We lost tonight because

[PPAW4Life]

we decided rest was more important than the win against the Bobcats.

Rivers said after the game that Ray Allen would have played if it was a playoff game....that he felt great.

So obviously we gave this game away since we are trying to save some minutes and energy for more important games down the road.

I can see the philosophy in that and I can't argue with it much....but it still ticks me off that we lost.

I hope the players feel bad too.....losing when you're not suppose to is not good at all.

[Kaykoose]

Trade Pierce

[MaxwellSmart]

We lost cause the team thought they were number one after beating Detroit...the Bobcats wanted to avenge the last loss--and they played way harder and deserved the victory tonight.

[spacemonkey]

Break it up and rebuild IMO.

[NO-KG-AI]

Lost because Ray Allen=MVP.

Obviously.

[TheSheriff]

...the Celtics made numerous stupid mistakes.

[celticfan42487]

Because Ray Allen is injury prone.

But he's a pretty much a negative on teh court so it wasn't him beign out of the line-up that hurt, but it was the fact he got hurt and signaled all good things must come to an end.

This depressed the rest of the team with such emo ramifications that our defensive intensity was drained like a man with a nagging women wanting everything in the world done for her.

True Story.

[keltickings]

We played poorly and couldn't hit anything.

However,

There were some highly questionable calls and no calls all game.

But I'm not sayin nothin...

[PPAW4Life]

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday wasn't enough rest?

Sure we played badly....still turning the ball over a lot but we could have still won despite playing badly.

Sitting Ray Allen or any other guy is going to hurt the team no matter what. If it's a serious injury fine....but if you can tough it out and be a positive for the team why not play.

[rambo_ortega]

the rest was uncalled for. especially against a very athletic bobcats team who has been finding their groove lately. i also wanted that win badly because we only beat them the last time because of ray's buzzer beater.

too bad... but still... we are 29-4!

[Sub-Zero]

Who rests players when the season is not even half way. I hope this give away game comes back to haunt you boston and you fall 1 game short of the conference race because there is still like 50 games left and detroit is not a long way behind by any means. With your starters playing so many minutes fatigue and injury is inevitable.

[P2]

House and Pierce were a combined 2-for-15 from beyond the arc. That tells you a lot.

[P2]

With your starters playing so many minutes fatigue and injury is inevitable.

Garnett and Ray are playing like 2 to 3 minutes less than their career average, and Pierce also doesn't exceed 40.

[John Locke]

reactionary...

Okay, this game is over, lets get on with it.

But I felt the refs made some horrible calls btw...

[darrendaye]

No guts, no glory.

[Joebiscuit]

C's lost because they could not figure out the zone defense.

[DorfonCeltics]

Who rests players when the season is not even half way. I hope this give away game comes back to haunt you boston and you fall 1 game short of the conference race because there is still like 50 games left and detroit is not a long way behind by any means. With your starters playing so many minutes fatigue and injury is inevitable.

Thanks Troll. Actually Ray Allen has a pinched nerve in his back which has caused numbness and discoloration in his hand. It's not really serious but it is something that needed rest. You think we just rest players for the hell of it?

I'm pretty sure this game won't come back to haunt us. We still have what, 6 less loses than the Pistons who lost for the second time in a row last night. Why don't you worry about your own team instead of jumping on every Celtics loss. It's only loss number 4 anyway.

Edit: We lost last night because we didn't play defense for 48 minutes like we usually do. Outside of JRich being on fire we had some serious defensive lapses. KG and Paul said as much in their post game press conference. The fans and media have been spoiled because the C's defense has been so consistent. It just wasn't consistent as it should of been. That and Paul had an off night. Hey, **** happens. I just hope we don't have a bunch of reactionary posts this time around.

[Friar Dan]

We lost tonight because:
- A couple of guys had off nights (Pierce 4-14, 1-9 from 3!; House 3-10)
- A couple of rotation guys (Ray and Baby) didn't play
- We just came off our biggest win of the year @ DET
- We had a letdown against a "lesser light" at home
- Said "lesser light" has some talented players (Felton, Wallace, JRich, Mohammed in the honeymoon phase of his trade) and was avenging a tough loss in their place on 11/24
- The Celts expected to win and got a little complacent and a little careless with the ball (I'm looking at you, starting backcourt), and didn't wake up unitl it was too late
- And most of all, JRich was ON F-I-R-E

Over 82 games, you get one of these every now and then. We're fortuante is took 33 games to lay an egg. It's just one loss - if someone offered 29-4 back in October, everyone would have jumped on it.

[daveisceltics]

Who rests players when the season is not even half way. I hope this give away game comes back to haunt you boston and you fall 1 game short of the conference race because there is still like 50 games left and detroit is not a long way behind by any means. With your starters playing so many minutes fatigue and injury is inevitable.

As Detroit gets blown out of the American Airlines Center

[GreenGrizz]

Perk was not aggressive enough. He is depending on his teammates too much.