Feeling Ill, Celtics Look Forward to Home Cooking
The 4-3 Orlando Magic will travel to Boston to take on the 1-5 Celtics at the TD BankNorth Garden. Grant Hill (16.2 points per game) will bring Dwight Howard (12.6 rebs. per game) and his teammates to take on a Celtics team that has struggled out of the gates for consistency.
Quick Notes & Links…
• If playing PG, Delonte will match up against former SJU Hawk teammate Jameer Nelson
• Theo is out, Wally gets the start
• Comprehensive Game Preview from HRB at CelticsBlog.com
• Jeff Clark at CB posted a great Mini-Rant
Saturday night’s loss to the Cavs — in which the Celtics blew a 25 point lead in the second half — was a clear detriment to the team. Following the game many players were outspoken about the loss…
“We just stopped attacking,” Boston coach Doc Rivers said. “We attacked for three quarters, then we stopped. We stopped playing. You can’t do that. You have to play through the clock and we didn’t.”
“It definitely hurts,” said Pierce after a team-high 19 points to go with nine rebounds. “We played about as good as we could play for three quarters. They just kept being aggressive, and it just seemed like we waited for the time to run out instead of punching back there in the fourth quarter. We played passive for that whole fourth quarter. We thought a 16-point lead was good enough, but it wasn’t.”
“I can’t sleep after that,” said Sebastian Telfair. “I’m (ticked) off right now.”
…Here’s hoping that the sour taste in the mouth of Celtics players and management is motivation enough to defend their home court tonight and pull out a gutsy win.
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