Blazers (26-17) at Celtics (27-13) 1/22

[jdpapa3]

Yea, I'm not even sure about this, but I feel like very few teams break out of a slump with a blowout. You need baby steps.

[GreenFaith1819]

ugly win, but I'll take it!

And congrats on your first star! I'll get there one day.

[GreenFaith1819]

Just put on the gamecast from espn. Did Pierce foul out?

I don't believe so.

[Big_Matt34]

Yes, Pierce fouled out with 1 second to go in the 4th.

[albas89]

Pierce's legs were so tired in the 4th quarter that he was shooting airballs.

well, maybe it's because he's still not 100% after that knee infection but, yes, Pierce looks like he can't breathe during the second half of the games...

[GreenFaith1819]

Pierce's legs were so tired in the 4th quarter that he was shooting airballs.

well, maybe it's because he's still not 100% after that knee infection but, yes, Pierce looks like he can't breathe during the second half of the games...

Two words for a tired Pierce: Marquis Daniels.

Get back soon, Marquis.

[PLamb]

Extremely entertaining game that I think will be the crack that opens the floodgates for this team

Maybe a bit overly optimistic but I think they needed a game like this versus a good team, even if that team was missing important people

The rebounding has to be addressed

Pierce and Allen need to crash the boards defensively and the bigs need to start giving a better effort and start boxing out better

On the plus side the team showed some defensive tenacity in the second half and overtime

KG and Rondo looked good

The bench showed something for a change

AND THEY WON!!!!!!!

[Rtpas11]

Reasons for tonights win...

I'm glad we were able to pull it off eventually.

Energy: Great energy tonight. I'm not surprised though because of K.G. being back in the line-up.

Rondo: Played all around great through the entire game.
Pierce: Played great also
Tony Allen: Played good
Perkins: played good
K.G.: played good
Rasheed: played good

Reasons the game was close and why we should've lost...

Ray Allen: although he hit the game winner, he shot absolutely terrible. I;m also beginning to witness Ray ball watching instead of trying to help on defensive rebounding. He needs to put more effort in the rebounding department.

Eddie House: Needs a shooting coach badly. I'm not sure what's going with Eddie but hopefully its fixed in the 2nd half of the season or trade him now for a true point.

Doc Rivers: again his substituting pattern was not so good. Ray Allen played 43 minutes!!! No Bill Walker tonight once again to spear Pierce who would've not fouled out if he was substituted properly.

Overall we played a okay game. The Blazers only used like 6 players all game and took us to OT. Offensively we desperately need help. I keep stressing it, its not our Defense its our Offense. Good Win for the C's , time for some payback on the LA Clippers

[Fafnir]

Doc Rivers: again his substituting pattern was not so good. Ray Allen played 43 minutes!!! No Bill Walker tonight once again to spear Pierce who would've not fouled out if he was substituted properly.

Ray Allen played 38 minutes in regulation, isn't that about right?

Doc doesn't plan for games to go into overtime. I thought he did a very good job tonight, heck he left Tony out there for extended minutes in response to Tony's solid play.