Fiddlin’ and Diddlin’ on Saturday

What a great win last night. I am still excited about the way the team played together and shared the ball and played defense. Perk and Wally are finally looking healthy and both were big in the win. Scal had his best game as a Celtic. West still worries me. He played great but the way he has trouble getting up from falls has me worried he is going to do irreparable harm to his back by playing so hard with it still bothering him. The Globe, Herald, and MetroWest Daily all have game reports from last night’s victory. Here is what is going on in the Celtics Nation today.

The Patriot Ledger has an interesting article today. Mike Fine seems to be a bit of a pessimist lately. He mentions that even though the Celtics have the worst home record in the league, the fans still seem to come and support the team. I still support them in spite of the losses because they are exciting and fun to watch and are going to put it all together in the very near future. The most interesting thing in this article are some comments by Cousy:

A little more from Couz, who isn’t surprised that Sebastian Telfair has fallen out of favor with coach Doc Rivers: ‘‘I think I like (Rajon) Rondo better. I think he can perhaps do more things in the future. Obviously, he doesn’t shoot it as well as Telfair, but Telfair’s not a great shooter, either. I guess the reason Doc is going with Telfair is because of his experience factor.’’

I take Cousy’s opinion on PG’s very seriously. He knows his stuff. I agree with him on Rondo. The kid does so many good things out there. I don’t get why Doc doesn’t play him more. (same with Powe!)

The Globe and Herald both have articles on Pierce staying home and working on his conditioning rather than joining the coaching ranks. Both articles also have Doc’s thoughts on the Fratello firing and the Globe adds that Kandi will remain with the team for the rest of the season as the date to cut non guaranteed contracts has passed.

Hoopsworld discusses Rondo, Ray and Powe and the way they deal with lack of playing time in their rookie years compared to being a go to guy in college. Personally I don’t understand playing Telfair over Rondo and I don’t understand at all not playing Powe.

Eric Weiss has an interesting piece on the Celtics from a psychological perspective and discusses leadership, chemistry and group orientation.

Finally, on a blog called Words Matter, there is an interesting piece on Cheering for the Underdog. The Celtics can certainly be considered underdogs at this point. No one expects this group to win with all of the youth on the team. But every game, I see those young players growing and improving. I love Green, Allen, Jefferson, West, Perk, Powe, Rondo, and Gomes. They are all exciting players and are beginning to meet expectations that we had for them when we drafted them. I would love to see this group stay together and be allowed to take the next step as a unit.

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