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By: Kurt

Kurt — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:25:48 +0000

new post up

By: wondahbap

wondahbap — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:23:07 +0000

pb,

No. You are 100% about Heinsohn. I live in New England, so I listen to him on Celtics broadcasts. I am shocked he was able to be the #1 color guy for NBA broadcasts at one point. His homerism is legendary, and he’s turned most Celtics fans into whiners about officiating. Any time they lose. “It’s a fixed league”, “the NBA doesn’t want the C’s to win”, or my fave, “the refs have a Lakers bias.” Which is funny, because we sure didn’t get to cash that check last June.

By: BCR

BCR — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:02:30 +0000

57,

I commented about this in the San Antonio preview post, but might as well rehash it:

Anyhow, with this out of the way, the hardest two-game stretch for us for the rest of the season is out of the way. For the rest of the season, our remaining (possibly) difficult games are Dallas, @Detroit, @Atlanta, Houston, Denver, @Portland, and Utah. Of those, the only ones that really show a decent amount of difficulty are Detroit, who seems to have their mojo back with Iverson going back to the bench, Atlanta, who is a tough team to play in their house, Houston, although I doubt their chances of beating us at home, and Portland, possibly the hardest game left in the regular season. Now, let’s see we lose four of the tough games and win the rest. That leaves us at 65-17, which is a pretty damn good record.

Cleveland, which at this point is our only real threat for HCA seeing as Boston is slipping with no Rondo and no Garnett, has Orlando, Portland, Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, @Orlando, San Antonio, and Boston as its remaining fairly tough games. The key point is that with the exception of Orlando, all of these games are at home, where only we have been able to beat them. That said, they have to finish with a record of 66-16 or better — as we have the tiebreaker — to get HCA. That gives them three or fewer losses, meaning that they’re going to have to lose some home games or get upset on the road outside of Orlando (go Washington!) for us to claim HCA. Now, we certainly could finish with a record better than 65-17, but it’s going to be a remarkably close race between Cleveland and us. We don’t have a whole lot of margin for error, and we might end up banking on the Cavs losing a few down the stretch.

All this said though, I think Phil and Kobe will keep the team pretty motivated for the prospect of HCA for the remainder of the season, so it should be a fun finish.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:52:56 +0000

im really liking how we are not attempting as many 3pointers in the past 2 games

By: Snoopy2006

Snoopy2006 — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:25:42 +0000

It looks like our first round opponent will likely be the Mavs. That’s too bad, I was hoping the Suns could sneak in. It would bring more intrigue and some closure to the battles these two teams have had over the years, if finally we met them in the playoffs and enacted some direct revenge for the 2 first round losses.

Does anyone know offhand how the Cavs strength of schedule down the stretch compares to ours?

By: pb

pb — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:23:36 +0000

i’m just glad that celtic homer, Tommy Heinsohn, doesn’t do network coverage anymore. Do you remember the Stockton and Heinsohn duo in the 80′s? I remember muting the TV and listen to Chick Hearn on radio because I got so annoyed by the biased commentating.

It went something like this…when McHale clotheslined Rambis in the ’84 Finals.

Stockton: Magic passes to Rambis. He goes for a layup. McHale with a hard foul takes down Rambis.

Heinsohn: A great foul. In playoffs, you can’t give up easy layups.

Stockton: Rambis gets up and charges toward McHale.

Heinsohn: He’s overreacting. McHale was only trying to keep him from scoring.

Me: What the #%$@! Is he watching the same game I’m watching?!

Compared to Heinsohn, Jackson, JVG, and Collins are all upgrades…at least to me.

Am I the only one who remembers this? I feel old…

By: Apricot

Apricot — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:07:37 +0000

In the early days, JVG would actually talk about why something was bad defense. They occasionally still do (I remember one nice little breakdown of a play in the Celtics game where it looked like Garnett just screwed up, but it was actually Rondo who failed to rotate), but too often fall back on “That was just horrible D” and talking about what a square JVG is.

I’ve come to appreciate Hubie Brown over the years… he gives mostly solid comments with some good insights and doesn’t try to get off zingers or catchphrases. I think it was him who was announcing some game (perhaps the Jazz game in the 08 playoffs where Kobe came back from an knee injury?) where Kobe had been taking it easy most of the game but them elevated for a huge dunk. I remember the announcers just cracking up, taking a pause and then Hubie saying “I think the knee is better now… it looked like he took off from a trampoline!” Perfect.

By: The Dude Abides

The Dude Abides — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:29:22 +0000

53. That was a great announcing duo. Poor Marv. One thing I learned from his assault case was never have any type of relations if I’m in the state of Virginia at the time. He got railroaded worse than Kobe and the Duke LAX team combined.

By: kwame a.

kwame a. — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:33:33 +0000

Late to the announcer dance, but just wanted to say that my favorite team was the O.G. NBC team, Fratello and pre-arrest Marv. Besides the man-crush for MJ, these two just called the basketball game and that’s the problem with all other play-by-play guys now except Breen. Tirico (who is my least favorite), Harlan, even Joel Myers dabble in college and pro football, and anything else they can announce. It makes them give a real basic play-by-play call, and rely on simple comments to bridge to the color commentator. I hate for instance when Tirico says something like, “and here’s Shaq, 14 time all-star, 4 time champion,” or “and we all know about what happened this week with the firing of Avery Johnson”. These type of dudes never acutally call the game.

By: harold

harold — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:28:38 +0000

well, one against portland, but somehow i failed to remember that thanks to some association with henry abbot (don’t ask how i lumped the two together)