Eric Williams covered the Sonics' last season in Seattle. A Tacoma native, Eric graduated from Mount Tahoma High and the University of Puget Sound.
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39.5 -- Boston’s field goal percentage for the game, as Seattle did a nice job defensively against the Celtics, although Seattle lost 104-96.
19-- A season-high in points for Delonte West off of the bench. West also finished with eight assists.
24 -- The Celtics matched their win total from last season with the win.
23-- The number of fast-break points Seattle had, the most against Boston this season.
14 -- Kurt Thomas’ rebound total, the eighth time he’s finished with double digits in rebounds. Thomas also played good defense on Boston’s Kevin Garnett.
Boxscore -- Check it out here.
Durant watch -- Kevin Durant played well against the Celtics, finishing with 25 points on 10-of-23 shooting from the field
Did you see that? -- Durant had a nice finish off of the break form a pass from Delonte West in the first half that energized the crowd and kept Seattle nipping at the Cetlics’ heels.
Overheard -- “Got ‘em”. Kevin Durant said this over his shoulder to the Boston bench after making a jumper on the wing. The Celtics’ bench hounded Durant every time he put up a shot.
Boston’s benched harassed Durant most of the night, but he didn’t back down.
“It was kind of a unique situation,” Durant said. “I heard their bench talking a lot of trash. It was very fun, and very competitive. I kind of had a few words back at them, and I think when I had an opportunity to get the ball I just tried to be aggressive.”
Final take -- Seattle played well for most of the game, but as they have done several times this season they failed to execute in the fourth quarter, and Boston kicked it up another notch to get the win.
Delonte West probably played his best game of the night. He also only finished with one turnover in 25 minutes.
Durant needs some help. He doing a nice job of getting to the basket, but he needs to have someone consistently step up to take some of the scoring pressure off of him when he’s in the game.
Seattle has a chance to go .500 on the month if they win their last two games against Minnesota and Philadelphia, both winnable games.
Listen to Carlesimo talk about the game here. And Ray Allen talks about being back in Seattle here.
