Tip: 1PM Court: TD Garden Watch it: CSN, NBA TV Hear it: WEEI
Referees: Bill Kennedy, Eli Roe and Zach Zarba
Spread: LAC -1.0
The Matchup
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| Record: 23-23 | Record: 34-14 |
| At home: 16-9 | On road: 14-9 |
| Streak: Won 3 | Streak: Lost 1 |
| Leaders | Leaders |
| Buckets: Pierce (18.6 ppg) | Buckets: Blake Griffin (18.5 ppg) |
| Boards: Garnett (7.3 rpg) | Boards: Griffin (8.6 rpg) |
| Dimes: Pierce (4.0 apg) | Dimes: Chris Paul (9.7 apg) |
| For the Stat Geeks: | For the Stat Geeks: |
| Offensive Rating: 101.9 (27th NBA) | Offensive Rating: 109.3 (4th NBA) |
| Defensive Rating: 102.6 (7th NBA) | Defensive Rating: 101.7 (5th NBA) |
| Pace: 91.2 (19th NBA) | Pace: 91.6 (15th NBA) |
Last time
The Celtics got crushed by the Clippers, 106-77, back in December.
How we see it goin’ down
Due to my oversleeping a scheduling conflict, I’m going with an an abbreviated version of today’s game preview. The Clippers will likely be without Chris Paul (bruised knee cap), who’s missed 9 of the last 11 games. LA is a mediocre 6-5 in that stretch. Super 6th man Jamal Crawford is questionable with a broken nose.
We need the Pitbulls (Lee and Bradley) to put choke holds on Eric Bledsoe, Willie Green and take the Clips out of any offensive rhythm.
I hope KG got a good night’s sleep and took his vitamins this morning because he’s going to have his hands full with Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan. The Celtics bigs need to be active in this game. That means Brandon Bass and Jeff Green need to play with ENERGY.
I’m riding the Celtics…
Celtics 104
Clippers 102
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