a link to raise the blood pressure of Celts fans everywhere

[TripleOT]

I was under the impression that the 2008 Celtics were one of the best defensive teams in NBA history.  After this fact based column, I'm starting to waver.  All those numbers the columnist threw at us were positively Hollingerian. 

[connerhenry43]

please realize one thing about bleacher report. anyone can sign up and write. it is a 100% open forum. i write on there, and so does my brother, and trust me, that is indicative of the fact that anyone can write there. do not get me wrong, a lot of the stuff is great, and i love writing there, but just keep in mind that anyone with a computer can post an article on that site.

no knowledge needed.

i did not read the article, but please, the guy is a joke, not worth our blood pressure.

the only blood pressure i am feeling right now about the nba is my wife's reaction when she finds out how much i spent on 2008 World Championship merchandise! 

[Roy Hobbs]

The team that scored more points won the series, therefore, it was all about the offense.

Another crazy thing?  The team that scored the most in each individual game won each of those games.  Clearly, offense trumps.

That guy is a tool. 

[earl]

The first thing that popped into my head:

Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

  

[wdleehi]

This guy wants to trade Josh Howard for Baron Davis to improve the Macs defense. 


To funny. 


http://bleacherreport.com/articles/30865-Mavericks-Talk-Josh-Howard-For-Baron-Davis-190608

[kozlodoev]

The team that scored more points won the series, therefore, it was all about the offense.

Another crazy thing?  The team that scored the most in each individual game won each of those games.  Clearly, offense trumps.

That guy is a tool. 

Amazing concept, isn't it? TP for providing additional entertainment while saving me from dumpster diving through this 'article'.

[Redz]

It's always reassuring to know that there's someone out there stupider than me. 

So I've got that going for me...

[Mean Gerald Green]

It's always reassuring to know that there's someone out there stupider than me. 

So I've got that going for me...

...which is nice.

[Redz]

It's always reassuring to know that there's someone out there stupider than me. 

So I've got that going for me...

...which is nice.

Indeed it is.

[BballTim]

The team that scored more points won the series, therefore, it was all about the offense.

Another crazy thing?  The team that scored the most in each individual game won each of those games.  Clearly, offense trumps.

That guy is a tool. 

Amazing concept, isn't it? TP for providing additional entertainment while saving me from dumpster diving through this 'article'.

  It must be interesting having that kind of reality. In essence, he says that if he doesn't see why something would be true it must be false.

[ManUp]

You know when you were younger and you used to make up explainations for stuff and suddenly it was a fact. Then you would start telling the other kids as if it were a fact and they'd believe you. For example something like "When it rains it means God is crying". Yeah, that's what this guy reminds me of, but the kids aren't biting. Look at the comments at the bottom of the page. it seems there are some pretty intellegent people with good arguments and they aren't buying what he's selling.

[cordobes]

Meh.. he still can't understand efficiency pace-adjusted stats.

The only valid points he makes are boring clichés: good offense fuels good defense... well, sure, you don't allow so many fast-breaks... slow paced teams don't allow the opponent to score many points as fast paced ones...well, sure... and of course slowing down the tempo can improve marginally the defensive efficiency, as it's easier for the players to keep the stamina - fatigue sets in earlier in teams that speed up the tempo -, and a slow tempo is more adapted to teams that defend better in half-court sets, as the C's. But Celtics' transition defense was pretty good for most of the season; I'm not looking for stats but I'm sure that our allowed %FG in the first 10 seconds is among the bests in the league.

Now, I can find an acceptable explanation for this debacle: I think he may have heard someone saying that "bad defensive teams shall play in a slow pace". Which is generally true: when your guys don't have a clue on how to get a stop, every coach slows down the tempo to protect their defense (well, every Coach not named Jim O'Brien or George Karl). There's a chance that he messed up and buried himself in a classic and rather annoying fallacy, coming to the conclusion that slow tempo teams play bad defense.   

[crownsy]

love how every comment on that article is a well thought out "that doesn't make any sense..." and all his responses are

1) stats don't apply, because they don't prove what im saying.

2) you guys don't agree with me because your out of touch.

uh huh. thier out of touch.

[Nerf MVP]

I guess stats, opponents saying so, experts saying so and his own eyes isn't enough.

That opponents part was the first thing to pop in my head while reading this. Hmmm, who should I listen to? T-Mac or the kid from Rushmore?

[GLS]

With a single line of his:

Nope, they couldn't because the Suns didn't and don't have a true low post player

I gave up completely. 

I guess he forgot that the Suns have had Shaq since February, and Amare is a decent low post scorer in his own right.