Let's Talk Minutes

First of all, this picture has nothing to do with my post. I'm just trying to bring some levity to an extremely tense series. The topic du jour is minutes. The aging Celtics are playing too many minutes. If I was Paul Pierce, I'd be more tired hearing about my minutes than from actually playing in the games. Let's compare minutes played in the regular season to minutes played in this series*:Paul Pierce - 37 in reg. season, 43 in playoffsRay Allen - 36 to 37Rajon Rondo - 33 to 44Kendrick Perkins - 29 to 38Glen Davis - 21 to 41Wow - Ray Allen must be exhausted. He's playing an extra minute per game in this series. Perk, Rondo and Big Baby have all seen a major increase. But while the Celtics have the label of "an aging team," these guys are all under 24 years old. At that age I could stay up all night, drink a case of beer, sleep for four hours, wake up to play nine holes and then shoot hoops in the afternoon.Shaughnessy writes about the subject and cites an...