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Paul Flannery began his journalism career answering phones at the Herald, which led him on a cross-country odyssey that included stops in Oregon, Virginia and Philadelphia, before coming home to Boston where he is now the online editor at Boston magazine.

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Respect Is Hard to Come By For Celtics
11/16/09 11:01 EST
Kevin Garnett was talking about defending the pick and roll Monday, which is the most essential play in basketball and one that has been giving the Celtics all kinds of trouble ever since Steve Nash and the Phoenix Suns worked it to death a little over a week ago. In his career Garnett must have seen the pick and roll, what? Fifty thousand times? More? Listening to him talk was like listening to John Hannah talk about leverage or Pedro Martinez talk about working both sides of the plate. The mundane can truly be fascinating with the right person speaking. “The biggest thing is the angle which you show to make the small, which is the guy with the ball a lot of times, bow out,” Garnett said mimicking the action of pulling on the strings of a bow before loading an arrow. “Bowing out is making a guy go out away from the basket. A great show is when you make the guy go away from the basket and the small goes under you and get right back in front. “When
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The Three-Pointer: Celtics Find Their Legs
11/12/09 12:21 EST
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There are nights like this in the NBA sometimes. On nights when one team is healthy, rested and ready and when the other is not, you get scores like the 105-86 beatdown the Celtics put on the Jazz Wednesday at the TD Garden. (Recap) The Celtics had three days to get their legs right after their stretch of eight games in 12 days, while the Jazz came in smack in the middle of a four-game East Coast stretch with Deron Williams hurting (bruised calf, back sprain) and without Kyle Korver, Ronnie Price or C.J. Miles. The Celtics had no such worries, not with seven players scoring in double figures, assists on 30 of 41 field goals and a defensive effort that took away Utah’s vaunted movement. Consider the two perspectives of the coaches: “I just thought the execution tonight was absolutely fantastic,” Doc Rivers said. “We looked like we never played a game that was difficult,” Utah coach Jerry Sloan said. “And it wasn’t a lot of fun to
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How Rasheed Wallace Found 'The Answer'
11/10/09 01:01 EST
The two-hour practice was over and there was Rasheed Wallace, still on the court, working on his shot. The only other Celtic still around was Eddie House, another veteran survivor. They were working their way around the 3-point arc as Clifford Ray, the invaluable Celtics assistant, provided the token hand in their faces as they took jump shot after jump shot. The scene was strangely fitting because the public topic du jour around the Celtics was the number of 3-pointers the C's have been launching collectively, and specifically the number of 3’s Wallace has taken so far. To review: The Celtics have shot a little more than 19 3-pointers per game, which ranks them a little bit higher than league average, and Wallace has taken two-thirds of his shots from beyond the arc. Part of this is the rest of the general public catching up to what has been an emerging NBA trend for the last few seasons and part of it is what happens when you miss 10 in a row, as Wallace has done the last two
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The Three-Pointer: Celtics Win Ugly
11/07/09 11:34 EST
There are two things you never apologize for in the NBA: Big-money contracts and wins of any kind. If someone wants to give you the full mid-level exception you don’t ask twice and if you can pull out a road win on the second night of a back-to-back in front of a half-full arena somewhere on the Jersey Turnpike, you take it and don’t look back. The Celtics didn’t play particularly well against New Jersey Saturday night. You could make the argument that they played better the night before in a loss to the Suns. Certainly the quality of basketball was much higher, if nothing else. But the Celtics played well enough to win, especially in the fourth quarter, and they were able to pull out an 86-76 victory. After eight games the Celtics have the best record in the NBA and there’s no reason to apologize for that. A little concern, though? Maybe. “For us, it’s not all about the record,” Doc Rivers told the press after the game. “We want to get
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