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Paul Pierce’s Contract: Dispelling The Myths and Stating The Facts

The first domino to fall this offseason is Paul Pierce’s contract. Until Danny Ainge figures out what he’s doing there, little else matters. As we wait for this decision, we also must face the rest of the offseason, which means it is also rumor season. With that time of year, comes plenty of information floating [...]

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10 days ago

Final Grade: Avery Bradley (C+)

In his third year in the league, in which promising players often make brash leaps from benchwarmer to starter, from starter to star, Avery Bradley took a big step back. But his regression might be deceptive. When he returned to the Celtics’ lineup on January the 2nd after two in-season months recovering from offseason shoulder [...]

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11 days ago

Danny Ainge Expects Doc Rivers & Kevin Garnett To Return, Unsure About Paul Pierce

A long, challenging offseason awaits Danny Ainge this summer. Before he dives in head first, he joined Salk and Holley on WEEI-FM 93.7 to discuss the multitude of decisions facing him this offseason, as well as the progress of Rajon Rondo in his rehab from ACL surgery. A few of the notable highlights from the interview. Ainge [...]

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11 days ago

Suns Hire Away Celtics’ Assistant GM Ryan McDonough

In one way or another, there will be change this offseason in Boston. That process started in the past couple days, with the first piece moving out coming as a name most C’s fans might not be familiar with. Yet, it was Celtics’ assistant general manager Ryan McDonough, one of Danny Ainge’s top lieutenants, who [...]

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12 days ago

Doc Rivers Finishes 13th in Coach of the Year Voting

It was a tough season for the Boston Celtics, and that includes for head coach Doc Rivers. The long-time coach battled to find the right fit for a lot of new pieces that were both underperforming and/or failed to pick up his schemes on both ends of the floor. Naturally, an unfortunate plethora of injuries [...]

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13 days ago

Overconfident Answers To Offseason Questions (Part 1)

It seems like every offseason since 2010 we’ve been through this: a myriad of questions and concerns about the Celtics’ roster that usually involve the possibility of the core of the team being dismantled. As we head into the summer of 2013, we’ve got a whole batch of questions, many of which will be familiar.  [...]

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Record-Breaking Domination: Celtics 113, Knicks 96

ESPN Box Score • Knickerblogger • Posting And Toasting

This was the kind of game Celtics fans were expecting all along.  The Knicks took a few punches early on and then didn’t feel the need to play defense with the same fervor they did in Games 1 and 2.  Perhaps the Knicks enjoyed feeding off the Boston crowd.  Maybe they figured the first playoff game in Madison Square Garden in 10 years would have been enough to get them going.

Not the case.

The Knicks didn’t break double digits until 2:47 left in the first quarter.  Considering the Knicks only chance to beat the Celtics rests on the the prospect of out-scoring them, you can call the first quarter a bad omen for the Knickerbockers.

The Knicks defense was so bad tonight, Paul Pierce looked like he was playing against New Jersey circa 2002.  Just look at Pierce’s shot chart:

It makes you wonder how many points Pierce could have averaged with Rajon Rondo feeding him the ball in his prime (his prime prime).  Speaking of Rondo, he had 20 assists tonight, a Celtics playoff record (assuming I heard the telecast correctly.  I’ll look it up tomorrow). The Celtics just dominated the perimeter tonight.  They Celtics’ backcourt played so well, their big men and bench didn’t even need to show up.  Just look at the box score for the starters:

All astronomical +/- numbers.  And now look at the bench:

Still really struggling.  Alas.

Enjoy this one Celtics fans.  Games like this don’t come around too often.  For the playoffs, they are pretty much the equivalent of seeing a Unicorn or Bigfoot in the wild (as opposed to domesticated unicorns and bigfoots, which are very prevalent).

Mike will be around later with more analysis, for now: CELEBRATION.

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