ESPN’s Royce Webb breaks down the final 37 seconds of last night’s game. The ugliest set of plays these eyes have ever seen, and that includes the Pony league championship game of 1986. We hope you all enjoy it because it’s the last time this Web site will ever talk about that game again.
Macaroni
In our ongoing series of The Beastment Tapes, we sat with Our Sensei after tonight’s loss, to touch on all subjects sore, in hopes of understanding our Beastly Bodhisattva’s Way.
Perk: Sore. I haven’t been practicing cause it hurt me a lot, and it’s still sore. So, I think I might sit out for a few games, cause I can’t run on it, and it hurts me to even jump.
PIAB: How many games do you think you will sit out?
Perk: About two-to-three at the most. You really can’t tell, because for the simple fact man… It’s a pain that’s just gotta go away on its own, and there’s nothing really…You can ice it to make it feel better, and take medicine… But it’s just a pain that’s gotta go away on its own. Some people have it for months…a year or a year and a half, or something like that.
PIAB: Do you think it’s affecting your game at all?
Perk: Yeah, cause I can’t move, and it’s hard for me to get up and down, or just to jump and get rebounds.
PIAB: Where do you think its affecting your game the most? Like in blocks or what?
Perk: Not blocks. I think on the rebounds, cause I usually go get like four offensive rebounds a game. But it hurts for me to even run up in there and try to…You know what I mean? It just be hurtin’ man. It’s like a needle be sticking in the bottom of your foot.
PIAB: Why do you think we (The Celtics) lost tonight?
Perk: Just little things man, execution. It’s just that we didn’t close out the game… We had them down by 16, and we should’ve kept them down…But…They got a lot of veterans on their team, and we expected them… I expected them to make a run, you know. They were on a six game losing streak so…I think their veterans made some good plays with the big three, Kidd, Jefferson, and Carter, and um…I think Krstic even had a good…A solid game tonight, he didn’t do…he wasn’t just killin’ but he had a solid game I think.
PIAB: On Saturday you had a really nice drop step move.
Perk: (Laughs a little bit)
PIAB: We usually see you go over the middle for the hook. Have you been working on the drop step or anything in particular?
Perk: No, I mean…I’ve been working on the drop step, but I’ve just never used it… My first time using it was that game, cause they been playing me for my hook shot… So I had to go to a counter move, and its been wide open, so I need to go to it a little more.
PIAB: If you had to give the Celtics a grade right now, what would it be?
Perk: Um…I’d give us like a… C+
PIAB: What grade would you give yourself?
Perk: About a C. Even though I had a few games where I had some good blocks and stuff, my rebounding hasn’t been like it usually is.
PIAB: What is the strongest point of this team?
Perk: We got big guards that can attack. We got guards that can score, and we also have…I think we have a good defensive team, and when we wanna play defense I think we do a really good job.
PIAB: What was the first thing you put on your plate for Thanksgiving Dinner?
Perk: Macaroni…Yeah Macaroni
PIAB: How do you plan to spread the holiday cheer?
Perk: I think when I go home for Christmas…There is this Catholic school I used to go to…A private school, and it costs if you choose to go to it, so I’m gonna donate like 3 “keys” for like two years or something.
For Immediate Release
You read it here first, at Perkisabeast.com, Kendrick Perkins will sit out two to three games to rest aching feet.
Perkisabeast’s crack courtside crew caught up with the big man after tonight’s gut clenching loss to the New Jersey Nets.
Perkins, who despite battling foot problems that affected his rebounding all night, gave a heroic effort, holding off the Nets with two monster blocks in key possessions down the stretch. His efforts alone should have been enough to clinch the win, but the Celtics inability to execute down the stretch cost them the game.
In the locker room after the game, Perkins told perkisabeast.com that his feet were “killing him,” thanks to a case of Plantar fasciitis. He added that he would likely need to sit out “two to three games,” to rest up his weary dogs.
More details and a complete interview to come…Stay tuned, cause as your source for all things Kendrick Perkins related, we’ll be following this story late into the night.