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BS Officiating at its best. DISGRACEFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bad signs all around. I guess the Celts might be this year's version of the '06-'07 Mavericks. Playing over their heads throughout the year, and then all the weaknesses exposed in the playoffs.

And now we have to face up to the real possibility that Danny mortgaged our future on the here and now, so this is our one shot before we're back to the rebuilding stage (yeah, what happened with that aborted plan?). This was supposed to be KG's redemption year, and he always leaves it out on the floor, but the miles are adding up, and he simply can't carry a team. Ray Allen? Stick a fork in him. So yeah, Jeff Green, Al Jefferson.... now THAT would have been a future. Ugh.

"Charge" on Pierce was just utterly disgraceful. The league should be ashamed of its ridiculous star treatment. Call the game fairly, I don't care if they think Lebron James is the best person to ever grace the earth, that is a horrid, disgusting, filthy, awful call in the worst time to make it.

1. Ray Allen could not defend me, and I'm 64 years old.
2. Ever notice how many Celtics just turn and watch opponents' shots, and rarely
block out. I mean, RARELY.
3. Do the Celtics ever practice offense. It's schoolyard basketball.
4. The Celtics look like old men playing young, aggressive boys.
5. Has Doc ever heard of the "split and DISH?"
6. Big Baby plays like a big baby in the paint
7. If Paul Pierce is off from the outside, he's useless on offense
8. Do the Celtics ever practice defending the pick and roll
9. They're playing one NBA 1st Teamer and role players, and still look pathetic

How about Doc leaving Big Baby in with four fouls towards the end of the first half?
(And yeah, you're right, no PT for Leon).
Then there's:
Ray making Wally look like Bruce Bowen (Can someone say "Next year's 6th man?")
Dreadful turnovers by PP...he's reverting to '05/'06 form with the head down/spinorama/strip--or throw away. (Those 3 points on the give-a-way to Delonte at the end of the first half were huuuge).
Big Z must haunt Kendrick at night...talk about a complete mismatch!
On the positive side, I like Doc putting Eddie in the game for serious minutes and finally tearing into the refs, post game.
We need all the intangibles going for us on Sunday to pull this out!!!

Doc Rivers is terrible. His rotations change daily. He can't make in game adjustments. All he does is feed the media info and throw his players under the bus. Ray Allen can't get a shot off against Wally and no plays are designed to allow for an open look? Pierce makes nonchalant passes than get tipped and/or stolen on a regular basis and yet he still plays the "point forward" position? Big Baby doesn't play in the regular season, but gets time in the 4th quarter over Powe? The entire team settles for jump shots and doesn't take the ball to the rim. The list goes on and on and the blame lays at Doc's feet. Of course, he'll pander to the media and all they'll write is that he was smart to play House...even though every serious fan was furious that Sam took his minutes in the first place. The sad thing is we might have been a championship team with a real coach.

In my opinion, as a Celtics' Fan since 1958, they should have simply forfeited the Friday night game in Cleveland and rested up for Sunday. Somehow, someway, they WILL WIN on Sunday. Sing "Certics' Pride" loud and long!

Doc Rivers and Grady Little are looking at apartments together. Leon Powe DNP? AYFKM??????? Blame the refs all you want but the Celtics lost this game all by themselves with Captian Rivers steering the ship. Someone please put me out of my misery. In 29 years of following sports no team has ever aggravated me this much. I am speechless.

van gundy would coach this team to number 17 without any practices. none. docoma is a tard. i can't believe they spent this much money on a team only to be lead by a blind fool incapable of change. thanks to the grossbecks for finally trying. but booooooo to ainge for knowing all along the doc-sucker would do just that.

Can someone please tell me the highest point of the bridge, in case I need to jump off Sunday night?
I...and I thought the 03 Red Sox were frustrating...unreal

I am really tired of Doc Rivers' very inconsistent substitution pattern. I think he could get away with it during the regular season because of the "big three", but once Cassell and Brown came, down went the minutes of Eddie House and Glen Davis. House hardly saw the light of day in the first series, and tonight he's going to do great things? Davis, too? He did not deserve all that playing time. Davis was obviously overmatched on the offensive end, getting easy inside passes from KG, and winding up turning the ball over without even hitting the rim at least twice. Powe would have finished those with authority,

Doc waits to long to pull guys. A streak shooter like House, if he missed two in a row, get him out of there! I don't like Cassell at all, but he goes from playing major minutes to playing none. Inconsistent subbing does not help any ballplayer, I do not care how good they are.

If they lose this series, Doc's got to go. His game plan tonight was what? Outside shots. And if the players were doing it on their own (not driving to the hoop), sit them (Pierce) down until he gets it. If he doesn't get it now, he's not going to in game 7, either. Make the point in game 6, when you've got less to lose.

This is a team that is playing scared!PP has the "Eye of The Lamb", and continues to be the REAL Celtic-Killer in the last few minutes of every close game. Yeah...he made foul shots (at home), but how many ridiculous turnovers, forced bad passes, 1-on 5 offense,etc. When they played great hoop (seems like a century ago), they were ALL aggressive, hustling, driving. Now they play 'Lazy man's b-ball" like you'd see at the "Y". Old ,fat guys pulling up for jumpers....not following up shots....standing around (on BOTH "O" & "D"), and in general, being totally wolfed by a very ordinary, mistake-prone team led by a 40% (counting layups) gunner who can't carry MJ's jock!

2 things: With 14 seconds left in the game and the Celts down by 5, Pierce gets the ball, holds on to it looking to pass, while the clock ticks away, and passes inside for a potential 2 points needing the 3, which he passes up where he definitely would have taken it last year. Take the shot, you're open, too indecisive, or listening to the play called in the timeout. Take the shot. And #2, where is Leon Powe? All he does when he comes in is make something happen, every freakin' time! Taking charges, get rebounds, putbacks, going to the line. He should be in the starting line-up over Perkins. He goes from being the first person off the bench to replace Perkins to a DNP?? Can somebody explain that to me?

I think Doc is giving the PT to Big Baby and not Leon because BB takes up a huge swath of the lane and makes it more difficult for LeBron to drive. It's a good idea, but it's not working.

How does Rajon disappear from one game to the next? I knew his Game 5 performance was a fluke because when he has that open 2-pointer in the right-hand corner he looks scared. Where was that Tony Parker-esque tear-drop in the lane? Just 10 points from him and we snatch a W in the other guy's gym.

Onto another topic, DA getting Exec of the year is complete BS. KG coming to Boston was more Kevin McHale being a knucklehead than DA being crafty. DA stumbled on it and was damn lucky it happened.

Oh, how we Pistons fans are loving this. At this point, we don't care who wins this awful series. We own one to LaBron and Co. for the thumping they administered last year before being swept by the Spurs. And we'll eliminate the Celtics so the world won't have to watch Allen and Pierce slog their way through another series. (The Celtics Big Three? More like The Big Choke.) The best regular season record? It don't mean squat, as the Pistons learned two years ago, when they lost to the Heat in the conference finals. Sunday's winner will face a well-rested, experience and hungry Detroit team that knows how to win anywhere.

Simply amazing how this team has lost it's confidence, particularly on the road. The blame has to be shared by both players and coaches but I am utterly disgusted by Doc's sudden change in the rotation for the playoffs. You won 66 games during the regular reason with a set game plan and rotation...why mess with success?

The principles that Doc's been preaching to the press about "one more pass, better shot selection, getting to every loose ball, etc."; are the players not hearing him or are they just as confused as we are trying to figure out Doc's "strategy"?

I'm not ready to throw in the towel yet. but things do not bode well for this team, even if they do manage to get by the Cavs. I just wonder if a loss on Sunday will force Danny and Wyc to seriously reconsider who coaches this team next season.

Ridiculous officiating is precisely why I quit watching basketball 10 years ago. Then, Patrick Ewing got called for the same move(s) that were no called on Tim Duncan.

Watching again this year brings out the gloom in me knowing that the officiating has not changed. Clearly, Boston is the superior team, yet their handicap is the officiating.

Think I'll stop watching again for 10 years and see if officiating integrity returns... I'll check back in 2018.

Is it only me that has noticed the big wide tall guy with talent, Ilgauskas, playing under the boards for the Cavs? He cleans up most of the defensive rebounds AFTER causing anyone driving into the lane to double clutch in horror when they see him.. Bill Russell himself taught us all that great interior defense and rebounding win.. Don't blame Perk, Powe or Big Baby...they are outclassed. Now Pierce handling the ball at the end of the game just over the half-court line is an invitation for disaster. He can try to imitate LeBron all he wants but it never works out. And I do mean NEVER. He is most effective receiving the ball at the top of the key and doing his thing. Get Rondo on the dribble or even Ray Allen to make the play at the critical juncture. C'mon Coach...

Ok you Nervous Nellies that call yourselves fans of the Celtics, can we please stop letting the media, who want to find a weakness in all Boston sports teams, inflame your angst? I don't know why the path of the current team is so disturbing. So what they haven't won on the road...how can you win when the refs are so biased against you? I'm just glad that the NBA doesn't let the same refs, who "Officiate" us on the road, call our home games, although does anyone else besides me feel like the Celts DON'T have home court advantage, because of the refs?
Regardless of all the ESPN's of the world trying to play up the 'haven't won on the road' card where are the Celts playing Tuesday? At home. Where will they be playing game 7? At home...so if we do our part...they'll do theirs. Have some faith people!