Odd trend in the Celtics playoff season

lojowo · Post #1 » by **lojowo** » Sat May 17, 2008 1:24 pm

Celtics are not playing well and I hate to blame the officails but hear are some facts:

Celtics in the Regular season averaged the following:

FT 20.5/G FTA 26.5/G Personal Fouls called against the Celtics 22.7

In the Playoffs, FTA and Fouls called aginst go in different directions"
FT 17.5?G FTA 22.6FTA and Fouls called against the Celtics 24.4

With teh fould shots attempted you would say, The refs are letting them play until you see the personal fouls called against and they go up.

Atlanta in the regular season

FT 21.0/G FTA 27.2/G Personal fouls called against the Hawks 20.4

Playoffs
FT 24.6/G FTA 31.4/G and personal fouls called against 20.1

Cav's in the regular seaosn

FT 18.0/G FTA 25.0 and personal fouls called against the Caves 20.9

Playoffs

FT 20.8/G FTA 28.8/G and personal fouls called against 21.6.

Numbers show that in the playoffs, everyone elses FTA go up while the Celtics go down versus the regular Season. ANd the Celtics fouls called against is more then the other two opponents and increases more in the playoffs then the other two opponents.

So are the Celtics playing different defensively and taking more outside shots or are the refs calling there games differently?

Does anyone know of a site that has, Outside shoots taken, drives and inside shots taken, that can show the Celtics are shooting more from the outside in the playoffs versus the regular season and also shows the Hawks/Cavs taking the ball to the hole more often?

Joebiscuit · Post #2 » by **Joebiscuit** » Sat May 17, 2008 1:33 pm

These losses are 100% on the celtics. What did them in was missing 15 shots in a row and letting the cavs go one a 19-0 run.

People on here are too busy screaming about conspiracy theories and lack of calls rather than actually watching the game and realizing that the celtics are simply not getting the job done.

NDaATL · Post #3 » by **NDaATL** » Sat May 17, 2008 2:34 pm

If the Celtics didn't shoot anything but jumpshots, maybe you'd get to the line more. 82 games of the regular season don't reflect what's been done in a few playoff games against better teams.