No this isn't some crazy new Lost number sequence. It is actually the number of minutes Leon has played in the last seven games dating back to 11/26. Only one of those games was a back to back so Doc can't use that excuse. In fact, there is no discernible pattern to his playing time. Nine minutes against the Pacers at home in a 114-96 final? (Scalabrine had 15 for those of you keeping track at home/hating life.) His total number of minutes is down to 16.3 on the year. Celtics fans can't be complaining too much since the team is a ridiculous 20-2 but I'm not going to let up on Doc. One negative thing I can say about Leon's game though is his free throw percentage is down. (Fun fact: Leon has gotten to the line every game except one so far this season.) Other than that, why is he only getting two more minutes per game than last year? Is it matchups? Is Garnett refusing to leave games? By the way, KG's numbers are all down across the board except FG% and FT% so it's not like he's lighting it up.
Halp Plz.
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Monday, December 8, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
OH MY GOD DOC!
I guess myself, espn.com, and common sense weren't enough to sway Doc Rivers. He started BRIAN SCALABRINE tonight! He played in the first 6 minutes with Garnett suspended and did jack squat. Leon mercifully came in to replace him and this better be one of those things like Doc pulled last year. Start someone and have them play roughly half of the first quarter and sit them on the bench for the rest of the game. There is no excuse for Leon to not start and as long as he doesn't get into foul trouble tonight, there is no reason why he shouldn't get upwards of 28-30 minutes. You can even make the lame argument that Leon is more effective because he comes off the bench and provides a spark but that doesn't fly after what he accomplished in the finals last year. That's the biggest stage there is, coming off the bench or not. And it's his third year in the league. Further proof that Doc is going to bail after the Big Three move along and has no interest in grooming the young guys for future success. Honestly Doc, just because your team is 9-2 and are the defending World Champs doesn't mean you can pull crap like this. Prove me wrong buddy.
Oh yeah, I just checked the play by play. Leon scored 6 points in the final minute of the quarter on two jump shots and two free throws.
P.S. If someone can come across an actual, real reason that Doc provided to start Scalabrine, holla.
EDIT: According to Boston.com, Doc wanted to "keep the second unit in tact." Yeah, a good way to do that is by putting a guy in who is below the second unit. They also reference the whopping 13 minutes Scalabrine played against the Bucks where he went 2-2 and had 1 assist. Great. The website also provided this gem that I addressed during the finals:
"After a 21-point effort in Game 2 of last year's NBA Finals, Powe put up a dud when he started Game 5 in place of Kendrick Perkins, going scoreless in 5 minutes of play."
Ugh.
Anyway, with 1:45 left in the 3rd quarter, Leon is leading the team with 14 points in just 15 minutes.
Oh yeah, I just checked the play by play. Leon scored 6 points in the final minute of the quarter on two jump shots and two free throws.
P.S. If someone can come across an actual, real reason that Doc provided to start Scalabrine, holla.
EDIT: According to Boston.com, Doc wanted to "keep the second unit in tact." Yeah, a good way to do that is by putting a guy in who is below the second unit. They also reference the whopping 13 minutes Scalabrine played against the Bucks where he went 2-2 and had 1 assist. Great. The website also provided this gem that I addressed during the finals:
"After a 21-point effort in Game 2 of last year's NBA Finals, Powe put up a dud when he started Game 5 in place of Kendrick Perkins, going scoreless in 5 minutes of play."
Ugh.
Anyway, with 1:45 left in the 3rd quarter, Leon is leading the team with 14 points in just 15 minutes.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Why even bother Doc?
That was downright insulting.
What was the point of Leon starting when he was taken out after five minutes and sat for THE REST OF THE GAME! The sad part is, as soon PJ Brown came in for him, I said outloud, "I bet that's it for Leon tonight." Now in those five minutes, did Leon turn the ball over a few times? Did he take some bad shots? Did he not hustle/run up the floor or did he get rebounds pulled away from him? No.
He didn't even get a touch on offense. Not one. No field goal attempts, no free throw attempts. But he had zero turnovers, two rebounds and even won the tip against Gasol! To compound this stupidity, Garnett was in foul trouble all game and Brown lurched his way to another mediocre performance. By the end of the game, both of them looked absolutely exhausted while Powe continued to sit on the bench.
And to add insult to injury, the Daily Dime on espn.com has the nerve to put Leon in their "Sunday's Worst" category saying,
"Good news: He replaced injured center Kendrick Perkins, who didn't dress because of his shoulder injury, in the starting lineup. Bad news: Other than two rebounds and a foul, the rest of his stats across the board were the same as Perkins for the night -- all zeroes."
with no mention of the fact that he only played the five minutes. That's just bad reporting Maurice Brooks. No disrespect to Perk (and it sucks that he played hard all year and now has to watch from the sidelines) but I don't recall him filling up the stat sheet in the first five minutes of a game especially when no one passes him the ball.
The fact is, "Sunday's Worst" should have been Doc Rivers. (Or Phil Jackson really. Chris Mihm? Seriously?) Nevermind the fact that Brown played 25 minutes (and only had 4 points and 3 rebounds to show for it), did you see who had their best game of the series so far?
Lamar Odom.
Odom finished with 20 points (on 8-10 shooting), 11 rebounds and played 41 minutes. Leon ate him alive whenever he guarded him in Games 1-4 drawing charges, being physical and swiping rebounds. You could even argue that Lamar had the best game of anyone wearing a white jersey. (Yeah, I know I said in an earlier post that Kobe wouldn't have more than one awful shooting night unlike Lebron, but he had another stinker last night going 8-21. Wow.)
Mark Jackson said on the broadcast last night that the lineup of Pierce, Garnett, House, Allen and Brown was the Celtics best to go up against the Lakers because of their "length." There's no way anyone can tell me with a straight face that Brown played a good game last night. Bottom line: PJ Brown should only play 25 minutes if Garnett, Perk and Leon miss a flight to a game.
It even got to the point at the end of the game where I was wondering if Brown or Garnett ended up fouling out if Doc would just go 4 on 5 instead of putting Leon back in. Garnett was so beat at the end of the game that he front rimmed the first of two free throws that COULD HAVE TIED THE GAME! Doesn't it have to be personal at this point? Did Leon wear a red curly wig and a green jump suit while kicking Doc in the nuts or something? Did he take Doc's mom out for a nice seafood dinner and then never call her again?
Even with all of Doc's stupidity (don't even get me started on Cassell) the Celtics still almost won the game. They came back from another huge Lakers lead and had the series within their grasp until Kobe body punched Pierce (and got exactly zero percent of the ball) to knock the ball loose and get a dunk on the other end with a little over a minute to go. If the Celtics go on to win either Tuesday or Thursday, it will be in spite of their coach. Just another awful game by Glenn (what is his doctoral degree in btw?) that raised my blood pressure, and lowered Powe's confidence in getting any kind of minutes. As far as his actual confidence? I would hope that The Show can just chalk this up to his coach being an unthinkable moron rather than something lacking in his own performance. I need the Celtics to win tomorrow night just so I don't have to watch Rivers bumble his way through another game.
Leon's line from Game five:
5 minutes
0 points
2 rebounds
0-0 FG
0-0 FT
0 turnovers
What was the point of Leon starting when he was taken out after five minutes and sat for THE REST OF THE GAME! The sad part is, as soon PJ Brown came in for him, I said outloud, "I bet that's it for Leon tonight." Now in those five minutes, did Leon turn the ball over a few times? Did he take some bad shots? Did he not hustle/run up the floor or did he get rebounds pulled away from him? No.
He didn't even get a touch on offense. Not one. No field goal attempts, no free throw attempts. But he had zero turnovers, two rebounds and even won the tip against Gasol! To compound this stupidity, Garnett was in foul trouble all game and Brown lurched his way to another mediocre performance. By the end of the game, both of them looked absolutely exhausted while Powe continued to sit on the bench.
And to add insult to injury, the Daily Dime on espn.com has the nerve to put Leon in their "Sunday's Worst" category saying,
"Good news: He replaced injured center Kendrick Perkins, who didn't dress because of his shoulder injury, in the starting lineup. Bad news: Other than two rebounds and a foul, the rest of his stats across the board were the same as Perkins for the night -- all zeroes."
with no mention of the fact that he only played the five minutes. That's just bad reporting Maurice Brooks. No disrespect to Perk (and it sucks that he played hard all year and now has to watch from the sidelines) but I don't recall him filling up the stat sheet in the first five minutes of a game especially when no one passes him the ball.
The fact is, "Sunday's Worst" should have been Doc Rivers. (Or Phil Jackson really. Chris Mihm? Seriously?) Nevermind the fact that Brown played 25 minutes (and only had 4 points and 3 rebounds to show for it), did you see who had their best game of the series so far?
Lamar Odom.
Odom finished with 20 points (on 8-10 shooting), 11 rebounds and played 41 minutes. Leon ate him alive whenever he guarded him in Games 1-4 drawing charges, being physical and swiping rebounds. You could even argue that Lamar had the best game of anyone wearing a white jersey. (Yeah, I know I said in an earlier post that Kobe wouldn't have more than one awful shooting night unlike Lebron, but he had another stinker last night going 8-21. Wow.)
Mark Jackson said on the broadcast last night that the lineup of Pierce, Garnett, House, Allen and Brown was the Celtics best to go up against the Lakers because of their "length." There's no way anyone can tell me with a straight face that Brown played a good game last night. Bottom line: PJ Brown should only play 25 minutes if Garnett, Perk and Leon miss a flight to a game.
It even got to the point at the end of the game where I was wondering if Brown or Garnett ended up fouling out if Doc would just go 4 on 5 instead of putting Leon back in. Garnett was so beat at the end of the game that he front rimmed the first of two free throws that COULD HAVE TIED THE GAME! Doesn't it have to be personal at this point? Did Leon wear a red curly wig and a green jump suit while kicking Doc in the nuts or something? Did he take Doc's mom out for a nice seafood dinner and then never call her again?
Even with all of Doc's stupidity (don't even get me started on Cassell) the Celtics still almost won the game. They came back from another huge Lakers lead and had the series within their grasp until Kobe body punched Pierce (and got exactly zero percent of the ball) to knock the ball loose and get a dunk on the other end with a little over a minute to go. If the Celtics go on to win either Tuesday or Thursday, it will be in spite of their coach. Just another awful game by Glenn (what is his doctoral degree in btw?) that raised my blood pressure, and lowered Powe's confidence in getting any kind of minutes. As far as his actual confidence? I would hope that The Show can just chalk this up to his coach being an unthinkable moron rather than something lacking in his own performance. I need the Celtics to win tomorrow night just so I don't have to watch Rivers bumble his way through another game.
Leon's line from Game five:
5 minutes
0 points
2 rebounds
0-0 FG
0-0 FT
0 turnovers
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