Salmons out, Granger in

Another good week of Boston in the league. The guys is taking a good number of victorys in the last weeks, since the arrive of Bruce Bowen. The last week was the week of John Salmons, scoring 22.2 points per game, with 6.8 assists per game. But this numbers wasn't enought to keep Salmons in the starting five. A new starting five will be in the team during this week, with Raja Bell as starting point guard, and Bruce Bowen as small guard. Danny Granger appears as Small Forward, a place that this players had until arrived Bowen. In the inside places, Bargnani and Curry still are the starters.

"All the teams uses his best shooter as point guard, why not Boston can use Raja as Point Guard? Maybe wie will take one or two more wins than usual using Raja as stating point guard", said Doc Rivers. "Yes, I know that John Salmons is very ungry with me, he was making a very good job as starting point guard, but we must to think in the team, not only in our own careers."Last news says that Amago is talking with Washington to send Darrell Armstrong to the "Capital", in exchange of Primoz Brezec. Stay tuned to see if finally the deal will be done.

Looking for a new BIG THREE

2 wins and 1 lose this week. This is the second week in the year with positive balance, so that the team is very happy with this. Bell make the week of his life (31 points and 5 rebounds), but BArgnani make his worst week during the year (only 3 points per game).
At mid seasson, Celtics stay with 15 wins and 26 loses, but in sim games, only 5 wins and 18 loses. The future doesn´t look good for the team, but all the people say that they will be able to increase the number of wins in the 2005/06 seasson, a good sign of the good development of the team.

In the All Star Weekend, the team was very well represented with Andrea Bargnani and Danny Granger in the Rookie Sophomore match, And Eddy Curry in the All Star match. Andrea played as starter in the match, scoring 2 points and grabbing 8 rebounds. Granger played as starter too, scoring 10 points and grabbing 5 rebounds. At last in the All Star game, Curry was able to make the same that he is making during the seasson, a double double, with 14 points and 10 rebounds, winning the match for the West Conference.

The return of the losing symbol

Before two weeks of green symbols in the win-lose calendar, this week comes back the red mark. It was a very dificult week playing against the best teams in the west (Chicago and New Jersey), and the team needed to play very well to win this games. But Curry and friends wasn't able to won any of this games. Only against Seatle, at home, we could see good minutes.Bargnani makes his best week in the league, with an average 18.0 points of eficiency, but he wasn't the Rookie MVP of the week.

"Yes, Andrea take the lead in the paint last week without Eddy, and he is playing very well against players stronger than him", Doc said last night in an interview. "Playing against NJ, the team received 28 personal fouls, it was incredible to see that, the referees didn't respect us in this game, and the guys were very nervous this day, Curry only was able to take three shoots in the game, incredible".All the roumours says that Doc Rivers is living his last minutes as the trainer in Boston, "yes, I know that the team is playing very irregular this seasson, and I know that the general manager could be defrauded with us, but the technic staff and I are making our best efforts to increase the winning symbol during this year". "No, i´m not thinking in resign, I want to end this year training this guys, and in the summer we will speak with amago and we will see our future in the franchise."

Curry is back, all the team ready

During the last two weeks, Celtics appairs with positive balance of wins/losses (5/4) since arrived to the team Bruce Bowen, a fresh air explosion in the team. This week, with the handicap of Curry's injury, Boston was able to win Dallas at Home. Dallas is currrently the 5th team in the West. This week was the week of Raja Bell, scoring 23 points, grabbing 3 rebounds with 2 assists per game.In other way, the three nominates from Boston Celtics for the All Star Game are: - Eddy Curry 18.5 pts, 11.3 rebs, 1.7 assts (week 7 East MVP)- Raja Bell 18.6 pts, 3.5 rebs, 2.1 assts- Andrea Bargnani 9.3 pts, 8.0 rebs, 1.1 assts (3rd on ROY race)