Posts tagged ‘Chicago Bulls’

This was a throwback - all the way to 2007 - to November and December when the C’s were routinely blowing out the lower-echelon teams from the East (and a bunch of teams from the west too like the Nuggets and Lakers). The passing was crisp, the Bulls defense was pourous. I caught the first half with Mike and Tommy and 2nd half with ESPN. My favorite moment of the game TV-wise: on yet another transition opportunity, Dave Shulman exclaimed “nobody is covered! everyone is open!” and James Posey hit an open layup on a 4 on 4 unsettled situation. Drew Gooden was awful, got himself ejected and the Bulls played consistently awful defense on everyone. All five C’s starters had more than 10 points halfway thru the 3rd quarter and the post game of Perk, Powe and Davis dominated when it mattered…C’s had 30 free throws attempted in the first half (Bulls had 9)…only Rondo played more than 30 minutes for the starters… I could go on but don’t need to, it was a thrashing, even more than the final score indicated.

Celtics are now 12-0 at home on Fridays…Other Friday night home blowouts this year: Opening night 103-83 v. Washington, November 9th 106-83 v. Atlanta, November 23rd 106-93 v. Lakers (near blowout), December 7th 112-84 v. Toronto, December 14th 104-82 v. Milwaukee, December 21st 107-82 v. Chicago, January 18th 116-89 v. Phila (OK blowout was only in 4th quarter). Just 3 more Friday home games left in the regular season…they’re tough vs. Utah, New Orleans and then Milwaukee in April.

PJ Brown checked in with 1:24 left in the 3rd quarter and received a standing ovation with his first minute of playing time this season. He got his first bucket with 9:24 left in the fourth getting super position on Aaron Gray (remember when he was the Big East preseason player of the year last season?), throwing a pump fake and getting the bucket and foul for 3-point play. His final line: 6 minutes, 1-2FG, 3 pts, 6 rebounds (!), 2 offensive reb. 2 fouls, 1 steal.

This was the second game in a row for Boston where the opponent came into town late after playing the night before and both times the C’s ran them out of the building in the first few minutes. The Pistons are good and came back, the Bulls just slowly slipped further and further behind as their jump shots missed and missed.

No Sam Cassell tonight…maybe in Memphis…maybe not. Elsewhere in Boston basketball, solid 18-point win in the first round of the CAA conference tourney for Northeastern topping James Madison in the 6/11 game. The Huskies take on 3-seed George Mason tomorrow at 8:30 on CN8 (channel 3 go figure if you get it). Harvard not as lucky, lost to 2nd place Brown by 16.

Cheers!