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BLACK AND BLUE
BLACK AND BLUE
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Game Time Start: 7:30 PM ET
Where: TD Garden, Boston, MA
Officials: M. Callahan, B. Adams, B. Barnaky
Media Notes: Indiana Notes, Boston Notes
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 PACERS Paul George โ Stanchioned (out) George Hill โ Bruised Left Knee (out) Rodney Stuckey - Sore left foot (out) C.J. Watson โ Bruised Right Foot (out) David West โ Sprained Right Ankle (out) CELTICS Vitor Faverani - Left Knee Surgery Out (out) |
Saturday, November 5, 1994, Indiana and Boston faced off for the first time that season. How many Hall of Famers saw the floor off during these 48 minutes? |
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| Paul Flannery: The Celtics are your favorite Cinderella team While the Celtics continue to suffer growing pains and frustrating losses, we're finally seeing what they may look like under Brad Stevens. BOSTON -- On Monday night, in the midst of what should have been another double-digit loss to a superior Western Conference foe, Celtics coach Brad Stevens unleashed a lineup featuring Rajon Rondo, Avery Bradley and Marcus Smart. It was the the most exciting development of the Stevens era. Taken individually, the three guards are all roughly point-guard sized, quick as hell and a pain in the neck to play against. Taken together, they caused all sorts of havoc for the Dallas Mavericks, who had to be wondering what they did to deserve this. During the C's relentless, but ultimately doomed comeback against the Mavs, my friend Justin Verrier summed it up perfectly. Of course, there's a reason why pro teams don't play like college squads: there are too many games, too many minutes and too many competent ballhandlers and coaches to counter even the most inventive strategies. What Stevens did was risky in a sense, but playing conventionally is often a doomed proposition for this group. "We'll use it," Stevens said before his team played the Raptors on Wednesday. "Anytime that you're down 26, you're throwing darts and you hope something sticks. It's much easier to play down 26 then up 26. I don't think we'll be able to say there's a definitive answer from that small sample size. Certainly you'll see it, because as you go through the list of where I would rank our players as far as who's the most impactful on our team, all three of those guys are in it. Marcus Smart's physicality gives you a chance to guard bigger guys." The Celtics are both versatile and undersized at almost every position. Kelly Olynyk is a floor-spacing big man who could use a rim-protecting giant next to him on the backline. Jared Sullinger is really a short center who makes up for his lack of height with girth and a rebounder's nose for the ball. Even the regular Rondo-Bradley backcourt is small when matched up with bigger scoring guards. Only nominal small forward Jeff Green is the appropriate dimension for his position, and the Celtics often need him to be a stretch 4. Green allows the Celtics to play conventionally-small at times with a point guard, three wings and either Sullinger or Olynyk. Yet it's the rookie Smart who allows them to try the three-guard look. He's strong enough to deal with most wings and quick enough to go full-court against opposing guards. Their play against the Mavs did not go unnoticed. "Their small lineup is dangerous," Raptors coach Dwane Casey said. "It's their style of play and Brad has them playing really, really hard. They're taking it to another level because of their speed and quickness." That look made only a cameo appearance on Wednesday. Down six with just under nine minutes to play, they held serve for a while, but Stevens got them out of it once the Raps started breaking down the exposed interior of their defense. Without a true defensive presence in the paint, the limits to the approach are obvious. Yet we are starting to see...CONTINUE READING AT SB NATION |
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Celtics Gary Washburn @GwashburnGlobe Chris Forsberg @ESPNForsberg Jeff Clark @celticsblog John Karalis @RedsArmy_John Tom Westerholm @Tom_NBA Chuck M. @RedsArmy_Chuck |
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