POST GAME MIAMI GAME #2

I HAVE BUT A FEW WORDS.......................THE NBA IS FIXED.............A HEAD SHOT TO RONDO AND A STRAIGHT LEG ON KG BY THE SAME THUG.........WADE..........SORRY TIM DONAGHY YOU ARE NOT ALONE AS THE MOST CROOKED REF!!!!!!

Interesting also about New Orleans owned by the NBA getting the number # 1 pick............Interesting indeed!!!!!!!!!!!

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NATIONAL VIEW: MEDIA BACKS CELTICS’ CRITICISM OF GAME 1 REFEREES
By Kevin Dillon

Entering Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals on Monday night, the buzz surrounded names like LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Kevin Garnett and Rajon Rondo. By the end of the game, though, the spotlight turned toward referees Dan Crawford and Ed Malloy.

Crawford and Malloy raised eyebrows with their questionable technical foul calls that went against the Celtics, particularly in the second quarter. By the end of the game, the Celtics were whistled for five technical foul calls while the Heat were not called for any.

ESPN basketball analyst Stephen A. Smith was one who voiced his concerns over the game’s officiating, noting that Ray Allen in particular did not do enough to earn a technical foul.

“Don’t tell me that [Crawford] would just arbitrarily decide, ‘I’m going to give Ray Allen a tech for saying no and turning away,’ ” Smith said. “That’s got to be something that’s coming from the league. It makes no sense to me.

“For an official to give you a technical over something like that, to say it’s egregious is a gross understatement. They really, really need to fall back. It is ridiculous.”

Another one of the technical foul calls Monday night was a team technical foul for delay of game after Garnett tapped the ball behind the baseline following a second-quarter field goal.

Even the Florida media questioned that call, as Ira Winderman of the Sun Sentinel wrote: “A delay-of-game technical foul on the Celtics in the first half of a playoff game, really?”


The technical fouls did not end there, as Doc Rivers was later called for a technical for yelling “Come on, Ed” at Malloy. Rivers complained about the call in the postgame press conference, calling it “the worst [he has] ever had.”

Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo.com recognized that Rivers’ comments will probably warrant a fine from the league for the public criticism of the officiating. However, Wojnarowski seemed to side with Rivers for making the statement, writing, “[Rivers will] have earned a fine for telling the truth about one of commissioner David Stern’s referees.”

Various athletes took exception to the game’s officiating as well and used Twitter to share their opinions on the matter.

Patriots receiver Deion Branch tweeted during the game: The refs are getting a raise for these calls and we all know who’s paying them.

Others who tweeted about the referees included Texans running back Arian Foster and former Celtic Wally Szczerbiak.

While many were upset with the officiating, the Heat outscored the Celtics by 14, and Boston did not appear to have an answer for the Heat’s two stars. Billy Witz of Fox Sports Florida recognized the mass criticism of the referees after the game but noted that “criticizing the officials and mucking up the game appears to be one of Boston’s best options, maybe their only ones.”

Witz has a point, as the Celtics did not shoot well throughout the game, ending with a dismal 39.5 shooting percentage and a 52.4 free throw percentage.

The Miami Herald’s Barry Jackson echoed a similar thought as he wrote about the Celtics’ poor shooting instead of the questionable officiating.

“Fact is, there’s no way Boston can compete in this series with Paul Pierce, Rajon Rondo and Ray Allen shooting as errantly as they did in Game 1,” Jackson wrote.

If the Celtics can’t shoot well enough to compete with the Heat, they are going to have to play better defensively. Rondo suggested the team has to play more physical in Game 2, saying: “Nothing dirty, but those guys have got to hit the deck, too.”

But as David Whitley of Sporting News noted, “Even if Boston’s defense goes WWE in Game 2, there’s still the issue of points.”

Many, such as Ian Thomsen of Sports Illustrated, decided to shine the spotlight on Rondo as the Celtic who needs to perform better, because he should have the most left in the tank of Boston’s Big Four. While Rondo certainly is not the best shooter of the starters, Rondo is the quickest and will be called upon because of his youth and health.

“The wear and tear, the reverberating impact of the lockout and five enervating years of extended contention have combined with the obstinacy of the Heat to leave the Celtics with one hope,” Thomsen wrote. “They need Rondo to outplay everybody in his path.”


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POST GAME RECAP

WEEI

FAST BREAK: HEAT WITHSTAND RAJON RONDO’S BRILLIANCE 05.30.12 at 11:52 pm ET
By Ben Rohrbach



Rajon Rondo played all 53 minutes, scoring a career-high 44 points — the final umpteen on fumes — but the Celtics lost a heartbreaker in overtime, 115-111, and trail the Heat 2-0 in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Rondo finished 16-of-24 from the field while adding 10 assists, eight rebounds and three steals in perhaps the greatest game of a career filled with mind-boggling triple-doubles. Paul Pierce (21 points), Kevin Garnett (18 points, 8 rebounds) and Ray Allen (13 points) all exceeded 40 minutes, and the C’s ran out of gas.

In the final minute of regulation, Pierce fouled out with 47 seconds remaining, Dwyane Wade made just 1-of-2 free throws to give the Heat a 99-96 lead, Allen connected on a game-tying 3-pointer with 34 seconds left and LeBron James missed a pair of potential game-winning buckets.

But James led Miami with 34 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, and Wade (23 points) and Mario Chalmers (22 points) were the only other Heat players in double figures. Of course, their 47-29 advantage in free throws (24 for James) and 15 fewer personal fouls helped, too.

WHAT WENT WRONG

Hitting the deck: Maybe Greg Stiemsma took Rondo’s “hit the deck” comments a little too literally. He picked up four personal fouls in his first three minutes of action, and while Doc Rivers nearly earned himself another technical foul, most were completely deserved. That meant Stiemsma, who had played quite well in limited Game 1 action, gave way to Ryan Hollins, who proceeded to dribble into a sea of Heat defenders and turn the ball over.

Mario cart: While most of the Heat couldn’t connect throughout the first half –shooting just 15-of-41 (36.6 FG%) from the field as a team — bit player Mario Chalmers carried Miami when its superstars struggled. His 14 points and four assists in the opening two quarters help offset Rondo’s sensational first-half stretch.

Turd quarter: The Celtics withstood a Heat run to close the second half, even maintaining a less-than-comfortable 71-66 lead 7:36 into the third quarter, but Miami went on a 12-0 run after a Wade block of Allen on the break to snare a six-point lead — just another reminder of how quickly the Heat can ignite offensively. That stretch featured Wade’s awakening and, of course, a couple more James free throws.

WHAT WENT RIGHT

Black Headband Rondo: Quite simply, Rondo was superb from the start, missed layups be damned. In any given stretch, he can be the best basketball player in the world, and Wednesday saw one of those stretches. James and Wade had nothing on him. Maybe it was the headgear. Playing all 24 minutes in the first half, Rondo amassed 22 points, seven assists, four rebounds and just one turnover by the break. Heck, even the jump shot was falling.

Heating up: For a span of 9:54 stretching from the first quarter into the second, the Celtics did not miss a field goal, connecting on 12 consecutive buckets. During that stretch, Rondo, Pierce, Garnett, Allen, Brandon Bass and Greg Stiemsma all hit everywhere from 0-19 feet — a sure sign of solid spacing and beautiful ball movement.

Getting his footing: After shooting just 1-of-7 and scoring six points in Game 1, Allen rejected rumors that he might need to sit for a game in the series, announcing, “Hell no. This is not the time to sit.” He started 3-for-3 from the floor, forcing Wade to respect his jumper and creating more space within the offense.

Great game. Tough Loss.

Bright spot: Rondo.

As is being reported, no Celtic has ever put in a playoff performance to equal what Rondo did tonight. Not Russell, not Hondo, not Bird; no one. Considering the history of the Celtics, it says something that Rondo is the first to go off for 40+, 10 and 8 in a playoff effort. It's up there among the greatest single game playoff efforts and has few peers in a losing effort.

Anyone still up for trading him?

Epic performance by Rondo, is there any doubt how with our missing core we get to Finals over this team and last 2 series would have went 5 each if only we had our real team. Pierce had some great moments/dunks, he played some of his best defnse ever too. KG did alot of good, missed a couple bunnies, amazing how they let Haslem lean into him so hard on defense and never a foul, meanwhile Pierce goes straight up on a Lebron jumphook and we get the rebound, but no those fuckers fixed it so Lebron gets to line.....this officiating sucks so BAD, never seen anything like it, you breathe on Lebron and its a foul....

What do you guys think? No blood, no foul?

Gyso,

Great Pix's....and they tell the story!

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gyso wrote:

What do you guys think? No blood, no foul?

the game was tied at 105, how can 3 refs miss such an obvious call? Stern should be fired this league is so fixed and its so obvious.

TOMMY ON RONDO


http://www.csnne.com/pages/celticsvideo?PID=uvXM2-4CIhqZPR3hQNi_LvhLhGZ298_lVVMwKx

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Another great playoff game by a Celtic was game #7 1957 Finals against the Hawks.

HEINSOHN 37 points - 23 rebounds!

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Foul odor detected in Miami

BOSTON HERALD
By Mark Murphy / Celtics Notebook

MIAMI — After last night’s game, Danny Ainge stopped Joe Borgia, the NBA’s officiating supervisor, in an attempt to get an explanation for the clear-path foul call against Mickael Pietrus on LeBron James early in the fourth quarter.

Then there was Rajon Rondo [stats]’s missed reverse layup late in overtime, when he appeared to get hit in the face. Udonis Haslem dunked moments later for a lead Miami wouldn’t relinquish in its 115-111 overtime win over the Celtics [team stats] in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals.


There were the amazing 24 free throws attempted by James, Miami’s 47-29 edge in attempted free throws, and the fact that Paul Pierce [stats], Pietrus and Keyon Dooling all fouled out.

The Celtics were clearly left wondering about the officiating crew of Ken Mauer, James Capers and Tom Washington last night, as much as some tried to contain their chagrin.

“Can you call it something else besides 50-50 calls?” coach Doc Rivers said in reply to a question about how the Celtics appeared to lose out on most of the calls that could have gone either way. “Can you come up with another percentage? . . . I cannot (comment on it). Listen, it is what it is. LeBron James took 24 free throws tonight and our team took 29.

“Paul Pierce fouled out of a game where he was attacking the basket. It’s just tough. But we just have to keep playing. I tell my guys that it doesn’t matter. We can’t get distracted. We will not get distracted in this series.”

Pierce, who fouled out sending Dwyane Wade to the line with 47.7 seconds left in regulation and the Heat leading by two points, declined comment beyond saying he thought the play was clean.

Told of Rivers’ remarks, the Celtics captain smiled and said, “Maybe he has a better view of it from the sideline. I’m just out there in the heat of the game.”.

No assist needed

When you’re famous, and you’re in a slump, people want to help.

So it’s no surprise that friends and associates have called Ray Allen. Most tell the Celtics guard that his shot is too flat, that it doesn’t have enough arc.

“People call me and tell me, ‘You’ve got to get the ball in the air more,’ and I say, ‘Thank you, I’ve only been doing this for 20 years,’ ” he said. “I know how it’s affected me, so I’m trying to get it back.”

His answer yesterday morning was to arrive at American Airlines [AMR] Arena an hour before his teammates to get in additional shooting before the team-wide shootaround. That’s fine with Rivers, who believes that however much Allen wants to work is the right amount. He is, after all, Ray Allen.

“We don’t know what the right prescription is for him. We tried it the other way. We told him don’t shoot, but that doesn’t help because he’s a great shooter,” Rivers said. “So we told him, just do your routine. And if you feel great, great, and if you don’t we’ll do something else.” . . .

Brandon Bass, his left eye slightly swollen, wore a heavy-duty pair of wraparound sunglasses to yesterday morning’s shootaround.

He discarded them when it was time to step out on the floor.

“I’m good,” he said when asked about the eye.

Lottery’s legacy


Last night’s draft lottery marked the fifth anniversary of perhaps the most forgettable disappointment in Celtics [team stats] history — the night, following a 24-win season, that they missed out on the top two spots in the draft and a chance to take either Greg Oden or Kevin Durant.

Despite having the second-worst record in the league (to Memphis’ 22-win team), they ended up with the fifth pick.

Instead of using the pick, on draft night the Celtics sent the pick, Wally Szczerbiak and Delonte West to Seattle for Allen and the draft rights to Glen Davis. Seattle used the pick on Jeff Green.

Kevin Garnett arrived that August, and the franchise’s rebound was legendary.

“I don’t even remember 2007,” Rivers said. “I remember at the time we were hoping to get No. 1, we didn’t, and thank goodness. It all worked out for us.” . . .

While in Miami, Ainge worked out a pair of players whom the Celtics would have to trade up to take in the upcoming NBA draft: North Carolina forward Harrison Barnes and Washington guard Terrence Ross.

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Gyso,

I do not know how you top that find!!!!! Indeed so true. After the last 2 games and national talk about the officiating....the NBA will have a major image problem going into next year.

Let's face it....we are in an economic depression....the league has been hit hard financially.....they only played 2/3 of a season which spells lost revenue from attendance, lost revenue from merchandise, lost revenue from TV,
they are carrying New Orleans, they've closed their flag ship NBA store on 5th Avenue.

What does that SPELL.......simply they are trying to STACK THE DECK for the finals. Try having an NBA final with NO MVP of the league playing in it! That is why these awards should be given at the end of the Finals not before.......kind of taints decision making by the ref's!

The LEAGUE is desperate to draw fans back to the NBA so as to get bigger TV audience = bigger TV revenue, more merchandise sold and to promote the LEAGUES MVP! Ya right...MR. CLUTCH in crunch time, another last shot miss in regulation!!!!!

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Celtics cannot bet the Heat and the Refs....but man, what warriors on this club. Proud to wear green today!!!

David Stern told the owner of the Saints, you buy the Hornets and we will get you a good pick. If that isnt a BLACK BAG JOB - I dont know what is.

The problem is that the owners are all making money hand over fist with Stern in control....so they dont care how shady the games are. And the players are also making money hand over fist, so in the end they dont have much they can say either. The whole thing is turning into a joke on par with the WWF.

I mean that was a disgrace last night.

I knew the fix was in halfway through the 1st quarter.

6:33 Rondo on the fast break with LJ on his heels. Rondo lays it up and the ball rattles around the rim. LJ clearly hits the backboard with his open hand after the ball hits the backboard. The ref is standing on the first "M" in MIAMI to the left of the lane. Maybe the ref was too far past the face of the backboard to see the smack, but he could have heard it and seen the whole thing move. The replay with a better angle of this occurs after the next bad call on Bass. In that angle, LJ clearly fouls Rondo from behind on the play. Two missed calls on one play!!

6:18 Bass is out of bounds with one foot under the Heat basket. He lifts his foot before he touches the ball, lands inbounds with both feet and catches the ball. The ref is standing on the letter A in "HEAT" under the basket, 10 feet from the action and makes the wrong call. The ref had a clear view of this one. This one was bang-bang, but I saw it in real time and went to slo-mo to verify. It was closer than I originally thought, but the ref was right there.

2:00 On a pick and roll at the top of the key, LJ clearly has both hands on Pierce and pushes him back. LJ's right leg is extended and when Rondo tries to go around the pick, LJ puts his hip into Rondo. The result is a clear path to the hoop for Chalmers. The ref is standing behind the play, 10-12 feet away, with a clear view.

There's a couple more things in the 1st quarter:

Pierce's first foul, for instance. LJ had PP's arm hooked and spun him around.

The 4 quick calls on Greg Stiemsma. Sure, they were "fouls", but we were not getting the same thing called for us on the other end.

Most of this stuff I see in real time and then go back to view it in slo-mo to verify. It's not like they have to add a 4th ref because the three current ones have no view of the plays. Each time there is a ref near enough with a clear view.

I don't even want to go into the other missed calls in the 2nd and 3rd quarters, let alone the 4th and OT. Those are being disected by lots of other fans and media types. I will say that when the cHeat came back from the 15 point deficit, each time there was an iffy call on our end, the result was a score on their end.

There were also many bad or missed calls in the first game, but in that one, we played badly and perhaps would have lost anyway. In the second game, it seemed that there was a pattern throughout the game of calls that went against us.

Anyway, that is my take, for what its worth.

MRKleen:

I said after the first game that the WWE, or professional wrestling was better orchestrated than the NBA. Wrestling doesn't pretend to be anything but a pre-arranged show. Stern and his henchmen, the zebras want the fans to believe that NBA games are a show of athletic prowess performed on a level playing field where the rules are applied equally to each team. (BARF, BARF!)

MD!

Gyso:

You got it all brother! Do you moonlight (not Bruce Willis) as a Private Investigator? You leave no Stone (not Mick Jagger) unturned! Kudos!

MD!

Hi,
I can't help but join the overwhelming number of people who were disgusted by the last night's game. What a shame!
On the same note, I'm very sorry but the Celtics are doomed, were doomed from the very beginning of the series. No matter how many points they score, how many assists, rebounds, blocks, steals they get all that will be trumped by the fix in the games against NBA darlings.
I'm not a conspiracy theory follower, I strongly believe in science and reason. The way the last 2 games were officiated contradicts both. It couldn't be an accident: 2 games in a row, 6 different refs. So, my conclusion is it's either personal (individual ref's position towards Celtics) or, the league influenced them. The probability of the former is minuscule. So, I'll have no choice but stick with the latter - the most probable explanation. Am I missing some other explanation?
As for the game, besides the obvious - un-earthly - performance by RR, I think everyone chipped in. What a shameful waste!

AK

The home crowd at TD Garden needs to turn out and cheer these Celtic loud and long for the adversity they faced in South Beach and how they did themselves and anyone whoever wore a Celtic jersy proud. If this were the 70's Doc could play Helen Reddy for the guys, "It's You & Me Against The World." They can't play Aretha since they already got," R E S P E C T."-from the fans!

MD!

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The pics I posted above show plays that went both ways.

In the play where Pierce dives on the floor for the ball, Battier lands on top of him and no foul is called. There are two views of that one.

In the play where both Rondo and LJ dive on the floor, Rondo ends up under LJ and is called for a foul. I couldn't get an earlier pic that showed both of them getting their hands on the ball. If I remember right, that is what happened, except in the end, LJ is stronger and ended up with the ball. The play-by guys both said "No foul, play on" for that one.

Those two plays show that Pierce, a first ballot hall-of-famer, just does not get the calls that LJ, Wade, Kobe and some of the others get.

The other two pics are of the Ray Allen fast break when he gets the shot blocked. Clearly all ball there. Hey, I went looking for a foul on that particular play but found none. Ray just doesn't have the lift to finish it.

gyso

MD,

I am on vacation last week and this, and like Rosalie after the game, I couldnt sleep. I had to get up early to see visiting family off to the airport, so I am killing time waiting for the lawn to dry enough to mow it.

I am now a grandfather (X2). First one was a boy in February. Maxwell, his Ma and Pa came up from Charlotte and fly back today. They came up to see 3 week old grandaughter, who lives in our home with her mom.

gyso

I feel blessed to have witnessed one of the greatest playoff performances in NBA history.

So unfortunate that for two straight games the refs screwed the Celts.

Dboss

I need to find myself a bar with a defibrillator. I had people coming up to me last night, putting their two fists against my chest and yelling "clear!" and then punching me while making sounds like an electric bug zapper. I shit you not.

Despite all the comments to the contrary here, I believe the officiating was better last night than in game 1. Then again, I thought the officiating in game 1 was an abomination, so it's all up from there.

The foul on Rondo submarining LBJ was a good call. Rondo was falling down, in part because LBJ is 70# heavier than him and stronger and Rondo fell under LBJ's feet. That's a foul.

There should have been a foul called on Wade on the Ray breakaway. He clearly had his hand on Ray's hip. That's a foul.

I didn't like the final foul on Pierce. I don't know if he was outside the dotted circle, but it's ridiculous that a player can launch himself into a crowd, turn his back on them and flip the ball over his head and have the officials say he was in control and taking a shot. That's bullshit.

The face slap by Wade on Rondo in OT is clear and blatant. That should have been a foul. I always get suspicious when it's obvious something happened, be it a great block or a foul, and the networks don't do a replay.

The foul on Chalmers at mid-court by Rondo at the buzzer. The replay shows no contact by Rondo, just a great acting job by Chalmers, and the ref running ahead who called it, down the sidelines, had a clear angle on it.

We got to OT, without Pierce, on the heart of Rondo and Ray. We just didn't have enough horses left to win the race. GREAT effort by our warriors. GREAT. I'm very proud of them today.

1. An amazing performance by Rondo. The HUGE steps he has taken in the past few years, huh? As early as last year we would cringe if he took a jumpshot from 15', now he's throwing in clutch 3s one after another. 10-12 from the line? C'mon, who would have predicted that? He was doing it all last night, and that's why we lost. This is a team sport and a lot of the rest of the team didn't step up (some exceptions, like Pierce).

2. They out-assisted us last night, 24-15. They were moving the ball around and we were standing around. It was the Rondo show, and I'm not saying that in a bad way against Rondo, he has to have people execute for him.

3. Their bench obliterated our bench. Part of the reason for that is Doc deciding to go for it and burn his starters out to win this and not go down 0-2. Still, Pietrus played 28 underwhelming minutes. That breakaway foul on LBJ still has me shaking my head. Did you see the way Pietrus kind of sauntered over to LBJ and didn't make a hard run until he was even with him? Pietrus could have easily gotten in front of LBJ and fouled him from in front, making it just a foul and a side-out. Instead, Miami got 2 fts AND the ball. Steamer had 4 fouls in 5 relatively productive minutes. Dooling played 15 minutes and worked hard and Hollins played 1 minute. That was our bench, scoring a grand total 7 points (2 on an offensive slam putback by Steamer, a 3 by Pietrus and a bucket by Dooling) and 5 rebounds (3 by Steamer). The Heat bench had 4 players playing 10+ minutes (Haslem played 30), they scored 25 points, grabbed 17 rebounds, 6 assists and a block. One might say "no big surprise there, their numbers look better because they played a lot more minutes". Yeah, and there's a reason why they played a lot more minutes, it's because they were productive so they got to stay out on the floor.

4. Mario Chalmers killed us. Haslem too. In the first half, with Rondo going crazy and us with a nice lead and the dynamic duo of LBJ/Wade being mostly silent, it was Chalmers who kept them in the game. 22 points by a player who only averaged 10ppg in the season. Haslem was playing great defense and hitting his mid-range J's. LBJ got the stats and Wade got the Sportscenter highlights but it was these two guys that won it for them.

5. Ray Allen had a decent offensive night. 5-11, 2-5 from 3, 5 ribbies and 2 steals. He also showed he is completely incapable of guarding Wade. I don't know if his loss of athleticism is age or injury or both, we won't know until next year, but it was clear he couldn't match up. Yes, Wade had his hand on Ray's hip on the breakaway but Ray couldn't elevate, nor outrun Wade even though he had the angle. On defense, Wade used him like a party girl. If you had offered to bet me that Avery Bradley would be the preferred player on the floor over Ray Allen back in January, I'd have taken all your money and offered odds on top of it. I'm not understanding why Doc didn't put Q on Wade and let Pietrus focus on LBJ.

6. Obviously Doc didn't get Sam's memo about putting someone other than Pierce on James. That's unfortunate, because Pierce picked up a couple of fouls that LBJ was going to get against anybody and that set Pierce up for being in the position of having 5 fouls with time left in regulation. He had a very efficient shooting night, the only one besides Rondo who made any real noise, but he accumulated too many fouls against LBJ.

7. A medium-strong game by KG. 6-18 shooting is not going to get it done for us. We're not establishing the low post enough. He can shoot over everybody out there. 45 minutes burned him out.

8. LBJ guarded Pierce, when he was hot; Rondo for a while; KG when he was shooting a lot. Quite a versatile performance. 24 fta. Some of them were legit. Bad defense, grabbing him on breakaways, etc. Some of that were superstar calls. I've always wondered "if a player is a superstar, like LBJ and Wade, then why do they need superstar calls? Shouldn't they be able to outperform everybody anyway? Isn't that why they're superstars?". Obviously, David Stern and Stu Jackson don't look at it the same way I do.

We shot 49.4% vs 44.6% by them. We both had only 8 TOs. They won with more 3s and A LOT more fts. 47 ftas? With LBJ taking half of them?

We really wanted a split. We didn't get it. This now puts a lot of pressure on us to win both of our home games, just like they won both of theirs. A LOT OF PRESSURE. If we do, though, then it's a 2-out-of-3 series and we can win 2 even if 1 has to be in Miami. Remember, in 2008, every series went to 7 except the Finals against LA. These guys just like doing things the hard way. Keep the faith.

Time to turn out Causeway Street and show them what Celtic Pride really means.

bob


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Not that this makes it feel any better, but congratulations to Rondo for being the 1st player in NBA history to ever have 40+ points and 10 assists in a playoff game.

bob


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You all know how I feel, I said it halfway through the game last night. I was sick to my stomach over this ugly display. So.....with no more to be said, I will see you all tomorrow night, in BOSTON, where Bill Russell will suit up and shut everyone up!!!!!!!!