Back on track?

CELTICS WIN TWO IN A ROW AGAINST THE RAPTORS, SCALABRINE RETURNS AS "THE ENFORCER", PIERCE GOES BANANAS AND SCORES 39 AFTER LOOKING KINDA CRAPPY FOR THE LAST MONTH OR SO

I don't know if the Celtics are "fixed"- two good games in a row against a mediocre-at-best Raptors team isn't saying much- but a lot of the problems that have plagued the Celtics recently (horrible turnovers, horrible ball rotation to find the hot hand, horrible bench play, horrible free throw shooting, horrible execution in crunch time) have melted away as of late. Sure, the Big Three played 40+ minutes last night but it was an OT game.

Scalabrine, God love him, was at his gooey best against the Raptors. First of all, he legitimately stood up to Joey Graham's punkass behavior, which shocked everybody except for those of us that watched Scal push people around when he's in "Enforcer" mode the last couple years. I don't want to belittle Scal when I say that "No Brain, No Pain" is his outlook on NBA tussles, because I am starting to think that his unconventional pastiness, flaming red hair, short shorts, donut addiction, and slight lisp works to his advantage.

When you think about it, it would be scary to get in a fight with Joey Graham. But if you're Joey Graham, wouldn't you rather fight KG than Scal? What does Scalabrine have to lose? But if you're looking at it from Graham's perspective, Scal's got 350 pounds of crazy stuffed into his doughy, 250-pound leprechaun body. Remember how Stephen Jackson flipped out when faced with the prospect of fighting a one-armed man at a strip club? Few people want to lose a fight to a one-armed man, but nobody wants to lose a fight to Brian Scalabrine. If you were a third grader and Scal kicked your ass this morning, you'd have to have transferred schools by the early afternoon. If Scal whups your ass as a professional basketball player, you pretty much need to do what this guy did- fake your own death by crashing your plane in Florida.



Anyway, kudos to the Celtics for playing a lot better. Not 19-game-winning-streak better, but certainly good enough to contend for the top seed in the East. Here's hoping that they build on this momentum, Pierce starts playing with a chip on his shoulder again, and Scal keeps getting into little scuffles with the opposing team's punkass benchwarmers. Go C's!Source URL: http://ledger-heath.blogspot.com/2009/01/back-on-track.html
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