The Celtics trade for Thomas marked the rebuilding process ending.
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It applies to first-round draft picks, sure, but in Celtics’ 120-95 rout at the TD Garden Friday night it applied to ball possession, open looks, and just about every aspect of the game.
“I was so upset with myself after the free throws”, he said. Thomas got sloppy with his dribbling upon facing a Mavericks defender and lost his handle on the ball to a trailing Felton. However, Evan Turner is more than capable of filling that role and serving as a point forward while guys like Thomas and Smart get a rest. “[Felton] gambled at the beginning [of the play], so I felt like I had a few room to work”.
“It’s an opportunity thing”, Devin Harris said. “So I’ve just got to be conscious of that and learn from that mistake”. “I think about more what we do daily, the foundation that we lay”. As expected, there were many skeptics – myself included – and Stevens and the Celtics have so far proven them wrong. “It’s where you feel at peace regardless of all the circumstances that are going on around you, and I think that it’s always good to be able to get a practice in”. For me just overall effort to revive the back problems. “They’re two very good teams”.
“That was probably the main thing we talked about before the game”, Brooklyn guard Joe Johnson, who had three points.
Chiefly because of the former Jazz players, along with Dirk Nowitzki, obviously, Dallas entered Friday night on a six-game winning streak and looks to be one of the better teams in the Western Conference early on. The Celtics were coasting, sending the Nets to a 2-11 record, and the home crowd is fully aware that Boston owns Brooklyn’s first-round pick next season, unconditionally. “We did that in the second quarter and blew the game up a little bit”. Who knocked down a three I say it’s another per player for the Celtics who had a great second quarter he was fighting for five from the field including heating.
According to stats guru Dick Lipe, their 43-point second quarter – the 12-minute stretch where they blew this game out of the water – was the highest-scoring second quarter by a Celtics team since 1984. The tenacious defender also coached the Celts to two more titles in the 80s. He returned off the bench Sunday against the Thunder and scored 14 points, a performance that triggered a switch in coach Brad Stevens’ rotation.
Two-time National Basketball Association champion Jo Jo White was the MVP of the Finals in 1976, and played 488 consecutive games across parts of six seasons in the 1970s.
The Boston Celtics have been playing extremely well of late as they have won five of their last seven to bring their record to 6-5. He made a season-high three 3-pointers on seven attempts, a notable uptick for a guy who entered the contest 9-of-41 from long range for the league’s worst 3-point shooting team (28.9 percent).
Callahan called game 1 of the Cleveland series in last season’s playoffs.
Reggie Lewis was on his way to a potential Hall-of-Fame career before his life was cut so tragically short in July of 1993.
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A year ago during a game against the Washington Wizards that saw Boston trail by double digits throughout most of the fourth quarter, Stevens boldly sat star point guard Rajon Rondo in favor of Smart, who was quicker and capable of playing more physical defense against Wizards guard John Wall.
