The Truth is Back

After looking like a Zombie for the first 3.5 Quarters last night, The Truth stepped up like we knew he would.  It just looks like he is injured or running on fumes. 

A few other comments from last night’s game. 

• The Celtics continue to miss too many shots
• The Bulls, like all teams should be, are great at foul shooting.  It has kept them in the season.
• Doc has finally given up on Mikki Moore, quite possibly the worst player in the league. 
• I always wondered what Perk could do if he played 35-40 minutes a night.  I hope his Game 5 performance was an indicator of his potential value. 
• The Refs let virtually everything go last night except all the touch fouls on Ray Allen?  I thought that was bizarre, that he and Perk switched rolls for the night. 
• Karma struck that oaf Brad Miller in his snaggletooth at the end of that game.  He was trying to be an instigator all night, the basketball gods made him pay. 
• Tony Allen is valueless.  He is so easy to up fake.  He is not a good defender, quite contrary to this wierd belief that athleticism = good defender.  I hope to goodness that Tony Allen doesn’t ever play crunch time minutes again. 
• How disturbing was Ben Gordon’s nut grab at the end of Game 4?  He was squeezing his package soooo bad that it started to look like a bondage film.
• Let’s hope the C’s can close this out tomorrow and get some rest for those tired legs. 

Is It Time To End The Tony Allen Experiment ?

From Mike Fine:

The bench needs some direction. Tony Allen is a disaster with the ball. He ranks 39th in the NBA in turnovers per 48 minutes (4.1) and 300th in assists/turnovers ratio (.73). Leon Powe isn’t nearly as effective scoring the ball as last season and Doc Rivers is so desperate for scoring off the bench that he’s given Glen Davis a full go-ahead to shoot the elbow jumper. A brute who scored 16 points in the paint in the final quarter of a win at Detroit last season is now shooting at a .373 clip. Eddie House has done a nice job as a shooting guard, but he’s not a quarterback, and Gabe Pruitt is, at the moment, strictly a garbage time performer.

For those reasons, Marbury makes sense. If he can wriggle his way out of his Knicks contract, he can be very useful to the Celtics, who can later thank him for several months of service before he parts ways in search of his next big payday.

In one word: YES!