Championship attributes

[Eric Albert]

>Michael Gooen <callmebogie at yahoo.com> wrote:
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><<Pierce is the one who will take it to the hoop, get hammered, take it to the hoop, get hammered>>
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>If getting hammered were what it took to win, why didn't the Cs win with Vin Baker?

Heh.

>After 22% of one season, this team seems worthy of mention in the same breath - and they have plenty of room to get better.  

Yup. (Though their defense is getting pretty impressive.) If Ray Allen were hitting the wide open shots he's getting, we'd be breaking NBA records right and left, and Rondo would be the league assist leader.

And speaking of championship attributes: how about the bench?! Posey (a great sixth man), House (I thought he wasn't supposed to play defense), a resurgent Tony Allen, and Big Baby make quite a quartet.

Not starters, but they each bring something, and, like the real starters, their strengths are in different areas, so they mesh well together. Throw in Scalabrine or Pollard and you've got a group that doesn't scare me. In fact, I think they can do some damage. Who'd have thunk it?

-- Eric