Posts tagged ‘Ray Allen’

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.

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I’ll take the heat for one of these…I was wrong about Bruce Bowen’s suspension.  Clearly, as you all saw, he was not suspended for last night’s game, instead it was the Detroit game on Friday.  That game snapped his 500 game streak for consecutive games played.  At least he ended on a nice round number.  Tayshaun Prince is the new active “iron-man” at 339 straight games played…in case you were curious.

As for the other misstep, it was downplaying Ray Allen’s injury.  Andrew and I both agree this may be a case of Doc being extra cautious, but he was “50/50″ for last night, didn’t play, and now it seems will not play tonight either.  Sans Allen, the C’s take on the Rockets…should be a good one.  Stay tuned for daily updates to Celticscast.com and a new episode on Thursday.

Go C’s!

In today’s episode of Celticscast…

The Starting 5

• *C’s easiliy handle the Bucks to start roadtrip
• *They do it without Ray Allen because…
• *he hurt himself in the loss to the Jazz the night before
• *Deron Williams a star in the making tears up Celts
• *C’s clinch Atlantic Division to celebrate St. Patty’s Day

Plus…

• *We look at the next four games on the Texas Three-Step (plus New Orleans).
• *The Nuggets score 160+ points is just one of the hot-button issues Around the NBA
• *We look at our mailbag - shoot us an email at hosts@celticscast.com for anything you’d like to hear on the show or about the Celts/NBA/other topic.

And…

• *A special performance from the way-back machine of the Celtics Rap (if you can call it that). It’s after the second block of the show - you can’t miss this.

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In today’s episode of Celticscast…

The Starting 5

• A win over the Bulls
• A very similar win over the Grizzlies
• 20K for KG
• 18K for Ray Allen
• No PJ…and very little Sam

Plus…

• Send us your thoughts at hosts@celticscast.com. The E-mail box has been rather empty lately.
• Houston’s taking off and could have a huge win streak heading into a game with the C’s
• San Antonio has some questionable hirings

And…

• Jon Cheifet of the upcoming Sixerscast joins us to chat about tonight’s match-up and a possible 1st round play-off tilt

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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.

Doc Rivers (mp3)

Kevin Garnett (mp3)

Paul Pierce (mp3)

Ray Allen (mp3)

Well, in by far the most interesting thing to happen during tonight’s game, Greg Dickerson of Milford, MA fame just told us Ray Allen will make the trip to New Orleans. It’s his 8th All-Star appearance, and the Celtics shooter will replace Caron Butler of the Wizards.

As I’m writing this, the Knicks are on a big run to try to get back into this game, yet are still down by 13, wow are they awful. We’ll have the complete wrap up of this game, a look ahead to All-Star weekend, and a break down of the trade that’s sending Jason Kidd back to Dallas on our next episode that should be up on the site sometime tomorrow afternoon.