ESPN Recap • Red 94 • The Dream Shake
Pace: 89 possessions (slow)
Offensive Efficiency: 105.6 points/100 possessions (below average)
Defensive Efficiency: 100 points allowed/100 possessions
Thumbnail: It felt a bit like 2008, as the Big Three combined for 60 points on 23-of-42 shooting and the C’s played one of their best defensive games of the season in a solid road win. The bench was solid, the energy was high and the C’s showed resiliency after Houston opened the 2nd half on an 11-2 run to tie the game. Rajon Rondo scored two points and the C’s still controlled the game. Paul Pierce scored 15 in the 4th to put the game away.
This was a good way to start a tough nine-game stretch.
Recap: Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. This was the first game of a brutal nine-game stretch. The C’s committed 28 fouls (their 6th-highest total of the season), allowed nine offensive rebounds in the 1st half and coughed the ball up three times in the early part of the 3rd quarter to help Houston get back in the game.
But this looked like the team that started the season 23-5. I rarely comment on whether the team looks energized or lazy; I don’t trust myself, watching from the couch, to make that sort of judgement in most games. It seems too likely that I’ll allow how the game goes to color my judgement about the team’s effort. But tonight I’ll make an exception. » More: A Team I Recognize: C’s 94, Rockets 87
Nate Robinson: Boorish Clown or Righteously Angry?
March 18th, 2010You decide (via the NY Daily News, who put the story of my beloved Sandra Bullock’s cheating husband on the front page this morning. I told you, Sandra! If it weren’t for the restraining order, you’d realize that what we both has been right in front of us all along!):
Nate Robinson rose from his seat on the Celtics bench, looked at Mike D’Antoni and began clapping.
Lil’ Him wasn’t honoring his former coach Wednesday night as much as he was taunting him. With Boston building a 27-point third-quarter lead over the Knicks, Robinson twice made it a point to show that he was enjoying D’Antoni’s misery.
First of all, I hate the nickname Lil’ Him or L’il Him or, really, Lil’ anything. Second, I’m not totally anti-Nate here. In general, it drives me crazy when fringe NBA players carry on about meaningless accomplishments, and scoring 8 points in a blowout win against a horrible team fits the definition of “meaningless.”
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