I want my Baby Back

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We miss our baby. Perk is doing an admirable job with out Glen. We miss our second enforcer down the middle. I miss his scoring, hustle, screens, scoring, flagrants...... I want my baby back.

[Bahku]

In this same vein, why did Scal get more minutes than Shelden? Doc's been running the rotation really well of late, but there were a few question marks in his choices tonight ... including Rondo not being in the game down the stretch. I miss Big Baby, too, but I'd rather see 15 minutes for Shelden, than 8 for Scal and & 7 for Shel.

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In this same vein, why did Scal get more minutes than Shelden? Doc's been running the rotation really well of late, but there were a few question marks in his choices tonight ... including Rondo not being in the game down the stretch. I miss Big Baby, too, but I'd rather see 15 minutes for Shelden, than 8 for Scal and & 7 for Shel.

Scal came in because Doc didn't like Shelden guarding Rashard Lewis and Ryan Anderson.  Not a great move: we could have used Shelden on the offensive glass and he had shown he could move his feet pretty well.  Doc also wanted to see if Scal could hit a 3, I imagine, as everyone else was stonecold from deep. 

Baby will be a nice addition when he comes back.  The Sheed/Baby double screens for Ray or Eddie will be killer, with Baby diving and Sheed popping.  I also think Baby can fit in better with the starters.  Shelden just can't catch passes from Pierce and Rondo.

[Bahku]

In this same vein, why did Scal get more minutes than Shelden? Doc's been running the rotation really well of late, but there were a few question marks in his choices tonight ... including Rondo not being in the game down the stretch. I miss Big Baby, too, but I'd rather see 15 minutes for Shelden, than 8 for Scal and & 7 for Shel.

Scal came in because Doc didn't like Shelden guarding Rashard Lewis and Ryan Anderson.  Not a great move: we could have used Shelden on the offensive glass and he had shown he could move his feet pretty well.  Doc also wanted to see if Scal could hit a 3, I imagine, as everyone else was stonecold from deep. 

Baby will be a nice addition when he comes back.  The Sheed/Baby double screens for Ray or Eddie will be killer, with Baby diving and Sheed popping.  I also think Baby can fit in better with the starters.  Shelden just can't catch passes from Pierce and Rondo.

Yup ... and having Eddie in instead of Rondo down the stretch cultivated even more three-point shooting, which was a very bad call ... it killed us. I've been supporting Doc's rotations this year for the most part, but the rotations tonight were very questionable, at best.

[CelticG1]

In this same vein, why did Scal get more minutes than Shelden? Doc's been running the rotation really well of late, but there were a few question marks in his choices tonight ... including Rondo not being in the game down the stretch. I miss Big Baby, too, but I'd rather see 15 minutes for Shelden, than 8 for Scal and & 7 for Shel.

Scal came in because Doc didn't like Shelden guarding Rashard Lewis and Ryan Anderson.  Not a great move: we could have used Shelden on the offensive glass and he had shown he could move his feet pretty well.  Doc also wanted to see if Scal could hit a 3, I imagine, as everyone else was stonecold from deep. 

Baby will be a nice addition when he comes back.  The Sheed/Baby double screens for Ray or Eddie will be killer, with Baby diving and Sheed popping.  I also think Baby can fit in better with the starters.  Shelden just can't catch passes from Pierce and Rondo.

Yup ... and having Eddie in instead of Rondo down the stretch cultivated even more three-point shooting, which was a very bad call ... it killed us. I've been supporting Doc's rotations this year for the most part, but the rotations tonight were very questionable, at best.

I only got to see the last couple min. of the 3rd quarter and the whole 4th quarter without any  sound ( I am overseas and could only watch the game at a bar). I kept asking my GF (she didn't know) why Rondo was not playing at all. I was also wondering why Perk wasn't playing but I understood somewhat after when I saw that he had 5 fouls. Also I thought Wallace was playing pretty well, besides the 3's he made a couple big buckets in the 3rd and was grabbing rebounds everywhere. But I still don't know why Rondo wasn't playing. Apparently he wasn't playing well but he is the type of guy that can just turn it on with the flip of a switch. If you are going to put Eddie in there during crunch time, put him in with 2 min left when we are down by 5 or 6. I found it very very odd to have him playing the last 15 minutes of the game when at that point we were only down buy a couple buckets and needed some solid defense. Not too mention as a team we were shootig terrible from outside..

Ok I just got way off topic, but yes I want my Baby back. I think he will add some stability and hustle to our second unit and will just make our team more diverse and dangerous. I hope he can be a spark plug and maybe jump start us into a little run here. Maybe I'm being a little too optimistic but what else am I supposed to be hoping for at this point?

[xmuscularghandix]

We miss the Baby.