Paul Pierce: Celtics’ Game 2 Loss ‘Demoralizing’

Simon Caine, wade stinks? Don’t hate on greatness. Man has a ring and a finals MVP. Don’t act like Garnett doesn’t cheap shot people all the time and tries to act like he didn’t do anything.

^hence the tech he got for elbowing JJ! lol then get the audacity to hold his hands straight up!

Man that 15 win Miami team was horrible. And Wade missed 31 games. Here are the guys who played the most games….in order.
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. Ricky Davis – 82
. Mark Blount – 69
. Jason Williams – 67
. Chris Quinn – 60
. Daquan Cook – 59
. Dwyane Wade – 51

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Now please, use your brain and explain how a team that is THAT healthy is supposed to be competitive?
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And then look at Dwyane Wade’s numbers and stats (and wins on a healthy team….like the 2009-10 Heat who was basically a D-League – go ahead and look – team and he still managed to win 47 games)
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The dude is arguably the best 2 on earth. And without a logical argument to say otherwise top 2 no question.

Not gonna lie it’s really easy to come from 15 down with help. Coming back from 15 with no help is very very hard to do. The refs these first two games have been anything but consistent. The Tech calls in the first game and the T on Garnett was weak. If Garnett get’s the Tech then Lebron’s shove in game one should have been one. The refs have taken any edge the Celtics have tried to create and squandered it. The no call, the hussle play that was no foul at all, the kick from Wade, the sixth foul on Pierce when he clearly jumped straight up, and the ticky tack fouls early on Stietsma that were far from fouls. There was a reason the fouls were so one sided and the NBA has made it apparent that they want the Heat in the finals. Having two seperate crews blow huge calls has proven just that.

Without a top-tier superstar, Wade wasn’t getting anywhere. Just facts.

*are

^And Kobe was?

Wade was karate choppin Rondo and Lu Kangin’ KG on the way to the rim and he doesnt get called for those fouls? That really was demoralizing for the Celtics. At that point they shoulda known – like everyone one else watching – that they werent leaving Miami with a win. 8 against 5 are never good odds on the basketball court…

All that is so funny to me. Let me break down everything you just said and correct you with accuracy! Barrel into people? Incorrect…Dwade has one of the best “eurosteps” in the game today! Ill give you his mid range jumper has decreased over the years…but that is because he has gone back to slashing. Hence the FT attempts increasing. If you know anything about basketball, you’d know that if you dont do something for a while, you cant jump back into it with good consistency. Wade was never a good 3pt shooter…matter of fact he wasnt a shooter at all when he came into the L. PURE SLASHER! Great finisher, good defender (I believe he is tops in steals and blocks for all guards). Ill give u the DC chase down shot, but to say he broke Kobe’s nose as a cheap shot because he “couldnt guard him” is wrong. Pump fake, wade jumped, go up, wade comes down. Nothing malicious or cheap about it. And yes top 2! KOBE then Wade. Who else would you put above Wade at the SG position? And your last statement clearly shows your lack of intelligence for the game of basketball. Its a team sport. And Lebron had decent enough role players around him. Gibson and D. Jones were some of the best 3pt marksmen in the L that year. Varajao was like Joakim Noah. Anthony Parker who was a good defender. Wasnt the same for Wade with a roster full of injured, over the hill, past their prime(garbage players). Be real. You can hate wade or dislike him all you want. Even as a fan, I understand his faults and areas where improvement is needed. Youre blinded by your total dislike for him!

Wade hits Rondo’s head and it doesn’t get called. Can’t argue with that. But people are acting like 30 seconds earlier, Rondo wrapping both of his arms around Lebron’s bicep for a jump ball didn’t happen! C’mon now, the refs didn’t decide either of these games!

Simon Caine, yeah he had shaq in 06.. But did shaq really do that much for them to beat the mavericks? Wade averaged 34 a game in that series if I’m not mistaken

O, go back and look at the fouls called. Aside from Pierce’s 6th, the rest of the fouls were pretty much fine. Perce’s 6th was a blatantly terrible call. But that didn’t decide the game, and the refs missed plenty for both teams. And if New York beat Miami in the same fashion, you wouldn’t have said a damn word. Don’t front like you are less emotional then you really are. Sh*ts obvious.

I think people fail to realize how difficult it is to make calls in the blink of an eye. Yes they are trained to be the best refs in the game at any level, but even still, they are human. And regardless of how many years you have under your belt, you arent going to see every call. Especially when you have players blazing up n down the court like Rondo and Wade. Stop with the nonsense about the calls. The C’s were at the line just as much as the Heat in the first half, and like i said earlier…they stopped getting to the cup. Are the refs going to call a perfect game? NO, that will never happen. And as a fan of either team, people are going to always nitpick the refs decisions as an excuse for a loss. Bottom line is (just like many have said)…C’s were up by 15? With the same calls all these ppl have been b*tching and complaining about. Heat got aggressive and started attacking the paint! move on..game 3 tomorrow!

Speaking of which, where are the conspiracy theorists on why San Antonio so rarely gets whistled? If the presumption is that “lack of fouls” equals “ref favoritism” then that team would be a logical place to direct such illogic. Also, Andre Iguodala–another great wing defender–averages 1.5 fouls per contest. Are we assuming that the fix is in for Iggy and his ratings-galvanizing troupe of Sixer superstars?
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Click my name.

cosign Allenp^

The one question I have for all those in the “NBA favors MIA” camp is where was all that favoritism during the Finals last year? That was the perfect opportunity for Stern to “rig” that series and gift MIA the championship.

O, clearly you are pretty delusional. Maybe not about how good the Knicks are, because that would make you delusional and stupid. But you sure don’t have a very firm grasp on what’s realistically happening with the refs. And haven’t since game 1 against the Knicks. And complaining about the refs has been the only thing you comment about recently anyway.
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The refs and the league aren’t helping the Heat. There are bad calls in every game. The Heat are as guaranteed to make it too the finals as anyone else is. Plain and simple.

@O….do u really believe everything you just wrote? Please go back and watch the game again. Just like James was getting calls, so was Rondo. You can knitpick the calls all day…it doesnt knock the fact the the C’s stopped being as aggressive. Rondo had 22? points at half time….half of them from the FT line? And he was knocking down jumpers like Al Bundy would knock back a brewsky. They did nothing in the 3rd. No one was driving, Rondo wasnt shooting, it was a lack of aggression in the 2nd half. Yes the fouls were in favor of the Heat…but that isnt because they are the Heat. That is because Wade and James kept driving to the paint. There is no “special treatment”. There are plenty of calls that can be argued the the Heat dont get. SO GTFOH with all that nonsense!

I mean, stop acting like the reffing is so bad you are right by complaining ad nauseum it’s only obvious to you, a Knicks fan, who was blaming the refs for a loss in game 1 against the Heat, a game the Knicks lost by 33….because it was “8 on 5″ which has been the only thing you comment about since. You know what’s for the birds? Complaining about the same thing every time you feel like commenting.

NBK is feeling extra testy today.
I thought the Celtics would get a few quick fouls on the Heat early in the quarter and then stop being aggressive. At one point I was wondering if the HEat could play defense without fouling.
But, if Bron is guarding Pierce, you won’t get a lot of fouls there because Bron avoids fouls better than anyone in the League.
KG could get fouls if he posted up deed (Fighting for post position almost always generates fouls on the defense. It’s a rule.)
Ray Allen doesn’t drive and Pietrus rarely drives. Bass couldn’t stay on the floor because he was killing them defensively and not doing enough offensively.
Outside of Rondo, who shot 10 free throws in the first half, who really should have been drawing fouls and how? How was initiating contact and not getting the whistle.
And the Celts, particularly Dooling and Pietrus, were just reaching and grabbing inside of playing solid defense. It was terrible at time. Pietrus fouled a jump shooter at least three times. Dooling gave up at least three And 1s because of bad fouls.

Lots of typos, sorry about that folks. It’s been a long day.
And I said the same thing about Pietrus after Game One.

cosign nbk. Give bron the jumper which in turn eliminates his drive effectiveness. No drive…no easy buckets, potential and ones, or his ability to kick it out to a an open teammate! Oddly enuff C’s did this in the first half to some degree. PP did play up on him pretty hard trying to show their renewed “toughness” but when youre not a defensive player…you cant keep that up for 48 minutes against anyone…especially lbj…and still be effective on the offensive end.

Do you O, anytime a NYK’s fan is sticking up for me C’s I gotta show some love back…

anthony parker and good defender on the same sentence? as a raptors fan i don’t know how to feel about ldub latest comments.

AllenP on the $, if the C’s can down a few red bulls before the game and actually drive to the hoop a few more times, they’d get more foul shots too. Bron and Wade are slashers by nature. Rondo and Garnett are taking jumpers on purpose, because the Heat are giving them daylight. And even then, Rondo still took it inside, and he got calls (except the Wade foul).