Celtics (0-1) at Knicks (1-0) Game 2 4/23

[celticinorlando]

26-6 in this quarter.  6 points in a quarter.  That's six.

After 8 points in the 4th of game one. Comical

[letsgoblue86]

We look like the 7th seed team, thats just what we are now, its time to face it. We've become the worst possible thing you can become in the NBA. Mediocre.

Haha this is put very well.

[Chief]

game slippin away. thanks again small ball. does doc really think he can win a championship with no attacking style???

Stupid coaching. Shav started making a difference but Doc refuses to play him. I can't recall KG and Shav playing together.

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

if KG and PP leave after this year danny needs to help doc pack as well. good riddance.

[The Rondo Show]

Wow Pierce

[PhoSita]

Guys, we're missing our best player and our second best player is at 50% because he's 36 and has a foot injury.

This shouldn't be surprising at all.

Sorry, no offense, but I'm calling BS on that. Boston has shown in both first halves of this series that it can play better than the Knicks even without Rondo. The problem is that when the get to the second half, they shun everything that helped them to play so well in the first half: ball movement, tough D, etc. They just totally mail it in.

I'm watching a team that has no stars to go to because the two best players they have are old and only have the legs to take and make tough shots once every few minutes.

The guy who is supposed to be the spider at the center of their defensive web looks a step slow and tired, so he's just swiping at people late and getting fouls.

The team has no capable ball handlers in the half-court so the offense is mostly just guys standing around throwing the ball to one another until somebody is somewhat open -- usually from 25 feet -- and they take a jumpshot.

[celticinorlando]

 So if the celtics get beat in 4 or 5...is this the end of kg and pierce ?

[Atzar]

We don't match up with the Knicks as well as I'd hoped.  Not in MSG, at least.

All they have to do is pin their ears back and attack.  They get our starters in trouble and we just don't have anybody behind them who can pick up the slack.  There's really no adjustment to be made for it. 

[Who]

Jordan Crawford should have shot that.

Great help defense by K-Mart at the rim to bother Bradley's driving layup. Great job by JR Smith to knock the rebound away from KG too who looked in prime position to win that ball.

[PhoSita]

Please, let this be the last season of this.  Give me a rebuild.

[Kuberski33]

Softest Celtics team I can remember....they're just getting pushed around and offering no resistance. 

[celticinorlando]

Heat beat the Knicks in 5. They will expose them

[The Rondo Show]

Absolutely unreal

[esel1000]

Guys, we're missing our best player and our second best player is at 50% because he's 36 and has a foot injury.

This shouldn't be surprising at all.

Sorry, no offense, but I'm calling BS on that. Boston has shown in both first halves of this series that it can play better than the Knicks even without Rondo. The problem is that when the get to the second half, they shun everything that helped them to play so well in the first half: ball movement, tough D, etc. They just totally mail it in.

I'm watching a team that has no stars to go to because the two best players they have are old and only have the legs to take and make tough shots once every few minutes.

The guy who is supposed to be the spider at the center of their defensive web looks a step slow and tired, so he's just swiping at people late and getting fouls.

The team has no capable ball handlers in the half-court so the offense is mostly just guys standing around throwing the ball to one another until somebody is somewhat open -- usually from 25 feet -- and they take a jumpshot.

I mean it does make sense...  two of our best players are on year 6 of a 3 year plan, Rondos injured, Green is Green (i.e a borderline all star that needs support) and everyone else is a role player. This teams going nowhere, time for a rebuild

[CelticConcourse]

We need this win