The Celtics showed up to this game looking terrible. Lebron was curbstomping the Celtics singlehandedly, the Three Amigos looked tentative, but I*Heart*Celtics favorite Rajon Rondo did everything he could to keep the Celtics in the game. Every Celtics fan should make a burnt offering of a Ruth's Criss gift certificate at their personal Rondo shrine to thank him because he was HUGE for the Celtics tonight. He was doing everything- he even hit a pair of threes.
However, KG deserves a TON of credit for pulling down pretty much every big rebound, getting some big defensive stops, scoring whenever he could, and basically doing everything necessary in the fourth quarter to help the Celtics win. While James Posey was handing the ball over right under the Celtics' basket and Doc Rivers was inexplicably screaming at Big Baby, KG was calming the Celtics down(!) and playing steady and confident down the stretch. The team, as a whole, was shaky at best down the stretch (Pierce had some bad TO's), but they did enough to win.
Back to that Big Baby thing.... Big Baby was ALL OVER THE PLACE tonight and was even pulling down some fourth quarter minutes. He flubbed a pass and dove as if the ball was an infant in a stroller rolling off the edge of a cliff. He grabbed the ball, called timeout, and it was a great moment. What does Doc do? Oh, flip out on him, of course. If I was allowed to scream at Doc the way he screams at young players, he would have stuck his head in an oven after about ten minutes.
Overall, I am happy with the result. Did I almost destroy my TV when Paul Pierce attempted a behind-the-back pass to no one down the stretch? Yes. Do I still think Doc is a moron? Of course. Am I confident the Celtics will win the series? No. However, this was the second "must win" of the playoffs, the other being Game 7 in the first round, and the Celtics have been up to the challenge both times.Source URL: http://ledger-heath.blogspot.com/2008/05/celtics-scare-crap-out-of-me-countless.html
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