January 4, 1980
3-POINT STRATEGY PAYS OFF
The Celtics continue to make strategic use of the three- point field goal. They shot 4-for-6 against the Rockets from long range Wednesday night, raising their season's percentage to .384 (72-187). Chris Ford went 1-for-2 (his only field goal), as he increased his streak to 20 of 21 games where he has made one three-pointer.
The Rockets, who entered the game as one of the least productive three- point teams, shot 3-for-6 - all by Rick Barry, who stuck in three consecutive third quarter bombs in the midst of a personal 12-point run. The totals of four by Boston and three by Houston represented both new opponent and new one-game high's for Rocket games. Barry's marksmanship increased the Houston percentage on three-pointers to - ugh - .160 (18-112).
Tiny Archibald had entered the Houston game without being the league's assist leader for the first time all season. His repsonse was a 17-assist masterpiece to equal to his second-high of the season. Archibald has been in double figures in assists on 12 occasion. In those 12 games the Celtics are 12-2. One of the losses, interestingly enough,came on the first Boston visit here when Tiny had 19 assists in a 129-120 San Antonio victory.
The only other losing team effort in an Archibald double-figures-assist- game came in Philadelphia on Dec. 22. In addition, Tiny has had six other games with nine assists . . . Going back to three-pointers for a minute, Larry Bird is 10-for-16 from that range over a nine-game span. Both he and M.L. Carr backed up after receiving passes in order to get into three-point range, and each was successfull on that particular shot.
Boston is in the enviable position of resting up here while the Spurs are playing in Kansas City tonight. Tomorrow's game has been scratched from the Ch. 4 dance card, to be replaced by the March 4 encounter in the HemisFair . . . The Celtics ran for 32 fast-break points in the first half of the Houston game, but they only picked up 12 more following the intermission. One big factor in the comeback triunph over Houston was the offensive rebounding. The Celtics retained posession on four separate occasions in the final six minutes, with Cedric Maxwell being a key man. Max picked up 10 of his game- high (and personal season high) 29 points via the second-chance route. In one span of 4:10, after the Rockets had taken a 97-93 lead, Maxwell scored 12 of the next 14 Boston points.
The Celtics are 2-1 with San Antonio this season the home team having prevailed in all three games. The Spurs are very much an in-and-out team . . . Bill Fitch continued to rave about the great officiating of Jack Madden and Jess Kersey in Houston. Even with "the way those twocenters (Moses Malone and Dave Cowens) were banging each other, that game was still officiated fairly," Fitch stated. The Rockets, naturally, did not agree, since they shot 24 fewer free throws (40-16) than the visitors. But all surveyed Rockets manfuly admitted group culpability in not holding a fourth quarter lead at home . . . The next home game (and first of a seven-game homestand) will be against New York Wednesday, Jan. 9.
17 comments:
Yeah, baby.
We got arroyo.
I'm not like pumping my fist excited or anything.
But I'll take arroyo over bradley any day.
Come on.
It's just like sasha.
The Red Baron (von wafer) is now hurt.
Exactly who would be playing the three if we didn't have sasha?
it's official
WE BE DEEP
Y'all ready for the stretch run?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTG94tVdkbQ
Like I was saying, doc has his work cut out with the second unit:
Rivers said of the revamped second unit, “They’ve got to get out of their habits, wherever they have been. We don’t go long [in practice], but we play with intensity, we play hard. Some of their habits have to change — it will, it’s just going to take time.’’
Rivers values tough defense, including players learning to cover for one another. “But you can’t do that unless you have unbelievable focus and intensity, and that’s what we’re trying to show them,’’ he said. “I thought they were trying to do the right stuff and help but they’re always late because they’re not ready.
“A lot of pros think practice is leisure, and we don’t believe that. When you have starters going 35 minutes hard and the second unit going at cruise control, that’s not going to settle well with me.’’
Arroyo will help with some miami secrets, we wont have to send rondo in undercover
Yeah, matty, that was pretty funny.
spurs-lakers game should be good today.
The other night the spurs looked like the 1986 Cs against the Heat.
Matt Bonner thought he was larry bird
Were the spurs that good or the heat that bad?
I think we know the answer
Shaq Now Out Indefinitely
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Anyone else reminded of this:
http://lexnihilnovi.blogspot.com/2008/09/not-so-green-mile-1988-comeback.html
A big old 16 points from the bench!
Helen of Troy has yet to score a field goal in green!
nenad: 3 rebounds in 29 minutes
celtics outrebounded by 6 as a team
doc's not sure if arroyo will get any pt.
Say what?
With avery bradley in front of him?
Cripes, kelvin upshaw and dirk minnifield both would get minutes ahead of avery
agreed, but what about when delonte and von are back???
delonte is still soon, like Wed, no?
I wonder just how injured shaq is.
Danny just said in an interview that shaq looks strong.
????
Anyway, maybe its the kind of injury you play through in the playoffs.
Or, maybe, shaq remains sidelined to give the new guys more PT.
Ya think?
i have a bad feeling we wont see shaq until the playoffs!!
but yeah maybe it gives us chance to get the new guys integrated, as long as it don't cost us homecourt, i dont mind!
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