This series is far from over, but here's the "irrelevant" Celtics one win from another trip to the Finals. Meanwhile, that "up and coming" team from the midwest hasn't played a meaningful game since pitchers and catchers reported to spring training. 
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I'll be torn if the Celtics and Thunder make the finals, been a Celtics fan since I was little, but would love to see the Thunder get their first title too.
Big balls by the C's tonight.
Biggest mismatch in this series in coaching. Doc alternating man to zone, great rotation and I don't know a coach that draws up a better out of bounds plays. Sometimes it looks like the Heat do not have a clue in half court offense, and that's coaching.
Biggest mismatch in this series in coaching. Doc alternating man to zone, great rotation and I don't know a coach that draws up a better out of bounds plays. Sometimes it looks like the Heat do not have a clue in half court offense, and that's coaching.
I have never been prouder of any Boston team since the 1967 Sox. KG is a Celtic in every sense, with all the past greats. Ray Allen is in pain beyond what most of us could even walk to work with, and Pierce is a big time player, makes the money shots. All this being steered by Rivers. I gave them no chance, I feel foolish now. It is going to be pandamomium in the Garden for game 6.
I'm calling it right now- if Boston doesn't blow the series, Danny Ainge keeps most of the team together for 2012-13.
He'd have to be crazy to tinker too much with a potential NBA finalist- age be damned.
They may not keep Allen- you never know how healthy he'll be going forward, and he's clear cap space. but clearly, Garnett has been a different player since he got moved to center, Bradley's shoulder will be healthy by October, and Rondo is the greatest Rondo that's ever Rondo'd.
He'd have to be crazy to tinker too much with a potential NBA finalist- age be damned.
They may not keep Allen- you never know how healthy he'll be going forward, and he's clear cap space. but clearly, Garnett has been a different player since he got moved to center, Bradley's shoulder will be healthy by October, and Rondo is the greatest Rondo that's ever Rondo'd.
BINGO! miami looked lost out there last night. to not have a rotation figured out at this point is ridiculous. Doc just whipping Spo's a$$ right now. at halftime i was already bitching about how many 3's miami was taking. they kept chucking it up like a hot potato from the 3 point line in the 2nd half.(26 att) and i'm confused as to why Spo didn't put in Bosh in the 4th qtr at all. why not put him in the last few minutes of the game?
this on a night where allen,pierce and rondo did not shoot well.so much for the celts being old and tired......
This series is far from over, but here's the "irrelevant" Celtics one win from another trip to the Finals. Meanwhile, that "up and coming" team from the midwest hasn't played a meaningful game since pitchers and catchers reported to spring training.
i think you guys end this series tomorrow night. i have no reason to think otherwise from what i've seen so far and how miami played in boston.
Thoughts.....
1. If Miami does dump this series to Boston...can you believe this? Who would've thought?...anyway, if the Heat do lose -- now whose fault is it?
2. I marvel at the sheer grit of the Celtics. They needed 6 games to take out Atlanta, 7 to beat Philly. Nothing comes easy. It seems they should have been out of gas by now...Hey, they should have been out of gas two years ago...but they are one game away from the Finals.
3. Maybe Miami turns it around. It can happen. An injury can happen. Crazy bounces. Bad calls. But the Heat should be embarrassed to be in this situation, even without Bosh. Ray Allen is a shell of his former self. Garnett sits on the bench with ice packs on his knees. Pierce has fouled out of 3 different playoff games. Rondo is a great point guard with a jumper that plays hide and seek. But there's Boston, one game away from the Finals.
4. To repeat, Miami may still win. But Boston has already proven to be the better team in the truest sense of the word. Miami is a bunch of talented guys who still haven't figured it all out.
5. If they lose in this round, Miami will probably blame Eric Spoelstra. The coach will take the fall. Just as it was Mike Brown's fault that LeBron didn't win the title in Cleveland.
6. Three different coaches -- Paul Silas, Brown and Spoelstra -- have watched many of their offensive sets stop dead with LeBron standing, dribbling and going nowhere. Does anyone believe that's how these three guys drew up the plays?
7. James may come out and throw in 40 points and grab 18 rebounds as he did in Game 4 against Indiana, to change that series. He is that gifted, and that good. But the Celtics are not Pacers.
8. James has bad karma against Boston..."karma" is one of his favorite words. Lost in 7 games to Boston in 2008...and then there was that miserable playoff series in 2010.
9. LeBron's overall stats remain amazing in the post-season. But he is sort of like the Heat...when it really, really matters, so far in his career -- something has been missing.
10. I doubt if the Heat will ever understand why so many fans all over the basketball world cheer against them. While The Decision on ESPN is part of it, the "victory rally" the next in Miami where James talked about winning Not 1, not 2, not 3...I think it was SIX titles...all that before they even won a single game.
11. I love how the Celtics keep talking about how hard it is to win a single title. That's because Garnett, Allen and Pierce had to wait so long...ditto for their classy coach, Doc Rivers.
12. Finally, this series is not over...and it has been great theater. To think that Boston could have won Game 2 in Miami, which the Heat won in OT.
1. If Miami does dump this series to Boston...can you believe this? Who would've thought?...anyway, if the Heat do lose -- now whose fault is it?
2. I marvel at the sheer grit of the Celtics. They needed 6 games to take out Atlanta, 7 to beat Philly. Nothing comes easy. It seems they should have been out of gas by now...Hey, they should have been out of gas two years ago...but they are one game away from the Finals.
3. Maybe Miami turns it around. It can happen. An injury can happen. Crazy bounces. Bad calls. But the Heat should be embarrassed to be in this situation, even without Bosh. Ray Allen is a shell of his former self. Garnett sits on the bench with ice packs on his knees. Pierce has fouled out of 3 different playoff games. Rondo is a great point guard with a jumper that plays hide and seek. But there's Boston, one game away from the Finals.
4. To repeat, Miami may still win. But Boston has already proven to be the better team in the truest sense of the word. Miami is a bunch of talented guys who still haven't figured it all out.
5. If they lose in this round, Miami will probably blame Eric Spoelstra. The coach will take the fall. Just as it was Mike Brown's fault that LeBron didn't win the title in Cleveland.
6. Three different coaches -- Paul Silas, Brown and Spoelstra -- have watched many of their offensive sets stop dead with LeBron standing, dribbling and going nowhere. Does anyone believe that's how these three guys drew up the plays?
7. James may come out and throw in 40 points and grab 18 rebounds as he did in Game 4 against Indiana, to change that series. He is that gifted, and that good. But the Celtics are not Pacers.
8. James has bad karma against Boston..."karma" is one of his favorite words. Lost in 7 games to Boston in 2008...and then there was that miserable playoff series in 2010.
9. LeBron's overall stats remain amazing in the post-season. But he is sort of like the Heat...when it really, really matters, so far in his career -- something has been missing.
10. I doubt if the Heat will ever understand why so many fans all over the basketball world cheer against them. While The Decision on ESPN is part of it, the "victory rally" the next in Miami where James talked about winning Not 1, not 2, not 3...I think it was SIX titles...all that before they even won a single game.
11. I love how the Celtics keep talking about how hard it is to win a single title. That's because Garnett, Allen and Pierce had to wait so long...ditto for their classy coach, Doc Rivers.
12. Finally, this series is not over...and it has been great theater. To think that Boston could have won Game 2 in Miami, which the Heat won in OT.
... i'm confused as to why Spo didn't put in Bosh in the 4th qtr at all. why not put him in the last few minutes of the game?
so much for the celts being old and tired......
I am also confused at how Joel Anthony, who is their best post up defender in the trenches... did not play a single second of the entire game. In that FINAL 2-3 minutes, they should have gone to that small lineup with Lebron at center, Chalmers at the PG, Wade at the SG, Miller at the SF and Battier at the PF. THAT lineup, even when Boston has gone zone, has driven Boston crazy...both offensively and defensively. INFACT, they did not use THAT small lineup in the game AT ALL last night.
Jeez, you would think that this just had to be in Bosh's mind last night...
Masseuse dies after collapsing at Bosh's home - NBA - SI.com
Masseuse dies after collapsing at Bosh's home - NBA - SI.com
I heard about that this morning.... that with the homeless EATING another man's face then shot dead... crazy stuff...
The Celtics are to LeBron as the Patriots were to Peyton Manning- the eternal tormentor standing in their way in the springtime every time.
TD Garden and Gillette Stadium are their respective houses of horrors.
TD Garden and Gillette Stadium are their respective houses of horrors.
