While I'm sorry to do this, it's time to throw Scal under the bus. Look, you know you're in trouble when your #1 big man off the bench is a 6'9 white guy from Southern Cal. We can all agree, that's a given. But when its a guy who was on the championship team from the previous year and got to play exactly zero minutes without even being injured, you're really in for a rocky road.
I know he's all they got left after Powe messed up his knee, and I know he's been playing his ass off, particularly on the defensive side of the ball, but when you shoot threes like Rajon Rondo and play post defense like Chris Webber, you're looking at a point night with probably 5 boards and 5 fouls in about 20 minutes of action. That's pretty tough action to watch. I guess it should be mentioned that Scal did have the 5th highest salary on the team coming into the year. Note, that Starbury's doesn't count because the Knicks are paying it and well, frankly, it's just hard to believe Mikki Moore is making that kind of dough for fouling people in 7 minutes of action.
Bottom line is that it's just tough to win without a #1 big man on the court, and it's even tougher when you have to play against Dwight Howard. I'm not really sure there are any moves the Cs can pull here to get things together. Really, it seems like the only way Boston pulls this one out is to have Allen (not Tony) & Pierce drop at least 30 a piece. Everyone seems very much hot or not, which just does not bode well.
Chuck Daly dying is just another slap on the face for the 2009 Pistons. I'm pretty sure outside of a first degree murder, that things could not possibly go any worse.
"You're Fucking Out. I'm Fucking In."
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