Sunday Shoveling Notebook: Technicals Are Bad!

Posted by Zach Lowe on Dec 20, 2009 48932 commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fcelticshub.com%2F2009%2F12%2F20%2Fsunday-shoveling-notebook-technicals-are-bad%2FSunday+Shoveling+Notebook%3A+Technicals+Are+Bad%21+2009-12-20+15%3A16%3A35Zach+Lowehttp%3A%2F%2Fcelticshub.com%2F%3Fp%3D4893

Two good things about living in a city during a massive snowstorm: 1) I don’t have a car anymore; 2) I live right above a deli. It requires very little work for me to get food or anything else. Basically I just need to find my boots. 

As we prep for this evening game against the Baby C’s and their merry band of 1980s players-turned-coaches (we still hate you, Laimbeer!), a few things of interest from today’s news.

First, from the Herald: The Celtics have learned that technical fouls and ejections are bad things. Here’s Perk reflecting on Sheed’s ejection (and by the way, others had to reflect on it, because Sheed wasn’t discussing it for whatever reason):

“That got to me,” said Kendrick Perkins [stats], who has five T’s on the season and is often at odds with the officials. “I think that helped me. When that happened to Rasheed, I saw how it affected our team. It really cost us a game, because if we’d have had Rasheed we would have won.”

And here’s Doc:

Addressing questionable calls, Rivers said, “It’s not done on purpose, and we’ve just got to be able to play through it, and at times we don’t. We spent way too much time looking for the officials to bail us out instead of doing our jobs.”

I mean…this is fairly uninspiring stuff all around. I have a hunch that Kendrick Perkins didn’t really need Friday night’s Sheed tantrum to understand things like, “You know, it will probably hurt our team if one of our key players gets ejected.” 

Doc is trying out a new anger management motto, says the Herald: “He who angers you owns you.” Says Doc:

“I’m trying that. If you don’t get angry, you can keep functioning. He who angers you owns you. I actually texted that to a couple of guys last night. I’m just hoping that becomes our team’s mantra right now. Let’s breathe. Zen II.

“I was joking by saying it, and I got a funny reaction from it. But there is some truth to it, as well.”

At least he was (partly) joking. Because as Red’s Army said last night, this doesn’t exactly rank with Ubuntu on the scale of inspiring mottos.

Also via the Herald: Ray Allen hyperextended a finger on his shooting hand during practice yesterday, but it doesn’t appear to be serious. He shot free throws at the end of practice, and he’ll play today. 

Speaking of today’s game, some brief reflections about the Baby C’s, after the jump.

 

Here’s Jerry Zgoda of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reflecting on the epic KG trade, which I  had honestly forgotten was the largest trade ever for one player:

That record-setting trade that sent Garnett from Minnesota to Boston two summers ago has morphed beyond its original 5-for-1 deal into a calculation of a future second-round draft pick and fuzzy salary-cap space now that only Al Jefferson and Ryan Gomes remain Timberwolves.

This much is certain, though:

Rajon Rondo would look good in blue.

The two teams haggled — and perhaps then some — over including the second-year point guard in the NBA’s largest trade for a single player before the Celtics threw in a chunk of cash and consummated the deal that sent Jefferson, Gomes, Sebastian Telfair, Gerald Green and Theo Ratliff packing.

Seattle wanted Rondo even more, and Ainge’s insistence on keeping him nearly torpedoed the Ray Allen trade. 

Brilliant persistence from Danny. 

Enjoy the game, and you suburban folks: Pay some neighborhood kids to do the back-breaking shoveling for you! And make sure to dust the snow off of the roof of your car before you drive it. All of the snow. Nobody likes that guy driving on the highway and leaving a trail of flying snow behind him.