James Posey

rsquo; second unit in a painful and humbling fashion.  Without a calming veteran presence like James Posey to come off the bench early and often, the Celtics looked lost on offense with the second unit on the floor.  While Leon Powe, Eddie House et al can get it done sometimes, the Celtics have a painful lack of consistency off of the bench and often don’t know where the ball needs to go to get a good shot while the second unit is on the floor.  I almost feel like it would be better if Doc just told Eddie House to jack up a three pointer and had everybody else just go for the offensive rebound, it would be more natural for House and might actually get the Celtics better shots off of the second chance opportunities (wait, this isn’t what they’re doing now???).  

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 James Posey has been pretty impressive...  

Tony Allen has a long way to go.

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e players are the ones needed by the Cs and they need more players to step it up like they did with James Posey leaving for New Orleans.

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'm particularly high on Miles (no pun intended) and think he could be a large part of the Replacing James Posey equation. Scalabrine and Cassell? Dead weight, plain and simple.

I'm not confident that the Celts will cut either player, but I'd love for them to become the 14th and 15th men, allowing others to develop. If that's the case, then perhaps their veteran knowledge will be invaluable at practice. But if they start eating up minutes that might otherwise go to the young guys, that's when I get frustrated. And with the talent this team has, we're not talking about a lot of minutes here. Once you get past the first seven or eight positions, there's only so much time left. So give it to the prospects and see what they've got.

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ml script, I hope so...) and the retirement of PJ Brown.

I've done nothing but bemoan the loss of James Posey since it happened, and I still hold firm that Darius Miles, despite his status as a no risk-high reward signing, is not an adequate replacement for the quintessential unselfish glue guy (two phrases that have only been mentioned in conjunction with Miles to describe things he is NOT).  Needless to say, the Celtics are paper thin at the wing, lacking a bench player with enough size to guard legitimate NBA small forwards and still be quick enough and enough of a perimeter threat to hang with the quicker, smaller 3s that are everywhere in the NBA these days.  Posey did all of those things, as well as provide championship level experience, reliable outside shooting, rebounding, and tough as nails defense.  The lowest common denominator for the Celtics wings this year would be having a few reliable bodies to eat up minutes (and fouls) while Paul Pierce is on the bench and resting.  At this point, they don't even have this locked down yet, which scares the living crap out of me more than the thought of having to watch another Manning championship run.

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team has made since winning it all this past June.  Although the team will be hurting without James Posey to do anything and everything for the Celtics this year, I am waiting in eager anticipation to see how the likes of Big Baby Davis and Leon Powe will step up to fill the voids left by some of last year’s departing veterans.

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dquo; undervalues the contributions and efforts of the other Celtics like Rajon Rondo, Eddie House, James Posey, Kendrick Perkins, Leon Powe, Tony Allen, Glen Davis, PJ Brown and the alien from the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull… er, I mean Sam Cassell (don’t forget Scal and Scott Pollard!).  Each and every one of those guys, especially Scalabrine, made contributions to the team and were vital parts of this championship run.  The Celtics are all about teamwork, sacrifice and selflessness, and it won them a title.  Highlighting just the three all stars as the contributors goes against every key characteristic of the Celtics’ identity.

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I'm somewhat at a loss for words today (surprising, no?).  All I can say is that the Lakers got lucky last night in more ways than just the favorable officiating (Kobe just about hacked Paul Pierce's arm off on the decisive steal, but the game was not lost there).  The Lakers are lucky that KG missed two crucial free-throws (which, should the Celtics lose will become the mother of all albatrosses hanging around the Big TIcket's neck), and especially lucky that 3 of 5 Celtic starters are hurt during the biggest games of the entire season.  Knowing that, the Lakers should be ahead, they should be cruising to a championship, but they aren't.  The Celtics botched game five and spoiled a brilliant performance by Paul Pierce that could have, and should have clinched the series. The bad news for LA is that the Celtics know that, and they won't let it happen again.

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all, I thought that the Celtics' defensive effort was pretty good.  Ray Allen, Paul Pierce and James Posey all deserve credit for plating great defense on Kobe Bryant and forcing him into so many difficult looks.  Kobe seemed to start gunning and just chucking up shots for a good deal of the game which took the Lakers out of rhythm and stagnated their offense.  Although the Celtics' defense worked this time against Kobe, I think that it's crucial for the Celtics to change up and throw some different defensive schemes against the Lakers.  Phil Jackson will adjust, as will Kobe and the other Lakers, so it's important for the Celtics to adjust as well.

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ould disrupt Gasol at least a little.  On the perimeter, the Celtics can match Paul Pierce and James Posey up against Lamar Odom (when they aren't guarding Kobe), and put everybody else on the Black Mamba.  Rajon Rondo should also be able to cope with Derek Fisher better than Fisher will be able to handle Rondo, which should work in Boston's favor (though Fisher is consistent and confident, crucial traits that Rondo is LACKING). 

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I can remember watching him take a contested three pointer last night when James Posey, who is a better three point shooter, was wide open calling for the ball. Cassell saw Posey and decided to shoot it anyway, failing to hit the rim and getting called for a shot clock violation

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 James Posey will definitely see a lot of time guarding LeBron, and hopefully he can use his skills and talents to at least take James out of his rhythm a little bit.  We could also see Garnett on james a bit, though I doubt if KG will really be asked to pick LeBron up at the three-point line and guard him all the way to the basket.  Still, I imagine that Garnett will play a crucial role in defending and containing LeBron James on the basketball court.  Although LeBron has continually beat opposing doubleteams because of his height and tremendous court vision, I think that the Celtics could use the double team situationally to derail Cleveland's vaunted offensive game plan of "give the ball to LeBron and watch him score."

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