My laptop crashed and I couldn't get to the site last night so my thoughts on what I saw last night:
- Pierce's loss of weight really improved his first step and he schooled LeBron many times or LeBron put on more muscle weight slowing him down forcing him to try to anticipate moves and look really bad a bunch of times. Maybe a little of both but probably a bit more of the former than the latter.
- Tony Allen is still Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He was awful in the first half being almost incapable of keeping up with Boobie Gibson and doing his best impersonation of Sam Cassell while almost shooting the team out of the game. Then in the second half he made those two rather ill advised drives to the basket that had good results and suddenly his defense returned and he was going baseline over LeBron.
- The announcers were playing up the Cavs defensive effort at halftime but what I saw was the Celtics missing a ton of open looks, especially Ray and KG. The Celtics got the shots they wanted out of the starters but just missed open looks.
- Except for Powe and Tony's second half, the bench was not good. Eddie was off and showed that he still has a lot of trouble with pressure. Watching Tony bring up the ball in the second half scared the you know what out of me even though he did a decent enough job.Davis' rebounding was okay but everything else, yuk.
- This might sound off but I think we just witnessed Rondo's average night for this team. 12 PPG, 6-7 APG, 5 RPG, 3 STPG, 1-2 TOPG and a bunch of fouls mixed in with great pressure defense. When he has really good games his stat lines are going to be something to behold.
- Can we now outwardly acknowledge that there is definitely a conspiracy afoot to make sure LeBron gets every questionable foul go his way. The refs went way out of their way to make sure LeBron got calls and only was called for the most obvious stuff. And the national outlets, never, and I mean never, replay any of his questionable stuff. He ran over three people last night and got the call every time and did we see one replay to confirm it wasn't a charge, nope. Just a closeup of LeBron getting up off the ground holding a body part as if he had just been shot. Someone needs to explain to me how LeBron gets decked by players who are inches smaller than him and who he outweighs by 60-70 lbs, how he gets up hobbling and holding his head or arm or hand in excruciating pain and yet somehow still has the courage to go on 5-6 times every game. The whole ordeal makes me ill.
- Guess the whole rotation question has been answered. The rooks are headed to the NBDL, Sam will be the defacto coach, and we will almost never see Scal and POB.
- Tom Thibodeau Associate Head Coach?? Was that his title last year, too??
- Could someone have please put a body on Andy Varajeo on the defensive boards in the second half. His ability to get offensive boards in the second half was embarrassing.
- Overall, I couldn't stop smiling throughout the whole pre-game ceremonies and wanted to punch the television set when I couldn't get to hear Paul's annual, first game thank you and pep talk for the first time ever. Hey, you're TNT, you have jettisoned the local outlets from televising the game. At least make sure you show everything happening at the game that the local outlets would have televised. I have never missed a Pierce first game speech and now I have because Reggie and the Czar had to babble on and on and on. That angered the ever living hell out of me.
- Could the TNT studio personnel and game announcers, who I know hate the Celtics, have been any more obviously biased towards any team not wearing green last night. "Lakers the the present, Portland is the future." "No one has the will to win like Kobe Bryant" during a Celtics telecast?? Every Celtic mistake was because the Cavs were doing something great?? The absolute vitriolic hate coming from Charles and Kenny Smith regarding the Celtics at times?? I'm not sure how much nationally televised games I will be able to tolerate this year from that group.
Topic: Cavs (0-0) at Celtics (0-0) 10/28 (Read 64610 times)