Doc hits the panic button and it looks like Delonte's red dome

[Alex Goldblatt]

Ryan,

I'll have to disagree - moving West to play the starting point will finally
give this team a chance to get back from the lineup mistakes he's made by
putting Bassy in his spot. Check West's stat line the last season,
and remember how good he was running the point on both sides of the court.
I, for one, getting really sick by watching Bassy screwing the D rotation
night in and night out. He brings absolutely nothing to uptempo, he
actually leaves no chance for this team to run because we cannot get any
stops with him guarding anyone.

I think that would be the first positive move we've seen this season from
Doc - maybe he's got some brain after all....


On 12/6/06, Ryan W <ubiquitous_am_i at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> According to the crack staff at the Globe:
> (http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/extras/celtics_blog/)
> Doc might be starting Delonte at the point on
> Wednesday.  Bad move, Doc.  II don't see what this
> accomplishes, other than messing with the psyche of
> Sebastian.  Does Doc even watch the games anymore?
> Delonte has been horrible all season--I take that
> back, he had one good game, but the rest of the season
> has been crap.  Last game he was 0-1 with 4 turnovers.
> He must be really tearing it up in practice (sorry, I
> had to say it).  Doc will undoubtedly justify it by
> saying that he wanted more defense, but there are
> worse defenders and/or matchups in the starting lineup
> than Sebastian (Wally struggles all the time on
> defense, even when his butt muscle and/or ankle is 100
> percent, and Gomes has matchup issues with about half
> the power forwards out there) and he shouldn't be
> scapegoated like this.  Yes, his defense can improve
> and hopefully this motivates him to play more
> consistently (he has the ability, but he doesn't
> always use it, kinda like Pierce on defense), but when
> was the last time Doc sucessfully motivated anybody?
> I can't remember it happening...all he seems to do is
> make players worse the longer they are subjected to
> his coaching.  We'll see; this is all just conjecture
> on the Globe's part, so it might not be anything.
>
> Ryan
>
>
>
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