Posts tagged ‘college hoops’

I don’t know if I came up with the phrase of “Texas three-step” for the road the C’s just traveled (I sincerely doubt it) but I came up with it before this guy did. The Sporting News writer actually has positive things to say about the Celtics after they you know beat the Spurs, Rockets and Mavs on the road in four days…Remember this is the guy that challenged the C’s every step of the way (especially after that first loss to Detroit) saying they weren’t the best, etc, etc. Now he’s taking my terminology…

How’s your bracket? Mine’s alive but not necessarily doing well. Xavier winning was a boon to my cause - Duke losing too. Now if only Louisville, Kansas, Memphis and UCLA can win their regions and I think I’ll be in good shape…By the way, my Gus Johnson theory of upsets happening there busted completely. He wasn’t in Tampa - in fact all his games (Wash St., Notre Dame, Pittsburgh and Michigan State) weren’t close or upsets.

Let’s go C’s

In today’s episode of Celticscast…

The Starting 5

• *C’s end the Rockets 22 game win streak
• *Who was the hero: Pierce, Powe or KG?
• *Monday Night C’s Sneak Past Spurs
• *It Happened to be St. Patrick’s Day
• *Ray Allen and Tony Allen hurt

Plus…

• *We take a look at the bracket because…how can you not?.
• *We give you our top 10 upsets to look for from our brackets
• *The Heat look worse and worse every day

And…

• *We weigh in briefly on the KG/Glen Taylor episode as well as looking forward to the Mavs and Hornets games coming up.

All this and more just a click away on Celticscast! Remember to send us an email at hosts@celticscast.com to be a part of the show.

6 PM - that’s when Cassell should clear waivers and sign soonafter with the Celtics - maybe even in time to get him in town for the matchup with Detroit on Wednesday…Here’s a Globe recap of the affair. Interesting (and good) to see Rondo’s not holding any grudges for the slap he got from Cassell earlier in the year that got Sam kicked out of the game. What’s funny on youtube - the top video you get when you search for Cassell is a huge mistake in the ‘06 playoffs - the popular 8 second violation!

The Atlanta game last night just didn’t do it for me - maybe it was the 7 basketball games I had already watched that weekend with the crowd intensity of March (as Gus Johnson realized in the last seconds of the Georgetown/Marquette game “it’s the first day of March!”) or maybe it was that awkward 6 PM start time or maybe that the Celtics seemingly had control for most of the game but just couldn’t pull away…For me, March is definitely college hoops time - I just wish I could root for my teams (Syracuse, Holy Cross) once it started instead of hoping for some kind of crazy run just to make it.