Marquis out Tuesday, Tony in?

[Fafnir]

http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/extras/celtics_blog/2009/12/daniels_will_mi.html

This should be fun. I hadn't heard Marquis was hurt, that'd explain some of his lackluster play of late...

[PosImpos]

Yeah Marquis has had his thumb wrapped up recently, that's why he hasn't been able to do quite as much.

This should be interesting...at least it's coming against the Bucks and not a really good team.  The Bucks aren't a team to take lightly, though.

[Cman]

If nothing else, I'll be interested in seeing Tony play.  What are the odds on Brandon Jennings getting Tony to jump into him on a pump fake?

[mgent]

Finally.  Wasn't Tony supposed to play like a week ago?

[Fafnir]

If nothing else, I'll be interested in seeing Tony play.  What are the odds on Brandon Jennings getting Tony to jump into him on a pump fake?

The bench of the Bucks could probably get Tony to leave his feet....

*sigh* so much defensive potential still....

[Fafnir]

Finally.  Wasn't Tony supposed to play like a week ago?

They were thinking about playing him on the road trip, not sure why they decided not to.

[Bahku]

Has anyone started a pool on what injury Tony will have next? Honestly ... the kid is so talented, but he's an accident waiting to happen, and I cringe and cross my fingers whenever he's on the court.

[Cman]

If nothing else, I'll be interested in seeing Tony play.  What are the odds on Brandon Jennings getting Tony to jump into him on a pump fake?

The bench of the Bucks could probably get Tony to leave his feet....

*sigh* so much defensive potential still....

One of these days, he'll pull it all together, one of these days.

Sort of like how one of these days Fafnir will provide us with a review of the new All-Meat KFC sandwich!
 

[Drucci]

Get well soon, Marquis.

I guess it explains his offensive struggles of the last few games!

Marquis is a key player of our 2nd unit, in fact he is central for it. Hopefully T.A can get the job done… yeah, well, who knows?

I hope Marquis gets back soon!

[PosImpos]

I'm guessing we're gonna see a lot of turnovers from the second unit between Eddie handling the ball and TA playing significant minutes.

Won't be pretty.

[Tai]

Definitely TA's chance to prove he still has anything left. For his sake, I hope he steps up.,

[snively]

It'll be interesting to see if there's much of a dropoff from Quis to just-returned from injury TA.

I know Quis came in to rave reviews from Doc/Ainge/CelticsBlog veterans, but I've been underwhelmed by his performance.  His defense is sound, his demeanor is calm and he doesn't make too many mistakes, all nice breaks from TA, but he's also failed to contribute much at all.  He's averaging career lows in most per-minute categories.  He's not helping on the boards, he's not forcing turnover, he hasn't attacked much at all off the dribble, and he's converting his FG attempts at a pretty average rate.  His go-to play is a post-up and we see that about once a game.

If TA duplicates Marquis's usage rate, I doubt we'll notice much of a difference at all.

[ToppersBsktball10]

God, I hope not.

[Fafnir]

I'm guessing we're gonna see a lot of turnovers from the second unit between Eddie handling the ball and TA playing significant minutes.

Won't be pretty.

Eddie doesn't turn the ball over much at all.

[Atzar]

I think I'd rather have JR in there than TA.  I don't think JR can dribble well enough, and he may bite on upfakes... I know TA can't dribble well enough, and he will bite on upfakes.

I'm kidding, but the point is that this might hurt us a bit.  Even if we win, I think Ray and Paul are in for 40-minute nights on Tuesday.