Bulls (1-0) at Celtics (2-0)

[fairweatherfan]

how was rage's defense?

Very sharp - only 1 steal but multiple deflections.  Most importantly he did a good job of staying in front of Rose, holding him to 10 pts and 2 asts.

[nickagneta]

Rondo was great today running the team. When I complain about Rondo, please look to games like this to see what I want to see in a more consistent manner.

Rondo was awesome and took Rose completely out of the game. Offensively, this is just a completely different, more fluid team when he has the ball in his hands. Rondo has like a 7.3 to 1 assist to turnover ratio and you know what, the intelligent way he is playing, he might well be close to a 5 to 1 A/TO ratio guy this year.

[BudweiserCeltic]

how was rage's defense?

Good.

Rondo was great today running the team. When I complain about Rondo, please look to games like this to see what I want to see in a more consistent manner.

Rondo was awesome and took Rose completely out of the game. Offensively, this is just a completely different, more fluid team when he has the ball in his hands. Rondo has like a 7.3 to 1 assist to turnover ratio and you know what, the intelligent way he is playing, he might well be close to a 5 to 1 A/TO ratio guy this year.

We were doing something akin to this during our long winning streak last year. The Rondo during that stretch was awesome, particularly how Rondo and Ray were feeding off each other. I hope this continues.

As for Rose, well he isn't 100% as far as I know. But yeah, great job on him. One or two gambles that I didn't like, but overall irrelevant because of the rest of the effort he gave.

[Rondo_is_better]

AINGE: lock Rondo up

Rondo was just awesome

They won't let Rondo go ... no way.

Not even Chris Wallace after 13 beers, several personal insults to his manhood, and three doubled-dog dares would let Rondo walk.

[nickagneta]

how was rage's defense?

Very sharp - only 1 steal but multiple deflections.  Most importantly he did a good job of staying in front of Rose, holding him to 10 pts and 2 asts.

Rondo had one steal but should have had two others but for horrible foul calls away from the ball elsewhere and I think he deflected about 3-5 more passes away from the intended defender. At one point he stripped whoever it was he was guarding in the first half and it went toward the corner on one bounce straight to another Bull who took and made a shot. Rondo should have gotten the assist for that play too because his strip of the ball was better than any pass the player could have made.

[BudweiserCeltic]

If Rondo is not with us after this season it's because Ainge made some blockbuster trade to improve our team. I don't think we have to worry to much about the fate of Rondo.

[RockinRyA]

thanks. now cable's back and lakers-mavs are on. this is what i get, missing celts and watchin fakers. at least dallas is leading them right now

[fairweatherfan]

Ok, this is now officially a "watch the Lakers lose" game thread.

[BudweiserCeltic]

Ok, this is now officially a "watch the Lakers lose" game thread.

I didn't want to jinx it.

[rondohondo]

hahaha I love watching cry baby Vujacic .

[fairweatherfan]

Ok, this is now officially a "watch the Lakers lose" game thread.

I didn't want to jinx it.

Yeah, it is Dallas after all, but so far, so great.  Not over by a long shot though.

Nice to see that despite the new hairdo Sasha hasn't grown up a bit.

[rondohondo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5XroW3nGXQ

haha

[RockinRyA]

GO for it Mavs!! 

[nickagneta]

LAKERS DOWN 19. My night just got perfect so with that, off to bed to dream of TPs.

[fairweatherfan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5XroW3nGXQ

haha

Automatic TP