Paul Pierce is not happy

If you missed the roundup of last night’s Cleveland-Boston game, here’s the quickie synopsis.

Cavs go down 25-10 after one quarter, continue to be down by as much as 25 for most of the game, then stampede back in the fourth to win.

You probably expect us to go into some kind of LeBron James fueled frenzy, but this was typical Cavs for this season so far – play down (or up) to the level of the opponent. They were lucky enough to get away with a win this time.

No, this is about Boston.

That is flat-out one of the worst teams we’ve ever witnessed. Horrible. Terrible. Even when they were up 25, it was clear that if you just applied a little pressure, they’d turn it over every time.

Yeah, we fast-forwarded through most of the third quarter, but at no time did we think the Cavaliers couldn’t come back and win if they decided they wanted to.

So what’s Boston’s problem? We turn it over to the Celticsblog commenters, who were on a roll postgame last night with 139 angry to semi-angry comments.

# putingomes Says:
November 11th, 2006 at 11:14 pm

Simply because the Celts were in position to win games does not make Doc a good coach.

The fact that we are blowing close games in the fourth quarter is because Doc is doing things like subbing Tony f-ing Allen in as an offensive sub. Why not just throw Wally in as a defensive sub while your at it Doc, might as well take it all the way. At least make it a little funny. Just fire him, please for the love of god.

That was our thought, as well.

The talent level isn’t that bad over there. It’s not great, but they’ve got some guys that seem to know how to play basketball. The problem is they’re all just running round…running around. There seems to be no organization, rhyme, or reason to what’s happening.

Give that team a Scott Skiles or Mike Fratello and they’re probably winning 40 games. Serously, Doc Rivers is that bad.

As for our favorite guy Paul Pierce, this is the only Celts game we’ve seen this season, but he looked miserable. Even when they were up big.

Has he had that look on his chubby face all year? Get him a veteran buddy or ship him somewhere where he has one. At least give him some ice cream on the bench to make him less frowny.

NOTE: Our official theory as to why so many good teams (such as the Cavs or Mavs) are struggling to get their ish together is as follows. Remember how we noted last month how it seemed like nobody was taking the preseason seriously at all? Sitting out games or just generally not caring?

There you go – nobody’s mentally prepared, except all the allegedly crap teams like Toronto, Portland, and Atlanta, who were all revved up from the start. (This was more like an additional post than a note, but that’s the theory.)

NOTE 2: We’ve been saying it for two years – Sasha Pavlovic can PLAY.