THANKS MOSTLY TO PERK, CELTICS UP 3-2 DESPITE BLOWING 17-POINT LEADKendrick Perkins made me look like a horse's ass this evening. After calling him out for crappy performances (which I believe were justified considering PJ Brown was taking all his minutes), Perk went friggin' bananas in Game 5. I don't know if he reads this blog, but he played as if he did and took everything I wrote really, really personally. Good! He had a double double in the first half, and in the fourth quarter he was outrebounding the Pistons, for the game, BY HIMSELF. Nutty. The best play though, was watching Perk basically try to take the ball coast to coast and almost pulled it off despite the fact that his sprinting speed is 3 mph. I kept asking myself while watching... is this Perk? Does he ever play like this? The answer is- not until last night, baby! It was the best game of Perk's career, and the Celtics needed every point and every rebound out of him tonight. Give him the MVP, he earned it.
But please, please, I beg of you. Give credit to Kevin Garnett, who was lights out shooting (11-17 FGs. 8-10 FTS). He was dropping in long jumpers as the shot clock expired and even drilled a bank shot three. Popeye Jones immediately filed a copyright infringement suit against KG but it was immediately thrown out because Popeye's patented move wasn't the bank shot three but the turnaround brick off the SIDE of the backboard after the play was over. So, if you happen to do that in a pickup game you owe 'ol Popeye five bucks.
But back to the matter at hand, KG was huge down the stretch (mostly from the line), once again showing that all the "KG isn't clutch" talk is uttered by morons that think that the only stat that matters is PPG. He drained the two free throws to seal the game for the Celtics tonight. Bill Simmons is a moron who couldn't hit two straight free throws if he had all day. Not to be outdone, Ray Allen who apparently decides at random when he will play like an All-Star, because he was stroking the three like this. He also had some clutch free throws. As spotty as the Celtics' point guard play is down the stretch of these close games, their free throw shooting is MONEY (other than from the point guard position, yikes...).
Still, Rasheed Wallace made something like 10 threes and nobody on the Celtics can guard Rip (not even Posey!), so it was STESSFUL in the fourth. At the start of the quarter, the C's decided that every shot should be a 3 with 15 seconds left on the shot clock. Of course, Doc let this go on like a bumbling idiot until the Pistons cut the lead down to 4. 17 points down to 4. Thankfully, because Rasheed Wallace is a psychopath he got a technical foul that stopped the Pistons' momentum and the Celtics were able to hold on despite Rondo throwing the ball around like it was the And 1 tour. He had only 1 turnover in this game which blows my mind because he was incredibly loose with the ball. He could have had 10 turnovers. I love Rondo but his low turnover total was ALL LUCK tonight.
Down the stretch, the Pistons were surging hard and the Celtics were barely holding on. The Celtics' strategy was to barely get the ball inbounds, have Rondo barely get the ball over halfcourt, have Rondo lob a pass into traffic and pray that someone got fouled. Somehow it worked. The Pistons could have won the game. They had all the momentum in the fourth. They had the 17-point lead trimmed down to 1 with the Celtics throwing the ball all over the place. But, thank the basketball gods, the Celtics were able to do just enough to pull it out. This game was over 3 hours long and it didn't even go into overtime.
Alright, it's way past my bedtime and I am in a full sweat. The playoffs are fun but for this reason they suck. Peace out, go Celtics!Source URL: http://ledger-heath.blogspot.com/2008/05/what-f-was-that-celtics-win-outrageous.html
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