by Conor Levis
Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while. I've been in mourning since my beloved Boston Celtics were bounced from the playoffs on Sunday. Now that I've had two full days to grieve, I think I can finally move on and start looking to next season. Besides, I'm proud of what the Celtics accomplished this season. It was a gutty title defense. They overcame adversity, played hard and fought till the end. It's all you can really ask for as a fan. The team relished being the champs and played with a ton of heart all season long. They took the number 3 seed in the East to 7 games without two of their top six players...one who happened to be the leader. Brian Scalabrine was a major contributor. If you told me that 2 months ago I would have said you were crazy. It's hard to be mad when you consider all of these things. They are a group that Celtics fans will remember for a long time.
I was more disappointed with how the game could have been won, pointing the finger at Rajon Rondo in particular. I don't know why but since the Bulls series it seemed like his head got big and he adopted this shoot first mentatlity instead of being the playmaker we needed him to be. We lost Game 6 because Rondo took 19 shots and 4 three's. That's not what we need from our PG. In Game 7 and most of the series, he refused to play defense which created all sorts of problems for the Celtics. He refused to fight through screens and instead chose to walk down toward the basket to get a cheap rebound. He constantly left his man open to double Dwight Howard and try for a cheap steal. This caused either his man to hit the open shot or for another Celtics defender to jump out on him, leaving another man open for the swing pass. That's why Anthony Johnson had a huge Game 3 and Rafer Alston destroyed Rondo in Game 7. Note to Rondo: WE DIDN'T NEED TO DOUBLE HOWARD! Perkins was handling him just fine. The only time Dwight Howard scored was when Celtics players, often Rondo, were getting beat off the dribble and Perk had to help, leaving Howard open. When Perk played him straight up, the only thing Howard could do was throw up the ugliest running hook shot in NBA History. D-Howard has ZERO post moves, he's not a threat offensively. Rashard Lewis and Hedo Turkoglu were the threats and were getting open looks all series long because of the breakdown in our defense. Eddie House had 0 shot attempts in Game 7 because Courtney Lee wouldn't allow him to get a look. Why couldn't our guys do this? Why couldn't our guys stay at home on the perimeter and contest the three point shot? It starts and ends with our PG, Rajon Rondo. I hope he got this phase out of his system and goes back to his unselfish ways.
There...that feels better. Now that I was able to vent, let's move on to the offseason!
But first one more thing to cheer up all my fellow Celtic fans................
Smiling? Thought so.
What's Ahead?
The Celtics have an interesting offseason ahead of them. "Big Baby" Glen Davis, Leon Powe, Stephon Marbury, and Mikki Moore are all free agents. Realistically only two of these players will be coming back. It might be hard to bring Baby unfortunately. After his play this season and especially this postseason after Garnett went down, I imagine he's going to be a hot commodity on the market. The Celtics will not overpay for him...so if another team comes along and gives him an offer he can't refuse, he'll be gone. My prediction is that Powe is resigned for multiple years and Marbury will be back if he accepts another mid level contract. No matter what, we need a better offseason than this past one. Losing James Posey was big, but so was signing Patrick O' Bryant and Tony Allen and passing on Chris Anderson aka "Birdman" who is doing for Denver exactly what the Celtics needed this postseason. Speaking of Tony Allen....
500 Ways to Trade Tony Allen
Starting this week, we're going to begin a new segment called "500 Ways to Trade Tony Allen This Offseason". From now on, every blog we post this offseason will include a new way to get Tony Allen off of our team. He's useless, he's the most unintelligent player in NBA History, and I want him gone! Feel free to send us some of your own proposals and we might include them in the blog.
There's an 88% chance this play resulted in a turnover
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