Celts dominate Bobcats from start, improve to 14-4


Thibs playing MORE defense :)

This game was really great.  I was expecting a tough, hard-fought contest.  Sure it helped Gerald Wallace picked up 2 early fouls.  But the Celts' play from start to finish was convincing.  It's these types of games that make me say "no this team is not too old" when they don't play well.  That the reason they don't play well at certain times is because there's no ball movement and it's "Get the ball to Paul and let him do something."

My thoughts:
  • Ray and Perk played like All NBA players today.  When Allen's shot is falling from the outside, his game is really a thing of beauty to watch.  He finished with 27 points.  Perk had 21, 11 and 3 blocks.  His through-the-legs move against Mohammed near the end was amazing.  He has grown tremendously this year.
  • Both Perk and Rondo are such better players then they were on the 2008 title team.  I never knew they'd become this great, especially Perkins.  Rajon was solid again tonight with 8 points and 9 assists, really controlling the tempo of the game.
  • Nazr Mohammed played like an all-star.  It seems that technical foul he picked up for going after KG (pictured above) really inspired him.  Otherwise I think the thing he's best known for in his NBA career is getting held up at gun point along with Antoine Walker a few years back.
  • KG was very solid, yet again- 16 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists in 26 minutes.  His defensive intensity was there and you could hear him loud and clear through the TV yelling on defense.  He makes Perkins such a better player too.
  • In not such breaking news, tonight Sheed got another T.  He also played solid in limited minutes.
  • While watching the game I was a little perplexed by Doc's minute distribution and rotations tonight.   However in looking at the boxscore, Ray played 36 and that was the most.  Paul played 34.  In a game like tonight's I'd like those minutes to be closer to 30 exactly.  
    • Also Doc brought Paul in to replace Ray at about the 8 minute mark of the 4th and then proceeded to bring KG, Rajon, and Perk back in with 5 minutes to play and a 19 point lead.  I was curious as to that too, but Charlotte can be an explosive team.  I presume that was Doc's mentality and he didn't want to take any chances
  • Lastly I normally don't comment on cheerleaders (in fact I comment on reffing even more) but a couple of the Bobcat cheerleaders were exceptionally attractive.  I felt like adding Jenn's picture below lol:


 All in all an impressive win and the C's are halfway to a 4-0 week, which would be outstanding.