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Should Bradley Stay A Starter Once Ray Returns?

Celtics Win Fifth Straight with Rondo Triple Double 

This picture is the straight truth. With a blowout 91-72 win over baby bron bron and the Heat, the Celtics have increased their Atlantic Division to once game. More importantly, they are sitting in the four seed right now and, if the playoffs started today, would not be facing Miami. Out of all this, the key player has to be Avery Bradley (honey-badger I like to call him). Now, I have had my doubts about Bradley, but seeing him play this consistant with the starters has changed my mind. I think, along with my roommate Richard "Bubba" Wilson, he should stay in the rotation when Ray returns. I have two main reasons for this.

1. When Ray has been playing, he is barely getting any touches. The defense knows it's going to go to him, they block him out, and then we get it to KG who has been on fire of late. I feel that honey badge (Bradley) has been on a tare with the starters. He seems to elevate his game when running the floor with Rondo (then again who doesn't). It seems a bit ridiculous to bench the best 3-pt shooter of all time when he returns, but that leads to my next point.

2. Imagine Ray playing with the bench. It's no secret the C's don't have the best bench in the league. However, they have been playing strong on this win streak. Without Pietrus, Allen would give the bench that much need shooter to spread the floor. Even if he is just a distraction, the other team's benches would have to cover him tight, which would leave the other four Celtic players open. If they do not cover Ray...well we all know what can happen. I think that Ray would get more looks/open looks coming off the bench. Also, why screw with something that is clearly working right now. We need all the momentum we can get. Heck Ray is even okay with being bumped down:

“If it makes us better offensively, I have no problem with it,” Allen said (redsarmy.com)

So all-in-all, I do feel that the Celtics have a good chance to hold this Atlantic lead and stay at the four seed. No matter what seed, I do feel that the Celtics are getting hot at the right time. If I were Miami and Chicago, I would hope the Celtics don't drop back down to 7th or 8th either.

HONEY BADGE 2012  

Paul Pierce Second All-Time in Scoring

          21, 797. 21, 291. To an average person, these numbers may seem meaningless. To a Celtics fan, these numbers represent greatness. Paul Pierce passed Larry Bird on Tuesday night to become the second highest scorer in Celtics history; behind only to the great John Havlicek who has 26,395 points. 

          Pierce went into last nights game only needing ten points to pass Larry. He finished with 15 but did not break the record until he hit a three early in the second half with 10:23 remaining. Pierce said after the game that it was on his mind. "I'm not going to lie, it was hanging over my head too much." This may be the reason for him only scoring only 15 points all game, but now he says he just wants get on with basketball and try to bring a title back to Boston. "Then Coach (Doc Rivers) said, 'Hurry up and get it out of the way.' It was a relief once I hit that one 3, so I could really concentrate and focus on the game." 
          The game itself was a bit shaky and the Celtics were not able to pull away until late in the third quarter. Most would slay sloppy play, but it seemed that the team was just forcing the issue to Pierce to get past this record thing. 
          When a player is close to breaking a record, no matter how many times they say that it's not on their minds, it is. Pierce has been lights out for the last few weeks, and him struggling in the points category last night only shows more that records do matter to all players. Basketball is a difficult game, but throughout his career, the Truth has made it look like another day in the park in Inglewood Calif. In few years, Pierce's number 34 will be right below 00.

WOW!

     

      The Celtics come up with a big win tonight 91-89 against the New York Knicks with the return of Rajon Rondo from his wrist injury! I honestly didn't watch most of the game because I was stuck at work, but I was able to catch the end of the 4th quarter. The three by Paul Pierce that eventually was not counted, in my opinion was good, but also gave the Celtics motivation to make that stop on defense. Next, Paul Pierce got fouled in the corner and made 1 of his two free throws giving the C's a 2 two point lead. Then, the Celtics made another big defensive stop, lead by Pietrus in the corner, and the Knicks prayer three at the buzzer would not go.
       Now, let's skip right to the last possession for the Knicks. They were only down by two and resorted for a three in the corner. How did this happen? It's called good defensie pressure from the green team. Melo had his isolation but could not get a shot off. They were then forced to swing the ball around to a desperation three. The miss was tapped around and eventually swatted away to the other side of the court by KG to expire the time off the clock and secure the win. The Celtics are now 12-10 on the season.

Stats: Courtesy of Yahoo! Sports

Points-Rebounds-Assists

Rondo: 7-7-5
Allen: 14-2-5
Pierce: 30-5-7

And the C's are Back to .500

        So any one still want to blow the team up now? I'm not saying it's completely out of the question, but right now I think things need to be left the way the are. With the win against Indiana last night, that is the Celtics 4th straight win, and three were against teams in the top of the conference. The comeback against Orlando was one of the greatest Celtics comebacks I've seen. Along with the '02 playoffs and the '08 finals. The reason for the come back....Paul Pierce. Ice water travels through his veins and he is back to the "truth" form. So I ask this.....does anyone still want to blow it up and trade Paul? I'd say NO!

Quick Video Perk Montage From Game

Here is the tribute video they played for Perk. And I must say, being there in person was something I will never forget. Thank You Perk!

Pierce leaving?

Reports by Yahoo Sports Adrian Wojnarowski show that a few title contenders have contacted Danny Ainge about the availability of Paul Pierce.
 
   Like the rest of you fans, I truly hope this is just rumors. I personally believe that Pierce isn't going anywhere, but it's still something to keep an eye on. For updates on the situation follow me on twitter @Jscal18 and Adrian @WojYahooNBA.