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 >>KA especially horrible today,but how about the reappearance of "Evil Paul" 
>>>afterpassing out of so many double teams on Friday.

  That's funny, because I thought Antoine played an especially horrible game 
and Anderson just played poorly as did Rodney Rogers.  I saw Pierce pass out 
of double teams all day.  He did have a team high five assists and should 
have had at least 3 more on passes that were fumbled around (one by Antoine 
right under the basket, one by Williams who got to the line and one by 
Rogers). He also created fast break opportunities twice on rebounds he outlet 
beautifully, and the Celtics blew them both.   Also only one of his three 
turnovers was caused by going into the defense.  Another was a questionable 
offensive foul call (since he had already gotten past his defender and was 
simply hitting the guys hand away as he tried to grab him) and the other was 
a shot clock violation that occurred when Anderson gave him the ball with 
three seconds on the shot clock even though he had a defender in his shorts.  
He had to try to make a move to create room and they claimed the shot clock 
went off before he got his shot up. 
  If anything I think Pierce probably tried to be too much of a team player, 
if that is possible.  I agree with Michael Gee.  We need him taking more than 
17 shots if we are going to win on most nights.  We also need to have a coach 
with enough sense to let him play with two fouls in the second quarter.  The 
game was tied up to that point.  It was all down hill from there.

  The defense is going to have to step it up in game two.  Robinson was open 
all day long.  Curry had a number of open looks.  Williams can not defend 
Stackhouse..that one was painful to watch.  Anderson beat Atkins repeatedly, 
but didn't seem to know what to do once he did.  The only guy doing any 
passing for the Celtics was Pierce.  One the other end the Pistons whipped 
the ball around like a hot potato until the Celtics defense simply gave up 
and the ball found it's way to an open man, usually Robinson with Antoine 
being the guy giving up.
   I also agree with everything that Bob George had to say.