I hate Oklahoma City.  Howard Johnson sold the team to a man that he knew was going to move the team out of the Seattle market. While I am a hard-core Celtics fan, I always watched the Sonics and followed them. Now they are in Oklahoma City?!  It was one of the saddest days in the northwest in sometime. 

Well, now I hate that team sometimes more than the Lakers.  But they're doing pretty good.  But the only thing they have pretty mush is Kevin Durant.  I know Russell Westbrook and Jeff Green, but that team is Kevin Durant.  He is averaging 27 a game and appears to be on fire.  They have a very low-scoring bench, one of the worst in the NBA in fact, and now they're facing off against the Celtics.  Young teams, like the Suns, Hawks, Magic and Pacers seem to have had their way with us.  The key is to stop the balanced effort that the young teams get against us.  The bigger key is to stop Durant. 

If we get this one, we will sweep an impressive road trip that includes wins over Miami and San Antonio.  We are among the best again. 

I got a chance to watch a little of the San Antonio game.

Perkins not only seems to be playing very well and very clutch, he is gifted offensively.  When Shaquille O'Neal was in his prime, he was all force.  He was almost no finesse.  Perkins seems to know when to be strong, when to be quick and he knows when to shoot.  That may have to do with Rajon Rondo being an unbelievable passer.

Rondo is still on fire and is quickly becoming my favorite player. 

We seem to be playing the game that won the Spurs all their titles. Grinding defense and selective half-court offense, but maybe with a bit more speed with Rondo. 

This game in Oklahoma City is going to be important for momentum.   

And while our veterans have played well, you can't deny the young players, especially Kendrick Perkins and Rajon Rondo have been playing well too.  Kendrick Perkins has followed up on his promise to take more of the offensive load, averaging over 10 a game on 59% shooting.  Rondo has the potential to lead the league in assists, but that will probably be Steve Nash's honor. 

This win in Miami was big for us.  We needed a win over a good team on the road.  Kevin Garnett had a good game too.  It looks like we're back on track for now. 

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With that said, right now, the Celtics are not playing well at all.  We are 9-4 after a 6-0 start.  We have the talent to beat almost every team in the league and we're playing sluggish basketball.  We are horrible in our offensive sets and we seem confused on defense.

We lost to the Magic who were without leader Jameer Nelson and Rashard Lewis.  We are a better team than this, the question is will we realize this before the postseason?

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What happened to our vaunted defense?  What happened period?  After a 6-0 start, we go 2-2, playing 500 basketball.  Are we complacent?  Have we lost our drive?  We lost to Atlanta and Phoenix, two very good teams.  The fourth quarter, we collapsed, allowing 25 points while we only scored 16. 

We need to start playing better if we have any chance of getting another title.  We have got to start playing the superior teams in this league a lot better than we have been lately. 

Let's hope we don't have to face Jason Richardson again after going scoreless the previous game.  He was pretty much the difference in the only game we lost so far this year.  The next game I will be watching that won't involve us is the Suns and Lakers.

Only Orlando have figured the Suns out.  The Lakers are still going strong, but I am not scared of them for some reason the way I am the Suns.

For me, the big difference between this year and last year is Shaquille O'Neal.  Steve kerr made a dumb trade getting him and now they are running again and recent acquisition channing Frye is a tough defender who can score too.

The next game I will be paying attention to that doesn't involve the Celts are the Suns and Lakers games

Also in the Suns game, Resheed Wallace did something he does way too much, miss a bunch of threes.  He was beyond frustrating.  We rebounded nicely playing the Nets and now we have to play Utah.

Meanwhile a team I thought would be better, the San Antonio Spurs, I guess are officially old.

We got our first loss, okay, hey the season is far from over, I think.......

I was worried about this one.  We have been playing great ball in our first four games, no question.  We beat Cleveland in a marquee matchup, then we returned home for three games.  The New Orleans game got a little close but it wasn't anything our defense couldn't handle.  But we were at the Garden, could we do it away from home?

We got out answer, Celtics blew out Philadelphia, 105-74.  This is an old rivalry and don't think the Sixers don't know this.  Andre Iguodala and Elton Brand are trying to make the Sixers competitive and get a title, they wanted this win.  At the end of the game, they weren't even close. 

For the first time ths season, Rondo didn't have double-digit assists.  Kevin Garnett only had three points but it is at the point his contributions aren't on the stat sheet.  Shelden Williams scored in double digits again, going for 11 and 7 rebounds.  Lester Hudson was 2-2 from 3, the only points he had, but showing some good signs early in his career. 

One good thing is last year we were a team that was essentially it's starting lineup.  I saw games where the bench cleared and it couldn't hold a lead and the starting lineup had to come back in.  Now the bench can even extend our lead.

Next we head to Minnesota, a team in disarray and trying to find it's identity, but still can beat this Boston Celtic ballclub. 

The secret is getting out that we're for real and now we're going to have a big target on our back, teams are going to be gunning for us, will Minnesota be successful?

First, I want ot apologize for not writing more.  I have been busy in this country, but I have been keeping up. 

This is huge for the Celtics.  I think eventually Rondo will be as much the scorer and passer as Steve Nash, maybe not as much of a 3-point threat, but with an defensive intensity matched by few.  He will de an all-defender and all-star for many years to come.  He is a bargain for what we got him as.

I think we'll be in the playoffs for years to come and he will be leading us there.