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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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Celtics’ Offense in Hibernation: Grizzlies 90, Celtics 87

ESPN Recap • 3 S.O.B.  • Straight Outta Vancouver

Doc Rivers may have said in his post game presser that the Rajon Rondo half floater/half runner with 20 seconds left to go in the game was a good shot, or more appropriately “one of his shots”, but he is wrong.  That was not a good shot; especially in that situation.  Down one point, the Celtics would have been better off holding for one final heave than trying to bank a shot from 10 feet.

Speaking of final heave, the last three point attempt by Paul Pierce wasn’t exactly that much better.  A lack of offensive execution would be the theme of the entire night.  The Celtics were given a ton of breaks in this one by both the officials (4 more free throw attempts than the Grizzlies, which would have been 8 had the Celtics not had to foul Marc Gasol and Mike Conley in the final minute) and the Grizzlies themselves.  The Grizzlies played great one-on-one defense tonight but their wing players were often lost in rotations leaving the Celtics wing players wide open with good shots.  Some of those shots didn’t get knocked down and the ones that did weren’t enough.

The Celtics were able to make the Grizzlies cough up the ball three times in the final four minutes and also baited Tony Allen into airballing a three point attempt.  Still, none of these gifts were capitalized on as the Celtics squandered an opporuntity to stayed tied with Chicago for the top spot in the East.  With Miami winning tonight, the Celtics can ill-afford to lose games against inferior opponents.  Either rest the starters or win the game.  Don’t do neither.

Brian will be back with a more in depth analysis later.  To bad you have to chew on this frustration until then.

~Brendan Jackson

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