Not to be a Debbie Downer but...

[QuinielaBox]

{Play Walker, he showed a lot of good things this year...in the meager minutes he was given to develop & give PP a rest, it is the coaches job to develop the rookies, besides, if you don't have home court, and you aren't going to get it, the only thing that matters is rest the stars, develop the other guys....!

Why is it that everything negative on this team is due to Doc and all the positives are due to other things with you? Doc can't develop kids at the expense of winning games especially when he can probably see quite readily that the kid is at least a year away from being trusted with regular season minutes, never mind playoff minutes.

Doc had no choice due to injuries and fouls than to play Pierce at the center position for nearly an entire quarter this year. The man games this team lost from their 9 man rotation was crippling and Doc's use of the bench to keep Pierce's and Allen's minutes to 33-35 MPG levels would have meant as much as 5-10 more losses. That would not have been acceptable to the players, the coaches, the front office or the fans. No way. No how.

It's been a long two seasons for Pierce, Allen and KG. Pierce is slumping. He's still relatively young and in his prime. he will be there. But let's not fool ourselves here. This is no longer his team. It's Rondo's. It is soon going to be Rondo's time to take and make those big shots and free throws. Pierce was brilliant tonight in the OT but just like Rondo made that shot before half time and was the one taking the shot for the win the other night, look for Pierce to slowly take a back step to the emerging superstar in Rondo.

Yeah I agree that this Rondo's team now. Also Perkins is emerging as a top flight NBA Center. Nice to see hard work rewarded for Perkins. Glen Davis must be considered to be a major player. Pierce will still be around for several more years and certainly do not give up on Ray Allen and KG. Contrary to popular belief outside the Celticblog commumity, the window of opportunity is far from closed. We are just going through a bit of a slump right now. I don't miss Posey that much, he ain't really helping N'Awlins. Next year, I would like to see what Walker (Bill), JR Giddens, and even Gabe Pruitt can bring to the table.

Ciao to Tony Allen, Mikki Moore, Stephon Marbury (good citizen, just not a great player).

[bruinsandceltics]

Yeah I agree that this Rondo's team now. Also Perkins is emerging as a top flight NBA Center. Nice to see hard work rewarded for Perkins. Glen Davis must be considered to be a major player. Pierce will still be around for several more years and certainly do not give up on Ray Allen and KG. Contrary to popular belief outside the Celticblog commumity, the window of opportunity is far from closed. We are just going through a bit of a slump right now. I don't miss Posey that much, he ain't really helping N'Awlins. Next year, I would like to see what Walker (Bill), JR Giddens, and even Gabe Pruitt can bring to the table.

Ciao to Tony Allen, Mikki Moore, Stephon Marbury (good citizen, just not a great player).

Boston is New Orleans. Posey would be HUGE for us right now. We are missing him badly at the moment.

[BballTim]

{Play Walker, he showed a lot of good things this year...in the meager minutes he was given to develop & give PP a rest, it is the coaches job to develop the rookies, besides, if you don't have home court, and you aren't going to get it, the only thing that matters is rest the stars, develop the other guys....!

Why is it that everything negative on this team is due to Doc and all the positives are due to other things with you? Doc can't develop kids at the expense of winning games especially when he can probably see quite readily that the kid is at least a year away from being trusted with regular season minutes, never mind playoff minutes.

Doc had no choice due to injuries and fouls than to play Pierce at the center position for nearly an entire quarter this year. The man games this team lost from their 9 man rotation was crippling and Doc's use of the bench to keep Pierce's and Allen's minutes to 33-35 MPG levels would have meant as much as 5-10 more losses. That would not have been acceptable to the players, the coaches, the front office or the fans. No way. No how.

It's been a long two seasons for Pierce, Allen and KG. Pierce is slumping. He's still relatively young and in his prime. he will be there. But let's not fool ourselves here. This is no longer his team. It's Rondo's. It is soon going to be Rondo's time to take and make those big shots and free throws. Pierce was brilliant tonight in the OT but just like Rondo made that shot before half time and was the one taking the shot for the win the other night, look for Pierce to slowly take a back step to the emerging superstar in Rondo.

  You have to admit, though, Doc did a nice job of limiting Ray's minutes tonight...

[xmuscularghandix]

yea Paul Pierce should just retire, he sucks.