Round 2 Game 4 : Celtics @ Cavs - Monday, May 12th (2-1)

The Rondo Show · Post #521 » by **The Rondo Show** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:34 am

I haven't been a big Doc basher like some on here, but his coaching was ridiculous tonight and I'm now on the "Fire Doc this off-season" bandwagon. He must've sat Garnett for a good 15+ minutes when you include the commercials, the stoppage in play for free throws and the 5 minutes of actual play in that 4th quarter. It's no wonder he was cold as hell. LeBron played the full final 12 minutes in what was a series changing game (3-1=Over in 5...2-2=this is going 7)...why did Doc feel the need to rest our best player as if it were the regular season?

I seriously can't believe he went with a Big Baby (who blew a defensive assignment and ran at LeBron when both Posey and PJ were already on him I believe, leading to an easy no look pass to Joe Smith--doubt you see KG do that)/PJ Brown frontcourt in crunch time.

The plays he called out of timeouts consisted of nothing but ISO's for KG and Pierce as well. Not that they are bad options, but it would be nice for a coach to call a play to get his team an easy bucket when it's desperately needed.

celticfan42487 · Post #522 » by **celticfan42487** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:55 am

Yeah, it's weird. It's the playoffs what is Doc saving KG for? Off-season?

KG played somewhere around 34mpg all in told during the regular season. He's used to 38/39. And during the playoffs he should be around the 40mpg mark unless he does show some tiredness.

But it also begs to question, we stand by our pass constantly (which at times in now reduced to dribble around teh 3 point line and pass around for a jumper) offense. And we neglect to ever be predecitable in the sense of taken advantage of a mis-match like we have with KG.

It comes down to a point where all your scheming and not delegating to a one man team can be worse. Honestly what's better, a play executed beautifully for a wide open mid range shot, or a player blowing past his man for a lay-up?

armageddon · Post #523 » by **armageddon** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:57 am

This is the series where Garnett has to demand the ball every minute he's on the floor. If he's not shooting, he's wasting his time (and the C's are wasting their time) on offense. When he gets tired, come out. On the road, you need someone to go off for 30-plus to win.

O.Z.123 · Post #524 » by **O.Z.123** » Tue May 13, 2008 6:03 am

celticfan42487 wrote:It comes down to a point where all your scheming and not delegating to a one man team can be worse. Honestly what's better, a play executed beautifully for a wide open mid range shot, or a player blowing past his man for a lay-up?

exactly. as a piston fan, i figured boston wouldn't have messed up like we did last year against cleveland cuz, when it came down to it, i figured kg -who at times is as unselfish offensively to a fault as rasheed is- would just say F it and dominate like we piston fans needed sheed to do downlow. that was the one matchup cleveland didn't have against us and the same matchup they dont have against yall.. but ya'll are so set on this stupid equal-opportunity offense crap that everyone seems to forget that an aggressive kg in the post is the easiest, most fluid way to start and sustain an offense for everybody regardless of if he's shooting or not.

mr_sunshine · Post #525 » by **mr_sunshine** » Tue May 13, 2008 7:30 am

O.Z.123 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

exactly. as a piston fan, i figured boston wouldn't have messed up like we did last year against cleveland cuz, when it came down to it, i figured kg -who at times is as unselfish offensively to a fault as rasheed is- would just say F it and dominate like we piston fans needed sheed to do downlow. that was the one matchup cleveland didn't have against us and the same matchup they dont have against yall.. but ya'll are so set on this stupid equal-opportunity offense crap that everyone seems to forget that an aggressive kg in the post is the easiest, most fluid way to start and sustain an offense for everybody regardless of if he's shooting or not.

Can we fire Doc and hire you right now? Please? Promise you won't start the 4th quarter with all bench scrubs + whichever starter is playing the worst and you've got the job sir!

bruno sundov · Post #526 » by **bruno sundov** » Tue May 13, 2008 10:45 am

2 of the big 3 haven't been hot at the same time all series. There is no one just nailing shots making a run. Ya know what Imean. When KG and Ray would carry the team for a period. You don't see that anymore. This team is so frustrating. Man they have to win game 5...

MyInsatiableOne · Post #527 » by **MyInsatiableOne** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:14 pm

bruno sundov wrote:2 of the big 3 haven't been hot at the same time all series. There is no one just nailing shots making a run. Ya know what Imean. When KG and Ray would carry the team for a period. You don't see that anymore. This team is so frustrating. Man they have to win game 5...

Pierce has been absolute trash for nearly the entire playoffs and it's killing them now. We need 2002 ECF-run Pierce. Stupid decisions, bad free throw shooting, not taking it to the hoop....pissing me off!