Celtics Lose First Game to Steamrollers (11/2/46)

Boston Celtics owner Walter Brown can't be happy with this. After joining the Basketball Association of America, Brown needed to put together a team to compete with the other teams in the inaugural BAA season. Unfortunately he had to wait because his coach John "Honey" Russell was busy managing a minor league baseball team. Because of that, Russell could only select castoffs to play this season. It showed as the Celtics got beat by the Providence Steamrollers in their first game as a franchise. Dino Martin had 18 points for the Steamollers while Earl Shannon pumped in 15. The Celtics highest scorer was Red Wallace with just 9 points. The game was tied at 26-26 at the half but the Steamrollers came back to win the game 59-53 at the Rhode Island Auditorium.

                                                   "What was I thinking?"

Jackass of the Night is Connie Simmons. How do you score just 6 points against the Providence Steamrollers?

                                                                 Jackass Simmons

Post-game Rant:

When Red Wallace is your high scorer with just 9 points you know there's a dearth of talent on your team. I know its the first game in franchise history and they started behind the 8-ball because Honey Russell just happened to make the playoffs with his baseball team. Still, when Chuck Connors outscores Connie Simmons, that's a problem. Not being able to contain Earl Shannon and Dino Martin was also a big problem and that's mostly why they lost. Still, when other teams have guys like Ed Sadowski, Dino Martin and "Jumpin" Joe Fulks while you're trotting out Mel Hirsch and Art Spector, it doesn't look good moving forward. Still, its only one game and there are 59 more to go this season. Three nights from now the Celtics play their first game of the season at home against Max Zaslofsky and the Chicago Stags. They'll be playing at the Boston Arena, former home of the Boston Bruins.