Celtics (48-18) at Rockets (35-34) 3/18

[dasani]

Adios, game thread posters. I'll be back in time for the playoffs! 

this sounds like a good plan

[Megatron]

I think they'll come into the game tomorrow night the same as tonight. Look to win but with using as little energy as possible.

I think the best we can hope for this late in the season is if the other team folds or the C's win a close game.

Haha Perfect example of how this team plays.

They show up and try to see if they can intimidate the other team into giving up.

When the other team doesent give up and fights back and gets a lead, the starters simply give up and mail it in.

[barefacedmonk]

Just looked at the boxscore...the starting five really put up a stinker...Davis and Green seem to have had a decent game.

[CelticSooner]

Prepare for another blowout loss tomorrow, Okafor and West are going to have field days.

Chris Paul is going to thoroughly demolish Rondo.

Doc really needs to bench the starters until the playoffs start so they get full rest, and only use them in practice.

No point to play the starters for the rest of the regular season in my opinion.

Yes the starters need rest but you don't need to drop yourself to 4th or 5th in the standings. You don't have to rest all the starters at once. You gotta at least give yourself a chance to win.

[tenn_smoothie]

the starting five - especially Rondo - have been struggling badly since The Trade.
can it be any more obvious ?

Danny has damaged the chemistry and the psyche of his team because he made a move that he thought looked like an overall improvement on paper. but nba teams - especially this team - don't play their games on paper. just ask yourself - would Red have made that deal ?  No Way, because Red understood people and that was his greatest strength and it is something Ainge seems completely oblivious to.

[SHAQATTACK]

Yep, I predicted this one tonight as well.  Rhondo's play , what ever his excuse, his play is not much better than high school level right now.

Paul will make a joke of him  .  If he is hurt , then he needs to GO HOME and rest. or see a shrink .

 I'm  losing my mind now watching them play.

[Tai]

Prepare for another blowout loss tomorrow, Okafor and West are going to have field days.

Chris Paul is going to thoroughly demolish Rondo.

Doc really needs to bench the starters until the playoffs start so they get full rest, and only use them in practice.

No point to play the starters for the rest of the regular season in my opinion.

Yes the starters need rest but you don't need to drop yourself to 4th or 5th in the standings. You don't have to rest all the starters at once. You gotta at least give yourself a chance to win.

Stop feeding him. Seriously. He does this after every loss.

[Spicoli]

I know i might get flamed for this, but KG really is soft. Nothing more need be said about Rondo, but KG has been almost as bad over the last stretch of games. The only shots he takes nowadays are 18 footers. When he steps a foot in the paint (where he should be in the first place) he looks to pass the ball back out like it's hot potato. Right now KG is all bark and no bite. This coming from someone who absolutely loves KG.

[barefacedmonk]

I guess we need more offense than Danny managed to acquire.

[SHAQATTACK]

well it would sure help if RHONDO would play point guard and drive the ball and set up his bigs and could make a freakin layup. He needs to set the tone and get guys involved and be a leader and not a chump.

[Tai]

the starting five - especially Rondo - have been struggling badly since The Trade. can it be any more obvious ?

Danny has damaged the chemistry and the psyche of his team because he made a move that he thought looked like an overall improvement on paper. but nba teams - especially this team - don't play their games on paper. just ask yourself - would Red have made that deal ?  No Way, because Red understood people and that was his greatest strength and it is something Ainge seems completely oblivious to.

So tell me: what was our problem last season? We didn't look any better last season than we do now, if not worse, and all we did was trade Eddie House for Nate Robinson. I think Bill Simmons even went so far as to predict we would lose in the 1st round to the Heat. Whether that was silly or not was immaterial; THAT'S how bad we were playing. We were the 4th seed, and looking old as ever, as everyone wanted to tell us.

This season so far? We're STILL tied with the Bulls for 1st seed in the East, and subsequently tied for the 2nd best record in the NBA to the Spurs, even with our alleged woes lately. THAT'S how well we've played THIS season so far.

[KungPoweChicken]

Rondo throws in another stinker tonight. This team needs to start West if they want to get the one or two seed.

[Roy H.]

We're STILL tied with the Bulls for 1st seed in the East, and subsequently tied for the 2nd best record in the NBA to the Spurs, even with our alleged woes lately.

Alleged?

[ejk3489]

Rondo throws in another stinker tonight. This team needs to start West if they want to get the one or two seed.

Shocking, calling out Rondo and no other starters that played horrible.

[guava_wrench]

Rondo throws in another stinker tonight. This team needs to start West if they want to get the one or two seed.

Shocking, calling out Rondo and no other starters that played horrible.

Well, he did say ANOTHER stinker. How many of the other starters are on a roll like he is?