Philly

[John Lyell]

They made the shots Iguodala and Holiday and even Speights scored on us. The late one where Brand blocked out Pierce was big. They got 3-4 extra FT's on some bogus calls that ended up being the difference. Losing Wallace early could have cost us the game




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From: Ryan W <ubiquitous_am_i at yahoo.com>
To: The Boston Celtics Mailing List <celtics at igtc.com>
Sent: Sat, December 19, 2009 11:56:48 AM
Subject: Re: Philly

--- On Sat, 12/19/09, Josh Ozersky <jozersky at optonline.net> wrote:
> From: Josh Ozersky <jozersky at optonline.net>
> Subject: Re: Philly
> To: "The Boston Celtics Mailing List" <celtics at igtc.com>
> Date: Saturday, December 19, 2009, 12:48 PM
> I turned it off midway through the
> second quarter.
> It was obvious that the Celtics had Philly beat. 

Which is exactly why we got beat--we got overconfident, the ball stuck, guys quit making cuts, and nobody was setting screens.  Way too much iso resulted, guys got flatfooted, and we let Philly stay in the game.  And, unfortunately for us, they made just enough plays down the stretch to get the win.  This loss has been brewing awhile--I haven't liked our ball movement for the last couple games.

> We
> just had them so totally outclassed. I wonder why
> Pierce didn't just put his head down in the fourth
> and put it out of reach. 
> Josh

He tried and missed.  Rondo and Ray had their moments in the 4th, and when it came time for Paul to make his move, he had about ZERO rhythm going for him.  Even then, his shot was online--it just hit back rim.  

We needed this loss, there's been a lot of slippage and a little overconfidence creeping into our performance the last couple games.  Losing this game makes winning the Christmas game against Orlando more likely, IMO.  And we need that game.

Ryan


      

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