Early Garnett foul problem made this a close one

[Kim Malo]

At 09:33 AM 1/6/2008, dforant1 wrote:
> >From Yahoo Sports: When Garnett was in the game, Boston outscored 
> Detroit by 23. When the superstar was on the bench, the Pistons 
> outscored the Celtics by 16.
>
>Pierce the team Horse played 46min and had plenty left at the end. 
>Can't say enough about the conditioning of the Celts.

You know what, that's a legit point, although in fairness to Pierce I 
think he gets most of the credit for his own conditioning. Other than 
last year after the injury, he's always come into camp in fabulous 
shape and stayed that way. And other players get some of their own 
credit too, because you can tell and guide them but they still have 
to be the ones to do (something I think Big Baby is still learning, 
although he's in better shape than he was) but you look at things 
from the sculpting of Perk's body and increased quickness and 
building up of Al's surprisingly non muscular body when he was here 
to the fact that you're right, we rarely see Celtics players clearly 
run out of gas and that's a fair point.

>Billups played down the loss as just another season game. He's 
>wrong, it's huge. We now have a decent rotation and 2nd squad whose 
>point guard could be several different players because of Rondo's 
>lack of leadership at times.

Did he turn you down when you asked him for a date or something? Just curious.

Kim