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Recap: Celtics hold off dirty, rotten, no-good Heat

Chuck - Red's Army March 9, 2015 Recaps 19 Comments

The Celtics rebounded from yesterday’s disheartening loss in Orlando with a gritty, gutty 100-90 victory over the gutless Miami Heat.

Isaiah Thomas played the closer yet again, scoring 12 of his 25 points in the 4th quarter. Aging cheap-shot artist Dwyane Wade had a big 4th quarter too, (15 of his game-high 34 points), but Wade fizzled over the final 4 minutes.

I was curious to watch Heat big man Hassan Whiteside. Turns out, he’s a scumbag:

Whiteside was assessed a flagrant-2 for this cowardly cheapshot on Kelly Olynyk. Anything less than a 5 game suspension will be a travesty. If you’re gonna be a tough guy, at least do it face to face. Attacking someone from behind is the sleaziest of moves.

The Green

Gigi Datome tied a career high 13 points on 6-9 shooting. James Young who?

Brandon Bass continues to kick-ass. Tonight he dropped 14 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals. He was a game-high +20. I’m guessing he had 4 or 5 dunks.

The Gross

How many games have the Celtics won when they shot 24% (6-25) from 3? I bet it’s not many. Fortunately, the Heat were worse (4-17 3 FG, 23.5%.

Greenlights

Isaiah Thomas finishes the drive but hits the floor hard

Jonas Jerebko with the long distance finger roll

Gigi with the silky smooth step-back jumper

The Grid

The Celtics had 1 turnover in the 2nd half (9 total)
Boston is 6-1 on the second night of back-to-backs (Correction – 8-5 total on season, 6-1 in the last 7)
Celtics bench had 59 points
Miami shot twice as many FTs as Boston (34-17)

The Ridiculous

. @celticsfr if the Celtics make the playoffs and win a first round series, I’ll stop shaving my head & face the rest of 2015

— John Karalis (@RedsArmy_John) March 10, 2015

The Ridiculous Part II

HAHAHA “@Marc_DAmico: Contrary to multiple media reports, Avery Bradley, is, in fact, in Miami with the Celtics. pic.twitter.com/LHC07l963V” — Emily Austen (@emilyausten_) March 10, 2015

Box score

Andre

Man I was really liking Whiteside until this, wth kind of bball is he playing? IT do NOT GET INJURED, I don’t care if you don’t actually read this blog, do not get injured! It seems fairly unlikely we make the 8th seed, but who knows…
- NE_Celt
  
  Whiteside is just another immature young player…as soon as he did that tackle play on KO I knew why…just before the play happened you could see Birdman coming to the scorers table…Whiteside knew he was getting pulled from the game so decided to get his moneys worth…what a punk…i hope he does get a suspension for that play.
jrleftfoot

the turnover stats the last couple games are amazing. can anybody explain this phenomenon to me? we change players like socks , but very rarely commit turnovers, all while playing at a fast pace.
- Andre
  
  I was trying to wrap my head around this as well, how did we suddenly become so good at taking care of the ball?
  - Andre
    
    Ahhh…. it’s taking Evan Turner, and having KO off the floor. Not that it’s entirely KO’s fault, but 5 turnovers (against Grizz) is not a good look.
Hex Effect

Learning under the great dirty scumbag Wade are you Hassan? Rat Riley bringing back his dirty 90’s Knicks swag back I see. Fuck Cryami and their 3 petty championships. 17 rings: Get at our level.
- Curt Hays
  
  THIS is my kind of fan!
- eddysamson
  
  Why is it that every time I drop a F bomb in a comment on here it gets screened and sits there hidden and never shows up? How does this guy get around that?
  - forever_green
    
    Ha, IDK. But I do miss saying whatever we want.
  - Curt Hays
    
    Well fuck you, Eddy.
    - Curt Hays
      
      HAHAHAHA, @eddysamson:disqus, I hope you find that as funny as I did.
    - eddysamson
      
      noooooooo 🙁
massappeal

Gee, it’s hard to imagine how Isaiah Thomas got knocked down by Dwyane Wade…https://masscommons.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/im-not-saying-dwyane-wade-is-a-dirty-player-but-part-39/
adam

The Bench was sick last night!
Michael Merriam

Whiteside is way overhyped. I saw a post game interview a month back in which he had trouble forming complete words, never mind sentences. Granted, if I played in an NBA game I’d surely have worse than speech issues afterwards.

He is playing for the payday, that’s it. I imagine he had a talk with his agent or a “trusted advisor” sometime around Christmas, and was told: “if you can calm down and act right for a few months, you’ll make $40 million dollars.”

Well, the wheels are coming off early. He’s proving his minimum salary worth and showing why he’s better suited for smoke-filled brute fests overseas. Some NBA exec may end up paying him $40 mil. I can only imagine the madness.

Now Brandon Bass on the other hand… wow! outta nowhere! Proving his professionalism and showing all those title contenders what they missed out on.
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