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I also feel Ming is being under looked at in MVP discussions as well. IMO LeBron is the MVP no doubt, but no one is talking about Ming. He's carrying this team with the cancerous T-Mac, Battier missing boatloads of time, and Artest putting up his worst numbers in a long time. Nene has also been fun to watch this year, I'm hoping to see him in there as a reserve.

How does Yao not deserve it? Sure you could argue Jefferson, but Yao has been the only consistent thing on one of the most inconsistent playoff teams in the NBA. 20/10 with 2 blocks on 54%/87% are awesome numbers. Rockets: 43 games Ming: 42 games Artest: 31 games McGrady: 28 games.

I've grown to not beef with voting. Mostly the people who vote are just voting to get their guys into the game, rather than just who actually should be. Yi being 3rd for forwards is the reason why I do not vote for this stupid thing. If I had to pick unbiased and who SHOULD be in the game, for the East, Wade, Johnson, James, Bosh, Howard.

Eddie was money tonight... 20 in the second, 25 or 27 overall or something. Good win to continue on the track we're on. BIG game vs. Orlando tomorrow night.

I'm truly embarassed. I knew the minute I saw this being talked about by Woody Paige on Around the Horn that we had no chance of winning. We suck a lot. We apparently have a few recruits coming in who will make us a little more competitive, but still a cellar dweller, when we are full conference members next year though.

Huge comeback by Wake, but looks like Tech will hold them off. Jeff Teague played HUGE tonight... this kid is gonna be a special player in the NBA someday. UConn and Nova in a tight one. Looks like UConn will hold them off though.

48-43 in the second half. POLAR opposites there. And that's tough to hear about Steele. I've always loved his talent. I always thought he should have came out after that 05-06 season. His stock was pretty high then, would have been a first rounder/early 2nd rounder with his talent and the weak PG draft that year (although it turned out alright, with Rondo, Gibson, Rodriguez, etc.)

Crazy game today, huh?

People actually thought BC would beat Wake?

After the Yankees shelled out hundreds of millions of dollars, theses deals look amazing... 80.5 for 4 and 6 years respectively? s***, that's a big steal.

I'm looking for retribution next year after a sub par title defense.

Finally a game in which we win it down the stretch with defense and swagger. I like it.

^^Teague is awesome... so is Wake. That team is so underrated.

You'd think somewhere between the 3rd and 5th interception, Fox would have decided to just go with what succeeded for them all year long. DeAneglo f***ing Williams. You don't get to a big important playoff game, especially against a suspect defense, in your own house, with an extra week to prepare for them at that, a team that can't f***ing win on this side of the f***ing continent, and you give your best playmaker, your most consistent playmaker, and pretty much your entire offense (Williams) f***ing only 11 touches? You sir John Fox, are a moron.

WWWWWWWOW to this game I was all over Carolina. I guess when you're turning the ball over, misusing the best player on the field (underusing is better), and have only had the ball for around 13ish minutes, you're going to get smoked.

God this Cleveland team is f***ing GOOD. Scary good. They're winning the NBA Title I don't care about how well we can rebound from this bad streak, I don't care that Orlando has D12, I don't care who LA has. Cleveland is the best team I've seen play in a long long time. Almost as good as the Lakers earlier in the decade.

Clevelands uni's are ugly as hell tonight. And I'll take being down 9 at the half for as poorly as we played for the first 2 quarters.

There were like 8 Gators around the one receiver... nice.

Looking like a genius... I put big money on the under...

^^It's fans who make stupid reactionary comments like that after every time the Celtics lose that piss me off. See Red: Right now, I think Cleveland has to be the team to beat throughout the NBA. LeBron is otherworldly. I was quick to criticize him in the past, but right now, I really can't do that. He's simply amazing. West is playing great ball, Williams fits nicely in that back court. Illgauskus is a perfect fit because he can step out and increase the spacing on the floor for James to drive to the hoop. Wallace and Varejao are both very tough defenders and rebounders, and Boobie Gibson can shoot the lights out off the bench. They're a really complete team, and have a solid amount of youth in their legs. I really like them this year. I'm real excited for our showdown on Friday with them, and I feel like it'd be a nice game for the Celtics to get back on track with. I think Orlando is a little overrated. Nelson isn't a real point guard, and I think they're a little weak with big men off the bench. Pietrus was a good addition, but you can't really add one guy and expect the defense to improve that significantly. They're the clear cut 3 team in the East, but I see there being a big gap between the Celtics and Magic. As for LA, they're a good team, but I still do not trust them against Cleveland or Boston in a 7 game series. I foresee Odom as being a problem at some point down the line. He's in a contract year, he's 29 years old, and he wants at least one more long term payday, and mediocre numbers off the bench is not going to net him that, unless some team overvalues getting a solid 6th man/3rd offensive option. I can't see a team that throws out Gasol, Vujacic, Walton, and Radmanovic as being successful in June. They can prove me wrong, but I can't see a team that lacks that much physical toughness succeeding. SA is SA. They're the same as usual. They'll get better as the year goes on and will be a tough out come playoff time. Denver is tough. I don't really know what to think of them. They dump Iverson and they just keep on winning. Billups fits well there, Nene and Martin are playing real well, etc. I like them, but I don't see them having a factor in May and June.

I can go through a f***ing laundry list. -They're all tired. As a result, their jumpers are coming up short at the end of the game, they're missing defensive rotations, the 4th tonight was a mess. KG hasn't been his usual emotional self (he's been more emotional than 99% of players in the NBA still, but he's usually wound up 10 times more than he has been, he's obviously most tired). Ray's been cold, because his legs are tired, it's all around. -Our depth isn't bad, it's more the size. Big Baby and Powe are undersized and over-matched against bigger guys. They were up to Yao's shoulders and Yao was going over the top at will. -In the recent stretch, Rondo has been god-awful save for a game or two. He's the key to this offense. -Tony Allen being out doesn't help, but it's giving Pruitt time to play (he played awesome tonight, he hit his shots and made limited mistakes in 15 minutes). I'd rather go with Pruitt over Marbury because he's got a year in the system, knows the guys, the plays, and the team. I love Pruitt, he's a real good kid. -We take every teams best punch every night. Teams aren't scared of us like they were last year. -We've been the victim of hot teams. Felton his a ridiculous jumper to push the game out far enough so we couldn't win and we could only force OT which we did (when I say ridiculous, he was like, off balance, falling away, from 20 feet, awesome shot, but he wouldn't hit it again in 10 tries). Tonight, Von Wafer and Aaron Brooks were hot as hell, and Yao was just too big. I don't understand why Doc kept Big Baby on him, especially when KG was on the floor too. I could go on, but I think it's all correctable, save for adding length. God I'd love to see Joe Smith here... Scalabrine and Giddens/Walker for him. Do it Danny. Edit: One more thing. The second unit has seen a decline in production for a few major reasons. Tony Allen has been banged up, Davis is taking jumpers (he's hitting them though, thankfully) and not banging down low, and Leon has been trying to draw the contact as opposed to putting the ball in the hoop.

Shows how much of a fan you and most of Celtics Nation are. Everyone's panicing, crying fowl about this and that. Christ, it's f***ing January. If this were March, I'd be concerned.

I don't mind Marbury. People are underrating him a lot. IMO he's been a career loser because he's always been the best player on his teams (aside from Minny with KG which IIRC they had marginal success). People look at his attitude and say this and that but I think with Paul Kevin and Ray, combined with Doc and Thibs, they can harness him and turn him into good. I've supported signing him just as much as anyone else, and even I think it's a panic move. Right now our second unit doesn't need Marbury. We're scoring fine, it's our defense which has been suffering. We're getting killed on the boards (even worse, the offensive boards) having our 3 biggest guys on the floor with the second unit be hardly 6'8 (Davis) and 6'9 (Powe). Instead of looking for their shots, they're trying to draw contact, which is leading to misses, especially on noncalls, that hurts us. We need length on the second unit. Eddie is fine, Pruitt needs to see more burn, especially with TA hurt, and should have last night. His 6 minute stuck out like a sore thumb.

Well then what do you propose? All of the current moves we could potentially make, Marbury, Miles, Fred Jones, Paul Davis, Austin Croshere, etc., all have panic written across their foreheads.

The last thing Doc and Danny should do right now is make a panic move. That'd be plain stupid.