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Avery Bradley Likely Done For Season

On the back of a horrific game six performance, Gary Washburn of the Globe piled on with more bad news: Avery Bradley is almost certainly done for the season. Washburn: A source close to Bradley told the Globe that it’s in the “high 90s” percentile that Bradley will be shut down and will perhaps need [...]

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2 days ago

Game 6 Will Be Wednesday Night at 8pm on ESPN

After the Thunder finished up their series by routinely dismantling the Lakers last night to send them packing in five games, a time has been announced for the C’s-Sixers Game 6 on Wednesday night. It will tipoff shortly after 8pm on ESPN. Looking ahead in the postseason, if the C’s do win Game 6, and [...]

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3 days ago

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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3 days 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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11 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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12 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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The Upside of Lester Hudson: Bobby Jackson?

A number of folks have pointed out that our old friend/brief fling Lester Hudson scored 13 points for Memphis last night in just 12 minutes on 4-of-10 shooting from the floor, a shots per minute ratio even Kobe Bryant would envy.

Panic is already setting in: Did we a give up a useful player!!?!?? A back-up point guard who could help us now!??? What was Ainge thinking in waiving Hudson?

He was thinking: How can I help this team win right now? And he correctly assumed that Hudson, who has no experience playing point guard at a high level, is not ready to help Boston right now, and that an empty roster spot is worth more to the 2009-10 Celtics than is Lester. One good game against Memphis—in which Hudson shot 40 percent and turned the ball over twice in 12 minutes—does not mean Ainge was wrong. Not even close. As John Hollinger notes today, Hudson’s scoring outburst only underlined the fact that he doesn’t really know how to run the NBA screen/roll yet—at least not in a way that helps his teammates get more efficient shots.

But Hollinger did have an interesting take on Hudson’s should-everything-go-right potential.

Via TrueHoop:

Hudson is a shoot-first small guard, a species that often has trouble adjusting to the NBA, but he has a good body and competes very well at the defensive end — in last night’s second quarter he took several shifts against Kobe Bryant and held his own. What has to improve is his ability to run pick-and-roll plays to get shots for others rather than just a wild jack from 25 feet. If he can manage that, he’ll be in the league a long time as a Bobby Jackson-type bench scorer.

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