Report from the Game in Los Angeles

return2glory · Post #1 » by **return2glory** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:14 am

I went to the game with 2 of my friends. Let me start by saying there were a few thousand Celtic fans. It was great to see so much Green in L.A. I have to say lot of the Celtic fans were classy.

We got in the Stapples Center about an hour before the game. I got to see the players shootaround. Pierce and Ray were in the locker room. Giddens was putting on a dunking exhibition. He might be even more athletic than Bill Walker. Danny Ainge was at the game. He actually got on the court when the shoot around was almost over, and was going over something with Giddens so. Ainge then throw about 5-7 ally-oops to Giddens. That was strange and fun to see at the same time. How many GM's do that? It was really cool.

Giddens and Pruitt harldy missed during warm ups. Giddens was even hitting 3's. Walker was mainly dunking the ball every time, but nothing fancy. Moore was dunking the ball with ease. Marcus Camby listed at 6'11 was about an inch taller that Moore, who is listed at 7'0.

I saw Adam Sandler, Marcus Allen, and Billy Crystal. Penny Marshall and Fred Dryer(the dude form Hunter and the ex NFL player) walked past him.

Now to the game. We started off slow, played with little energy. Pierce was cold. Perkins sucked. The refs took us out of the game early with some back calls.. BBD was called for some silly B.S. fouls. He was the best match up vs. Randolph.

Once Davis got in early foul trouble, we put Perkins on Randolph and Zach dominated Perkins the entire game. Zack went for 30 and 12 while Perkins had 3 and 9 rebounds. Powe also got into foul trouble as well through out the game. Doc had no choice but to play Perkins on Zach.

Pierce was cold the entire game. Ray started off well, but disappeared in the 4th quarter. Also it seemed like every time we were able to get a stop, Camby or Randolph would get an offensive rebound. Between the two of them, they had 10 offensive rebounds compared to 9 for our entire team.

But we still had a chance to win. We were up 82-73. We had the ball in Pierce's hand. He shot a wide open 3. He missed. Had he made it would would have been put by 12 and would have put a danger in their heart. That changed the game. The Clippers answered back with a 8-0 run and it was a new game.

With sloppy ball handling(20 TO"s) and missing about 5-6 FT's in the last 3 minutes of the game, it was the end of story. A very frustrating lose.

nermindee · Post #2 » by **nermindee** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:50 am

You just got suspended for this, trolling yet again. Edit by SSK99

Kefa461 · Post #3 » by **Kefa461** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:54 am

nermindee wrote:a few thousand? lol you wish. My friends were at the game man, dont try to make it seem like there was a sea of green there, hahaha pathetic attempt. You lost to the clippers.

So what......when you guys lose...do we care enough...to run over to your board and troll. 8-)

ps.....if we did this as much as this is done to our board I guess this would become a problem..... 8-)

nermindee · Post #4 » by **nermindee** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:59 am

Troll

Kefa461 · Post #5 » by **Kefa461** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:08 am

nermindee wrote:lol you call that trolling? you just showed how sensitive you are

You would not like it if we did it to you on your board.....it's not being sensitive.... 8-)

ps....esp. the other post.......so beat it..... 8-)

Post #6 » by **Celtics_Champs** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:10 am

Good thread ruined by a troll.

That's cool about the fans R2G. It seemed like 4-5 people from this board went to the game, so I imagine there were a lot at the arena.

Shame we lost. Anybody know if Pierce is going to sit out friday? I hope not.

Jammer · Post #7 » by **Jammer** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:46 pm

return2glory:

Thanks for the update.

By the way, Marcus Camby's pre-draft measurement
was 6' 11" without shoes,
so if Mikki Moore is 1 inch shorter, as you suggest,
then Moore is 6' 10" without shoes.

Anyway, since you used to toute Tony Allen so much last season,
I was sort of expecting you to mention his absence.

If Tony was healthy and available, Celtics win.
DItto for KG, or if Steph had been available.

Celtics needed one more scorer,
since although Perk and Leon contributed 9 rebounds each,
they only coughed up 6 points.

Plus, KG was missed up front.

Perk 31 minutes, 3 pts. (1-3 FG, 1-1 FT), 9 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal, 3 TO's, 5 fouls
Leon 24 minutes, 3 pts. (1-6 FG, 1-4 FT), 9 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal, 2 TO's, 5 fouls
Mikki 13.5 minutes, 4 pts. (2-2 FG), 1 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 fouls
Glen Davis 26 minutes, 14 pts. (5-7 FG, 4-6 FT), 4 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal, 4 TO's, 5 fouls

Little things, like
Davis's 4 turnovers and 5 fouls,
Perk's 3 turnovers and 5 fouls,
Leon's 2 turnovers and 5 fouls
cost this game.

They may each think they have 5 fouls to burn, but it's killing the team
(Those 3 alone totaled 9 turnovers and 15 fouls).

I do agree that some of the calls on Davis and Perk were BS,
and that Rajon had two made buckets whistled away for charging and traveling,
but overall, it's still too many.

BS calls go both ways.

bceltic55 · Post #8 » by **bceltic55** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:51 pm

The fouls hurt, but the TO's and missed FT 's are the problem.

MyInsatiableOne · Post #9 » by **MyInsatiableOne** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:43 pm

Kefa461 wrote:
nermindee wrote:a few thousand? lol you wish. My friends were at the game man, dont try to make it seem like there was a sea of green there, hahaha pathetic attempt. You lost to the clippers.

So what......when you guys lose...do we care enough...to run over to your board and troll.

ps.....if we did this as much as this is done to our board I guess this would become a problem..... 8-)

This is why it's so **** frustrating to be a Celtics fan...even when we sucked idiot fans of other teams would come on here and troll...why do they always feel the need to **** on our parade here?

Great second line, too, Kefa!

crm0922 · Post #10 » by **crm0922** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:23 pm

I was there, too. There was pretty much thousands of C's fans. You could see green everywhere. Maybe not a "sea of green" but close.

And boy the Clippers fans that do exist, this gave them a rare moment to get excited about their team. Too bad it was at our expense.

C

LA Titletown · Post #11 » by **LA Titletown** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:30 pm

I was at the game too. Either you guys are flat out lying or dont know how to count. There were a handful of Celtic fans. Period. They sure were quiet too. lol

return2glory · Post #12 » by **return2glory** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:45 pm

LA Titletown wrote:I was at the game too. Either you guys are flat out lying or dont know how to count. There were a handful of Celtic fans. Period. They sure were quiet too. lol

You must not have been at the game. Handful? There was more than a hanful in the row we were sitting at.

Banks2Pierce · Post #13 » by **Banks2Pierce** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:50 pm

When someone was shooting free throws you could see the crowd and it almost looked like the game was in Boston.

AlCelticFan · Post #14 » by **AlCelticFan** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:54 pm

That game was U-G-L-Y. Celtics turned it over like 40 zillion times. That was just a trash game. Chalk one up to "oops we suck today."

return2glory · Post #15 » by **return2glory** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:01 pm

Jammer wrote:return2glory:

Anyway, since you used to toute Tony Allen so much last season,
I was sort of expecting you to mention his absence.

If Tony was healthy and available, Celtics win.
DItto for KG, or if Steph had been available..

I didn't want to use injuries as an excuse. The Clippers are one of the top 10-12 teams in the league IMO, when healthy. But they have been hurt all season. They were playing without Kaman, Thornton, and Gordon left this game with an injury.

If we had KG, TA, and Scalabrine, we would have won. Even if we had Scalabrine, we would have won. The reason I mentioned the fouls was that we only had 3 bigs. Perkins, Powe, and BBD. Moore didn't now the system and was lost out there. The refs tried to take BBD and Powe out of the game with atleast 2 B.S. fouls on each. It worked.

MyInsatiableOne · Post #16 » by **MyInsatiableOne** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:00 pm

LA Titletown wrote:I was at the game too. Either you guys are flat out lying or dont know how to count. There were a handful of Celtic fans. Period. They sure were quiet too. lol

Well seeing as you're from LA I'll go with it's YOU who doesn't know how to count...

I mean, we all know the Lakers have 9 titles yet y'all still try to make it 14! :lol:

chakdaddy · Post #17 » by **chakdaddy** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:23 am

That game was summed up on the play where House passed up a wide open pull up 3 on the break to throw it away to Jones or Collins or somebody. That and the alley oop to Moore that was chucked out of bounds.

Totally sloppy game by an overconfident team after the Denver win.

kind of pathetic, gotta move on. worst played game since that loss to the Knicks.

crm0922 · Post #18 » by **crm0922** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:06 am

MyInsatiableOne wrote:
LA Titletown wrote:I was at the game too. Either you guys are flat out lying or dont know how to count. There were a handful of Celtic fans. Period. They sure were quiet too. lol

Well seeing as you're from LA I'll go with it's YOU who doesn't know how to count...

I mean, we all know the Lakers have 9 titles yet y'all still try to make it 14!

Seriously...we can count. There were C's fans behind me to my left and below and one clipper fan nearby. That's not to say there weren't enough clips fans to make some noise, but there were definite cheers when the Celts hit shots which you can clearly hear on the TV coverage more than at any other venue I can think of.

Truthfully, I wish the Clippers had more fans. And they look like they should be getting better. There are some quality players on that team.

I thought the BD/Collins/Randolph/Camby group was well balanced and effective. They've also got Thornton, Ricky, Eric G, Fred Jones. That's actually shaping up pretty nicely. Maybe I'll go to another game. The only real villains on that team are Celtic killer Jones and Randolph. And those guys don't aren't nauseating like, say, Kobe.

And I only counted 9 banners hanging at Staples for the Lakers, and they are all on one wall. I like it much better at the Garden where the entire ceiling is covered.

C

DelMonte West · Post #19 » by **DelMonte West** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:27 am

Staying up until 1AM to watch the Celtics lose to the Clippers is as depressing as it gets. It must have been even worse in person.

heyjohnny · Post #20 » by **heyjohnny** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:35 am

I was there. There were thousands of Celtic fans there and they were there EARLY.
Even the public address announcer made a comment before the game started about all the GREEN in the house, and he challanged the CLIPPER fans to make some noise.
I don't get why LAKER fans can't respect the fact that the CELTIC'S are insanely popular everywhere they go. You cannot spin the fact's about this, even though the CELTICS did lose to the lowely CLIPPERS, there were TONS of C"s fans there last night. TONS!