Celtics Lost Momentum

Others,

- Celtics, 7 losses out of 9 games. They lost all of their momentum carried forward from last season. Don’t be surprised if they are not in Eastern Final this year.

- Shaq is in crazy form this season, and his FTs start to falling in. Today game, 7/7.

Millsap Rocks

Jazz game,

- 19 consecutive double-double. Millsap is making his case to be an All-Star.Millsap

- D Will with flu, gave sub-par performance

Others,

- Stupid Comment of the Day by Coach Doc Rivers - "In our last timeout, you could see it in our guys' eyes. Like, 'Shoot, we're going to lose this home game'. It bothered them. You could see that. And I was thinking 'That's a good thing.'" There is one Cantonese saying describing the above - when you fall down, you try to grab a handful of sand <= trying to get something good out of a failure

The Shameful Crab Dribble

Others,

- Check this out - link. Gary Payton and Chris Webber analyze LBJ’s “Crab Dribble”. That play, definitely traveling, no brainer.

- A fun comment from Coach Van Gundy today - "We can't limit anybody at that position. If you are a 2-guard, we're the team you want to play."

- 76ers plays a way better without Elton Brand.

- Celtics lost 5 out of 7, beaten by my highly rated Bobcats.

- Can John Salmons play with Kevin Martin? His numbers dropped more than it should be after K-Mart is back.

Home Sweet Home; Millsap D-D Streak Still Alive

Jazz Game,

- Millsap double-double streak is still counting. Amazing!

- This win can’t prove much, considering i) Warrior’s soul Captain Jack did not play the 2nd Half, ii) how many points we have given up, iii) how bad we defend 3-pointers.

Jazz Lost in Staples Centre

Jazz Games,

- an expected loss. We are not in full team anyway, and the game is somewhat close in Q3 and first 7-8 mins of Q4. Same old problem, we opened the game in a bad shape.

- Millsap, indeed something. He was in a bit of foul trouble, playing only 31 mins but scored 16 pts and grabbed 17 rebs.

- I have seen about 20 mins of Jazz-Lakers game, and I saw a few times Jazz players (one of them is CJ) make similar mistakes when Lakers have some potential easy baskets.

In these situations, either you i) foul on them hard enough to not let them finish two points (and hopefully soft enough to not have flagrant foul), or ii) you give them two points.

We give them "And 1" almost every time.

I don't believe Jazz players are not tough enough to foul hard, but some of them just don't have the "blink" to make the right decision in the tenths of the second. In those moments, the player basically can't think but react with their instincts.

However, either you are born with it (the instinct, the basketball wisdom), or you need to nurture those instincts through lots of games (experience).

For the record, I think D Will does possess the wisdom, but I am not sure about CJ & Brewer.

Others,

- Marbury may go to Celtics. A reunion with KG? - link.