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Rondo Replacing Johnson on All-Star Team

The Herald got it right from Rondo’s agent. According to his agent, Bill Duffy, the Celtics point guard has been named to the Eastern Conference All-star roster, presumably to replace Joe Johnson, the injured Atlanta Hawks guard. This would be Rondo’s third all-star appearance. Nice birthday present for RR, who probably should have been selected [...]

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3 days ago

Comments Deleting?

We apologize if your comments are being deleted (provided that they are not offensive). We are looking into why this is happening. We also want to apologize for the lack of a game thread for last night’s game.  We had a premonition that the Celtics would play that poorly and thought if we pretended the [...]

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7 days ago

5 Questions With Greg Monroe

I talked with Detroit star forward Greg Monroe prior to the Celtics-Pistons game on Wednesday night.  Here is what the 2nd year big man out of Georgetown, who is averaging 16.4 points, 9.7 rebounds, 2.5 assists per game had to say. 1. Just your 2nd year in the league, but playing so well, were you disappointed [...]

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8 days ago

Call for Responses: 5-on-5

Readers! Last week’s responses to the 5-on-5 questions were really, really great. We had way more qualified answers than we were able to use. So we’re going to keep doing it! FOREVER. Here are this week’s questions: 1. Are you concerned about Rondo’s media boycott this week? 2. The trade deadline is less than a [...]

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11 days ago

5 Questions With Ronnie Brewer

I talked with Chicago starting guard Ronnie Brewer prior to the Celtics-Bulls game on Sunday.  Here is what the 6th year man out of Arkansas who is averaging 7.6 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 2.1 assists had to say. 1. You guys have a lot of the same players back from last year’s team which was [...]

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13 days ago

5 Questions With Josh McRoberts

I talked to Los Angeles back up big man Josh McRoberts prior to the Celtics-Lakers game Thursday night at the Garden.  Here is what the former Duke Blue Devil, who is averaging 2.9 points and 3.8 rebounds in his first year in LA, had to say. 1. How have you guys been able to deal [...]

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A Blowout In Numbers

Some tidbits before we put Game 3 to bed:

• The Cavaliers 59.5 percent mark from the field is the highest shooting percentage a team has recorded  in a game against Boston since the KG/Ray Allen trades, according to Basketball-Reference. 

Opponents have cracked 55 percent just seven times in the regular season and once in the playoffs since KG and Ray arrived at the beginning of the ’07-08 season. 

• This was only the fifth time a team has scored 120 or more points against Boston since the KG/Ray trades, and just the third time a team has pulled it off in regulation, according to BR. It happened twice in the regular season and twice in the playoffs, but both of the prior post-season games were overtime games in the Chicago series last season. (One was a double overtime game, and one went to triple OT). 

• Ray Allen has played in 85 playoff games. He has scored 7 or fewer points in six of those 85 games. (He scored 7 points on Friday). All six have come in Boston, and three have come against the Cavaliers, including the only playoff game in Ray’s career in which he scored zero points, according to BR. 

• The Celtics grabbed 30 rebounds in Game 3. They recorded 30 or fewer rebounds in just four games this season.

• The Celtics turned the ball over just 7 times in Game 3, according to box scores at both ESPN and Yahoo!. How rare is it for Boston to lose when they cough the ball up so few times?

Since the KG/Ray trades, the C’s are 12-1 in the regular season and 3-1 in the post-season (so 15-2 combined) when they turn the ball over 8 times or fewer, according to Basketball-Reference. (Note: Those records are from games before Friday night’s debacle). 

What about when the C’s turn it over 10 or fewer times? Before last night, they were 26-5  in the regular season and a not-too-impressive 8-5 in the playoffs, according to BR. 

So, yeah. Game 4 is on Sunday.

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