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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 Win’s A Win: Celtics 104, Wizards 88

I need to check with Truth About It to see if this bit was retired after last season's locker room "incident"

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A night after getting completely outplayed by Derrick Rose, Rajon Rondo takes his frustration out on DRose 2.0*.  Make no mistake though, Rondo was more of a beneficiary of getting to play a terrible Wizards team than actually taking the game over.

A win is a win, which is great, but there are plenty of things not to like about tonight’s play.  The defense absolutely awful, which was probably why the Garden was the quietest I have witnessed in recent memory..  The Wizards shot 53% in the first half and finished the game shooting 45%.  It’s nice to see the defense tighten up in the second half but it’s disheartening to realize that the superior play in the second half was a direct result of the starters playing more and the bench playing less.  The Celtics starters played close to playoff minutes.  Paul Pierce and Rondo each played at least 40 minutes and Ray Allen played 37.  While it was refreshing to see the starters out on the court, you still want the bench to play up to their ability and you still want the starters’ minutes conserved for the playoffs.  It’s just not happening.

Like anytime you play a bad team, you cannot read too much into the outcome or the team’s overall play…but we’ll try tomorrow.  For now, just go out and enjoy the thought that the Celtics are halfway to a winning streak.

*Okay so maybe John Wall will become a similar player to Rose but he’s hardly in the same stratosphere right not.

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