Game 3

[Ryan W]

I thought there should have been at least one illegal
defense called on the Cavs last night.  Delonte was
cheating off Rondo and, at least by my count, was
illegal during about 20 possessions.  Maybe I count to
three too fast.

I thought it was also terrible how Delonte and Wally
were getting touch fouls and Rondo and Ray and Paul
couldn't get anything called when they drove to the
basket.  Rondo in particular was bodied all night
long.  Ever since the first quarter of game 1, the
Cavs have been bumping him on the pick and roll and it
hasn't been called once.

As for LeBron, I've pretty much resigned myself to the
fact that he's going to get pretty much every call.  I
really didn't know how great of an actor he was.  He
has a bunch of commercials and I can see they've been
paying off.  He actually looks like he's getting hurt
out there, when in reality he's just hamming it up to
get a call or a flagrant or whatever.  

I also thought alot of the Cav's offensive rebounds
were borderline over-the-backs or pushes that didn't
get called.  Especially in the first quarter, those
2nd chance points really hurt us.

Ryan
--- asterix ninetynine <asterix_9_9 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The team did not do a good job reacting to
> Cleveland's home cooking either.  They seem to lose
> their aggresiveness on the road when they get hit
> with a lot of early fouls.  
> I'm not complaining about the referees (although the
> fact that the C's shot TWO free throws in the first
> half does raise eyebrows) because I think we get the
> benefit of the doubt on a lot of calls at the
> Garden.  It's the team reacts that is key, and last
> night we just seemed to crawl into a shell. 
> Cleveland got away with a lot of fouls and they
> traveled pretty blatantly, but that's what you get
> at home.  The Celtics were in a hole pretty quickly,
> one that not many teams dig themselves out of.
> Cleveland fans are great and very passionate. The
> Cavaliers feed off that energy so the good guys need
> to take the crowd out of the game. 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Ryan W <ubiquitous_am_i at yahoo.com>
> To: The Boston Celtics Mailing List
> <celtics at igtc.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 11:52:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Game 3
> 
> I agree.  And he was important to the spirit and
> swagger of this team, two things we haven't been
> bringing on the road.
> 
> Ryan
> --- Eric Albert <Eric at ericalbert.net> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > >Ryan W <ubiquitous_am_i at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >I'm not going to suggest too many changes for
> Game
> > 4
> > >because I think we're winning it but I wouldn't
> > mind
> > >seeing Big Baby out there.
> > 
> > Who I'd like to see is Eddie House. The Cassell
> > experiment
> > has not impressed me at all. I know he's hit some
> > big shots
> > (though mostly in meaningless games), but he's
> also
> > missed a huge number of shots -- I expect Eddie
> > would
> > have hit more, if he'd taken the same number.
> > 
> > And Eddie does a *much* better job of running the
> > team. Tonight, when he finally got more than 20
> > seconds
> > in a row, he was hustling the ball up and,
> > especially,
> > *passing it up the floor*, something that Sam
> never
> > does.
> > 
> > The team that won most of those 66 games had Eddie
> > House playing regular minutes. I'd like to see him
> > get 
> > another shot.
> > 
> > -- Eric
> > 
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