Celtics (29-8) at Cavs (28-6) 1/9

[screwedupmaniac]

dikembe mutumbo coulda really helped us tonight. wonder how perk's shoulder is gonna be feeling tomorrow morning??

Yeah he could have given the whole team back massages after the loss... and maybe a shoulder to cry on.

hey, i think they'll take whatever they can get right now lol

[Hoyo de Monterrey]

Soooooo................ What'd I miss?




 

[Tenacious D]

'you can't YET consider LeBron to be truly great because he still doesn't have a ring'

Id say more you cant consider LBJ great because he has an unreliable jumper, and, until this year, was so-so on defense.
Point being, great is great. Stockton-Malone = no ring but great.
Scal and Pollard have rings, not great.

[vinnie]

7 out of 9 is tough to take. I can accept losses because every team loses but how do you go from elite to terrible in the blink of an eye?

The amazing thing is that they are not even competitive right now. On the radio, Max just said he does not think there is a team in the league that the Celtics match up against given how poorly they are playing right now.

[ziggen]

'you can't YET consider LeBron to be truly great because he still doesn't have a ring'

Id say more you cant consider LBJ great because he has an unreliable jumper, and, until this year, was so-so on defense.
Point being, great is great. Stockton-Malone = no ring but great.
Scal and Pollard have rings, not great.

I'll give him a ring... on his eye

[vinnie]

How old is Lebron, 24? Here's betting he will have several rings before he retires.

[LarBrd33]

How old is Lebron, 24? Here's betting he will have several rings before he retires.

Well his first one will very likely come this year.

[celticinorlando]

What did we learn tonight?

1. boston still cant win in cleveland and if they get the cavs in the playoffs game over

2. james is the best player in the league...not even close right now

3. boston isn't even in the same league as the cavs right now and should focus on the 2 seed in the east.....

4. this is going to get worse before it gets better

5. keep this up and the atlantic comes back into play

6. they just arent a good team right now

7. im afraid boston shot their load on the 19 game streak

8. IF DANNY IS STILL HAPPY WITH THIS TEAM THE WAY IT IS HE IS A MORON. HE NEEDS TO MAKE A MOVE NOW....

[BigAlTheFuture]

Lebron truly is something I've never seen before. He has it all. I think if you stick Lebron on the Thunder. They'll probably make the playoffs as the 6-8 seed.

Thats how good this guy is.

[celticinorlando]

james took the cavs to the NBA finals by himself....hate to say it but signing mo williams was a great move for them....he has help but the cavs have bought into what the celtics did last year...defense

[Yugocelt]

Man oh man, lets hope they come back fresher after break..

[Rondo_is_better]

Guys... no excuses.  The Cavs would have won this game even if we weren't "slumping".  They simply are a better team with the best player in the world.

If we sign a couple guys to address our bench issues, get our confidence back and play with some energy... we have a shot of beating them in the playoffs.   But right now the Cavs are hands down a better team. 

Don't forget that even when we were a champion and the Cavs were a lot worse, they came 5 points from defeating us and beat us every game in Cleveland.

Lol Cabron James gets away with 4-5 steps without dribbling.

Dude don't even...

LeBron is unbelievably good.  He destroyed us tonight.

His crab dribble (3 step drives - Rondo did have one of those himself) and what I'm dubbing the "clam dribble" (the D-wade 270 degree hand-under-ball crossover) definitely count us at least 12 points directly, and probably another 12 more indirectly (via confidence and momentum)

The refs were horrid.

Yes exactly exactly exactly. TP. We almost took control of this game in the 3rd... but then Rondo missed that tip in. He also cost us an earlier shot to tie the game by missing his FT's.

[tenn_smoothie]

7 out of 9 is tough to take. I can accept losses because every team loses but how do you go from elite to terrible in the blink of an eye?

kinda what i was thinking - were the Celts using everything they had to win all those games before this bad streak ??
did the LA loss just take all the air out and there's nothing left in the tank ??

i could understand a drop off after the 19 win streak. i can understand not matching last season's record with two key players no longer here ........... but 2-7 out of nowhere is very strange. sometimes, as a long-time Boston fan, this type of bizarre slump seems like something only the Celts could have happen.

[LarBrd33]

reality check...
#1 the refs were fine.  Don't lower yourself to the same excuses every team makes when we beat them.

#2 LeBron was amazing.  Anyone who dared argue that Paul Pierce was "better" is nutty.   Bron is the best player in the world and the only player in the league that I'm legitimately frightened of as a Celtic fan.

#3 We didn't play that bad.  Seriously.   We were playing a better team.  But we could have been beaten a heck of a lot more than that.  Cavs are better.  I know you dont' want to believe it.  Believe it.  They almost beat us last year and that team wasn't close to as good as it is this year.  They are better.  We couldn't beat them in Cleveland last year either. 

#4 Its not the end of the world.  At some point we will try to sign some help. 

[Rondo_is_better]

reality check...
#1 the refs were fine.  Don't lower yourself to the same excuses every team makes when we beat them.

#2 LeBron was amazing.  Anyone who dared argue that Paul Pierce was "better" is nutty.   Bron is the best player in the world and the only player in the league that I'm legitimately frightened of as a Celtic fan.

#3 We didn't play that bad.  Seriously.   We were playing a better team.  But we could have been beaten a heck of a lot more than that.  Cavs are better.  I know you dont' want to believe it.  Believe it.  They almost beat us last year and that team wasn't close to as good as it is this year.  They are better.  We couldn't beat them in Cleveland last year either. 

#4 Its not the end of the world.  At some point we will try to sign some help. 

No, the refs were not ok. They really weren't. Look at BrickJames post from about a page ago, because its totally accurate.

LeBron is great. I'm not disputing that. The Cavs are also better.

But we could've have won/stolen the game if the refs had been ok. They were not.