by Craig Kwasniewski
"They come in and intimidate you and try to punk you. But if you don’t back down from them, they kind of fold."
Strong words from.... D.J. Augustin???? A rookie point guard from one of the worst franchises in the NBA is running it on THE GREATEST TEAM IN THE HISTORY OF THE NBA-A-A-A-A (echo, echo, echo)? Well if the Kendrick Perkins and Tony Allens of the world can constantly run their mouths despite DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTING then rookie point guards from the Charlotte Bobcats can do the same.
You brought this on yourself Boston!
BTW - Can we stop talking about how great the 08-09 Celtics really are? Can we finally agree that they're good but not historically good? And can we pull-ease stop with the 70-wins talk and get back to reality? The Celtics are basically an average team and a sub-par head coach that are heroically being carried by three hall-of-famers and that's it.
I completely agree with this, and your other post about Rondo not being an All-Star (he had 9 turnovers last night, and only 3 points the game before that... NOT top-tier numbers). I hope you don't mind that I linked to your site to help make this point during my live-blog of last night's Laker game. Keep up the good work.
Posted by: Tim | January 07, 2009 at 06:22 PM
I have to say, I really believe that Rivers out-coached Jackson in last year's finals. I don't think Rivers is a better coach than Jackson, and I think the Lakers are showing that, but last year, in the heat of the finals, I saw Rivers have an answer for everything Phil tried.
Sub-par coach is a bit much. Decent, I think, is apt.
Posted by: Losdela | January 08, 2009 at 04:02 PM