Another surprising close game against a mediocre team... Well, once again, Rondo is to blame the most for me. He basically did nothing before the 4th quarter : I've seen him disinterested defensively before but never THAT MUCH. He didn't even stay once against Holiday, and didn't try once neither to get through picks to cover him. I know Holiday isn't a good shooter but stil... awful effort. On offense he did just penetrate to make a pass, it worked a few times but then the Sixers knew he was never going to make anything else than a pass so they trapped him successfully.
He woke up in the 4th and made a run, and fortunately we sustained the Philly comeback but... Paul Pierce is carrying this team on his shoulders, and he is really amazing, but this is not what we want to see. We want to see Paul and the rest of the starters resting on the bench during the entire 4th quarter while the 2nd and 3rd unit are finishing the job. Paul won't last long if he has to play this many minutes with so much effort every night.
Other than that, good game by KG, very aggressive in the paint. Sheed was less awful than usual, House was OK, Ray was good (except for the missed layup at the end, wow...
), Perk was great in the first half but I wish he played more in the 2nd.
Good job of fouling the Sixers at the end instead of giving them the opportunity to shoot 3's since they were 13 of 20 (seriously?!). You've got to take advantage of having Ray and House on your team to ice games.
But this team has to step up if it wants to win against the Raptors friday because they have shooters at every position...
Topic: Sixers (5-8) at Celtics (10-4) 11/25 (Read 63224 times)