Posts tagged ‘Memphis Grizzlies’

It’s getting to the point where some teams just don’t try and I’m getting sick of it. After watching the Celtics grit it out on defense pretty much every night as well as playing team basketball on offense with passing and little 1-on-1 isolation, I’m greedy for good games. The Pistons do it, the Magic do it, the 76ers do it, a few others in the East and most in the West play real games, but Chicago and Memphis certainly didn’t this past weekend. All it took was one quarter (and really about 8 minutes, getting to 25 points before the clock hit 3:00 left in the first qtr.) to show Memphis wasn’t playing defense and the game would not be close. A few notes that struck me when I actually watched the game (Northeastern’s do-or-die game against George Mason in the CAA semis distracted me, they died by the way, Huskies season over in a game that NU trailed by 7 for about 10 of the last 15 minutes, got within 5 once, never closer)

* Ray Allen can still make a wide open 3 and when teams like the Grizz or Bulls don’t play 5-man defense, he gets plenty of open looks which leads to a 9-13 (5-8 3’s) shooting performance Saturday.

* Rondo got 9 assists in 19 minutes, at that rate he could easily get to the insane 20 and 19 assist numbers that Deron Williams is putting up in Utah.

* All the starters averaged right around 25 minutes per game this weekend and averaged +25 on the +/-. That’s gaining a point a minute! That’s a 48 point win on average. Wow - this was practically a weekend off which is good with a Monday tilt with Philly on tap.

* One more note: Chris and I will have our next show Monday afternoon wrapping these up and previewing the 76ers and Seattle “celticscast special” game Wednesday night. We’ve been busy this weekend preparing for our brand new show on 1510 the Zone from 9-10 AM this upcoming week. Tune in and listen if you can.