is it just me or is there a real struggle between the frontcourt players and the backcourt? i know some of the trouble in the ecf’s was sheed’s insistence that they should stick with playing big. now in the last celtics game there seemed to be the same issues, the guards were reluctant to give it to dyess and sheed in the final quarter.

if the issue has been lingering that long isn’t it of a little more import than we’re admitting?

Rasheed gets hot under the collar, and if he made some of his own mistakes in that game, sure, they’ll have a hypocritical response to Rasheed. He puts himself in that position.

Chauncey’s error was the biggest of the game. He knows better than to not do what he did. That’s the key. Whether or not Rasheed does similar things, and he probably does, given the ‘05 Finals where he left Horry way too open in the closing seconds . . . Chauncey’s error wasn’t THAT costly, but it would have been nice to set up a play against them with a 3-point defecit.

In the end, this won’t amount to anything. Sometimes co-workers have a little cold front pop into the lockers. This Dallas game spells out some sort of frustration. They’ll reset and come back.

I don’t like the look of that bandage on Rasheed’s knee, though.