Boston at Xmas time

Good new, first win at sim game.Bad new, 2 loses at sim games.Good new, 1 wit at human home match.Bad new, anther loose at human visitor match.There is no good news without bad news beside, the team is playing well as human, but at sim, only 1 win in 7 games, so that the team stay at 14th in the Eastern Conference, so far from the objetive of the team. Putting Willie Green at Starting PG, gives the team 13 points and 7 assists, but Armstrong from the bench nly could give to the team 6 points.

Raja Bell scored 21 points per game this week, and Eddy Curry added another double double week to his statistics, but still there are many defensive problems, only an average 6 steals per game ... to low for a team who aren´t able to score more than 92 points per game.Now we are at the Christmash hollyday time, the players will stay with their families, and will study the new strategy game for the future games. Maybe Anthony Johnson come back from his injury, and Robert Horry will help the team at the PF position, and Keith Bogans will help at the SG position from the bench ...

We´ll know it in a few days, 3 home games and 1 away game against Memphis, maybe a jump in the standings? Charlotte and Cleveland will be a important measure of the level of the team. Another week, three straight weeks, Eddy Curry is the best player of the team, Celt's GM are thinking to make a monument to this guy..

3 human wins

All the teams are greating with his sim wins, but Boston is greating with his human wins, becouse last year more than 8 games was losed in Boston at Human, so that, this year, three games and three wins, is a very good result at the moment.The team make a deal to take a PG, but Anthony Johnson was unable to play this week, so that, the starting G position is for Willie Green, with Darrell Armstrong at the back up. Andrea Bargnani come back to the starting five, with Bell, Granger and Curry.This week, three sim games, we'll look if the team has got the level to play this league.

C E. Curry P. Brezec Jake Tsakalidis
PF A. Bargnani R. Horry Malik Allen Kevin Pinkney
SF B. Bowen D. Granger Steve Novak
SG R. Bell K. Bogans
PG J. Salmons A. Johnson Beno Udrih

Num	Player	POS	HT	WT	DOB	FROM	YRS
34	Eddy Curry	C	6-11	285	12/05/82	Thornwood HS (IL)	5
7	Andrea Bargnani	PF	7-0	240	10/26/85	Italy	5
33	Danny Granger	SF	6-9	228	04/20/83	New Mexico	1
20	Steve Novak **	SF	6-10	220	06/13/84	Marquette	R
5	Robert Horry - C	PF	6-10	238	08/25/70	Alabama	14
13	Jake Tsakalidis	C	7-2	290	06/10/79	Greece	6
8	Anthony Johnson	PG	6-3	190	10/02/74	-	8
19	Raja Bell	SG	6-5	210	09/19/76	Florida Intnal (HS)	5
15	John Salmons	SG	6-6	210	12/12/79	Miami (FL)	5
10	Keith Bogans	SG	6-5	215	05/12/80	Kentucky	3
12	Bruce Bowen	SF	6-7	200	-	-	5
17	Primoz Brezec	C	7-1	252	-	-	2
14	Beno Udrih	PG	6-3	203	-	-	2
35	Malik Allen	PF	6-10	225	-	-	5
3	Kevin Pickney	PF	6-10	245	-	-	R
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Bowen gives the team fresh air

Bowen comes from San Antonio in exchange of Jumaine Jones and Willie Green, and he found a team with many defensive problems, but at this moment began the first good moments of the team, with 5 wins and 4 loses in 9 games.

Week 6 The worst team in the league

all the things thatRivers is using to develop the team was in the wrong direction. He puts Bargnani in the bench, the team still loosing, he puts Granger in the bench, the team still loosing. Only one Sim win in 12 games. Now is amago who is finding the solution of the roblem. Maybe Rivers will be sacked? maybe some players will go out of the team? The rumours says that Green and Jones could fly to San Antonio in exchange Bruce Bowen, a good defender and 3P shooter. We'll see in the few weeks.

Week 3, two wins and three loses

Good new, first win at sim gameBad new, 2 loses at sim gamesGood new, 1 wit at human home matchBad new, anther loose at human visitor match.There is no good news without bad news beside, the team is playing well as human, but at sim, only 1 win in 7 games, so that the team stay at 14th in the Eastern Conference, so far from the objetive of the team. Putting Willie Green at Starting PG, gives the team 13 points and 7 assists, but Armstrong from the bench nly could give to the team 6 points. Bell scored 21 points per game this week, and Curry added another double double week to his statistics, but still there are many defensive problems, only an average 6 steals per game ... to low for a team who aren´t able to score more than 92 points per game. Now we are at the Christmash hollyday time, the players will stay with their families, and will study the new strategy game for the future games. Maybe Anthony Johnson come back from his injury, and Horry will help the team at the PF position, and Bogans will help at the SG position from the bench ... we´ll know it in a few days, 3 home games and 1 away game against Memphis, maybe a jump in the standings? Charlotte and Cleveland will be a important measure of the level of the team. Another week, three straight weeks, Eddy Curry is the best player of the team, Celt's GM are thinking to make a monument to this guy.

Week 2, two more loses

Another week with a loose balance, only one wins (in human game), and two loses.Bargnani was out with an injury, and the team must put Horry at the PF starting row.

What's up, Doc?

The Celt's spent the first week of the 2006/07 NLL seasson, with one win and 3 losses. We must say that the team loose away the three matches, but all the looses were very clear. The best player of the week was Eddy Curry, with an average in four matches of 17 points, 11 rebounds and 2 assists, with a global valoration of 23.

Openning night at Boston vs. Atlanta

The seasson as home team will begin between Atlanta, one of the team of the Southeast league, and one of the team with the best PG rotation in the league, TJ Ford and Atkins. Again, the team has got Cuttino Mobley at SG and Juwan Howard and Nazr Mohamed playing inside the paint. A hard rival for Boston to begin the seasson.

Jumaine Jones landed Boston

The last movement in the free agency period of Boston, is Jumaine Jones, a small forward/power forward who can play both forward positions, becouse he has got size (6-9 and 220 lbs) to play inside, and he has got a huge outside shooting hability. He is a 4 years experience player in the NLL league, playing 315 matches, with 7.6 points per game, 3.4 rebounds and 1.2 assists, with 0.8 steals. His role in the team will be as back up of the small forward Danny Granger, or maybe the back up of Andrea Bargnani as power forward, becouse Devean George could play as small guard as well as small forward, and the posibilities are so high to make a lot of diferents teams during this year.
We are ready to saw his first photo as a Boston player, with the green t-shirt.

New faces to Boston

A lot of movements in the Boston headquarters during the first three weeks of the free agents period. In the Bsoton Celtics roster apperars new faces like Keith Bogans, John Salmons, Raja Bell, and there is a last minute trade operation that involved Detroit and Boston, with Araujo in exchange Alan Anderson, Darrell Armstrong and Willie Green.

Devean George re-sign with the Celt's

Finally, Devean George opted to sign an extension of his contract with the Boston Celtics, so that the player will play with the team for two more years, and he will receive about 4 million. George, a 4 years veteran in NLL, played in Boston two seassons, averaging 11,7 points per game, 2,7 rebounds and 2,4 assists, playing as small guard and small forward position.

Preseasson Schedule

The nll comish announced that they hope begin the seasson at december 4th, so that the Celtics announced thet they will be able to play several games during november, to improve the sliders and the roster patch. Schedule

Celtics training Camp Media Day

On saturday 7th, Officially, training camp kicks offy, but on saturday the Boston Celtics introduced their players to the media. So that, here we can show the first photos of the team, with the new practice equipment, and we can see the nº4 draft pick election, Andrea Bargnani, with his new t-shirt.

Preseason Matches Ends

The preseasson ended with bad news from Boston, 1 win, 7 losses. A terrible problem for Doc Rivers to understand what's theproblem of the team. Attack? 94 points per game, Defence? 99 points per game. Maybe the problem was the rivals, 3 of the hughest teeams of the east coast, or maybe the problem is the global composition of the team.
The best player of the presseason period was Eddy Curry, with 13 points and 13 rebounds per game, with Raja Bell adding 18 points and Andrea Bargnani and Danny Granger another 12 oints. But ath Pont guard position, only Darrell Armstrong played well at Sim games (9 points).

Tony Delk goes to play to Greece

Another problem for amago in the roster composition for the 2006/07 league. Tony Delk, a historical player in Boston, opted to sign with Panathinaikos, so that he changed the green t-shirt for another green t-shirt in Europe. He will be the substitue of Vassilis Spanoulis in the PAO Roster. So that, the PG position in the Boston's roser is empty for the begining of the training camp next week, a big problem for the coach Doc Rivers.

Preseason Matches Begins

Using the NLL preseasson patch, and the BigKaboom2 sliders (NLSC member), 9 mins per quarter and Superstar level. Game pached with EA Patch, DVD European version of NBA Live 07.
DAY 1.
BOS@CLE Human 81-80 (Bargnani 22+8, Curry 14+16, Bell 15+3 ast; Bibby 29+6 rb, Hinrich 7+14 asst. kaman 8+16)
CLE@BOS Sim 102-93 (Bell 23+5 Armstrong 18+7 ast. Curry 10+14; Hinrich 34+5 ast. Kaman 12+19 Bibby 14+3 rbs.)
DAY 2.
TOR@BOS Human 89-82 (Curry 20+10, Bargnani 12+8, Granger 7+7+2 Ast; Felton 39+5 Ast, Roy 21+5, Augustine 6+14+2 Ast)
BOS@TOR Sim 103-107 (Granger 28+10 Bell 24+7 Armstrong 14+6 ast.;Augustine 18+16 Roy 34+6 Felton 23+5+7 ast.)
DAY 3.
CHI@BOS Human 85-80 (Bell 22+3 Curry 11+14 Bargnani 16+10; Crawfrd 28+8, Marion 16+17, Artest 21+7, Marbury 15+10 Ast.)
BOS@CHI Sim 104-115 (Curry 19+15, Bargnani 18+8, Green 10+8; Marbury 49+12 ast., Crawfrd 37+6, Marion 4+17, Artest 13+4)
DAY 4.
NJ@BOS Human 105-89 (Bargnani 22+7, Bell 23+3 ast. Curry 4+12; Okafor 22+22, Wade 28+5, Kidd 21+8 ast.)
BOS@NJ Sim 96-113 (Cury 16+16, Armstrong 22+3 ast. Granger 14+3, Kidd 27+6+7, Okafor 23+13, Wade 33+4 ast. Stoudemire 12+7)

First week review

The preseasson matches give us an image about the development of Boston. And the first four oficial matches, shows that Boston need to improve a lot of to be close to the play offs.
Only playing against Atlanta, at Human match, we could see something of the future of the team, a serius team with a lot of ball into the zone (Curry and Bargnani), and a lot of space to shoot from downtown (Bell and Granger).
At Sim games 2 looses agains two of the highest teams in the league, Cleveland and Golden State.
Curry maked the best perfomance this week, with 17 points and 11 rebounds per game.
For the next week, maybe Bargnani will loose the entire week with a back problem. Maybe Jones or Horry will take his position in the starting five. Novak will appear in the bench. Malik Allen still has got back problems, so that they will be in the injury list for second straight week. CJ Miles must wait.