Amir was Garnett's %%%%% tonight, but its good that hes getting these asswhoppings in the regular season to an all-time great.

Dyess really has no purpose out there against physical teams, at all.

About Rip being off, apparently JD wants him to be more aggressive. Even when he's solid ice.

I agree that Amir couldn't stop KG, but he only got the chance maybe 3 times? Once he stopped him, and the other two, no luck. KG scored just as easily on Dyess and Sheed. That is the real problem. We just didn't have an answer.

Ratliff is the only other option and we won't find out if he can do it until the ECF, if we are still around then.

I think the real problem here is that there are 2 types of basketball: regular bball and playoff bball. This was the latter. There was a lot of contact, a lot of tough calls, very aggressive play by our opponent on defense, etc. Certain things that we are used to getting, just get taken away. At that point, the coaches become true battlefield generals. Flip either did not, or could not make an adjustment to stop KG. This was the first time in a while where all of our bigs just looked overmatched.

However, as I said earlier, I still think that losing this game was important for our psyche. It puts a little doubt in the minds of our starting 5. We are not the favorites anymore and toward the end of the season, this is a game that will come up. Bos won the season series and the 3rd game was decisive.

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Remember at the beginning of the season when McDyess was shooting like 60%?

I miss that McDyess

Boston picked up PJ Brown and Ssam Cassell to ease their transtion to the finals basically against us and didn't even need them tonight. They didn't need Allen either although he played some defense vs Rip...including sendin him an early message the deck with an elbow the face/neck area.

Agree that our bigs got out 'bigged' tonight, but we had no offense from the bench to offset our defensive shortcomings. Last night I indicated we would need at least 95 points to win this game and that would have indeed done the trick, but only CB was aggressive enough to get in the neighborhood of the paint and get fouled. We fired up jumpers from all over the court and I don't think any of Antonio McUseless 7 shots were taken from within 20 ft of the hoop. Come on man get to the paint and get that % back up...or take yourself out and let the young boyz bang on the inside.

Rebounds are a little deceiving because the Pistons missed so many more shots. Also had an opportunity for more offensive boards but Boston won that 10-9. Its tough when the other team can go 4 on 5 offensivly and have 1 guy try and plant himself under the basket for the offensive board. We can't do that in our system.

5 total points from the bench last night. 5 points and only 2 assists. I liked the Stucky/Afflalo combo and it was working. I don't know why Flip wants to change that at this stage just because Dixon had a good game. Well, maybe he will go back to Afflalo now.

Fatigue was a factor in this game and it showed.

the best thing what players can do is move on, they lost but this is not the end of the world.

And it is not flip's fault that he has to play with players he has. Only sheed is a low post threat, but not every day.They are jumpshooting not because of flip but it is the best what available players can do.


did you notice that sheed was limping?

"Garnett scored 12 straight points on Johnson in the second quarter."

Caught in the clinch: Celtics lock up playoff spot, and tiebreaker

Im not worried about this loss its just a regular season game where we played the night before and the celtics were rested and waiting for us.I'll reserve judgement and jumping off a building till we lose to them in a 7 game series

We're within one point with a few minutes left and all we can do at that point is shoot 3 bombs and verrrrry long two pointers. Those were not the plays called by Flip. These starters for whatever reason did not want that victory. I'm going to assume that giving the game to Boston was their strategy all along. They actually do better in the playoffs when they don't have home court. Gotta wonder what Sheed's plan for the playoffs is.