RECAP
I kid I kid, but seriously, nice string of games for the new big guy. Its clear he doesn't completely get the system yet, which was to be expected, because KG spent some time chirping him and pushing him around the floor to the right spots throughout the night. But he stepped up again tonight in the Celtics win of the new look Jazz with 11 pts and 5 rebounds. KG was all over the glass himself and had another big night with 16 and 14.
Rondo looked alive for the firs time since the Perk trade. He was flying around the court. He had 18 pts and 11 dimes for a great overall effort. He had a dominant steal about half way through the fourth that set up KG for 2 free throws that I hoped would turn the tide of the game. It didn't because Utah wouldn't go away but just a classic Rondo play. Rondo took a lot of shots tonight, 16, which is more than he usually takes when he isn't in much of a rhythm. And when the game was winding down I was saying we have to get Ray or Paul a look here, but I will settle for KG. Then Rondo got Harris (who played well) in the air and raised up for a free throw line jumper and buried. It was nice to see him hit that shot. Then he made two more big time plays to close it. He knocked the rebound off the Bell miss all the way down the court to kill 3 more seconds then stole the inbound pass to end it. He really controls everything that happens for us, and when he is playing at the level he did tonight we are tough to beat.
Paul essentially only played the 2nd and 4th quarter tonight but we wouldn't have won with out his 21 pt effort. He kept us in the game by himself in the 2nd with 16 points and hit a big time three in the 4th with an ill strut back up the court after.
Ray was insane down the stretch. Dude has ice water in his veins. He hit two monster threes to keep giving us a cushion and then hit the most ferocious foot on the line 2 pointer you will ever see. We were having a touch possession up 2 with about 45 seconds to go and ray hit a long two from the right wing falling right with AK47 in his face. Only Ray takes that shot and only Ray hits that shot. A beautiful sight to see.
Big Baby played like complete dog shit. The worst game he has had in a long time. Didn't do much offensively, wasn't knocking down his jumpers, and played horrendous defense all night. He is usually our down the stretch 5 and I was screaming for Krstic. I shot faked from my couch during a timeout and I'm pretty sure I saw Baby leave his feet in the huddle. He should have fouled out like 15 times but they kept sticking fouls on Ray or Paul but if I was out there I would have said hell no that was uno uno, get him the fuck off the floor.
Jeff Green was pretty quiet again with 5 but I hope he is just warming up. I know its hard to get shots with a team so talented and so unselfish as we are but I really hope he can use the rest of the season to get in sync with the second team and West and find a groove for himself.
Last point, Al Jefferson is a beast. I think everyone knew he would be good when he left Boston, but the trade was obviously worth it. I felt bad he went to the Wolves, and was happy for him when he landed in Utah. And I know his typical game isn't what he did tonight. He is like an 18 and 10 guy, which you can't complain about, but he swung his shit around tonight. Getting hacked and finishing whenever he felt like it. Anyway we can get him back too?
Monday, February 28, 2011
Insane Hurdles
I'm not fooled at all by what is going on here. Remember those David Blaine nba commercials? The one about Lebron's dunks, and how another teammate is just stepping on the floor in the right place which springs Lebron into the air. Well I'm not an idiot. That is all that is happening here. Someone off camera is just stomping on a trick piece of the track which launches this dude clean over my head. That is the only explanation. Also, is it just unfair for him to run a real hurdles race? I know he is a high jumper but it seems to me that running regular hurdles for him would just be like regular running. He might not even know there were there unless you told him. He does he not win that race every time?
Get Me This Seal!
Get me this seal if only to save it from this asshole filming it. That has to be the most adorable/saddest thing I have ever seen. I had a seal in my yard one winter and all that piece of shit did was bark at me every time I got close. Kept me for like 2 nights before some wildlife people came and threw his ass back in the ocean. But this guy doesn't bark he just cries. I mean he is crying right? At the end there, when his eyes keep squinting, those are obviously tears. I just want to pick this thing up and let him slide over any mound of snow he wants. Honestly if you aren't in love with this seal then check your pulse, because you are probably dead.
Rage!
This is what I'm talking about. I used to hate getting dragged to stupid chorus concerts or band recitals just to watch them sing/play shit that I have never heard of until my ears bleed and I get to go home. If you've got talent and you want to get more people into the shit you do why not play cool stuff. Get people jacked up saying I love that song I want to be a part of that. These guys did it right. Nothing says we mean fucking business like Bulls on Parade. I saw this live once and I almost killed 5 people surrounding me I was raging so hard. You see the director doing his thing too? This shit is on repeat on his ipod, no way he sleeps tonight.
PS the next time Chicago wins the NBA title the headline has to be Bulls on Parade right? I mean has that been done yet or am I a fucking genius?
All things celtics
DENVER RECAP
CLIPS RECAP
The Celtics dropped one to the New York Nuggets on Thursday night. A disappointing loss because the Cs were leading with around 3 minutes left and let Denver go on a 16-0 run to close out the game.
Rondo was pretty quiet but everyone played ok until disappearing down the stretch. No one could hit a shot when we needed it. It makes sense that we were tired because after the trades we only had 8 guys suited up for this one. We even called Chris Johnson back from the D league who gave us 6 pts and a rebound off the bench.
A tough night for basketball as KG would put it.
We regrouped and beat out Blake and the Clips on Saturday night. Paul and Ray played well and the Celtics just hung on late to get out of LA with a win.
The Cs welcomed new comers Krstic and Green for the first time and this one. Green went for 7 pts and Krstic went for 9 pts with 6 offensive rebounds, a Celtic season high.
Its going to take a while for these guys to start finding their role and fitting into the squad, but a win is as good a way to start as any.
Now I have talked myself in and out of these trades about 500 times. I don't know where I will eventually land. It doesn't make sense to me that a team who claims they would have won the ship last year if they had a healthy Perk and could grab a fucking rebound would jack all our big men off the team in one day leaving only Shaq and Jermaine. The front office obviously knows the team better than I do, so they better fucking know that those two guys will be healthy enough to get us through the playoffs. Because if the Magic, who suck, beat us cause Dwight does whatever he wants then this is going to look really stupid.
On a strictly talent level this wasn't that bad. Some of the rookies got bounced to free up some space for bought out veterns, sorry but such is life. Nate, who I really do like, sort of killed us all year minus that short stint when he started for an injured Rondo. And Perk, who of course I love and is a fan favorite, isn't that hard to replace. He went for about 6 pts and 7 boards a night. He was a big dude who clogged the middle and fumbled every pass Rondo ever dished to him inside. Jeff Green is a versatile scorer and player who can spell Ray and Paul and play some good wing defense. He is the upside of the trade for sure. It allows us to play smaller which we haven't done since Posey and that won us a ship.
However, my problem is what it did to the team's mentality. I know they will get over it, its a business and everyone knows it. But when KG was practically crying saying how he lost a family member today. And Paul made those 'man I hope Danny and Doc know what they are doing comments.' It put me on edge. Rondo, who is best friends with Perk, was zombie like on the floor in Denver. He refused to talk to the media and was obviously upset. KG said they when we brought him in we told him this was all about togetherness, thats the formula that wins, and we needed him to buy into it. He did. Everyone did. Then to cut off one of the roots like that at this point in the season? I don't know. Like I said I'm flip flopping in. If Green turns it on, and we grab a couple veterans and Shaq can give us the minutes to walk to the finals I will say it was the best trade we ever made. But for a squad that kept saying we like our team, this was certainly an interesting way to show it.
Anyway, a fond farewell and good luck to Quis, Semih, Luke, Nate, and especially Perk. You will be missed my man. I hope you shit on Bynum in the playoffs.
CLIPS RECAP
The Celtics dropped one to the New York Nuggets on Thursday night. A disappointing loss because the Cs were leading with around 3 minutes left and let Denver go on a 16-0 run to close out the game.
Rondo was pretty quiet but everyone played ok until disappearing down the stretch. No one could hit a shot when we needed it. It makes sense that we were tired because after the trades we only had 8 guys suited up for this one. We even called Chris Johnson back from the D league who gave us 6 pts and a rebound off the bench.
A tough night for basketball as KG would put it.
We regrouped and beat out Blake and the Clips on Saturday night. Paul and Ray played well and the Celtics just hung on late to get out of LA with a win.
The Cs welcomed new comers Krstic and Green for the first time and this one. Green went for 7 pts and Krstic went for 9 pts with 6 offensive rebounds, a Celtic season high.
Its going to take a while for these guys to start finding their role and fitting into the squad, but a win is as good a way to start as any.
Now I have talked myself in and out of these trades about 500 times. I don't know where I will eventually land. It doesn't make sense to me that a team who claims they would have won the ship last year if they had a healthy Perk and could grab a fucking rebound would jack all our big men off the team in one day leaving only Shaq and Jermaine. The front office obviously knows the team better than I do, so they better fucking know that those two guys will be healthy enough to get us through the playoffs. Because if the Magic, who suck, beat us cause Dwight does whatever he wants then this is going to look really stupid.
On a strictly talent level this wasn't that bad. Some of the rookies got bounced to free up some space for bought out veterns, sorry but such is life. Nate, who I really do like, sort of killed us all year minus that short stint when he started for an injured Rondo. And Perk, who of course I love and is a fan favorite, isn't that hard to replace. He went for about 6 pts and 7 boards a night. He was a big dude who clogged the middle and fumbled every pass Rondo ever dished to him inside. Jeff Green is a versatile scorer and player who can spell Ray and Paul and play some good wing defense. He is the upside of the trade for sure. It allows us to play smaller which we haven't done since Posey and that won us a ship.
However, my problem is what it did to the team's mentality. I know they will get over it, its a business and everyone knows it. But when KG was practically crying saying how he lost a family member today. And Paul made those 'man I hope Danny and Doc know what they are doing comments.' It put me on edge. Rondo, who is best friends with Perk, was zombie like on the floor in Denver. He refused to talk to the media and was obviously upset. KG said they when we brought him in we told him this was all about togetherness, thats the formula that wins, and we needed him to buy into it. He did. Everyone did. Then to cut off one of the roots like that at this point in the season? I don't know. Like I said I'm flip flopping in. If Green turns it on, and we grab a couple veterans and Shaq can give us the minutes to walk to the finals I will say it was the best trade we ever made. But for a squad that kept saying we like our team, this was certainly an interesting way to show it.
Anyway, a fond farewell and good luck to Quis, Semih, Luke, Nate, and especially Perk. You will be missed my man. I hope you shit on Bynum in the playoffs.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
5 down 1 to go
RECAP
The Bruins handled the Oilers in a battle of the first two overall picks from last year. Rask was in goal and continued his decent form. He let in two goals that weren't great, but he played well enough for the Bs to look down a 3-2 win. Ryder scored a nifty goal to tie it in the first where he showed great poise on a loose puck in the slot.
His dopeness struck again later in the period with another great fake shot pass over to Horton who stuffed one into a wide open net giving the Bs a lead they would not surrender.
Then Peverley got the third goal making it 3-1 to be the first of the Boston new comers to light the lamp. It was actually a great play by the whole line. Kelly got an assist keep creating offense off a turnover getting the puck in zone to Peverley. Pev fed Ryder in the middle who worked the give and go right back to Peverley who skillfully pulled the puck on the backhand across the crease and tucked it home. Really a great play to watch all around.
Other than that a pretty cut and dry game. The Bruins D held the Oilers to 17 shots while peppering the men in blue with 40 of their own. Even though they trailed early and it got close again late the game never seemed out of control. Lucic had a good fight, its been a while and that was fun.
Tyler was back up to about 10 minutes. An improvement from last game. And even though Hall is playing 20 a game and has way more points they are terrible and we aren't and he was a minus 2 tonight so....suck it.
The Bruins handled the Oilers in a battle of the first two overall picks from last year. Rask was in goal and continued his decent form. He let in two goals that weren't great, but he played well enough for the Bs to look down a 3-2 win. Ryder scored a nifty goal to tie it in the first where he showed great poise on a loose puck in the slot.
His dopeness struck again later in the period with another great fake shot pass over to Horton who stuffed one into a wide open net giving the Bs a lead they would not surrender.
Then Peverley got the third goal making it 3-1 to be the first of the Boston new comers to light the lamp. It was actually a great play by the whole line. Kelly got an assist keep creating offense off a turnover getting the puck in zone to Peverley. Pev fed Ryder in the middle who worked the give and go right back to Peverley who skillfully pulled the puck on the backhand across the crease and tucked it home. Really a great play to watch all around.
Other than that a pretty cut and dry game. The Bruins D held the Oilers to 17 shots while peppering the men in blue with 40 of their own. Even though they trailed early and it got close again late the game never seemed out of control. Lucic had a good fight, its been a while and that was fun.
Tyler was back up to about 10 minutes. An improvement from last game. And even though Hall is playing 20 a game and has way more points they are terrible and we aren't and he was a minus 2 tonight so....suck it.
Bruins measure up against leagues best
RECAP
The Bruins improved to 4-0 on this road trip with a big time win against the NHLs best team. After this win there is no reason we can't close out this trip 6-0 which would be huge in the quest to get that #2 seed. It was a hard fought game with two great defenses and two great goalies.
Thomas stood on his head again, making huge saves the whole way to keep the Bs in it. His best came with seconds left to make sure Lucic's goal stood up as the game winner in his welcome home party.
Ference left with a lower body injury which is something of a concern. The Bs played the rest of the game out with 5 blue liners. However, they have already been dishing someone on the back line a healthy scratch each night, and just signed former bear Shane Hnidy to a 1 year deal so this isn't the worst thing that could happen. I of course hope he is ok, but if hes not I guess we have a little bit of depth there.
Seguin was down to 6 minutes which sucks. At least he is going to have fresh legs. The new guys continue to hustle without much to show for it. Kaberle had an assist which I think is the first points by anyone knew so hes got that going for him.
Krejci, the king of dope, put another one on the highlight reel when he started the play to set up the game winner. He made a beautiful move crossing the blue line that took him behind the net before finding Seidenberg at the point whose rebound Lucic burried.
The Bruins improved to 4-0 on this road trip with a big time win against the NHLs best team. After this win there is no reason we can't close out this trip 6-0 which would be huge in the quest to get that #2 seed. It was a hard fought game with two great defenses and two great goalies.
Thomas stood on his head again, making huge saves the whole way to keep the Bs in it. His best came with seconds left to make sure Lucic's goal stood up as the game winner in his welcome home party.
Ference left with a lower body injury which is something of a concern. The Bs played the rest of the game out with 5 blue liners. However, they have already been dishing someone on the back line a healthy scratch each night, and just signed former bear Shane Hnidy to a 1 year deal so this isn't the worst thing that could happen. I of course hope he is ok, but if hes not I guess we have a little bit of depth there.
Seguin was down to 6 minutes which sucks. At least he is going to have fresh legs. The new guys continue to hustle without much to show for it. Kaberle had an assist which I think is the first points by anyone knew so hes got that going for him.
Krejci, the king of dope, put another one on the highlight reel when he started the play to set up the game winner. He made a beautiful move crossing the blue line that took him behind the net before finding Seidenberg at the point whose rebound Lucic burried.
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