OT: for the love of all that is holy, someone please....

alwayslovetheceltics · Post #1 » by **alwayslovetheceltics** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:08 am

put up video of KG"s celebration at the end of this game. i love this team.

sarah42 · Post #2 » by **sarah42** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:14 am

alwayslovetheceltics wrote:put up video of KG"s celebration at the end of this game. i love this team.

what did he do?

i'm watching the hornets game, and i was keeping on eye on the boxscore, and minny was leading for most of the fourth and i thought - now thats embarrasing, but it hurts less knowing the hornets lost to them if the celtics lose to them lol

but then i looked at the boxscore, kg only played 31 minutes and attempted 5 field goals - WHAT? when kendrick is attempting more field goals than kg - something is different.

nice win!

or maybe the boxscore is out of whack?

hickfromfrenchlick · Post #3 » by **hickfromfrenchlick** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:25 am

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It's not the box score that's out of wack. It's the Celtics.

Appreciate the congrats, but it was far from a nice win. The worst win possible (apart from having a player go down). Ugly, ugly game.

sarah42 · Post #4 » by **sarah42** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:33 am

so why did he only play 31 minutes. is there a reason he didn't attempt more than 5 field goals?

thats silly. btw hickfromfrenchlick - ugly games happen all the time. minny is a team that's competitive most games, have beaten the hornets - a great defensive team, the suns twice - best offensive team, almost beat the nuggets and beat the warriors - another great offensive team.

if you expect to see high offense blow out games all year, than you're not.

blowouts are so overrated. imo, teams need close games, and need to learn how to execute close games because that is what you will see in the playoffs.

i still don't get why ray and paul are nightly in there for 41 minutes latey, and kg is getting so much less. what is up with doc?

hickfromfrenchlick · Post #5 » by **hickfromfrenchlick** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:40 am

Sarah, first of all, this game wasn't an outlier. We've been playing poor basketball for the last few weeks. But this was almost the low point. You're giving Minny a lot of credit for a 7-win team. We were playing at home, following a loss that should have fired this team up. No way to spin it. I was willing to throw the Toronto game out the window because of how well the Raps shot but there's no excuse for the lack of energy tonight. You didn't see the game, but believe me, the effort simply wasn't there - except for Perk.

KG would have played 35 minutes but he had to leave the game with 6 minutes left for 4 minutes to tend to an injury.

I don't mind him getting 35 minutes. Don't need him to get burned out. I don't think Paul and Ray's minutes are that high.

By the way, I realize I'm coming across as combative and I don't mean it that way. I've seen you around and you're a good poster. I'm just disappointed in the way this team has played recently. Not that I expect them to win every game but having watched nearly every game this season, there are some dangerous trends emerging.

sarah42 · Post #6 » by **sarah42** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:46 am

yeah i know what you mean, but teams go through lulls. they are still finding ways to win.

but ray and paul are always up near 40 or more minutes. if someone like ray - who really isn't shooting all that well is playing that many minutes, whats the point?

as a hornet fan, we are on a 7 game win streak blowing teams up, but just last month we went through a tough streak, and we'll have better competition in the second half.

close games are all right. i still don't recall this team being blown out. those are the worst.

i definitely see the lack of energy for this team these past few weeks, starting after that detroit win - but that lack of energy doesn't mean they're down by 20 points - its just mean they're in close games and not blowing teams up - that is humbling!

close games are fun to watch for me, if i'm not a fan of either team. i can understand the frustration when its your team and you're playing a minnesota team. lol.

kg got hurt?

sarah42 · Post #7 » by **sarah42** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:48 am

just remember, better to go through rough waters now than the week before the playoffs - which is what happened to dallas - and you know what happened to them last season!

hickfromfrenchlick · Post #8 » by **hickfromfrenchlick** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:50 am

Well, Paul and Ray average 38, which is kinda high but not *too* high.

Good point about us not getting blown out. Nobody has put a licking on us, or even really threatened to. We were down big to Orlando for a little while but made a run and almost won it.

KG looked like he got hit in the stomach. The announcers said he was limping so people were afraid it was a leg injury. He gingerly went out to the locker room but came back and entered the game with 2:19 to go. He looked fine to me. Guess we'll know tomorrow the extent of the injury.

sarah42 · Post #9 » by **sarah42** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 4:04 am

hope he sits out next game if its at all serious. in all honesty, this team may be trying to bring it down a notch. that pace they put up in the first half really shouldn't be happening in the second half because all you'll get is some tired dudes in the playoffs.

its amazing this team hasn't had more than a 2 game losing streak.

to me i'd really like to see rondo get into the paint and score on some layups. having perk score like that around the basket is always nice, but the defence has been there just about every game except that toronto game.

i've seen some ugly games over the years - detroit ahem - but as long as you execute near the end.