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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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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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Starting With A Tough Slate

Posted by on Oct 29, 2010 2 comments

The C’s knew they would be challenged this season with Delonte West, one of their best performers in the second unit this preseason would be out of action for the first ten games. The bad news though? The schedule makers did not do the C’s any favors with the lineup they had the C’s facing. Julian Benbow of The Boston Globe covers just how challenging the lineup will be:

“When you read the list of teams we’re playing our first 10 games, it’s a brutal list,’’ Rivers said.

The lineup? It features matchups with Chicago, Milwaukee, a return date with Miami and road jaunts to Dallas, Oklahoma City and Memphis. The C’s will need to push themselves if they want to match their hot starts from their earlier seasons which has been their trademark:

“A 27-2 start the 08-09 season made it seem as though the Celtics were destined to defend their title. They ripped off 19 straight wins starting Nov. 14 and were 44-11 at the All-Star break. Then Kevin Garnett strained his knee in Utah in the first game after the break and the Celtics went 18-9 the rest of the way.

Last season, they shot out of the gates 23-5, and even though there were some warning signs (e.g. fourth-quarter collapses), the hot start let them get away with playing .500 ball the rest of the year as they navigated through a minefield of injuries on their way to the fourth seed in the East.

“We can’t dwell on what we’ve done in the past, getting off to good starts,’’ said Paul Pierce. “This is a new year, we’ve got new members on this team, and we have to help them understand that this is important for us down the road to get off to a good start, develop some confidence.’’

The good news about the schedule this year? If the C’s can get through this opening stretch they should be okay. There are no more long road trips (4 games tops it out) and the C’s have some quirky scheduling given them favorable home stretches (10 of 11 games at home in January) that teams like the Lakers had benefited from in past years.

So what can we expect out of this opening stretch? 7-3? 6-4? 8-2? The C’s have their work cut out for them no matter what it is.

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