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AC TITTICOCK'S WEEKLY FREE NBA BASKETBALL PICKS AND WINNERS
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AC's Wagercom 2007-2008 NBA Picks Season Record
Wins: 101 Losses: 92 Ties: 4
NBA Picks Winning Percentage: 52%
Record updated Saturdays and Mondays
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AC'S NBA 2007-2008 PLAYOFFS ROUND 1 FREE NBA PICKS & COLUMN:
What a miserable start to the playoffs for a Celtics fan. I don’t think I have the energy to write a column today after watching Boston squander another big fourth quarter lead in Atlanta. The team that won 66 games in the regular season has turned softer than a silk nightie worn by Bar Refaeli. As much as I don’t want to relive it, below are the reasons the Celtics are choking:
1. Kevin Garnett hates scoring when it matters.
Twice last night late in the fourth quarter, KG got the ball within eight feet of the basket and both times he passed it out. Once for an ok shot by Ray Allen and once for a wide open 35 foot bomb by James Posey. If KG thinks Posey lofting up a three from Peachtree Avenue is a better shot than a turn around jumper from eight feet out, he is a dingus (and I am not entirely sure what a dingus is, but I am guessing it is bad). Once the game gets close and near the end, KG folds up like an old card table. Not only does he pass up shots, but he throws weak alligator arms type passes. It is so clear he does not want the ball, it is frightening. I am actually embarrassed for him after last night’s performance. All of that macho bravado crap he pulls during the regular season is just for show, and for that, we are all a little bit sadder.
2. Ray Allen’s legs are shot.
Allen has not only been torched on defense all series, but last night he had no legs in his 0 for 6 or 7 shooting in the last five minutes. He was bad, nothing else to say, but hey, that’s what you get when you trade for a 32 year old shooting guard coming off of double ankle surgery.
3. Sam Cassell is a chucker and ruins the flow of the game.
I was 100% for the Sam Cassell acquisition, and still think that there might be a role for him on the Celtics should they grow back their ball sacs and advance, but he has been brutal this series except for in Game 5. Sam needs to understand it is a team game. He needs to keep moving the ball and feeding Pierce or KG (only if it is the first half with KG since we have already discussed how KG gets tighter than Joan Rivers’ face in crunch time). Cassell is out for his, whatever his may be, but I am pretty sure it is not a championship.
4. Paul Pierce needs to be more aggressive, channel his 2001 Paul Pierce, and grow the fuck up.
He got screwed last night with some of the calls, but still, he has to be smart enough to not get a technical when it matters. Putting that aside though, he has been more passive than Rosie O’Donnell at a salad bar. He needs to take over the game on offense since KG won’t, Ray Allen can’t, and Sam Cassell sucks right now. Pierce should be driving to the hole, attacking the rim, and abusing whoever is covering him like an Austrian engineer. I know the old days of running the offense through Pierce were a bit of an eyesore, but he is the only guy who can take over a game for the Celtics and they need someone to step into that role. Ubuntu is great and all during the regular season, but you need a stone cold killer in the playoffs instead of a bunch of mamby pamby vaginas who all play hot potato with the ball in the fourth quarter.
5. Doc Rivers is a fucking idiot (and I apologize for my language, but he is so much more than just regular idiot and my vocabulary is very limited as I am etymologically challenged).
Seriously, I don’t even know where to begin on this but there is a reason Doc has never won a playoff game. He single-handedly lost Game Four for the Celtics by sitting Rajon Rondo for the first six minutes of the fourth quarter, thus allowing the lead to go from 10 to 1. Rondo was the whole reason the Celtics even had a lead. Rondo is 22 years old and well rested, there is no reason for him to sit on the bench for six minutes in the fourth quarter, none. There’s more reason for a Waterworld sequel or for Ray Romano’s stand-up career than there is for Rondo’s benching. Taking Rondo out was Doc Rivers’ Grady Little leaving Pedro in for the 8th inning against the Yankees in 2003 moment. I will now be referring to Doc as Grady Rivers. The knock on Grady Rivers has always been that he didn’t have the players to win, well in this case he had them, he just refused to play them.
Rivers’ rotations have completely killed this team. He went ten deep in the first ten minutes of Game 6. Why??? What is the point? Play your best eight guys and that’s it. Big Baby and PJ Brown can sit on the bench unless they are absolutely needed. Rondo, KG, Pierce, and Allen should be playing 40+ minutes a night, end of story (well not really, I am going to rant for a few more paragraphs). In Game 6, the Celtics out scored Altanta by twelve points and two points in the first and third quarters while getting outscored by eleven and six in the second and fourth quarters. Guess which quarters Doc employed his B team line-ups?
Here are the other things Rivers has screwed up:
A. Starting the fourth quarter of game six with Pierce, Cassell, Posey, Powe, and PJ Brown. You’re up three points on the road in a game that can end the series and that’s what you roll out there? Really? This isn’t the summer league. Why not throw Brandon”The Big Intangible” Wallace out there too.
B. The time out management was putrid in Game 6. We had no time outs left at the end of the game and were stuck with Rondo heaving up and awful three at the buzzer to tie the game. If Rivers had a time out he could have placed his three point shooters on the floor to give us some options, but that is all too logical.
C. Leaving Ray Allen on Joe Johnson during Game 4 was worse than a child abuser. Ray Allen is going to see Joe Johnson touching him in his sleep for years. Why would he not have thrown Posey on him? Why would he not have tried anything different? Oh yeah, because that would have involved coaching.
D. Blaming the refs after the loss. Yeah, the refs sucked worse than any performance Jennifer Connnelly has ever turned in and the free throw difference was immense, but still, the Celtics didn’t lose because of that. They lost because Doc used awful rotations and their hall of fame players wilted like a flower with too much fungus in its vascular system. Don’t blame the refs, blame yourself.
Finally, I need to issue a much deserved retraction. Never in Wagercom.com history has this site needed to retract something (mainly because we have no journalistic integrity, stemming from the fact that we are neither journalists, nor integral, but I digress) but this was such a glaring error, it needs to be fixed.
In the year end awards column, I wrote about Danny Ainge “So kudos and Hizzah to the first perfect score ever in the history of GMing.”
That was obviously an incredibly false and misleading statement. Danny keeping Grady Rivers as coach will single-handedly never allow the Celtics to win anything and thus Danny Ainge did not have a perfect score in GMing and might even have had a negative one.
To use an analogy, Danny Ainge is a shemale and Grady Rivers is his penis. Follow me on this one for a moment. A shemale can go out and get breast implants, slather on the make-up, do everything to look female, but at the end of the day she’d still be a dude and still have a johnson. Danny went out and traded for all-stars, built a respectable bench, and seemingly turned the Celtics around but he still kept idiot Rivers and thus was still not a good GM. No matter what players Danny acquires, as long as he keeps Rivers around, it won’t matter. So Danny is a shemale and Rivers is his penis. Now can we start the donations for the sex change operation?
Ladies and Gentlemen, you’re 2008 Boston Celtics GM
What a disaster.
FRIDAY 5/02/08 FREE NBA PLAYOFF PICKS:
Cleveland +3.5 at Washington:
I have to admit, I have paid more attention to the latest schedule changes for PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre than I have this series. By doing so, I apparently have missed some weird LeDong-DeShawn Stevenson feud also involving Jay-Z and some rapper named Soulja Boy who will either be dead, in jail, or forgotten in fewer than 24 months (and I will take all wagers on that). Either way, this series has been brutal to watch (the little of it I have seen) and I love the NBA. While I admittedly have been horrible at picking Cavs games this year, usually losing when I take the Cavs and give the points, I can’t see how LeDong does not come out in full force tonight and just demolish the Wizards. Plus the Cavs might think about actually going to Ilgauskus who has dominated Washington’s crappy center rotation. Barring food poisoning, a herpes flare-up, or foul trouble, LeDong is going nuts tonight so take the Cavs and enjoy the ride.
Boston at Atlanta +8:
Oh how the mighty have fallen. Doc Rivers lost game four for Boston and he is bad enough to lose game six as well. The Celtics should win this game, and they should win it big, but Doc Rivers is just bad enough for me to want to take the eight points just in case. If the Hawks can push the ball and get Rondo in foul trouble, they should be able to make it close.
Houston at Utah -7.5:
Utah has lacked the killer instinct for way too long now. They are the most well rounded team, have a good enough coach, and the best home record in the league. There is absolutely no way they should lose this game and no way it should even be close. Deron Williams needs to be more aggressive and if Mehmet Okur can remember that getting the ball in the basket is the key to the game, this is a no brainer. Take the Jazz and hope nature takes care of itself.
SATURDAY 5/03/08 FREE NBA PLAYOFF PICKS:
Well, we went 3-0 last night so hopefully you’re all done with your bottles of Dom and ready to win some more cash tonight.
Orlando at Detroit Over 189:
Dwight Howard is unstoppable, even by the Pistons, and Detroit has shown a penchant for not caring early on in playoff series. Also, there probably won’t be a ton of defense being played by the Magic, since they haven’t played defense all year. The Pistons should break 100, so you just need Orlando to score 90. Just hope for the teams to come out firing.
San Antonio +3 at New Orleans:
I know this has sucker bet written all over it. I know I have been the one for the past several months saying how New Orleans is for real. And I know the Spurs are due for a stinker. That said, I also know the Spurs are a machine and you almost always take the Spurs and the points in the playoffs. All they do is win.
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