The many faces of Superman. There can only be 1... P2 time!
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:03 am
by campybatman
George Reeves
Christopher Reeve
Dean Cain
Tom Welling
Brandon Routh
Shaquille O'Neal
Dwight Howard
It's time to go to work... There's evildoers abound in the playoffs.
Paul Pierce
Pierce will need to be Superman-esque now. Ray Allen too. But, the challenges of the playoffs will be met by a valiant effort and likely late game heroics by The Truth.
Kevin Garnett Sings Superman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jiBY21FOoA
Re: The many faces of Superman. There can only be 1... P2 time!
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:29 am
by campybatman
Regardless, Pierce will try...
At age 31, with nearly 900 games on his NBA odometer, you cannot ask Pierce to carry the Celtics offensively AND defend a physical freak like LeBron seven times in 14 days without a ton of help. It's just too much. If Garnett, one of the greatest help defenders of all time, was backing him up? Maybe. But not Glen Davis, Kendrick Perkins, Leon Powe and Mikki Moore. Pierce's only chance to survive and thrive for a seven-game bloodbath of a Cleveland series -- and by proxy, Boston's best chance -- would be for the Celtics to immediately hire Brian McNamee, Victor Conte and Kirk Radomski as "team consultants." Not a bad idea, actually.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/st ... ortCat=nbaBut let's get serious. The man who will have to produce, who will have to bring nightly A games, who will have to be as good as he likes to think he is: The Captain.
Paul Pierce came away from last season's Finals with an enhanced reputation as a prime-time player. But that didn't seem to be enough for him. Unless I mistook what he was saying, he couldn't understand why people were hesitating to put him on the same level as Kobe and LeBron (and now, Dwyane). OK, Cap. If you really are that good, now's the time to prove it.
I, for one, won't hold him to that. It's no insult to be a great player, as Pierce is, and still be a cut below that reigning Holy Trinity of Hoop.
http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball ... rs/?page=2
Re: The many faces of Superman. There can only be 1... P2 time!
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:18 pm
by BRUNiNHO91
He will fight like hell to get us as far as he can..that's for sure..
Re: The many faces of Superman. There can only be 1... P2 time!
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:06 pm
by campybatman
Remember, before Ainge would acquire Garnett, Pierce was content with believing that his "help" would be just Ray Allen. So, the team is like the old Pierce and Antoine Walker show. That Celtic team did reach the eastern conference finals, and lost to a superior Nets team. Still, Boston has a better supporting cast than that Celtic team to go with the tandem of Pierce and Ray. Still, I do believe, despite losing Garnett, that they can at least reach the eastern conference finals. I'm just glad Boston's the team that clinched the second seed and not Orlando. I bet those Celtic fans that preferred to have Boston clinch the third seed don't feel that way now.