Gm 73: Celtics at Knicks 3/31 7:30pm

[69centers]

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Date: Easter Sunday, March 31st, 2013
Time: 7:30PM
Location: Madison Square Garden, NY, NY
TV: CSNHD

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUPS:



Avery Bradley - Courtney Lee - Paul Pierce - Jeff Green - Brandon Bass






Pablo Prigioni - Raymond Felton - Iman Shumpert - Carmelo Anthony - Kenyon Martin


Key Matchup



GREEN v. ANTHONY

[69centers]

I'm feeling good about tonight. I don't think we'll let JR Smith hurt us as much as last time. I'm sure Bradley will be on him. Pierce is known for hitting daggers in front of Spike, so I'm banking on one of those tonight.

[CELTICS4LYFE]

Happy Easter everyone!!! Enjoy your day and the game!!!! GO C's!!!!

[Corey]

Happy Easter, folks.

[kobe4thewinbang]

Here's hoping to another game like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suu7sB0I85o
Hope Green goes off again tonight. End NY's 7 game win streak.

[69centers]

I wasn't aware they had won 7 in a row. Time to fix that tonight!

[bagwell368]

Well, possible playoff foe. NYK has talent, but, I don't like they way they play as a team. They play below the collected parts. Good for us, bad for them and their fans and GM.

[B'sCeltsPatsSox]

Well, possible playoff foe. NYK has talent, but, I don't like they way they play as a team. They play below the collected parts. Good for us, bad for them and their fans and GM.

Definitely agree with this. Their team is also filled with underachievers come playoff time as well.

[bagwell368]

Been watching Crawford. Excellent bounce pass to Lee and nice drive against a big for a short shot.

However, he has been both inert and uncommitted on D. Mostly hangs out 5-6 feet above the foul line covering nobody. When he does get near the ball he doesn't bend his knees or commit, just waves a hand at them. Doesn't fight for rebounding position or rebounds either.

Also he sets up on O like your basic wing, and waits. He creates with the ball, but, hardly moves w/o the ball.

Whichever team shoots 3's better the rest of the way will win - that seems to be NYK at this point.

[YoungOne]

like we never played defense before..

[bagwell368]

turnstiles on D tonight.

[B'sCeltsPatsSox]

If it wasn't obvious before, it's pretty obvious now to see that KG is the anchor of this team.

[69centers]

Been watching Crawford. Excellent bounce pass to Lee and nice drive against a big for a short shot.

However, he has been both inert and uncommitted on D. Mostly hangs out 5-6 feet above the foul line covering nobody. When he does get near the ball he doesn't bend his knees or commit, just waves a hand at them. Doesn't fight for rebounding position or rebounds either.

Also he sets up on O like your basic wing, and waits. He creates with the ball, but, hardly moves w/o the ball.

Whichever team shoots 3's better the rest of the way will win - that seems to be NYK at this point.

He made a few nice passes in a row as soon as he got in the game. The Terry miss would have been another nice assist. He's been bad on D, but so has the entire team tonight with the exception of Bradley and maybe Randolph. His moving without the ball should be addressed by the coaching staff. Even before Crawford got here, there's been a lot of standing around since Rondo went out. This is on the coaching staff to come up with better offensive sets.

Brandon Bass should take 3 shots per game, because other than that, there are too many other guys on the floor who should be taking the shot over Bass. Bass drove to the rim in the first half when he had no lane, and no business doing it, and could have passed it out but didn't. This should never be in our offensive plans.

[B'sCeltsPatsSox]

He made a few nice passes in a row as soon as he got in the game. The Terry miss would have been another nice assist. He's been bad on D, but so has the entire team tonight with the exception of Bradley and maybe Randolph. His moving without the ball should be addressed by the coaching staff. Even before Crawford got here, there's been a lot of standing around since Rondo went out. This is on the coaching staff to come up with better offensive sets.

Brandon Bass should take 3 shots per game, because other than that, there are too many other guys on the floor who should be taking the shot over Bass. Bass drove to the rim in the first half when he had no lane, and no business doing it, and could have passed it out but didn't. This should never be in our offensive plans.

Bass is shooting roughly 45% from 10-23 feet away, which is fine. It's also kinda funny to see the two biggest Bass critics criticize him for being a bad shooter when they are the two people who love Rondo the most in this forum and he definitely shoots worse than Bass from that range.

[69centers]

He's still not as big a scoring threat as Terry, Green, or Pierce, and when those guys are on the court, I don't ever want Bass even doing anything more than moving the ball without dribbling. The offense stalls and looks really bad once Bass tries to start spinning and driving to the hoop. He's great when he's wide open and gets a pass where he can just catch and shoot. Anything else and it's ugly. He's not skilled at creating his own shot, so he should not be trying it when 3 other guys around him can.