Comments on: A Disconcerting Loss » Boston Celtics Basketball – Celtics news, rumors and analysis – CelticsHub.com http://www.hardwoodparoxysm.com/2009/11/21/a-disconcerting-loss-%c2%bb-boston-celtics-basketball-%e2%80%93-celtics-news-rumors-and-analysis-%e2%80%93-celticshub-com/ Unbiased opinions from extremely biased people Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:48:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: WildYams http://www.hardwoodparoxysm.com/2009/11/21/a-disconcerting-loss-%c2%bb-boston-celtics-basketball-%e2%80%93-celtics-news-rumors-and-analysis-%e2%80%93-celticshub-com/comment-page-1/#comment-29381 WildYams Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:44:39 +0000 http://www.hardwoodparoxysm.com/?p=4058#comment-29381 I wrote this over on Celticsblog last night, but I think the C's issue right now is not Rondo, but rather just a lack of inside scoring in general. I think their shots aren't falling right now simply because with Wallace in there alongside a still-recovering KG, the Celtics are mainly all setting up on offense around the perimeter. It's much easier to get a hand up on perimeter jump shots when there's no threat in the middle to worry about. Rondo, Pierce and Ray are not back to the basket players; so while they do tend to get a decent amount of points in the paint, it's almost always on drives. Perkins is a slightly above average post scorer, but Boston doesn't tend to run their offense through him too much (and last night he was hampered with fouls). KG and Rasheed do have plenty of post offense, but KG seems less capable of playing in there while recovering from his knee surgery, and Rasheed has really never shown much desire to play out of the post (much to his detriment, IMO, since he can be damn near unstoppable there). I've heard many people saying that Sheed and KG together makes it tough for defenses cause it pulls centers out to the perimeter. Now, while this may be true, I'd say that if both guys are camping out around the perimeter along with the shooters at 1,2 and 3, then isn't the offense essentially five guys swinging it from one side to the other and hoping for an open shot or a seam in the defense that they can drive through? If so, that's not very good offense, IMO. I wrote this over on Celticsblog last night, but I think the C’s issue right now is not Rondo, but rather just a lack of inside scoring in general. I think their shots aren’t falling right now simply because with Wallace in there alongside a still-recovering KG, the Celtics are mainly all setting up on offense around the perimeter. It’s much easier to get a hand up on perimeter jump shots when there’s no threat in the middle to worry about.

Rondo, Pierce and Ray are not back to the basket players; so while they do tend to get a decent amount of points in the paint, it’s almost always on drives. Perkins is a slightly above average post scorer, but Boston doesn’t tend to run their offense through him too much (and last night he was hampered with fouls). KG and Rasheed do have plenty of post offense, but KG seems less capable of playing in there while recovering from his knee surgery, and Rasheed has really never shown much desire to play out of the post (much to his detriment, IMO, since he can be damn near unstoppable there).

I’ve heard many people saying that Sheed and KG together makes it tough for defenses cause it pulls centers out to the perimeter. Now, while this may be true, I’d say that if both guys are camping out around the perimeter along with the shooters at 1,2 and 3, then isn’t the offense essentially five guys swinging it from one side to the other and hoping for an open shot or a seam in the defense that they can drive through? If so, that’s not very good offense, IMO.

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