Celts - Suns Games Thread

[Kids Are Alright]

look friends, both the captain and ticket will be back by the 6th or so (heat game) and baby will too after the sprained ankle and rondo is naturally a quick healer (hammy), and i'm lookin forward to our top 8 guys healthy (sans quis) by the end of jan. just in time for the la game.

i aint panickin, we'll be allright .... calm down friends. we're old, injured, this n that and we're still 23-8 only behind cavs in the east. we should be fortunate and thank our lucky stars, it could be a lot worse than this.

Sure, worse would be KG going Vin Baker on us

[Red2]

there's not one good thing you can take from this game; no one played well and doc certainly didn't coach well. His decision to start rondo and play him well into the 4th qtr was ridiculous considering his injury. last night was a perfect opportunity to play lester,JR and Billy about 30 minutes each. our chance of winning that game was no more than 20% to start with and by the middle of the 3rd it was about 1%. Why oh why did he leave rondo and ray in the game well into the 4th qtr? I was disappointed in so many ways last night but here are a few: Perk once again getting a stupid, ridiculous T when we were just starting to get back in the game. Perk setting moving screens AGAIN!! Ray Allen stinking up the joint on a night when we needed him. he missed wide open shots and made easy shots into difficult ones. Rasheed taking 3's when every time he posts up he gets a good look; tony allen with 4 TO's- he played well but every time he turns the ball over he negates anything positive he's doing out there; finally our inability to guard channing frye at the 3 point line. Neither Scal nor Sheed were within 5 feet of him when he was shooting. Shelden williams needs to get mean and develop some attitude down low. he can't keep going up soft like he does. it's bad enough that we have glenn davis who can't jump but his replacement is just as bad. We're an old team and right now our bench isn't doing crap. Doc needed to go small last night and put young, energetic guys in the game and see what happened. ray, sheed etc are old and tired.

[canman1971]

Anyone who is putting any hard thought into last nights game is wasting valuable brain power. Everyone knew it was a loss, even Doc. Rondo played because he was fine. If he wasn't he would not have been in there. I think Ed Lacerte and Doc know about his health more than RealGM posters or even those douches who sit in the TV studio. Take the top two players out from any team and see how they do. And I am sorry, but the only thing I learned last night was JR, Walker, and Hudson do not belong on an NBA team right now. I know it is garbage time, but they looked like they couldn't even play HS ball.

[UGA Hayes]

Anyone who is putting any hard thought into last nights game is wasting valuable brain power. Everyone knew it was a loss, even Doc. Rondo played because he was fine. If he wasn't he would not have been in there. I think Ed Lacerte and Doc know about his health more than RealGM posters or even those douches who sit in the TV studio. Take the top two players out from any team and see how they do. And I am sorry, but the only thing I learned last night was JR, Walker, and Hudson do not belong on an NBA team right now. I know it is garbage time, but they looked like they couldn't even play HS ball.

Eh our teams history with handling injuries isn't very good, so I think its fair game to question how Doc deals with injuries. Anyway I second the frustration with the use of our bench. Yes our bench players probably aren't good, but you will never have a better oppurtunity to get them some burn in a relatively meaningless blowout loss. Just put them in.

[return2glory]

there's not one good thing you can take from this game; no one played well and doc certainly didn't coach well. His decision to start rondo and play him well into the 4th qtr was ridiculous considering his injury. last night was a perfect opportunity to play lester,JR and Billy about 30 minutes each.

Right there Red2, couldn't agree with you anymore. Yesterday was the perfect opportunity to rest Rondo and limute Ray's minutes and play Giddens, Walker, and Hudson about 25-30 minutes.

Instead Doc risked more injury to Rondo, played clowns like Wallace and Scal too much, and we still don't know if any of the yound guys can be counted on since Doc refuses to play them.

The only positves was that Rondo went 3-3 from the line and now has made 10-12 in his last two games. Also Eddie finally shot well.

[loscy]

Why is the worst player in the NBA playing over 20 minutes a game. This is by far Scalabrine's worst season of his horrbile career.

His 2007/2008 season was pretty horrible, he shot 31% for the season. But yes the only thing he has contributed is taking a charge here and there. As much as i dont like Bill Walker or Giddens, they should be playing over him. Will never happen though. Scals BBIQ is to high HAHA.