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Doc: Perkins is a target of officials 04.27.09 at 2:18 pm ET
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WALTHAM – Doc Rivers has said all year that his team has a target on its back. Now, he feels, there’s someone else taking aim.

After watching video of the two fouls called on Kendrick Perkins for two moving screens, in which there was little or no contact, Rivers let out a little of his frustration. Rivers was trying to give support to Perkins who was criticized for fouling out of Game 4 when his team didn’t have a big man to spare.

“I’ve got to say this about Perk,” Rivers began, “clearly, every game he’s been targeted for these moving screens. He gets them every game. He gets them called every game. Watching that tape last night, there two where he did move in the direction but there was zero contact on him. Brad Miller, on the other hand, is flying around. He’s laying guys out on screens and didn’t get one of those called. That bothers you.”

But Rivers also said that he would like Perkins to show some diplomacy on the court toward the officials.

“Perk does do it. Perk doesn’t help himself, which I’ve told him 100 times. When you do commit a foul, sometimes say, ‘Good call.’ And I know he’s never committed a foul and I probably whine as much as he does.”

Perkins wasn’t arguing that point.

“Doc might need to say it, too. Doc might need to tell the ref, ‘Nice call’ too. I think as a team, as a whole, not just me but as a whole, I don’t think think we’re the favorites with the refs. I don’t think the refs like the Boston Celtics,” Perkins said.

Asked why that might be Perkins, replied, “I don’t know. We have a lot of talkers on this team.”

What is not a joking matter is the fact that the Celtics find themselves in a series where they have lost two games in overtime and have broken down on defense far too often at critical moments.

Last year, the Celtics were 2-2 with the Hawks heading back to Boston for Game 5 of the first round. This year, if you ask Rivers or Perkins, it just feels different, especially without Kevin Garnett as an emotional on-court leader.

“It’s a different team we have, missing a lot of key guys,” Perkins said. “But I just feel like we’re making it hard on ourselves. You can’t go out in one game, Game 3 and beat a team by 30 then come back and lose by three. The sense of urgency wasn’t there in Game 4.”

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  • Sportsbozo

    Too all of the millions of true basketball fans around the world!This is supposed to be a revelation???? I’ve been wondering all season when the Referees were going to call a basketball game on even terms when it involved The World Champion Boston Celtics and pick any team in the NBA(WWE).I stopped calling this the NBA after watching biased officiating all season long,if it weren’t for patent infringement, I truly believe that David Sterns is the equivalent of Vince McMahon the Chairman of the Board over at WWE,and he has a dictum that he has implemented against the Celtics and The stooges (referees) are the guys who taking the fall so that David Sterns can have his dream match-up of Kobe (the rap ist) and Lebrat (the whiner)can play each other for all the marbles and the NBA can reap the benefits,Lets face it the Boston Celtics are the equivalent of Marc Henry while the Flakers have Ric Flair and the Cadabers have Hulk Hogan,you can’t have the worlds strongest man showing up in the arena against the 2 sissy boyz of the Flakers and the Cadabers,The Celtics have been ripped off in every game this season,the rfes have called very important fouls against the Celtics like the phoney foul that got Perkins out of the game all season long,just look back to the Portland Blazers game where the Blazers hit a 3 point basket with 6 men on the court,did the refs nullify the basket nope, they said too bad we missed it!!! I don’t want to get into the specific calls because they are too anumerous,but I will tell you something I learned many years ago from a bookie,he told me the easiest game to FIX is a basketball game because you don’t have to be obvious in how you manipulate the outcome all you need to do is have one person in the bag and at the right time he pulls the okey doke play,if its a player he misses a free throw at the right time or he loses his dribble out of bounds or he commits an obvious foul when one is not called for,but if its the REFS who are doing the dirty work its easy to change the outcome of the game! All he has to do is not call (Example) Noah for hacking Paul Pierce as he drives the lane and then he says the ball went out off of Paul,that my friends is a potential 4-6 point swing! Ironically that happened last night.The Refs should have to take sodium-penathol induced polygraphs too find out which ones are doing the dirty work for the NBA Chairman of the Board.I’ll name the ones I think are involved,never mind that would take to long…….

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