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...Of the Portland game earlier in the season when in the second quarter we just snapped back into celtics basketball after losing three in a row out west

anyone else think of that watching tonights game?

hopefully, we see the progress we made offensivley and confidence we gained in the second half of tonights game manifest it self in game 6 and beyond

Datruth345 wrote:...Of the Portland game earlier in the season when in the second quarter we just snapped back into celtics basketball after losing three in a row out west

anyone else think of that watching tonights game?

hopefully, we see the progress we made offensivley and confidence we gained in the second half of tonights game manifest it self in game 6 and beyond

The whole game I kept thinking of the San Antonio game. I was thinking to myself when we were down fourteen in the first half "If we get this to ten, we'll win."

I think we got ourselves back on track tonight.

I have this thing just based off my own basketball watching career where if we're down by 10 at the beg. of the fourth...then it's a winnable game

so alot of time in the third quarter and we're trailing im just hoping we can get the deficit to 10, then we have a legit shot at winning the ball game

I can't be duped into believing that, when we know how bad they have been performing on the road. The turnovers in the final moments of this game actually didn't give me the warm tinglies either... This team was 32-10 on the road this year. If they get back to that type of play, then I think we can all agree they're back to their top form. Until then, this was another good solid home win, but we're still a huge question mark overall unless they can show up on the road.

BadMuthaCeltic wrote:I can't be duped into believing that, when we know how bad they have been performing on the road. The turnovers in the final moments of this game actually didn't give me the warm tinglies either...

That's the main factor that keeps nagging at me. We don't seem to close out games very well. The Cavs on the other hand, seem to play their asses off in the final 3-4 minutes of every game and somehow close gaps or extend leads.

Fingers crossed for Friday.

A reminder for Doc.


"Don't put the ball in Paul's hands at the end of close games"

For what it's worth, he did hit the FTs to close them out. It's not about your agenda to criticize Paul Pierce at every turn, Emo. It's about getting him the ball where he can be the most effective. Every single player has strengths and weaknesses, and we should be playing to the players' strengths. At that point in the game, get the ball to a good free throw shooter who can also bring the ball up. That would have been someone like Cassell. THEN get the ball to Pierce if they don't foul you on the way up. Getting it to him there eliminates one of his weaknesses in bringing the ball up and handling double teams at the top of the key.

ill hold my reservations til about 11pm tomorow.

anybody notice if Toine slipped into the locker room at the half?? somebody let the truth be known in there

I was thinking it was like every other home game. We had one really good quarter of bastketball and 3 bad ones.

It was the best quarter in a long time, but we failed in the fourth closing the game out, made many bad finishing plays and it was a struggle to just keep the lead agains CLE's offensive and CLE's great play causing turnovers. Luckily Pierce found his free throw rhytmn again this game which he had all season and it was enough to close hold the lead just beyond their breaking.

Untill I see one half, the last half, of this team playing the way it used to and finishing the game the way it should I don't think anythings changed.

BadMuthaCeltic wrote:For what it's worth, he did hit the FTs to close them out. It's not about your agenda to criticize Paul Pierce at every turn, Emo. It's about getting him the ball where he can be the most effective. Every single player has strengths and weaknesses, and we should be playing to the players' strengths. At that point in the game, get the ball to a good free throw shooter who can also bring the ball up. That would have been someone like Cassell. THEN get the ball to Pierce if they don't foul you on the way up. Getting it to him there eliminates one of his weaknesses in bringing the ball up and handling double teams at the top of the key.

C'mon, it wasn't the "foul time", ha lost two silly ball, is not his fault, he's not a playmaker, that was just a bad call from Doc, we risked the game with that two TO...