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Highlight: Rondo Leads The Break

I love this decision-making from Rajon Rondo. While leading the break, you can see him eyeballing Ray Allen, who runs the wing and spots up on the arc. The Sixers have a 1-2 disadvantage but are mostly concerned about Allen’s three balls, which allows Mickael Pietrus to make an unmolested baseline cut behind the defense. [...]

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21 hours ago

Celtics-Sixers Game 5 Tips off at 7pm

A note to all you local C’s fans out there that may be attending the game tonight at TD Garden. The game will start just after 7pm and will be broadcast nationally on TNT. However, unlike most TNT regular season games during the season, the tip will not come 15-20 minutes after the scheduled start [...]

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9 days ago

(Video) Rajon Rondo Continues To Dominate In Postgame Interview

Rajon Rondo is a tremendous player, but he tends to have a little bit of an issue scoring the ball late in games. I won’t go as far as saying he is scared, but he does pass up shots and defer to teammates in crunch-time….well a lot. Last night though may have been his coming [...]

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9 days ago

Video: Full Kevin Garnett Reaction After Game 1

Garnett followed up his season-best effort against Atlanta in Game 6 with a new season-high in points and another sensational double-double, as well 60 percent shooting (12-of-20) from the field. Over his past two contests, Garnett is averaging 28.5 points, 12.5 rebounds, two steals and four blocks a game. After the game, KG was candid [...]

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9 days ago

The Enemies List: Philadelphia, Part II

Before every playoff series this season, we’re doing some rundowns on the opposing roster for each team. Now that the Hawks have been dispensed with, we’re onto the Sixers. Here’s Part II. Players are listed in alphabetical order. Andre Iguodala: There are five guys in the league who have a claim on the title of [...]

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10 days ago

NBA: Hawks Should Have Had Free Throw on Last-Second Foul

Mike Fratello had it right: the NBA announced today that Al Horford should have been given a free throw on Marquis Daniels’s off-ball foul at the end of Thursday’s game. At the time, ref Eric Lewis ruled that Daniels’s foul had occurred after the throw-in, making him probably the only person in the arena who [...]

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Marbury learns the offense

Posted by on Mar 10, 2009 2 comments

Here’s a quick off-day Marbury news round-up:

• The C’s spent part of yesterday going over the rudiments of the offense with Stephon Marbury and Mikki Moore, according to the Herald. Leon Powe, Bill Walker and J.R. Giddens stepped in to run plays with the newbies. Afterward, Marbury vowed to get his game together, saying things will be “totally different” once he gets 10 games under his belt:

“Oh, man, I’ll be totally different,” he said. “My mind is sped up right now to learn everything that’s going on. Once I get the system and I start to understand the plays and the defensive sets and what we want out of the offense and the defense – once my game comes around – I think I’ll be way more at ease and my instincts will definitely take over.

“Mentally is the hard part. You’re trying to do all of the things that you normally do. It’s like my mind is thinking that I can do one thing, but my body’s telling me another thing because I’m just not there as far as having enough games under my belt.”

• And, in case you missed it, here’s Kelly Dwyer on Marbury yesterday at BDL:
Marbury is shooting 31 percent as a Celtic, with three assists to every two turnovers, and he’s yet to get to the free throw line in 56 minutes. Not a single free throw from the supposed slasher.

That’s pretty bad, even given the context of his return to game action. If this goes on for another week, the Celtics need to pick up a D-Leaguer. The player the C’s pick up might be minor league material, but minor leaguers won’t miss more than two-thirds of their shots from the field. And they’d manage to get to the line more than zero times in 56 minutes.

Too soon? Too strong? I don’t have the answers, but I agree that Steph in the lane right now looks like a pee-wee kid trying to take it strong against the high-school team. Does he need to get his legs under him, as the saying goes? Probably. Whether he contributes down the line depends on how long that takes, I guess.

 

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