Another loss to a bad team

[John Lyell]

According to Cecil, you can't blame Doc Rivers for not calling any plays to get Jefferson the ball, or for benching Green for Tony Allen. It must be some higher level conspiracy. Reality is we have some young kids that we need to know if they are keepers in a year or two, so why not give them the playing time to see what we do have so we find out if they are closer to Joe Johnson or Chauncy Billups than Kedrick Brown, Forte, Moiso, etc.? Going with more veteran players isn't going to make more than a few game difference. We can make excuses that players were out, but look at the Grizzlies lineup and tell me who should have won?  Pierce's 9 to's didn't help.
   
  The only reason I can see playing the likes of Allen, Telfair or Scalabrine is to try to get somebody interested. If they can't get playing time on this team, why would others want them?
   
  Could Dwayne Jones, moved for someone we then released, have helped us?
   
   
   
   
   
  

"Berry, Mark S" <berrym at BATTELLE.ORG> wrote:
  The Al thing is outrageous. Apparently we weren't happy with him scoring
every time he touched it and putting their entire front line in foul
trouble in the first three minutes of the game.

Pierce was awful.

Gerald Green can play. He's still a clueless kid, but are we really
going to keep down this path as a 5-12 team while that kid rots on the
bench? Really? We're going to play Tony Allen instead?

How does Doc still have a job? How?

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: celtics-bounces at igtc.com [mailto:celtics-bounces at igtc.com] On
Behalf Of Steve Ouellette
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 6:28 AM
To: The Boston Celtics Mailing List
Subject: Re: Another loss to a bad team

Al didn't receive a single pass in the second half. The only time he
touched it was when he rebounded it. That was the most frustrating part
of another frustrating game.

And the final possession was again horrendous.

Steve O

---- Eric Albert wrote: 
> 
> >"Cecil Wright" wrote:
> >
> >Anyone not like the job Al Jefferson did tonight?
> 
> Well, yeah -- up to a point. That point was a few minutes
> into the game. By then, Al owned the Grizzlies: brilliant
> offensive moves that resulted in scores or fouls.
> 
> And that was basically it, from an offensive view,
> for the game. I think he took *one* more shot the
> rest of the game, a game in which he played 33 minutes.
> (He took five shots, total.) How can that be?
> 
> I saw that the Griz adjusted to deny Al the ball, and
> twice Al dropped passes, but still -- 5 shots in 33 minutes! 
> Don't the Celtics have any plays to get Al open? Against
> the Grizzlies??
> 
> I know Al got a dozen boards, but I continue to see him
> as a very soft rebounder. If no one's on him, or the ball
> falls cleanly into his hands, he'll grab it. If the ball's above
> his head, he taps it, and rarely controls the results. If
> someone else is fighting him, that someone else usually
> wins. Al just has below-average hands. They're not
> Blount-level hands, but they're way below Perk or Pierce.
> 
> If Al's going to be a potent weapon, he's going to need
> to do it on the offensive end. The Celtics should be looking
> for him to score 20 a night, if he's playing 30+ minutes.
> They need to find him a way to get him the ball in a place
> he's comfortable and in a way he can catch it. Al can do
> the rest.
> 
> -- Eric
> 
> _______________________________________________
> The Boston Celtics Mailing List
> celtics at igtc.com
> http://www.igtc.com/mailman/listinfo/celtics

_______________________________________________
The Boston Celtics Mailing List
celtics at igtc.com
http://www.igtc.com/mailman/listinfo/celtics

_______________________________________________
The Boston Celtics Mailing List
celtics at igtc.com
http://www.igtc.com/mailman/listinfo/celtics