It doesn't matter if we were tied with 2 mins remaining in the game. How many times were the celts tight in close against inferior teams late in the game just to pull it out eventually.
Lakers have bynum, ariza, odom even that crybaby vujacic. When farmar comesback it becomes even worst
Not really getting how most of our fans are using excuses such as we just won 19 in a row and we are the defending champs to not needing to worry just a little bit here.
What is the relevance of the games we pulled out? What is the relevance of how many games were against inferior and how many games were against solid teams? We won't pull them all out! We will lose more close games, guaranteed. So what!
These aren't excuses. This is reality. Teams lose games. You are going way overboard. Why is this loss any worse than the loss against the Pacers? Is this loss any more significant than any of our losses last year? Not at all. It is just one loss among 82 games.
If you though the Celts could win at will, this game is an eye opener, but NO team can win at will. Every team in the history of the NBA has had double digit losses.
Yesterday's game does not prove your point any more than the first game against the Pacers or Denver proved that they are superior. Enough with the opportunists who act as if each loss is proof of their preconceptions.
Even worse are the posters who claim Doc is mismanaging the team because the bench doesn't dominate. It is delusion to insist that times when our bench is ineffective can be blamed on not giving minutes to Pruitt. Time to face reality - we don't have the best bench in basketball. Playing a mediocre talent like Pruitt before he is ready is not going to be a game changer.
We didn't even have the best bench in basketball last year, but we had an effective system.
i have rather lost to the pacers again then to lose the lakers. You know why?? Lakers and celtics would destroy the pacers in a 7 game series.
This is not only one loss as simple as that and that we needed to lose one of these days anyways.
Lakers are good enough to compete for the best record in the league plus if we face them they have the advantage right now.
For nickagneta
I don't think you saw ariza diving for balls etc. He was a non stats factor no doubt. Also Bynum was blocking almost anything that came into the paint and seriously hampered our pentration game. He was alot more of a factor than perk.
What ainge needs to do imo is buyout patrick obryant or send him to dleague, bring up bill walker and entice joe smith, mutombo, pj brown to join us. If he can't get one of those two vets to come, i hope he is working on trading big baby, pruitt and/or 2nd round pick for a decent vet like jeff foster
I think you are seriously over valuing what Ariza and Bynum gave the Lakers in that game yesterday. Vujacic and Odom were huge factors yesterday and Btnum and Ariza weren't.
You remember two Ariza plays where he saved the ball from going out and I remember two plays were the Celtics got jobbed by the refs on bad calls because missed the fact that Ariza was out when he through the ball back in.
You remember lots of Bynum blocks but stats and my memory say that he had two blocks and a bunch of times where he got away with hacking the hell out of a player without being called for it. Two free throws in the first half even though the Celtics scored 2/3 of their points from in the paint and went constantly inside is a joke.
Stat line
Perk 8 PTS 7 REBS 2 BLKS 34 MIN
Bynum 9 PTS 7 REBS 2 BLKS 36 MIN
How exactly do you get that Bynum was a large factor in this game and Perk wasn't?
Ariza 2 PTS 3 ASTS 1 REB 1 STL 1 TO 18 MIN
This is the stat line of some magical intangibles player that because he was inaccurately determined to have saved two balls when he was already out of bounds was a huge factor in the game?
Huge factors in this game was Pierce's and Ray Allen's ball handling, Kobe's great passing to a wide open Gasol in the last two minutes of the game, the disproportionate amount of calls and non calls the Lakers got in the first half, odom's huge two three pointers, and the lack of any cohesion from the C's second unit when they were on the floor all together.
I don't know what game you were watching but are you sure it's the same one the rest of us were watching because your observations and those of the rest of us differ greatly.