CoolD wrote:If J.O starts, I have a hard time seeing us have a shot.
Last game Boston played horrid to their standards, for some big stretches, and anytime they wanted they easily got back in the game, even after Wade heroics they still had a shot.
The thing that has bugged me, Spo really hasn't done any real adjustments.
How do we defend Rondo better.
You could probably put even Chalmers as a starter if you don't want to burn Wade out dribbling the ball.
Let Chalmers get Ray Allen, Wade get Rondo.
Or this lineup too, Wade as P.G but he defends Ray Allen, then have Dorell Wright defending Rondo.
Then have Q Pierce
Or Wade on Rondo, D Wright on Allen, Q on Pierce.
Haslem on Kevin Garnett, and Joel and Perkings.
This would be our best defensive lineup, I just think tonight is going to be ultra physical, I just don't see our starting lineup being able to bang it out vs. Boston.
Hope am wrong, but Boston is going to put a great effort, this team can destroy you,, when they are all in.
The thing is, J.O's defense has gotten worst too, is not just his offense, but his defense looks passionless.
Hopefully the fact everyone seems to claim this a one man team, some guys take pride, and just play for their self dignity.
So we didn't play like crap for the whole series so far? We've been committing the stupidest turnovers and we're a usually an efficient team on offense, at least turnover-wise. These turnovers have led to many easy baskets in transition which is why the Celtics scored so many points on us.
Plus aside of Wade, nobody has consistenly played well. Q was probably the most consistent player over the series aside of Dwyane and even Richardson has been incosistent. So I expect a lot of players to step their games up tonight. I know we had solid contributions off the bench by Chalmers, Haslem, Joel and Dorell on Sun. but statiscally, all of them can step their game up except for Chalmers probably who has delivered solid bench numbers.
Overall I expect guys like Dorell, Q, UD, Rio and Beasley to chip in between 10 and 15 points apiece. Who knows, probably Beasley will take advantage of the many open looks he'll get tonight and even explode for 25 pts or heck even 30 pts. You never know. But I believe in this team and I believe that we can make it a series tonight. Nothing is impossible.
