I touched on this yesterday, but only because I knew I wanted to do more on it today. Stephon Marbury saved the Celtics last night with an amazing 12 point burst in 6 minutes in the 4th. The first basket was scored at 11:04. The last point came on a free throw at 5:54, after he drove it right at Dwight Howard and drew the and-1. He took the shots with confidence. He might have been the only one on the floor not wearing #34 to do so. He did what Rajon Rondo couldn't do: make Orlando pay for its defensive strategy.“We were trying to do a lot of helping and double-teaming off the point
guards and I thought it was pretty effective in limiting Paul Pierce a little bit, but Marbury really made us pay,” Van Gundy continued. “I think he was really the key to the game.”For all of Rondo's progression, he's still too tentative when there's a big defensive presence in the middle of the lane and when he misses a couple of shots. Steph taught Rondo a lesson in this on...
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