Sonics (25-36) at Celtics (17-43) 3/9

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Seattle Supersonics (25-36) at Boston Celtics (17-43)
Friday, March 9, 2007 • 7:30 PM ET
Regular Season Game #61 • Home Game #30
TD Banknorth Garden • Boston, MA


Probable Starters
Point Guard
#9 Rajon Rondo PPG 5 | APG 3.1 | SPG 1.36
#25 Earl Watson PPG 8.6 | APG 5.7 | SPG 1.2

Shooting Guard
#34 Paul Pierce PPG 25.2 | RPG 6.4 | APG 4
#34 Ray Allen PPG 26.6 | APG 4.2 | 3P% .374

Small Forward
#44 Brian Scalabrine PPG 4.1 | RPG 2 | BPG 0.3
#7 Rashard Lewis PPG 21.9 | RPG 6.9 | APG 2.6

Power Forward
#7 Al Jefferson PPG 15 | RPG 11.2 | BPG 1.5
#54 Chris Wilcox PPG 12.5 | RPG 7.5 | BPG 0.5

Center
#43 Kendrick Perkins PPG 4 | RPG 4.4 | BPG 1.3
#4 Nick Collison PPG 9.8 | RPG 8.1 | BPG 0.8

Coaching Matchup
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Doc Rivers vs Bob Hill





Off the Bench

Telfair/Green/ Powe

Injuries
Delonte West - concussion - day to day
Ryan Gomes - foot - questionable
Wally Szczerbiak - ankle - out
Theo Ratliff - back - out
Tony Allen - knee - out

Notes: Without knowing the status of Delonte West for tomorrow night, I put Rondo into the starting lineup. We all know that if West can play, he will - so that may change. The cat scan came back negative and he was released from the hospital and will be re-evaluated on Friday. Xrays on Gomes foot were negative and he is listed as questionable and won't be re-evaluated until Sunday.



Off the Bench

Petro/ Wilkins/ Wilks

Injuries
Danny Fortson - knee - day to day
Ridnour - herniated disc - out
Swift - knee - out

Notes: Seattle will be playing the 3rd game of a road trip. They beat the Knicks on a last second shot by Allen and lost to Philly.

Key matchup
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Interesting Fact
When we played the Sonics on December 31, our starting lineup was West, Allen, Green, Gomes, and Jefferson and their starting lineup was Ridnour, Watson, Allen, Wilcox, and Glyniadakis.
Final score was Sonics 101 and Celtics 95.

to the game

Don't play Scal on Ray Allen. I have no idea why Doc would put Scal on Tracy McGrady and then leave him there as he got burned time after time. Hopefully, Doc won't try to use Scal to guard Ray Allen.

Rebound. When we hit the boards we usually have a good chance to win. We need to be aggressive in going to the basket for rebounds and chasing down the long rebounds.

Pass the ball Against Houston, we were holding the ball way too much instead of moving it to find the open man. Gerald needs to shoot it when he gets an open shot also. He was either holding it too long or passing up open shots. He is best when he can catch and shoot.

Defend. We have to get stops. Our offense seems to feed off of our defense. When we hustle on defense, we seem to be more effective on the offensive end as well. We proved during the winning streak that we can win games by playing defense. And we proved against Houston that we can lose games by not playing defense.

Hey, if any of you want to do a pre-game front page collaboration with ClubSonics, PM me here.

FLCeltsFan, if you want to write your preview, I will write my preview and we can combine them for one dope Preview we can both put on our front pages.

Im waiting for the Bulls game cause I'll be there.

MikeDead wrote:Im waiting for the Bulls game cause I'll be there.

kool!
take pictures.
post them here

Celtic Fan wrote:

MikeDead wrote:Im waiting for the Bulls game cause I'll be there.

kool!
take pictures.
post them here

Good idea, I'll bring the digital camera along for the game. A buddy of mine got the tickets through work so Im not sure where we'll be sitting but I'll try to snap some good pictures.

sad to say, I've never made the trip to boston, although some friends did way back in HS to see the C's in the GAH-DEN.

Gotta make a trip to T.O. to see them play some time.

It used to be damn near impossible to get tickets to a C's homegame, but the last 6 or 7 years theyve had a hard time with attendance. They dont even sell out when they make the playoffs anymore.

Wow what a game. Al Jefferson continues to prove that he's an elite player, 30+ points, 16 rebounds. Rondo in short time was a huge factor, Pierce was solid as was Gerald. And even Powe and Ray contributed.

Didnt look the C's had a chance in the 1st half, but they came out firing on all cylinders in the second half at shot 70% as a team, holding the Sonics to 33%. Great game for the C's.