2:37 p.m. - The attitude is upbeat, and guys cheering each other on. You couldn't ask for much more camp kumbaya (actually, we're still calling it "Ubuntu", come to think of it) than the Celtics are getting here at Salve Regina. Yesterday, Paul Pierce was handing out more chest bumps than Eddie House's son did in the postseason. And today, it was high-fives all around as Brian Scalabrine drained the game-winning threeball at the end of the final scrimmage game of this morning's practice session.
"We drew it up for Scal," Coach Doc Rivers said, noting that Ray Allen, who delivered the pass to Scalabrine, was the decoy on the play and it worked to perfection. "The entire team knew they'd go for Ray."
"Then ending was perfect. It was a lot of end-of-game situations," Rivers said of Friday's session.
Scalabrine wasn't the only one who had a strong session. According to Rivers, Darius Miles had perhaps his best practice of camp, despite thinking yesterday that he might need the day off.
Instead, Miles gave it a go and felt good.
"I'm used to four or five days of two-a-days," Miles said. "My first couple of days in Portland, we didn't have a day off until December."
