Posts tagged ‘San Antonio Spurs’

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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93-91 Celtics at San Antonio: Make it two straight: two straight on the roadtrip, two straight against the Spurs this year, two straight W’s without Ray Allen and two straight wins on St. Patrick’s Day at San Antonio. Some quick thoughts:

KG threw the ball away up two with 4.5 seconds left and ‘Big Shot Bob’ missed an impossible fall away three with two guys in his face from 27 feet out on the right wing. Two things Kevin: A: call a timeout, please! or B: run the baseline! After Parker’s made hoop run the baseline and at the veerrry least throw it 60 feet so that the Spurs can’t get a good look.

Very interesting to see Doc’s substitution patterns at point guard down the stretch. Cassell played it out all the way and was joined by House for most of the way until Rondo checked in with about 1:15 left. Incidentally, Cassell hit a 22 footer and a huge 3 to give the C’s the lead with 48 seconds left, House hit a clutch 3 while in (his only FG) and Rondo came up with a big offensive rebound with the Celts up two with 15 seconds left.

The Spurs did a great job at stepping out and preventing Garnett from having open 20 foot jump shots. the numbers: 7-15 FG, 21 pts, 8 reb. but only 2 assists because there was a guy in his face. Conversely, the C’s defense was much much more solid after the first quarter. I think SA had as many open jumpers in the first that they did the rest of the game.

James Posey became what Tony Allen was supposed to be when TA started: a good defender and a guy to move the offense. Allen did neither and the Celts were down 20 in the first half. And yet Celtics win. Other online commentary from this game: celticsblog.com, greenbandwagon.com and Pounding the Rock (spurs blog).

Cheers!

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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