Did our team post up once all year?

[CelticConcourse]

Just wondering... xD I'd like to see some more posting up and hook shots on this team next year, preferably from Sully and Rondo. Possibly a new pickup

//oohhhh wait pierce did it a ton

[pearljammer10]

The only person I saw post up all year was rondo. That's sad. We desperately need a bigman who can into the low post, make a move and score a bucket. Unfortunately we've been looking for that for years along with a number of other teams.

[BASS_THUMPER]

didnt know posting up still existed

[syfy9]

Just wondering... xD I'd like to see some more posting up and hook shots on this team next year, preferably from Sully and Rondo. Possibly a new pickup

//oohhhh wait pierce did it a ton

KG? Still a very effective post up player - his fake fake fade move is almost as impossible to guard as Dirk's.

[cman88]

Sullinger has a nice post up game.

[lightspeed5]

Sully posted up a couple times successfully.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySQfEI4pIW0

[hpantazo]

KG snuck a few post ups in there once in a while. Sullinger too as others said, although it never seemed to be a called play. I estimate 12 post ups total all season, including the playoffs.

[Smutzy#9]

Sully Pierce Rondo KG and Green all posted up this year. To what success is a different story, but still we did post up more than the past couple of years

[Meadowlark_Scal]

KG couldn't do it a lot as it takes a lot of energy...and with him playing center....you know the rest....Shav actually did it and could do it......his rebounds, his decisions with those rebnounds said a lot to me....! He took it up, or passed it out....and he never really got a lot of passes either....that is how it is on docs team..no one gets post passes...it is all jumpshot...and turn and run before it hits the rim......west coast basketball...!

[scaryjerry]

Just wondering... xD I'd like to see some more posting up and hook shots on this team next year, preferably from Sully and Rondo. Possibly a new pickup

//oohhhh wait pierce did it a ton

KG? Still a very effective post up player - his fake fake fade move is almost as impossible to guard as Dirk's.

Kg still an effective post up player?


Mmmmm no, he's never been that effective in the low post. He's allergic to it frankly.

[Meadowlark_Scal]

BT...the other thing that would contradict posting up...is doc's philosophy......no bother rebounding...you see, when one guy posts up the other big needs to be working the other side of the post for the REBOUND....yup..that is the way....like rodman would do.....in, out, around...planning, watching.....then dog-in and get position in the most likely rebound spot.....doc only wants jump shots.....slash in......well....maybe....I don't think doc has a full picture of basketball actually.....no rebounds....not ONE basketball guy in the WORLD agrees with that stance.....lets start there.....

[SparzWizard]

BT...the other thing that would contradict posting up...is doc's philosophy......no bother rebounding...you see, when one guy posts up the other big needs to be working the other side of the post for the REBOUND....yup..that is the way....like rodman would do.....in, out, around...planning, watching.....then dog-in and get position in the most likely rebound spot.....doc only wants jump shots.....slash in......well....maybe....I don't think doc has a full picture of basketball actually.....no rebounds....not ONE basketball guy in the WORLD agrees with that stance.....lets start there.....

He's already gone in my eyes lol. What an overrated coach.

[Bozo]

I think there was a play in the playoffs, where Bass had posted up, but he got in a jam, and then realized there was literally no one to pass it to. The whole team had already taken off, even though he had not shot the ball.  Commentators noted it, and made some comment like it was not right to leave him stranded like that. 

Doc maybe a very good coach, but he does have an odd perspective on things.  We set an NBA record as the first team, since the shot clock was instituted, to have back to back games where we scored under 25 points in the second half. That statistic applies to all games regular season, and playoffs.  When you have Pierce, Garnett, and Green on the floor, and you can't score 25 pts in the second half in two straight games, against a medium defensive team, you have to take a hard look at what you are doing. 

The other perspective is that Doc views it as critical to take away the easy, high percentage transition buckets.  And if that means setting NBA records on lowest points scored, so be it.  You have already taken away the opponent post game, with Garnett.  If you eliminate the transition game, it comes down to their shooters vs whatever offense you can scrape together. 

And maybe that is what you got, an offense that is so focused on defense, that scoring points is simply hit or miss.  Who cares.  I guess that is great coaching?

[D.o.s.]

We tried posting KG and Pierce up all throughout the Knicks series. It did not end well.

We don't have great post players. We don't post up.

We don't have good bigs. We play small.

Can't fit a square peg into a round hole, and this roster is poorly constructed to play the kind of basketball a lot of the posters here seem to enjoy. Has little to do with Doc.

[LooseCannon]

Looking at basketball-reference.com, it looks like the Celtics attempted 108 hook shots in the season.  13 player had more than 108 hook shot attempts.  Roy Hibbert had the most, with 242.  Josh Smith was second with 190, but made only 27.9% o his hook shots.  Only Bismack Biyombo and Joakim Noah had lower shooting percentages on hook shots among players with 50 or more attempts.

The other players with over 100 hook shot attempts: Dwight Howard, Kevin Seraphin, David Lee, Brook Lopez, Robin Lopez, Greg Monroe, Nikola Pekovic, Andrew Nicholson, Blake Griffin, Kosta Koufos, and Nikola Vucevic.