Jax comes to town; strip clubs report 95% increase in gun fights

The Golden State Warriors play the type of chaotic, up and down style that looks great when it works (see 2007 NBA Playoffs vs. Dallas) but when it's off, like last night, it's downright awful. They have little size and without Matt Barnes and Al Harrington against the Celtics last night in Boston, the Warriors seemed content to take the fastest shot it could find without considering anything else like passing or if teammates were under the basket to corral misses. Boston won 105-82 in a game that didn't even feel that close.

The Celtics (9-1) outscored the Warriors (3-7) in each quarter and the Big Three of Paul Pierce (19 points, 10 boards, 4 assists), Ray Allen (21 points, 7 rebounds) and Kevin Garnett (20 points, 10 rebounds) dominated the proceedings. Boston also got some great efforts off the bench from Eddie House (15 points, 3 steals, 3 rebounds, 2 assists) and Tony Allen (6 points, 4 assists and 3 boards). Even Kendrick Perkins, who is very limited in pretty much effort facet of the game looked good (7 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 blocks). The 82 points was a season-low for the Warriors, who came in as the NBA's highest scoring team. The C's shot 48.1% as a team while the Warriors managed just 33.3%. The Warriors were a brutal 4-22 for three-pointers. Boston outrebounded Golden State, 52-40 and had the assist edge, 26-11.


Baron Davis only had 13 points on 3-for-13 shooting and his coach Don Nelson basically waved the white flag as he sat the injury-prone Davis for much of the second half (he played 29 minutes). Monta Ellis led the Warriors with 21 points but many of them were accumulated in garbage time when the game had long been decided.


I attended the game and the most memorable part for me was seeing a guy in a Pittsnogle West Virginia jersey get into a fight with some guy next to him. Pittsnogle ended up rolling down a few rows of seats as suburban soccer moms and belligerent dads from Southie pushed their kids out of the way. It is the first time I've ever seen a fight at the Garden and I must say it left me with some bloodlust, wanting more.


The Lakers come to the Garden tomorrow night. So far L.A. (7-4) has actually looked better than most people expected. They have the best player on the planet (Kobe Bryant) but not much else. I'm interested to see how the Celtics choose to guard Kobe. I'm guessing a combination of Pierce, Tony Allen and Posey.