Celtics are playing like scared little Girls....

[MaxwellSmart]

They have stopped being aggressive...They have let the Hawks dictate the pace of the game---and it's all on Doc....He's got to let these guys play like they did in the regular season---people say the playoffs are a time to slow it down--but if you look around the league...the teams that run and are aggressive,are WINNING!!

[Cep]

They have let the Hawks dictate the pace of the game---

That's exactly what I'm trying to tell you in the other thread, but you say I'm wrong.

Of course we have to run and push the ball, but we can't do it the whole game, and we ESPECIALLY can't do it when they're doing it, because that way we're just doing exactly what they want us to do, give them control of the pace of the game.

[Adobozz]

Cep is right, we would be more than happy to run with u guys.

[Cep]

Holding hands?

Please.

[Bleeding Green]

These pink Pierce signatures are real clever and everything, and it's great that you guys support breast cancer research but they are massive. Please for the sake of all that is holy, edit them so they fit into the signature guidelines.

[16andRising]

Scared little girls? Sounds like the description I'd give to the " please stop posting on our board" Hawk fans after games 1 & 2.
Now you won 2 games and you're gonna start running your lip?
We will see who wins the series.
Nice photoshop job, real appropriate, considering your team hasn't had ANYONE as talented as PP since Dominique.
It's funny how 2 wins can turn a bunch of people who didn't give 2 s**** about their team into superfans all of a sudden.
Who's the "fair-weather fans"?

[GreenGrizz]

How can I disagree with you, guys?

[Adobozz]

Nice photoshop job, real appropriate, considering your team hasn't had ANYONE as talented as PP since Dominique.

JJ is not talented as Pierce? Especially after tonights game when everyone expected the princess to drop 40 instead it was MJ....i mean JJ.....GTFO..

It's funny how 2 wins can turn a bunch of people who didn't give 2 s**** about their team into superfans all of a sudden.
Who's the "fair-weather fans"?

Didn't give ****, what a hell do you know? I was going to the games when we were winning 13, 26, 30 games a season. It wasn't against the almighty Lakers either it was against back than sorry ass celtics teams.[/quote]

[Tricky Ricky]

they look like deers in the headlights and Josh Smith is that headlight

[Athanacropolis]

^^^ What Tricky said.

And this isn't my dad's NBA, where you could give a message-sending hard foul without fear of getting suspended/arrested/publicly crucified by the Stern PR machine and the national media. So there'll be no clotheslining going on, just more hand-wringing and scared play. Pathetic.

Unless the Cs have a total change of heart and the Garden crowd can fire them up!!!!

[Kefa461]

The ref are keeping us from playing rough.....rough on one end is ok..on the other end gets you in foul trouble. It makes you play like a little girl and the NBA knows it.

[Celts17Pride]

The word "CHOKE" comes to mind. KG, Pierce, Allen need to step up and take control of this series. Their labeled as great players that can't win and right now they are proving it.

[Red2]

the playoffs expose weaknesses. Our weakness is that we're a jump shooting team and we're vulnerable to athletic teams like the Hawks. when we move the ball and pass to the open man we're tough to beat but right now we need to start our offense from the inside out. Yes we need more production from Pierce and Garnett but let's not forget that garnett gave us 32 points in game 3 and 20 last night. More than anything we need Pierce to get going. He came out strong last night but was taken out of his game by some silly ( and questionable) calls and he was defniitely bothered by the fine and perhaps the crowd as it showed in his free throw shooting. we are in a dog fight now but that's not a bad thing. If this team is a legitimate contender they will win this series and if they're not then they won't and 66 wins will be of little comfort to anyone. what thing is clear already for next year- we need an athletic big man and a bigger guard. I have been really disappointed in cassell's play and his inability to fit into our pass first shoot second offense. If our bench doesn't start contributing we will lose this series because it's clear to me that the big 3 can't play 40 + minutes a night. They've gotten to used to that cushy 30 minutes and now it's too late for their conditioning to change

[cloverleaf]

You make some fair points, Red2, and if we lose Perk and KG for a game that makes playing from the inside out all the more difficult. Having it come down to our undersized first and second year bigs, BBD and LP, is not what we're looking for at all.

[MyInsatiableOne]

The word "CHOKE" comes to mind. KG, Pierce, Allen need to step up and take control of this series. Their labeled as great players that can't win and right now they are proving it.

KG has singly handedly kept the team in the last 2 games...what more can the guy do? Ray hit some big shots last night, too. The one who is disappointing me is Pierce, although to be fair last night he got **** mauled a few times on the way to the hoop and got no calls. But he was atrocious from the free throw line.

[eitanr]

The Celtics have to stop suffering from Detroit Pistons syndrome: feel that they are too dominant to be stopped. Everybody had Boston in 4, 5 tops. The C

[MyInsatiableOne]

^^That Zaza play reminded me of that series in the 1980s when the Sixers Mark Iavaroni got in Bird's face and pissed Bird off so much he got ejected. A tactic Red always hated, the opposing team sending their talentless goon over to take out your best player...that's instantly what came to mind last night when this incident happened.

[eitanr]

I think here is where the psychology lies. Before the season started and after the trades were made people were still skeptical about Boston. Yes they were on the cover of SI and other sporting mags, but none of the analysts or experts pegged them to win the title. I remember picking up countless NBA preview issues and I only found one that had Boston making the conference finals, no one even had them in the finals. I mean this was many people saying it.

Don

[return2glory]

The word "CHOKE" comes to mind. KG, Pierce, Allen need to step up and take control of this series. Their labeled as great players that can't win and right now they are proving it.

They didn't to have stepped up after game 3. They tried to step up in game 4, but couldn't. That's sad and disappointing.

KG got outplayed by Josh Smith. Ray Allen got torched by J.J.

Pierce got punked by a rookie at the end of game 3. How did he respond. He went 5-14 in game 4.

It sad to say but the Lakers are way better than this team. They have 2 things that we don't have. They have a superstar in Kobe. They have a very good coach in Phil Jackson.

Also, they have a better 3 in Kobe, Gasol and Odem.

[tombattor]

they look like deers in the headlights and Josh Smith is that headlight

BINGO!!