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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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3 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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4 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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12 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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Stats of the Series, Stats of the Post-Season

We can only hope all of these trends hold up long enough for the C’s to win five more games, starting tonight:

DEFENDING ORLANDO

• Orlando’s offensive efficiency in Games 1-3: 95.8 points/100 possessions

• Orlando’s offensive efficiency, first two rounds: 118 points/100 possessions (1st among playoff teams after two rounds)

• Orlando’s offensive efficiency, regular season: 111.4 points/100 possessions (4th)

• Worst offensive efficiency mark in the NBA regular season: 100.6 points/100 possessions (New Jersey)

• Courtesy of NBA.com’s John Schuhmann: The Magic recorded 10 assists in Game 3, just the 5th time this season Orlando has recorded 10 or fewer assists in a game. Four of those games have come against Boston.

TURNOVERS, OFFENSE

• Boston’s turnover rate, regular season: 14.5 percent (i.e. The C’s turned it over on 14.5 percent of possessions)

• Boston’s turnover rate, post-season: 13.7 percent.

• Boston committed just 8 individual turnovers (plus one shot clock violation) against the Magic in Game 3. In the KG/Ray era, the C’s are now 16-3 in games in which they record 8 or fewer individual player turnovers, according to Basketball-Reference. (That’s 12-1 in the regular season and 4-2 in the post-season).

• Incredibly, the 8 turnovers actually doesn’t do Boston’s performance justice.

Five of those 8 turnovers came after the 7:22 mark in the 4th quarter, when the game was over. That’s right: For the first 41 minutes of the game, the C’s committed three individual player turnovers. Wow. That includes a stretch from the 6:11 mark of the 2nd quarter until the 7:22 mark of the 4th in which the Celtics did not commit a single turnover of any kind. That’s 28:49 of turnover-free basketball.

This is the Celtics, right?

TURNOVERS, DEFENSE

• Boston’s defensive turnover rate, post-season: 16.3 percent (i.e. The C’s have forced turnovers on 16.3 of opponent possessions in the playoffs).

• League-high defensive turnover rate, regular season: 15.1 percent (Golden State).

And now, my favorite stat of the playoffs, the one that has me most optimistic as a Celtics fan…

DEFENSIVE REBOUNDING

• Boston’s defensive rebounding percentage, playoffs: 77.9 percent (2nd only to Miami, which played just 5 games).

• Boston’s defensive rebounding rate, regular season: 73.8 percent (T-12th)

• Top defensive rebounding rate, regular season: 77.4 percent (Orlando).

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