Celtics (37-26) at Hawks (37-25) 4/20

[alajet]

Josh Smith commits some really boneheaded turnovers.

Absolutely true.
Nice little games for Dooling and Marquis. Hope they get some confidence out of this.

[nickagneta]

Joe Johnson with the superstar bail out call even though he's not like, you know, a superstar.

[bruinsandceltics]

Marquis is playing extremely well tonight.

Nice to see someone drive to the hoop with some consistency.

[bostonman1]

JJJ is one trigger happy guy, Bass must be his role model.

He can hit that shot, and he knows it. Probably some jitters, similar to what Bradley was going through before.

Good to see at least one other has learned.

Yeah good point, the only reason players play poorly or can't make open shots is because they don't get enough playing time.  Of course unless they don't get more playing time because they can't make open shots or play defense hmmm

[mctyson]

Josh Smith commits some really boneheaded turnovers.

But we are only a J Smooth trade away...

[Change]

Dam whistle! that was the lead hadn't it been for the whistle.

[RebusRankin]

Joe Johnson with the superstar bail out call even though he's not like, you know, a superstar.

He is in this game.  

[azzenfrost]

We need clutch defense and clutch offense.

[bfrombleacher]

Lordy, the Purdue Two have been atrocious tonight.

Yeah, I eat my angry, angry words at Doc now. The two need a year to start contributing consistently.

[mc34]

Quick side note - anyone keeping tabs on the Knicks? Such a hilariously weird team. Amare returned tonight and they're down 14 to the Cavs and both Melo and Amare are struggling big time. Don't think the two of them can coexist

[CoachBo]

JJJ is one trigger happy guy, Bass must be his role model.

He can hit that shot, and he knows it. Probably some jitters, similar to what Bradley was going through before.

Good to see at least one other has learned.

Yeah good point, the only reason players play poorly or can't make open shots is because they don't get enough playing time.  Of course unless they don't get more playing time because they can't make open shots or play defense hmmm

This blog has never met a rookie who it didn't think should be playing more - no matter how inept they look when they do play, as in J3 tonight. He has been awful.

[Mr October]

Josh Smith commits some really boneheaded turnovers.

But we are only a J Smooth trade away...

hehe

[celticslove]

If this is the team we face in the 1st round... then i'm not worried at all, homecourt or no homecourt.

[bruinsandceltics]

JJJ is one trigger happy guy, Bass must be his role model.

He can hit that shot, and he knows it. Probably some jitters, similar to what Bradley was going through before.

Good to see at least one other has learned.

Yeah good point, the only reason players play poorly or can't make open shots is because they don't get enough playing time.  Of course unless they don't get more playing time because they can't make open shots or play defense hmmm

Good god, the stupidity in this post is so big. Too bad there are no negative Tommy Points.

Avery Bradley look exactly like JJJ last year.Period.

[nickagneta]

The Hawks are just dying to get beat tonight. They are practically begging the Celtics to beat them.

Celtics have no finishers to beat them tonight though.

I don't know how many times I have to say this on this blog before people start listening....


Never count this Celtic team out of anything.

If at the start of the night I told you no Pierce, KG, Ray, Pietrus or Rondo, that the Hawks would still play loads of JJ and Josh Smith and Jeff teague and then said with 3 minutes left we would only be down 1, what would you have said?