Offense Sells Tickets, Defense Wins Games

"Offense Sells Tickets,

Defense Wins Games"

--Rasheed Wallace

Famous quote from Rasheed Wallace. While everybody jokes about him and his quotes, most of them, actually make sense.

Everybody's been asking me about the 2009/2010 basketball season, which inspired a completely random blog about some thoughts and points about the season.

The team im deciding to follow closely is: the Celtics.

The Celtics have caught my attention this year. I must admit, I was not a big Celtics fan last season because I rooted for the home team, The Pistons. But this season, my heart goes to Boston. You have to look at the past few games they have played to see why.

Thier defense is simply AMAZING. Just looking at Fridays game againest the Bulls alone, you can see why. The final score was 118-90. The bulls offense was not strong enough to handle the team. The Celtics at one point had a 30 point led. The bulls are NOT a bad team either, recall from last years championship run, the Bulls were thier right along side Boston. Defensively, you have several players who have NO PROBLEM grabbing a loose ball, blocking a shot, and just being where they need to be. Paul Pierce is averaging around 20 points a game. Againest the bulls he had eight rebounds and four assist only playing around 30 minutes {Doc took out the starters early and let the bench have some fun}. I like that Pierce can play both sides of the game {he also grabbed 11 rebounds and several blocks againest Cleveland}.

Boston has veterns who can get the JOB DONE, one who stands out, is RASHEED WALLACE. He could possibly be the best 6th man in the League. Wallace coming off the bench is very important with the Celtics. He is a great defensive player, who can also hit a 22feet three point jumper when he needs to. He has been in the league a while and at age 36 people question whether he still has "IT", if the few games we've seen him play in are any indication of his status, HE CAN STILL BE VITAL FOR THE TEAM. Also you have Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen. I really dont even need to elaborate further on those two, if your a fan of the game, YOU ALREADY KNOW those two are talented players.

The Celtics have THE BEST BENCH. Eddie House came off the bench on Fridays game with 22 points, Sheldon Williams had 10. But besides scorers off the bench, look at rebounds, S. Williams had 10 and two assist! Wallace had three rebounds, two assist. The celtics bench could beat a few teams starters in a game any day. Marquis Daniels can handle the ball like no other, he had four assist, sevin points. {{ Thier GM did a great recruiting job!}}

Rajon Rondo is also very important but he is in contract talks but made it clear he intends to stick around for the season. Doc Rivers refered to him as " The most dominate plateyer on the floor" and he IS. Rondo only scored 2 points in the last game, BUT if you watched the game, and not just read the stats, you KNOW why hes important. He had a HIGH of 16 assist and eight rebounds. Rondo is a YOUNG player, only 22, but with experience and great peole to watch and study [[KG, Ray Allen, Rasheed, to name a few]] he will become a better player.

At the end of the Day though. . . . . .

"THE BALL DONT LIE"

-Rasheed Wallace