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FIBA Watch: Durant leads way against Croatia

August 28th, 2010

Rajon Rondo may no longer be with the squad, but that doesn’t mean CelticsHub won’t be keeping an eye on Team USA as they try to bring home their first World Championship since 1994. The National “B” Team opened up in pool play this afternoon against Croatia on the slow side, only leading by two after the first frame.

Luckily, Coach K’s squad used their defense and athleticism to break things wide open in the second period, holding Croatia to just 6 points, while opening up a 22 point halftime lead they never looked back from on their way to a 106-78 victory.

Kevin Durant led the scoring with 14 points, but it was a couple NBA sophomore stars that stole the show with Eric Gordon (13 points) and Kevin Love  (10 rebounds) serving as terrific sparkplugs off the bench in the balanced effort.

Everyone on the team scored at least 4 points, and 9 of the team’s 12 players made a 3, as Coach K put a premium on shooting by going with a small lineup with 3 guards (Rose, Curry, Billups) to start. I am curious to see if they will stick with this lineup heading into tomorrow’s game against Slovenia (9:30 a.m. ESPN2)

In honor of the win against Croatia, naturally we had to bust out some highlights from the greatest Croatian Celtic of all-time, the one and only Dino Radja. Incredibly, someone made a mix tape on Youtube, combining both Dino Radja and Eric Montross highlights, which will make any 90′s Celtics fans weekends.Enjoy the goodness.

A look at how the C’s newest European import Semi Erden fared in his FIBA debut, after the jump » More: FIBA Watch: Durant leads way against Croatia

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I Want to Party Like It’s 2001

August 6th, 2010

On the morning after A. Sherrod Blakely broke the news that Shaquille O’Neal signed with the Celtics, I was listening to 98.5 The Sports Hub morning show, Toucher and Rich, on my way to work.  While sifting through Fred Toucher’s endless complaints about taxes and government and Bret Favre and whatever else is sticking in his craw at that moment, I caught an interesting rhetorical question: Can you imagine if this was 2001?

If you’re a “what if” guy and a Celtics fan like I am, then you love this question.  What if this were 2001 and the same cast of characters were on this Celtics squad.  Fred Toucher posed this question to no one in particular so I pretended it was posed to me and decided to find out what this Celtics team would look like if the year was 2001.

I initially wanted to use the same extrapolative math John Hollinger used to estimate how many games this new-look Miami Heat team would win this season but unfortunately he didn’t explicitly state how he arrived at his conclusions.  I am not a math guy- hell, I’m not even a stats guy- so I decided to simply look at every one’s player efficiency ratings and draw meaningless, and probably merit-less, conclusions.

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Watch Ron Artest Pull Paul Pierce’s Shorts Down

May 31st, 2010

Major hat tip to Chris Forsberg at ESPNBoston.com, who has a piece on the history between Paul Pierce on Ron Artest. I forgotten Artest had done this to Pierce back when Artest played for Indiana. Make sure to watch the full clip, which ends with Artest’s apology to Pierce, in song form. 

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The Ghost of Dino Radja in Antawn Jamison

February 20th, 2010

I was reading Cavs The Blog today to find out how the Bobcats managed to wallop Cleveland by 17 points on Friday, and if Antawn Jamison looked as bad as his stat line (0-of-12 from the field, few other positive stats). 

Much to my surprise, I found this excerpt in John Krolik’s recap of the game:

A player going 0-12 or worse from the field and making two or less free throws has only happened seven other times since 86-87…Jamison also only had one assist. When you add that to the previous criteria, only four games qualify. The only players to go 0-12 or worse, make two free throws or less, and record zero assists in a game are Zach Randolph and Dino Radja.

If there’s anything guaranteed to perk me up and get “Blind Melon” songs into my head, it’s a mention of Dino Radja, whom my girlfriend, of course, failed to notice when they crossed paths in Croatia last summer. 

Obviously, I had to look up the box score to the classic Radja Fail game in question, a 99-85 loss to the Spurs in December ’93. The C’s would finish the ’93-94 season 32-50, the first time the team finished under. 500 since Larry Bird came into the league. That season began a streak of eight straight below .500 seasons that didn’t end until 2002, when the Pierce/Walker C’s made their memorable run to the Eastern Conference Finals. 

The full box score, and a hefty does of nostalgia, after the jump. » More: The Ghost of Dino Radja in Antawn Jamison

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Did You Know: Everything’s Bigger in Texas!

February 15th, 2010

• Stephen Hawkins, AP: “Not only bigger in Texas. The biggest.” 

• Sam Amick, Sacramento Bee: “Everything about the event was grand, with the locals boasting that they had lived up to their motto that everything is bigger in Texas.” 

• Julian Benbow, Boston Globe: Everything’s bigger in Texas, but this was ridiculous – the scoreboard at Cowboys Stadium made the basketball court look like a sandbox.

• Eddie Sefko, Dallas Morning News: You have to give credit to Jerry Jones. He saw an opportunity to be different with the huge video board and it captured the fancy of fans, who truly embrace the idea of everything being bigger in Texas.

• Bethlehem Shoals, Fanhouse: Everything’s bigger in Texas, and this Caron Butler swap is no exception.

• Dirk Nowitzki, pre-game welcome to fans: “Everything is bigger in Texas.”

• John Hollinger, TrueHoop: Since everything’s bigger in Texas, as Dirk Nowitzki reminded the crowd before the start of the biggest All-Star Game ever, let’s focus on another thing that became even bigger as a result of tonight: The idea of Dwyane Wade and LeBron James playing together in Miami next season. 

• AP, two days before the game: When it comes to the NBA All-Star Game, everything is bigger in Texas.

• Bob Cooney, Philadelphia Daily News: They really do do things bigger in Texas. And Sunday night at the NBA All-Star Game, the players noticed. » More: Did You Know: Everything’s Bigger in Texas!

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