Boston Celtics '07-'08 Banner 17 Thread

[EPiPeN11]

I love this team on paper but our biggest problem as any true Celtic fan knows is Doc Rivers.

Will Doc run our big 3 into the ground by playing them heavy minutes? Most likely

Will Doc do some stupid subs at the end of the game such as going small and putting Pierce at PF on DEFENSE? Most likely

Will Doc win coach of the year even though anyone with half a brain knows he is one of, if not the worst coach in the entire NBA? Most likely as I puke of the thought

Will Doc cost us our shot at a championship this year? I hate to say it, but most likely.

[censored] Doc Rivers I hate you.

EDIT: There are a ton of other thing's Doc will do to screw up this team, I am just too lazy to list them all.

[XXXNoahXXX]

WHAT THE [censored] CELTICS I HATE YOU.


MISSED OUT ON PRESALE BECAUSE I WAS IN INTERVIEWS.


THEN I SEE THAT THE $10 BROOKS FAMILY SECTION LIMITS YOU TO TWO TICKETS.

The whole feckin point is that the tickets are inexpensive enough that you can bring the family. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Aces McGee]

Sounds to me like they're on to you, Noah.

-McGee

[tuq]

Thread title is busted. I have PMed Matt to fix.

[Kneel B4 Zod]

just bought $10 Brooks seats baby! 2 games. 1st Celts tickets I have bought in many years.

[Toro]

I'm not as worried about Doc's coaching as much as some of you. The NBA is a player's league. With a veteran team, Doc just needs to let the guys play and not do too much, ala KC Jones during the Bird Era.

[Aces McGee]

It's true that there are far fewer ways for Doc to mess up this year. He's going to be forced into a shorter rotation, which means guys like Rondo are going to get the minutes they deserve.

I still don't think he can x-and-o at all, though, and I hate how any fourth quarter where we have a lead turns into us standing around watching Pierce try not to dribble off his knee.

That's what seems to happen whenever they play Washington, anyway, which comprise most of the games I've seen over the last few years.

-McGee

[kidcolin]

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I'm not as worried about Doc's coaching as much as some of you. The NBA is a player's league. With a veteran team, Doc just needs to let the guys play and not do too much, ala KC Jones during the Bird Era.

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Minutes are a huge deal, and that's Doc's biggest problem. Even with the shortened roster, he'll probably go overboard and have KGPPRA play a combined 120+ a night, when it should really be somewhere in the 100-110 range. He'll play Scal too much, Powe and Pollard not enough (he's my sleeper pickup of the year. He's been a very productive player in his career and fits perfectly for the back up roll). He'll play around with PG position for about the entire season, rotating between Rondo, Ray Ray, TA, and Scalabrine.

He'll be too hard on Perk, benching him too quickly for mental lapses and to compound mistakes, shift KG over to the 5.

Even with KG on his roster, one of the best defenders in the league, he'll still manage to screw up defending the pick and roll (making it 4 straight years of complete ineptitude in this regard).

He'll be really great with the media so he won't get skewered too much by the Boston press, and when a few people speak out against him, they'll rally behind him and defend him in print.

[ThaSaltCracka]

haha, you Celts fans are great.

[johnnylovescandy]

Celtics should improve this year, but that's not saying much after the last two seasons. Truth is they have no more depth than the Nets right now, so why all the excitement? I'll still take LeBron and the Cavs over this thin roster any day. ..