Posts tagged ‘PJ Brown’

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!

The Sunday Globe reports that PJ Brown might sneak into the game today against the Hawks just four days after starting practicing with the Celtics and admitting the other day he wasn’t quite ready (in NBA shape). Tony Allen is also likely to play after missing the last couple of games with a strained right calf.

It’s been a while since the Hawks matched up with the C’s (not since the fourth game of the season in fact). If you don’t remember, Atlanta played a very good first quarter and had the lead in the Garden before the Celts really ratcheted things up in the 2nd and led in double digits for most of the game after. Obviously, Atlanta looks a bit different after dealing out Tyronn Lue, Shelden Williams (boo Duke), Lorenzen Wright, Anthony Johnson and a draft pick. We may not see former Texas A&M star Acie Law tonight either - he’s been battling a wrist injury and didn’t play in the Hawks unimpressive win over the Knicks the other night.

In today’s episode of Celticscast…

The Starting 5

• C’s down Cavs in return back to Boston
• LeBron makes history but doesn’t light it up
• PJ Brown’s a Celtic
• When will Sam Cassell be? ever?
• Celtics hammer the Clippers to finish west coast swing

Plus…

• Send us your thoughts at hosts@celticscast.com. We don’t avoid any emails here so you can get your voice heard.
• What if the Celtics played in the West? How good would they be?
• Yao Ming’s done - we include our two cents.

And…

• Wayne Soares of The Sportsfan joins us to talk some basketball. Check out the show March 8th and every Saturday after at 11PM on TV38. And if you’re out - make the guy at the bar switch the station.

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Here’s a name we’ve discussed for months now as being a possible help inside - well he’s finally signed with the Celtics. The official news is here. Brown has been extremely reliable during his 14 year career so far, averaging 76.5 games over those years - he’s also played in 80 playoff games. The scouting report: good interior defender and rebounder, plus he’s 6′11″ (immediately jumping to the point where he can see the top of everybody’s head on the team except KG and Pollard who are also 6′11″).

What this means: I would think no Pollard and probably a bit less of Powe and Davis depending on how Doc is feeling on that particular day. Brown hasn’t played for anybody yet this year so he’ll probably be at least a week away from game time and maybe more.

We’ll have a new show tomorrow to break down the Cavs contest (and Clips too) and talk about this new addition.

Cheers