Boston Celtics at Charlotte 12/16

[tamburello]

Charlotte Bobcats are hosting Boston Celtics(9-13) tonight at 7 pm ET. Celtics are the hottest team in the East, with 4-game winning streak. But we've also rebounded wonderfully by beating East-leaders Magic in style after losing 4 in a row(including 3 ugly losses to 3 West-Powerhouses).

We'll face an injury-plagued team again, Celtics will be playing without 4 frontcourt players, Kendrick Perkins, Ryan Gomes, Theo Ratliff and Michael Olowokandi. But Al Jefferson is really becoming a threat, and of course Paul Pierce is Paul Pierce. If we get Jefferson into foul trouble early enough and Gerald does his job well to contain Pierce, I believe we'll win consecutive games for the first time this season.

May can surpass his career-high tonight, since Celts' frontcourt is so weak.

[ziggy]

Tamburello, you're 100% right, this is the night that we get our first winning strek of the season. Boston is weak up front and between Emeka and Sean May, we should be able to exploit that and get a win.

[Wallace15]

The injury to Ryan Gomes is big for them because he's done really well against us both games. I do think we get our first winning streak of the season, and Emeka will BEAST Jefferson. I just hope Wallace can contain Pierce. Pierce kills us almost everytime we play them.

[buckethead]

AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHH!!! I just realized that theres no TV broadcast for tonight's game :blowup:

[Wallace15]

Anderson in the starting line-up...is Knight hurt or somthing?

[tamburello]

He must be hurt. Or there is no explanation we play Derek Anderson as PG since Ray picked up two early fouls. We trail 27-26 after 1st period, and we couldn't stop Jefferson-he scored 8.

[ziggy]

I think that he banged his knee in the last game. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

From just looking at the Yahoo game stats, it looks like Crash is off to a nice start with 9 points early in the 2nd quarter.

[tamburello]

WOOW :o :o We jumped off to a great start to 2nd quarter. We outscored Celts 17-8.

Remember Magic game, we had outscored them in 2nd 30-20, it was where we caught the lead and never gave away. We want the same.

[tamburello]

OMG. :mad: :mad: We let our 9-point lead go and now at 10-point hole 50-60!! How did that crap happened? How did we let Pierce score 21 points without missing a shot? We really suck right now.

[ziggy]

21 by Paul Pierce and 15 by Al Jefferson... We're getting lit up by the SG/SF position again :-\

[tamburello]

This match is all about ups and downs. We came from 10-point deficit and now lead 81-78 while entering final period.

By the way, Okafor has 8 blocks and 13 rebos, he may go to a triple-double.

[ziggy]

By the way, Okafor has 8 blocks and 13 rebos, he may go to a triple-double.
8 blocks in the 3rd quarter is crazy :hypo: . I hope he gets the triple double

[buckethead]

Big game for Crash too .31 points with 2 minutes left to play.

We're up by 1. Bernie DON'T SCREW THIS UP.

[tamburello]

Heartbreak and loss... A classical Bobcats loss, dunno what to say. Maybe just give some numbers.

Okafor 12 points, 19 rebos, 8 blocks(last two were both franchise-record tying which were already set by Okafor)

Wallace 31 points, 6 rebos, 3 blocks

on the other hand Pierce with 35/11, Jefferson with 22/10.

Our nightmares came true..

[ziggy]

CRAP!!!! We blew another game and lost 106-100. We wasted a crazy stat line by Emeka 12 points, 17 boards and 8 blocked shots.

[dvdbumpus]

I only wish we gave May more than 10 minutes.

[Jonathanmartin7]

How bad is Sean hurt?

[tamburello]

How bad is Sean hurt?



Charlotte's Sean May, who scored a career-high 32 points in the Bobcats' win over Orlando on Thursday, came down awkwardly on the back of Okafor's foot during a battle for a defensive rebound early in the second quarter. He immediately hobbled to the locker room and did not return.

"The good thing about it was as soon as it happened I got all my weight off of it," said May, who was on crutches as he left the arena. "That probably saved me a few weeks right there. It got really swollen."

[dvdbumpus]

Oh. Well, Shit.