<div align="center"><font size="5">Boston Celtics at Los Angeles Clippers</font></div> <div align="center"> vs.</div> <div align="center">23-32 22-30</div> <div align="center">Time: 10:30 PM ET</div> <div align="center">Away TV: Fox Sports NE</div> <div align="center">Venue: Staples Center</div> <div align="center">Previous Meeting Feb. 4 at Bos <u>LAC 95</u> BOS 86 Leaders: Points: Pierce 22 Richardson 36 Rebounds: Blount 10 Brand 11 Assists: Davis 5 James 5 Jaric 9 </div> <div align="center">Probable Starting Lineups PG:Marko Jaric/Mike James SG:Quentin Richardson/Paul Pierce SF:Corey Maggette/Jiri Welsch PF:Elton Brand/Walter McCarty C:Chris Kaman/Mark Blount Sixth Men: 6th Men:Chris Wilcox, Ricky Davis</div> Injury Update Celtics Raef LaFrentz FC Right knee tendinitis Chris Mills SF Right heel spurs Clippers Bobby Simmons GF Severely sprained left hip Olden Polynice C Strained neck Josh Moore C Lower back spasms <div align="center">Players to Watch Ricky Davis and Quentin Richardson Ricky Davis- PPG 13.9 RPG 4.9 APG 3.5 (note: 11-12 32 points on Tuesday) Quentin Richardson- PPG 17.7 RPG 6.0 APG 2.0</div> <div align="center">Keys to the Game <font color="blue">LA</font><font color="red">Clippers</font> <ul> [*]Contain Pierce [*]Don't Let Ricky get hot [*]Get the ball to Brand in the post [*]Get out on the outside shooters [*]Offensive rebounds [/list] <font color="green">Boston Celtics</font> <ul> [*]Box out [*]Ricky needs to get going early [*]Give the younger guys some playing time [*]Don't let Brand get the ball in the post [*] Protect the Basket, no easy layups and dunks for Qrich and Maggette [/list] Prediction Clippers- 97 Celtics- 84 I really think the Celtics could pull this out, but I'm not getting my hopes up. Look for a good game from Davis, but Pierce will struggle. If Richardson and Brand have good games the Celtics won't win this one.</div>
Wow, one of the most exciting Clippers games this season. Eddie House OH BABY! Hitting the clutch game winning basket with with 1 second left and the game tied at 100, what a fantastic performance. I love the Celtics and they've been one of my favorite teams for a long time, but tonight I was really rooting for the Clippers to win this game because the Celtics WERE tied with the Heat (my team) in 8th place in Atlantic division. Great win for the original L.A. team. I'm glad the Celtics and Heat won't be in the same division after the realignment next season, so i'll be able to always root for both . Box Score
hmm I am unable to watch Celtic games because I do not live in New England, I watch them through the FLASH provider at Celtics.com. I mean come on...You make a valiant and effort filled comeback with 6 minutes remaining in the 4th , coming back from a 12 pt deficit and tieing it at 100-100 with 22 seconds remaining, shot clock is off if Im not mistaken, and the ball in your possesion, the Celtics would have a chance to play the quarter out with the ball in their posession and take a shot with about 2 seconds remaining, but...Pierce, oh Paulie...wants to be the hero of the day and takes a shot with 10 seconds remaining. Misses, 8 secs remaining and Clips call time out and get the ball at center court, at the end of thoughs life long 8 seconds, the Clips come away with the win 100-102 and makes the Celtics BITE DIRT. Now I could not visually see the game but I did watch the play by play text, someone correct me if I made any mistakes about the plays. The heart filled comeback for nothing...
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Abbath:</div><div class="quote_post">I am unable to watch Celtic games because I do not live in New England, I watch them through the FLASH provider at Celtics.com. I mean come on...You make a valiant and effort filled comeback with 6 minutes remaining in the 4th , coming back from a 12 pt deficit and tieing it at 100-100 with 22 seconds remaining, shot clock is off if Im not mistaken, and the ball in your possesion, the Celtics would have a chance to play the quarter out with the ball in their posession and take a shot with about 2 seconds remaining, but...Pierce, oh Paulie...wants to be the hero of the day and takes a shot with 10 seconds remaining. Misses, 8 secs remaining and Clips call time out and get the ball at center court, at the end of thoughs life long 8 seconds, the Clips come away with the win 100-102 and makes the Celtics BITE DIRT. Now I could not visually see the game but I did watch the play by play text, someone correct me if I made any mistakes about the plays. The heart filled comeback for nothing...</div> Paul Pierce did nothing wrong, when he took that shot with 10 seconds left in the game he had a wide open look at the top of the key, the shot was near perfect and on a good night it would have gone in and he would have been the hero, but the ball rattled out of the rim and Eddie House made an enormous clutch shot that looked horrible and shouldn't have gone in, but he just got lucky and sunk the game winning bucket. I also believe the Celtics did infact have a foul to give, so they could have done that before Eddie House even had a chance to get a shot off but they let him drive and shoot. Also, if you have DirecTV or something you can subscribe to NBA League Pass and watch all Celtics games, even if you don't live in New England. If you don't have DirecTV or don't want to spend all that money on NBA League Pass, you can subscribe to NBA Inside Ticket which is on www.nba.com and you can actually listen to a live radio broadcast of the game, it's great and is something like 10 bucks a month, you also get a lot of other perks too.
Celtics new owner Grousebec (sp?) was on WEEI yesterday morning. I now understand why Ainge is doing what he's doing.....because he can. Wic has no plan and no clue as to what's going on.
Well my key players was a little off But anyway, a decent comeback for the team. Sometimes things like that happen and lately they've been happenning on a regular basis for Pierce and the Celtics. Jiri finally snapped his slump, though almost all his points were in the first half. One correct part of my preview was the Celtics keys to the game, where I said "Don't let Brand get the ball in the post" That absolutely killed them in the first half. Great final six minutes of the game, hopefully the team can pull out a win at either Portland or Seattle.
I believe they could. As long as Welsch shows the same display as he did against the Clippers, same with Davis. I think Blount should get more minutes in this game since he has proven to be a solid C through out the past 10 games. Pierce really needs to step it up and play to his full capability which we all know is fantastic.
