All aboard the P.P. Express!

"AHH I AM GOING TO EAT THIS CEREAL SO HARD!"

Piss-poor photoshoping aside, This is why I rock the #34 jersey:



00:10.5 [BOS 93-93]

Pierce Jump Shot: Made (20 PTS) Assist: Rondo (10 AST)


01:17 [BOS 102-101]

Pierce Step Back Jump shot: Made (22 PTS)


00:36.5 [BOS 104-101]

Pierce Step Back Jump shot: Made (24 PTS)


00:03.4 [BOS 106-104]

Pierce Pullup Jump shot: Made (26 PTS)


00:00.0 [BOS 106-104]	Pierce single-handedly smites Chicago in OT (pwnsauce)



It just seemed like this time, the Bulls had no answer for Paul Pierce and his string of deadly-accurate jump shots which gave the Celtics the win in yet ANOTHER obscenely close game. And it wasn't one of those back and forth games, this time both teams were going on runs, and when it came to the fourth quarter that's what the Celtics needed, and got, from Rondo and Ray Allen. With about seven minutes left Rondo delivered two lay-ups and Allen hit a crucial three, as he oft does, to bring the celtics to within three before immediately fouling-out, which he ne'er does.

The Bulls would fight back and take the lead by two with 10 seconds left with a ridiculous, off-balance shot by Ben Gordon ignoring an aggravated hamstring injury. This guy is serious. I never really paid attention to him until this series, but he has some great offense in his game. But don't worry friends, Captain Clutch ties it at 93, Gordon misses the potential game-winner with Baby (if my memory serves me) in his face, and the historic game goes into OT (this was the first playoff series with three OT games).

Rondo again puts up the best numbers in the game for the Celtics by shooting 55% (100% from threetown [2/2]) contributing 28 points, 11 assists and 8 rebounds. Series MVP already? Davis gave 21 to the cause by shooting almost 2 for every 3. Perk, lest we forget blocked seven shots and grabbed 19 rebounds, not to mention showing a sliver of agility on two hard lay-up drives. Ray Allen with a relatively quiet night scoring 10 and fouling out with 5+ minutes left, but he did hit a very important three as I mentioned earlier to get the Celtics back in the game late.

So, our starters all came up huge last night which is a good thing, but not all is well with this win. The ugly underside? The Celtic bench scored a grand total of five points for the entire game. That just plain sucks. Granted, the starting line-up minus Allen played more than 40 minutes each (Pierce, Perk and Rondo all played around 50 minutes), and if that's what it takes to win then sure, but TA played 17 and didn't score, house played 10 and didn't score, Scal and Marbury combined for 23 minutes and got the five bench points. So they had playing time... This didn't cost us the game because Rose didn't explode like he can, the starting forward battle was handily won by Pierce and Davis (47 to 29) and we had home court advantages aka several breaks from the refs, but in this league you never want to rely on the refs.
(Speaking of which, we got a potentially big break with 2 seconds left in OT when Rondo facemask'ed Miller and they did not call the obvious flagrant foul. David Stern agrees with his refs because either he doesn't know the rules either or he owes them a favor for all the illegitimate cash they've made him.)

So back to Chicago we go, up by 1 game, let's hope for another game 3.Source URL: http://ledger-heath.blogspot.com/2009/04/all-aboard-pp-express.html
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