From Sean Grande
Ray Allen will not play tonight (virus). Pietrus will start in his place. C’s-Nets 7pm WEEI
I look forward to seeing how this line-up functions. I want to gauge how good we can be without Ray.
I love Ray, really. Thing is, I wonder the same! I mean, waiting for Ray to get open takes so much time, the ball may move better w/o him. Win or lose, one game won't tell us but I want to see more of it w/o him (sorry Ray is sick)... the games he did miss to me it looked like more flow to the offense (better defense too)! I have noticed that when people complain about RR holding the ball too long,
most of the time they add something like "waiting for Ray to get open"... if that is the problem then it stands to reason that RR should move the ball when he doesn't have to wait!