Shouldering the burden

hahah the celtics are gonna lose tongiht and falter in the playoffs. they are aging and slow. they lack the will to win. those signings last year returned the glory to boston (its amazing what a little money and big market can do) but cleveland will take control of the east this year and for the forseeable future.

I love this.blog!!!!! I'm never leaving, I'm seeing this thing out until the end. (or til May, when your season ends with you missing the Playoffs!!!!)

Big props to Larry Brown for showing the world that Rondo can be shut down by a small. A week ago, the scouting report on Rondo was that ifyou put an athletic big on him, he pee's in his pants, litterally destroying the Celtics' effectiveness to get into the paint.

Larry went against the grain and turned the Celtics into a jumpshooting team with smalls!!!! It was a beautiful thing too see.

Look for coach Mike Brown to use a hybrid tactic.

hog

Oh please stop the Cleveland bs....Next year or the year after you lose James and you are once again just Cleveland. What state is that iin anyway? Iowa? hahahahha...The celtics will continue on with their history and this group will rebound and play well for the course of the season. A few tweaks should help them out because they have no jump shooters and once they get one or two it is all over wity again. The Celts are the cream of this division and will play the Lakers once again in the finals. Give the old men a break will ya.....hahahhaha...Cleveland is the city that just hired Mangini right only to lose Pioli...What a brilliant place to be. By the way I am not a Celtic fan but I clearly see that Cleveland is iin a dream status.

PS: IMO, Doc Rivers is the only one to blame for this skid. The players played extremely hard!!!

They were just undermanned. If Doc would have called up Walker and Giddens after the Knicks loss, you'd wouldn't be in such a hole right now.

Seriously, I saw highlights from this D-League game a couple weeks ago where either Walker or Giddens(I can't recall which one) had like 30 points and the other one wasn't far behind!!!!

Two bonafide ballers!!!!!

Can somebody on here please tell me what the he'll Doc was thinking by NOT bringing these guys on sooner????
Especially whenTony Allen went down!!!!!!!

hog

Never doubt old man power.

The Celtics winning streak stopped at 19 and tonight the Cavs home win streak will stop at 19. Other than Lebron the Cavs are mediocre. Tell me that you honestly believe in Mo Williams or Delonte West? I expect great things tonight in the paint since Z is out.

No way Cleveland wins. I am a long-time Cavs fan and I know my team has no guts and no hear and it starts with LeBronze (with a gold thanks to kb24) James.
He will be in a crabby mood.

Look, I am a huge Laker fan. I bleed Purple and Gold. But I am going for Boston in the East. Now, Laker fans chill, there's reason for my madness. I want Boston to win the East. And you all know that the Lakers will win the West. There has to be a rematch from last season!
I still vomit when i see Garnett and the rest of the freakin' leprechauns, but we all want to see the very best competing for the tittle.

So Boston, get it together and win tonight! Get back on track!

I agree that the skid is largely Doc's fault. He kept playing Tony Allen as if he were a good player. Excuse me?! The guy can't shoot worth a damn, loses the ball regularly, can't pass, and worst of all, he is friggin STUPID. Doc's idea of a CHAMPIONSHIP team's second lineup includes... Tony Allen-The-Idiot and Scal The-Fat-And-Slow. What the hell?!? (Seriously, I don't think there's another NBA team that would keep these guys on their roster, much less give them minutes.)

Doc must have had a stroke or something, because this makes NO sense at all. Meanwhile, an apparently GOOD player like Pruitt sits on the bench, and two hotshots like Walker and Giddens are in D-League. This is all absolutely Doc's fault. Guy's got a lot to learn about how to manage a team. Somebody needs to sit down and talk to the man (or punch him in the gut till he says 'OK, I GET IT').

Yes i am very ticked about this slump after 19 wins in a row, but every team go's through and every team breaks out of it!!!!!!!!!!!!

rondo is TERRIBLE. kid can't shoot to save his life and has absolutely no idea how to run the point. the reason the celtics offense looks so bad of late is because "bigs" are laying off rondo and daring him to knock down a 10 footer - which he can't - or beating him to the rim when he tries to take them off the dribble. celtics need a real point guard who can knock down the occasional jumper and play in control/run Doc's halfcourt sets or we'll never get through the eastern conference playoffs this year.

If you guys are relying on Bill Walker and JR Giddens, then you're even more pathetic than I thought. Wow, Bill Walker put up 30 points in the D-League. Who was covering him, Bobby Hurley? Get real.

The Cavs will win tonight by about 15 tonight and continue to play well for the season. The C's will eventually wear down due to their weak bench. Do you really think that three 30 year olds can continue playing this many minutes and not sustain a serious injury? Haha. The 3 elite teams are the Cavs, Magic, and Lakers. The C's are closer to the Detroits, Utahs, and Phoenix.

hey hog its Danny Ainge's decision to move players to the D-League, not doc's.

I don't talk trash.

Ergo, this evening might not go well...

In 2004, ESPN named Cleveland the most tortured sports city in America. The last time a team from Cleveland won a championship was 1964 ... so I guess posting on other cities' blogs is all they can do.

Cleveland ... no one ever goes to Cleveland unless it's a business trip. Let's build our dream home in Cleveland ... uh huh. Let's vacation in Cleveland ... yeah right.

putting orlando as an elite team...thats laughable, just wait until the playoffs

Mike,

Don't give me that bs!!!!!!!

Two seasons ago, Phil Jackson personally had Mitch pull Jordan Farmar from the D-Fenders, hours before the Lakers played a home game!!!!!!

We made history, again, that night my friend.

Danny Ainge doesn't know his head from the wall, "truth"fully!!!!!

The best move that he was responsible for was Ray Allen.

And if you don't believe that Ray didn't know which way that(super-sonics) ship was sailing, then I may have some hog/swampland that you'll be interested in hearing about.

hog

@drahcir61

Whatever, you can trash people's cities all you want b/c you know that your team is inferior to the Cavs. Watch Garnett put up a 6-17, 12 pointer tonight.

See you after the cavs wiiin

My family has been Celtic season ticket holders for over 30 years and what is going on now is the most embarrassing and pathetic display of team basketball and coaching that I have ever seen. Rajon Rondo has been exposed as the fraud point guard that everyone always feared. This boy should have spent the entire off-season learning how to shoot the basketball, as a matter of fact if you are reading this blog Rajon, I challenge you to a shoot out for $1,000 a basket, and the company I work for is about to go out of business, so I could use the money. Rondo should be sent down to the D-League and if he can not develop an outside shot there---adios and enjoy your ring and one year of fame. If I were Stephon Marbury, I would sign with this team in a heartbeat because he will quickly become the starting point guard and perhaps Rondo would be more effective playing with the second unit in that they are fast and undersized (not a bad idea hey Doc?) The team is simply too old to have "The Big Three" play this many minutes, so you can stick a fork in them right now as I will take any and all bets that they will not even get through the first round of the play-offs. What are Ainge and Rivers thinking? Doc can not seem to motivate this team, perhaps another snappy African catchphrase will get them going again---LOL. Maybe if they shut up and talked a little less trash, they might play a bit better. All their mouthing off has simply motivated other teams to play their hearts out against them. Eddie House hits shots when they mean little or nothing and he is a defensive liability. Scalabrine played well against the Celts when they were horrible, so whatever drove them to sign him other than Boston, still the most racist city in the country, felt the need to have a white man on their team is beyond my vision. How did Ainge ever think that this bench would make up for the loss of Posey? Tony Allen is a punk who would be in jail if he could not play hoops. The team shoots so many 3's that you would think that Jim O'Brien was still coaching them. They also need to be more consistent at the foul line, but shooting 3's will never get a team to the foul line enough to be an effective free throw shooter. “Big Baby” should have been put on the same training, weight loss and conditioning program that did wonders for Kendrick Perkins, but maybe he is not as motivated as Perkins clearly was when the Celts drafted him. Also, Perkins is hurting as anyone can clearly see since they played the Lakers and Andrew Bynum nearly ripped Perkins’ shoulder out of its socket going for a rebound, but he is a gamer, but a center getting ONE REBOUND in 26 plus minutes is just not going to get the job done. If a trade for a point guard and a big can not be made soon, Doc should play O’Brian, Giddens and Walker. However, I strongly suggest that Giddens and Walker were brought up for Ainge to use them in a trade as a team can not trade a player who is in the D-League as he must be on the roster. It will be a shame to lose Giddens as he is Ray Allen’s replacement when he retires. The bottom line is that this team needs to get back to playing tenacious D and stop wearing out its “Big Three.”

These comments are beyond pathetic. if we made half the suggestions some of you fools wanted to make last year, the Celtics never would have won anything.

And Cleveland fans talking smack? Wow. That has to be the worst sports town in America. We'll be long dead before the Browns, Cavs or Indians ever win anything.

Hey Globe, stop posting hog's BS. He adds nothing and is just to here to infuriate people. Why do you care he whines about censorship. This blog needs as much of an infusion of gonads as the C's defense right now.

Hey Pork - stop whining like a baby. Or Big Baby, should I say. Your "mommies" in charge of this blog are not going to shield you - you are going to have to stick up for yourself. Or just run home crying. Your call.