much. Nate is giving energy off the bench.

[yeszir]

Why are the magic making this close

[yeszir]

Celtics are taking a lot of bad shots

[Wasatch]

The Celtics should have called a time-out that last 8.3 seconds left.

[yeszir]

So many missed opportunities

[WhiskeyBreath]

UGLY OT by Boston. Ray was the only one doing anything on offense.

[schillingouttheks]

They really f***ed up down the stretch. They had a TO, why not take it? Doc is one of the best in the game at drawing plays from timeouts. The game was tied... draw up a good play to give us a solid chance to win the game and the series. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Whatever, I'm not too concerned about this.

[TedWilliams101]

Honestly, I think the Sox game was more important than the Celtics. Up 3-0 they can afford to lose a game or 2. The Sox can't lose anymore ground to the Rays, every head-to-head game is huge.

 

Also, am I the only one who wonders why it is that Ray always seems to hit a ton of 3s at the end of really close games... yet tends to be fairly quiet down the stretch? I don't see why he shouldn't be taking a TON more 3s throughout the game, why wait until it's almost too little too late? Or maybe I'm just imagining things...

[schillingouttheks]

Honestly, I think the Sox game was more important than the Celtics. Up 3-0 they can afford to lose a game or 2. The Sox can't lose anymore ground to the Rays, every head-to-head game is huge.

 

Also, am I the only one who wonders why it is that Ray always seems to hit a ton of 3s at the end of really close games... yet tends to be fairly quiet down the stretch? I don't see why he shouldn't be taking a TON more 3s throughout the game, why wait until it's almost too little too late? Or maybe I'm just imagining things...

 

I'm not worried about blowing the series, but losing tonight doesn't really make me feel good. For whatever reason I feel like coming back from 3-1 is easier when you've been down 3-0 as opposed to 2-1. It's a momentum swing and they get to go back home.

 

Again, I'm not freaking out, but I really wanted them to win this so they just didn't even have to go back to Orlando. Playing a Game 6 will make things real interesting, and then I'll be biting my fingernails.

[The Village Idiot]

I was a yooj Celts fan during "little child 'hood" between '80 and '94, but then let it go during the era of the NBA when I didn't think the Jordan-esque style of play (tongue waggin, dunkin', Rodman-tattoos, Jordan-fanatacism, etc.) was the best way to play the game. To this day I feel like a bandwagon fan because I was largely absent during the Celts' tough years, but I rationalize all of this by saying that I was enough of a fan between ages 5 and 15 to buy me life-long free passes to be whatever kind of Celts fan I wanted to become later in life.

 

Now that all that's out of the way, several observations about tonight:

 

-They played very, very tight. Very un-Celts like. What was Doc's pre-game speech?

-Why in God's name did they not call a TO when they regained possession with 22 seconds left on the clock? I thought they had a couple TOs left?

-Rondo, Rondo, Rondo: Never stop going to the hoop and calling games. That's when the Celts cruise, dominate, decimate. He seemed missing from tonight's game throughout, but especially in the last 5 minutes of regulation and the last few of OT.

-Peirce: Love you, doll, but when you're not hitting it, how about swinging the ball around? Or going to the hoop?

-I wanted Ray Allen taking every shot in OT. Every shot. Felt like he only had the opportunity to take 1 or 2, both of which I think he made (definitely one).

-This is suddenly a series. Dwight Howard was freaking unstoppable. I'm not worried, but I'm aware.

-The Celts got a little complacent tonight. Here's hoping it's a wake-up call. Thankfully, they're not a team of little entitled bitches who won't learn from this. They're proven, mature, experienced veterans who learned tonight to let Rondo do his thing, play loose, have confidence, and take all the mistakes from tonight and turn them into successes in Game 5.

 

Ray Allen's mama don't take no mess.

 

WIN IT IN 5.

 

'Til Wednesday...

[msubulldogs21]

Ray Allen's mama don't take no mess.

 

She's from my home town. Wooo. Haha.

 

Anyway, not really THAT worried about the series. I was mainly just wanting to close it out tonight so we could sit back and watch LA and Phoenix battle it out for hopefully as long as possible. I think LA wraps that up in 5, and we better do the same. If we lose in Orlando I'll start to get a little nervous though.

[TheMino007]

Terrible playing calling at the end of the 4th quarter and OT, WTF where they doing out there? As good as Pierce was the other night, he couldn't hit a three to save his life. I don't know why Ray Allen wasn't given the ball at the end of OT.