Celtics (0-0) at Magic (0-0) Game 1 5/16

[snively]

Wow, Dwight, stick to basketball.

[Meadowlark_Scal]

before this interview junk most people thought howard was normal and at least average smart..!

[droopdog7]

Orl missing threes isn't a fluke.  They are accustomed to wide open looks because of Dwight.  They aren't getting them this game.  That isn't to say they should not have hit a few but they aren't going to go off like previous series if we maintain our discipline.

[Drucci]

How horrible is this "interview?"

Make it stop... It's torture.

Yep... awful. And Stu trying to get funny too is even worse.

[Neurotic Guy]

Magic is right, we should be up by 20 right now... I'm worried about the 2nd half, we gotta punch them in the face in the 3rd.

KG has to get going offensively too.

Given our sloppiness, the Magic should be up 10.  It goes both ways.  Magic better score more than 32 in the 2nd half if they plan to make this a game.

Go C's!

[Meadowlark_Scal]

didn't shaq think he was superman...maybe they should fight each other to see who is the super-doof after all..!

[xmuscularghandix]

Perk has a -1 efficiency ratio in 17 minutes. that's pretty tough to do. maybe we can give him a cloak of invisibility that only activates when he's on the offensive side of mid-court. That way no will pass to him, but he can still get rebounds (they'll just look like the ball's bouncing our way). Rondo's not much better with an efficiency rating of just 1. That's really hard to do as a PG in 22 minutes. 10 TOs. Fugly and I didn't like it that Doc didn't use another time out during the festivities. He's done an excellent job managing games in the post season, but he made an error then.

you really can't say that not calling the timeout was a mistake at this point... i thought you at least wait until the game was over or maybe if we've blown the lead.

[fairweatherfan]

Nice first half, but most of our lead was while Orlando was rusty.  They're starting to move the ball and get good shots now...gotta keep clamping down in the 3rd and build a solid margin for the endgame.

[joeb]

is there really nothing to talk about at halftime? now that was really lame. i guess the downside was that they could've talked more about LeBron

[Meadowlark_Scal]

Howard has the superman build, but someone put kryptonite in his head..!

[hpantazo]

magic missed a lot of easy layups and threes. our defense gets a lot of credit but the magic will make some of those shots eventually. Our offense has got to step up.

[xmuscularghandix]

KG should get 80% of our shots in the next half or ray should be handling the ball.

pick and rolls with rondo aren't working cuz they are going under every time and daring him to shoot, which he doesn't do.  PP's decisions are inconsistent.  personally i would trust ray and KG more than him.

man i love perk and his D on Dwight, but i gotta say, if rasheed keeps playing defense like he is, he needs to get more minutes than perk.  even if sheed's D is 20% less than perk, he gives us 100% better offensive options.

I disagree.
I think we need to let Ray run off of screens and get him the ball in rhythm.

And Rondo needs to attack off of the picks, not just keep pulling it back out. Don't get disheartened you have to keep attacking Dwight, this is what happened with him last year.

[Tai]

What joeb said.

I'll take seeing this if I get to see the Celtics dominate in the 2nd half. 

[JHTruth]

Holy cow that SVG impression was painful to watch. Howard is such a wannabe Shaq, it's sad..

[Who]

Orl missing threes isn't a fluke.  They are accustomed to wide open looks because of Dwight.  They aren't getting them this game.  That isn't to say they should not have hit a few but they aren't going to go off like previous series if we maintain our discipline.

Yeah, I agree, the Magic didn't get good looks in the first half.

Mostly down to the Celtics excellent defense and to a lesser degree Orlando's bad offense.