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What was the biggest key(s) to the game?

We won because Doc was forced to play the bench
7 (5.9%)
Bass
15 (12.6%)
JO playing limited minutes
2 (1.7%)
Old dogs KG and Pierce finally showing up
20 (16.8%)
Avery Bradley beasting
22 (18.5%)
Magic stinking
7 (5.9%)
Defense
24 (20.2%)
Rebounding
7 (5.9%)
Sasha Pavlovic!
3 (2.5%)
Our energy
12 (10.1%)

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56-87 blowout. What was the biggest key(s) to the game?
« on: January 23, 2012, 10:28:55 PM »

Offline bfrombleacher

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So many things went right.

I thought defense and rebounding were the main reasons, which would not have been possible without the bench I thought. The bench provided so much energy and a completely different look. Leaning heavily on the big three worked before when they weren't so old but fresh faces and legs are going to be big.

As I've suspected time and time again, JO is a very effective player in limited minutes (18).

Of course, I have to give credit to Avery.



Edit: eek I wanted to do one of those vote-an-option multiple times poll. Ah well. Sorry guys.
« Last Edit: January 23, 2012, 10:34:39 PM by bfrombleacher »

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Offline pearljammer10

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Defense was the biggest part of this game. JO and KG both played great individual defense on Howard limiting his easy buckets and usual dunks. They forced the Magic to take often contested threes and stopped them from driving to the bucket... JO played great in the middle with 2 blocks 9 boards tough D and three charges taken, I dont think "limited JO minutes" should be an option at all.

Aside from intensity on defense...BALL MOVEMENT! on offense was probably the second biggest thing. Tonight we were going to the basket and getting good looks underneath rather than settling for jumper after jumper. Good to finnnnnalllly see some ball movement on the offensive end.

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Offline LarBrd33

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Ryan Anderson averages 17.5 points, 7.2 rebounds... tonight he was 0-8 with 0 points and 0 rebounds.  Dwight normally shoots 60%... he was 4-15.  The Magic were atrocious tonight.

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Defense was great.

Re: 56-87 blowout. What was the biggest key(s) to the game?
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2012, 10:40:42 PM »

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Defense was the biggest part of this game. JO and KG both played great individual defense on Howard limiting his easy buckets and usual dunks. They forced the Magic to take often contested threes and stopped them from driving to the bucket... JO played great in the middle with 2 blocks 9 boards tough D and three charges taken, I dont think "limited JO minutes" should be an option at all.

Aside from intensity on defense...BALL MOVEMENT! on offense was probably the second biggest thing. Tonight we were going to the basket and getting good looks underneath rather than settling for jumper after jumper. Good to finnnnnalllly see some ball movement on the offensive end.
Both ball movement and defensive rotations were great. Quis had a lot of passes that he hasn't been doing as much of lately. Nice to see that again.

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So many things went right.

I thought defense and rebounding were the main reasons, which would not have been possible without the bench I thought. The bench provided so much energy and a completely different look. Leaning heavily on the big three worked before when they weren't so old but fresh faces and legs are going to be big.

As I've suspected time and time again, JO is a very effective player in limited minutes (18).

Of course, I have to give credit to Avery.



Edit: eek I wanted to do one of those vote-an-option multiple times poll. Ah well.

JO gave us what I have been asking for a while now, his butt on the bench! He is solid as a backup!

KG and Bradley get game ball because their defense respectively, was great! AB hounded Nelson as if Nelson slept with his momma! KG was all up in Dwight's atmosphere all night! Our bench did wonders for us tonight, defensively they were quick to help... they were flying around the court, every Magic pass saw our defense hustling to the ball! AB's defense was so great that Nelson asked him not to pick him up anymore (out of AB's mouth on NBATV postgame interview)! We were passing the ball very nicely tonight too... everyone was touching it, subsequently EVERYONE except JO scored! They can say the Magic played bad (a little true) but it's not all Magic playing bad if you held them to the lowest points in their 23year history!!! Matter of fact, it would be even worse if Wafer hadn't score those quick 7pts in garbage time! This was a great win for us! Bass, was a beast out there, he forced it early but really turned it on later! He showed who was the better pickup tonight by a wide margin!!
It takes me 3hrs to get to Miami and 1hr to get to Orlando... but I *SPIT* on their NBA teams! "Bless God and bless the (Celts)"-Lady GaGa (she said gays but she really meant Celts)

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Offline GrandTheftRondo

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Defense.
Energy.
Passion.
Young legs.
Great teamwork.
Avery Bradley.
Brandon Bass.
Paul Pierce.

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General energy.  Bradley for sure, but Sasha is worthy of mention - he was all over the place tonight.

Full effort by everyone on the court tonight.  Really nice to see.
Yup

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Offline cman88

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once word...energy

the celtics played with a purpose tonight..at times in our past few games you just sensed them going through the motions, not putting up the effort they are capable of

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« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2012, 10:43:54 PM »

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  Letting Howard take as many 4 foot shots as he wanted.

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« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2012, 10:45:04 PM »

Offline bfrombleacher

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General energy.  Bradley for sure, but Sasha is worthy of mention - he was all over the place tonight.

Full effort by everyone on the court tonight.  Really nice to see.

Per your request, Sasha Pavlovic added

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« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2012, 10:47:40 PM »

Offline MBunge

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Sasha is worthy of mention - he was all over the place tonight.

Where has he been during the losing streak?  On the one hand, the fact that he could come in a play like this after being a bench exile says something about how Doc keeps all his players heads in the game.  On the other hand, it never made much sense for Doc to leave Sasha on the bench when everyone was playing so poorly.

Mike

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« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2012, 10:55:41 PM »

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Holy holy - where did this come from :o

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Offline Q_FBE

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I predicted a Orlando blowout win. I will continue to predict blowout victories for the opponents  :-X
The beatings will continue until morale improves

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« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2012, 11:01:18 PM »

Offline stylo617617

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easy flowing offence

becuase of ray & rondo our playbook is soo complex & it takes the whole shot clock & somtimes forces us to take desperate shots

i dont think dat happened as much today pierce & KG thrives in a freelance offence kinda reminded me alot of what dallas does