Game Notes: Rockets at Celtics
An A+E ‘Facebook news-feed’ Production.
by Jake Appleman and Jon Evans
Pregame
– A tourist at North Station is amazed at the horde of Celtics fans waiting to enter the TD BankNorth Garden
– Yao Ming is crowded–what else is new?
– Doc Rivers is enjoying witty banter with a group of probing reporters
– Shane Battier is friends with His Podiatrist
– Von Wafer has joined the group “if I look like Chad Johnson, more people will know who I am”
– Tracy McGrady is enjoying not working consecutive nights
– Tracy McGrady has just joined the group “Arguably one of the best players in the NBA in 2002.”
– Steve Francis has just left the group “Arguably one of the best players in the NBA in 2002.”
– Patrick O’Bryant threw down a sick sideways windmill during the layup line
– Von Wafer is starting
– Kevin Garnett’s face is vibrating through the jumbotron
First quarter
– Ron Artest is hugging Paul Pierce playfully
– Doc Rivers is happy his team is showing patience, moving the ball better and getting open looks from beyond the arc
– Yao Ming is enjoying de-beasting Kendrick Perkins
– KG has drilled back-to-back turnarounds
– Kendrick Perkins feels like Skee-lo, he wishes he was a little bit taller…
– Von Wafer got humbled by the rim
– A Producer at ESPN just cut a highlight of Von Wafer getting stuffed by the rim
– Von Wafer atoned for his ghastly gaffe by drilling a three
– Paul Pierce loves squatting to guide the three through the net
– Rajon Rondo is feeling very ambitious but dunking over Yao isn’t going to happen
– Jon Evans is sitting in front of the self described “idiot on the cell phone behind the people with the laptops”
– Jake Appleman has joined the group “Aaron Brooks bandwagon”
– Paul Pierce has three threes; that’s tres treys…truth
– Rafer Alston bumped into Carl Landry after chasing Ray Allen through a screen cycle
– Charles Oakley just exploded after watching Leon Powe and Carl Landry battle under the boards
Second quarter
– Gabe Pruitt is in
– Gabe Pruitt nailed a jumper
– Lil’ Phunk is wiggigidy wiggidy wack
– Chuck Hayes was just rewarded for moving without the ball
– Aaron Brooks is splitting defenders with the quickness
– Chuck Hayes is cooling off Kevin Garnett
– Dikembe Mutumbo is still all about the ubuntu even though he didn’t sign with the Celtics
– Dikembe Mutombo and Danny Ainge have ended their relationship
– Kevin Garnett is living life 20 feet from the basket
– Ray Allen is so excited to sing the TV theme from Cheers off-key during timeouts
– Brian Scalabrine wishes people in the crowd would just let him play
– Rajon Rondo and Kendrick Perkins joined the group “Falling Back to Earth”
– Chuck Hayes got overzealous with an outlet pass
– Carl Landry provided excellent weak side help on a Ray Allen dribble drive
– Yao Ming’s touch is feathery like a peacock not featherly like a pigeon
Third quarter
– Ron Artest is carrying second quarter momentum into the third
– Rajon Rondo finally scored a field goal
– Jake Appleman is busy watching off the ball
– Aaron Brooks tossed a sweet wraparound pass to Ron Artest for two
– Glen Davis doesn’t know what’s up with Wade and Barkley, but he would’ve totally eaten the 
shrimp that Yao got them in that T-mobile commercial
– Jake Appleman think it’s BS that the Celtics jumbotron is equating street smarts with a show about a kid moving to Bel Air
– Will Smith is “Yao Ming, uncle Phil?”
Fourth quarter
– Brent Barry watches Bones for the dull, pseudo-intellectual witticisms of Lance Sweets
– Gabe Pruitt is balling; y’all see that three I just nailed from the corner?
– The lead singer of Blur is “it’s not my problem”
– Eddie House missed a three
– Jake Appleman misses Russ Bengtson
– Yao Ming will still fade away despite being a foot taller than Leon Powe
– Kevin Garnett is vibing to “In the Air Tonight”
– Lang Whitaker is listening to Phil Collins
– Aaron Brooks used a Yao screen to get open and nail a three, 81-79
– Paul Pierce is waving goodbye to Ron Artest… literally
– Jake Appleman is vibing to that Drop Kick Murphy’s song from The Departed
– Aaron Brooks doesn’t know why he thought he could float one in over a manically determined KG
– Gabe Pruitt is the Celtics leading scorer in the 4th quarter
– Kevin Garnett found Rajon Rondo open with a sick no-look feed
– Von Wafer just made 18,624 people sit down and shut up
– Jake Appleman has created the group Von Nilla Wafers
– Chris Berman doesn’t cover basketball
– Paul Pierce’s brilliant offensive night has gone for naught thanks to an offensive foul and a missed jumper
– Yao Ming has sealed it with put-back layup
Postgame
— Jake Appleman thinks the slippery black ice on the Boston streets is a pretty good metaphor for the Celtics right now
– Jon Evans can’t stand up straight
This story is filed under: Absence of Evidence, Game Notes, NBA
“Tracy McGrady has just joined the group “Arguably one of the best players in the NBA in 2002.”
Co Co laughed even harder at this
Steve Francis has just left the group “Arguably one of the best players in the NBA in 2002.”
Aaron Brooks and Wafer in the backcourt is quite awesome, if I may say so myself.
Also, Yao Ming and Ron Artest is a nice duo.
Take that, CELTICS!
He’s not a cookie and hes not a biscuit…hes voonnnWayfffeerrr.
Yeh… good notes, but not as awesome as the previous ones.
BUT
i miss my old school ones!! sometimes i just wanna relax and read some gamenotes im on facebook enough
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