Spurs (43-28) at Celtics (47-25) 3/28

[MaxwellSmart86]

With this type of effort---C's would have been beaten by UCONN Tonight----and yes, I mean the Women's team.

[Kiorrik]

Sorry, but this is embarrassing. 24 points in the second half. But I hope the fans don't boo because it might hurt the Celtics' feelings.

I'm not worried about their feelings. You guys are totally missing the point. The crowd has been silent all night. Even the announcers mentioned it. The crowd is timid and very, very easily annoyed with a bad stretch. They go into silent mode rightaway, and hardly make themselves heard when there's controversial calls.

I really think our crowd has been bad for a while. Not blaming the loss on it, not saying they shouldn't get their money bag for todays effort.

Just saying they're a horrible home crowd and I would never boo a team I love.

But that's just me.

Might have something to do with how poorly the team has played at home this year. I have attended about 20 games and the fans have now started to expect second half collapses. Just sayin'

So you expect something, get it, and then boo? So you go there to expect to go "boo"? Then why go there if the point is that you don't want to pay for a loss like this? So you buy something you know you will probably dislike, and then start complaining?

You can boo, be quiet or leave. I have left one game early since I have had season tickets and that was this year's embarrassment against Dallas. So my choices are to be quiet, which I often am, or boo, when it is clear that they are not even trying, which they did not do tonight.

Alright, I can understand that.

I'd still not boo though, methinks. But yeh.

[gar]

You have to play TA against young athletic teams. Marquis has not shown much on the defensive end. Sheed and KG together are too slow. Like to see TA and Finley with Nate more than Marquis.

[tgreanier]

Sorry, but this is embarrassing. 24 points in the second half. But I hope the fans don't boo because it might hurt the Celtics' feelings.

I'm not worried about their feelings. You guys are totally missing the point. The crowd has been silent all night. Even the announcers mentioned it. The crowd is timid and very, very easily annoyed with a bad stretch. They go into silent mode rightaway, and hardly make themselves heard when there's controversial calls.

I really think our crowd has been bad for a while. Not blaming the loss on it, not saying they shouldn't get their money bag for todays effort.

Just saying they're a horrible home crowd and I would never boo a team I love.

But that's just me.

Might have something to do with how poorly the team has played at home this year. I have attended about 20 games and the fans have now started to expect second half collapses. Just sayin'

So you expect something, get it, and then boo? So you go there to expect to go "boo"? Then why go there if the point is that you don't want to pay for a loss like this? So you buy something you know you will probably dislike, and then start complaining?

You can boo, be quiet or leave. I have left one game early since I have had season tickets and that was this year's embarrassment against Dallas. So my choices are to be quiet, which I often am, or boo, when it is clear that they are not even trying, which they did not do tonight.

Why is it a problem for a fan to boo? Blin fanaticism is stupid. I love the Celtics and thats why I boo when I see this. Tis was not Celtics basketball, this was a heartless performance by a team with too much talent to score just over 70 points in an entire basketball game. They should hear it from the fans, they deserve it.
Booing does not mean I or anyone else does not support the team. Booing has been a historical option of fans for as long as sports have been around. It does not make the one who boos less of a fan or less of a supporter than someone who chooses not to.

[GreenFaith1819]

Spurs are improving on D but caught the Celts on a bad night, too, hence the blowout.

Hope to see you guys in the Finals instead of those MVPuppets

What's up Silverandblack? Your Spurs played well tonight. I'll give you that.

Helps that our Celtics didn't have a great effort tonight. But I'm not giving up on us.

If your Spurs play LA in the 1st round, I'd love an upset...

...but maybe not. No offense, but I want Boston to send LA home, disappointed, in June. I don't want LA to play no one else except Boston.

[Meadowlark_Scal]

Booo Doc when he gives his version of the game at the press conf.....I'd like to hear that..LOL

[GreenFaith1819]

Well, as bad as this game has been, we've had a really good stretch up til now.

I still Believe.

We've got OKC soon..we'll get back on track.

We've turned it up a notch the last couple of weeks I think. Doesn't mean that we won't have some hiccups here and there.

Tonight was a Hiccup. Plain and simple. It will go away.

Momma always told me that you grow when you hiccup. Celtics will grow from this.

It's just one game. Sure the lack of effort tonight is upsetting, but overall I'm happy with the C's of late.

Are you assuming a win vs. OKC?

Why not? We throttled those youngsters on their home floor earlier...Pierce matched probably the most potent offensive player in the game nearly point for point in that game, and then KG took over in that third qtr.

I predict more effort and more intensity next game. And a Celtics Win.

OKC is not to be taken for granted. Could go either way - OKC always puts in a solid effort.

OKC is a really good team, but as long as the Celtics put forth the effort they can beat anyone.

[silverandblack_davis]

Spurs are improving on D but caught the Celts on a bad night, too, hence the blowout.

Hope to see you guys in the Finals instead of those MVPuppets

What's up Silverandblack? Your Spurs played well tonight. I'll give you that.

Helps that our Celtics didn't have a great effort tonight. But I'm not giving up on us.

If your Spurs play LA in the 1st round, I'd love an upset...

...but maybe not. No offense, but I want Boston to send LA home, disappointed, in June. I don't want LA to play no one else except Boston.

Hey GreenFaith, I'm good. Thanks for having me here.

I doubt we'd upset LA (we'll need a healthy TP for that) but we'll give 'em hell for sure.

The playoffs in both conferences should be a blast this year, so good luck.

[MaxwellSmart86]

Manu Manu Manu....shut up announcers....this was about what the Celtics DIDN'T do...not what Ginobli did.

[Overrated]

 

[MaxwellSmart86]

the replays showed he got KG on the wrist---should have been a foul...but nope--of course....after this, the C's seemed to roll over.

[MaxwellSmart86]

and....HOW THE HELL was that a foul on Nate Robinson?...you know what I'm talking about----it was just a good screen Nate ran into---NO FOUL on Nate---Horrible call.

[Kiorrik]

3 - 7 - 4 - 6.

Rebounds, assists, turnovers, points.

Rondo.

Un-Rondo-like. I think Nick nailed it. They played off Rondo and Rondo didn't go for it.

[fanofgreen]

the replays showed he got KG on the wrist---should have been a foul...but nope--of course....after this, the C's seemed to roll over.

The replay shows that KG just has no more explosion whatsoever. 0.
There is no way that an "in-rhythm 2-step stride towards the basket by a 7 footer" should ever get his shot blocked or let the ball get messed with ,by someone running to the side of him and is under 6'7".

KG is starting to look a lot like Jermaine Oneal

But I guess its better to have the shallow-brittle knees post-prime like Jermaine Oneal, than it is to have the soft-wobbly knees post-prime like Shareef Abdur-Rahim and Chris Webber.

[twinbree]

I got 7 different texts of the "don't rush home to watch the game" variety so I knew it'd be ugly but this is just brutal. I don't have the heart to stay up and watch it so I'll just comment on the boxscore.

Rondo looks like he had an off night but that can't be the only reason everyone's statlines look so off. Looks like we got pounded on the boards so I'll assume it was a low energy kind of night for all. Was this a heat check to see if we've improved enough lately to win games without trying?

The dreaded 2nd half offensive drought re-appears. What is the problem? Conditioning? Quick naps before the 3rd? Someone slipping some cymbalta in the gatorade at halftime? What?!

Sheed took 4 3s. Did people mistakenly pass the ball to him thinking he was someone else? Because we cannot seriously still be running plays for Sheed instead of oh I don't know the countless other people shooting over 30% from 3.

I can't believe every team I was rooting for today lost. I guess that means no one cares about us getting a good 1st round match-up least of all ourselves. When are we going to actually turn the corner instead of peeking round it and pulling back? Feels like we're running up an escalator going down

And I hear Pierce got injured by Manu after he almost took out KG and Rondo. UGH!!!! After the injuries we've had I thought we'd karmically exhausted our injury quota for the decade.

On the bright side, we had only 10 turnovers and shot above 80% from the line so that's something I guess.

Scal really should start over Sheed. We're practically undefeated when he starts.