POST GAME NETS

Not much to say about the game except I'm glad we got out of there without another injury! Wafer looked pretty good last couple of games. If he continues his nice shooting I guess we'll start calling him"Sugar Wafer"?

One week to go for the trading deadline (Thursday 2/24) going to be interesting who goes and who comes. I just have a gut feel that the Celtics (Danny) may pull a multiple player deal.......just got that feeling. Danny has a nack of coming from no where and surprising everyone. Again just a hunch!

So kick back and enjoy "ALL STAR WEEKEND" should be fun to watch our players have some fun!

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Mr. "I can get 30 anytime I want" Vujacic shoots 2 for 9 tonight.

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I just cant imagine who danny would trade. I would stand pat. The chemistry this year is aces.

Ya...the problem is that they don't know enough about MD to right him off for the year or anyone else, including JON..., for that matter. It would have to be some great, great deal for a multiperson trade...IMHO

lac

Yeah from my perspective I just dont see what we have to offer? I'd love o see Murphy or Rip either one but how to do it?

Jeb,
As Shakespeare might say: Ah, there's the rub.

Jeb, by the way, how are you doing?

As usual, I think Danny will surprise us. As long as I've been following him and his trade/draft technique, he never seems to do the consensus. The fact that he has been so quiet up until now would imply to me he's working on something.

He will use and apply the Celtic maxim of getting all you can for an unbelievably low price, even if on the surface it looks like he over payed. I'm pretty sure Rondo is thinking "Hey, I got the best deal at the time and I think I left my wallet on the table." Danny will not disappoint.

I didn't watch the game, but here's a writeup by Jay King of celticstown.com.

I’m about to make a claim, one which may sound ludicrous based on certain events from this season (the Kevin Garnett ball tap being one of them). It may sound even more ludicrous considering that Kendrick Perkins earned his third technical foul last night, giving him a “three technicals in eleven games” pace which would equate to 22 technical fouls over the course of an 82-game season. But the Celtics are improving at not fighting back. I swear.

Think back to the Orlando game. Dwight Howard shook Perkins loose with an elbow, and Perk didn’t react. Hedo Turkoglu shoved Garnett in the back, and Garnett went tumbling into the photographers. He stood up, Rajon Rondo whispered sweet nothings into his ear, and then Garnett didn’t react. Orlando picked up technical foul after technical foul for responding to Boston’s aggressive tactics, yet, in a way that avoided history’s pattern, Boston didn’t fight back.

“I think we were the instigators, not the retaliators,” Perkins told reporters after the game, explaining why Orlando picked up so many technicals while Boston stayed clean. “We kind of instigated a lot of stuff, and they retaliated, and that’s usually what happens.”

In a nice cover story for Sports Illustrated, Ian Thomsen talked with Doc Rivers about Perk’s avoidance of any physical response.

“First time in his life—he fouled Dwight, holds him and holds him, Dwight hits him with an elbow, hits him with another one, and Perk just stands there,” said Rivers. “At halftime I said to the team, ‘That is toughness. Toughness is somebody hitting you in the freaking face, and you’re looking at him and laughing and walking away. That’s a tough mother.’”

If you can’t remember as far back as the Orlando game, just think about last night. Brook Lopez received a technical foul for a little jostling with Perk (albeit a very weak technical, which ended in Lopez gazing around in all sorts of confusion), but Perk didn’t respond. Okay, so maybe it’s not the best example. Lopez didn’t exactly throw any lethal elbows. Still: When’s the last time, before this season, Kendrick Perkins openly walked away from contact?

It’s not like Boston has lost its edge. The Celtics still play with a ferociousness that occasionally (and, sometimes, not so occasionally) crosses the line to insanity. But there’s something slightly more controlled about what I’ve seen recently. The C’s seem to have a better hold of their own emotions.

Maybe I’m overreacting to a few weeks of somewhat behaved play. Maybe Perk will spend the post-All Star break Western Conference road trip elbowing people left and right, and piling up double technicals like there’s no tomorrow. Maybe Garnett will throw some ill-advised elbows of his own, or administer another cup check or two. Maybe the Celtics will revert back to the team that loves retaliating, rather than simply instigating.

Or maybe the C’s new “we’ll talk a whole lot of crap, bump the hell out of you, and then laugh in your face when technical fouls are handed out” mentality is here to stay. On second thought, probably not.


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