IT WAS ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE
Whatever Paul Pierce did to prepare for this game, let me humbly suggest that he do the exact opposite for Game 4. He showed more intensity reading "Hop on Pop" to second graders than he did in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. Whoever told Kevin Garnett that wild 20-footers were a great idea in the NBA Finals, that person should be sent to Guantanamo Bay and waterboarded for answers. Whoever decided that the Celtics shouldn't foul in the final seconds and just take the loss like a bunch of spoiled brats, that person should be sent to a secret prison in Eastern Europe.
That game sucked. If a player's name wasn't Ray Allen, they pretty much sucked either the whole game or 90% of the game. The worst culprits, however, are the players on te Celtics that get interviewed every damn day and produce soundbites about how much they want to win a title: KG and Pierce. KG went 6-21 and I'm pretty sure two of those misses were dunks. Paul Pierce was even worse, shooting 2-14, committing 5 awful, awful fouls and committing too many turnovers to be calculated. Maybe once the Ti-8300 comes out in ten years we'll be able to figure out how many bad passes Pierce threw tonight.
The backups didn't do any better. PJ Brown could have been called for 20 fouls if it was a tightly called game, and it wasn't at all, but he still got called for 17 I think. The NBA will investigate that one I'm sure- all I know is that if you blinked while watching the game PJ hacked the crap out of somebody. The Celtics were made to look like fools by the likes of Sasha Vujacic. Why they were doubling off of him exclusively cannot be explained. The Celtics' defensive strategy appeared to be let Kobe get to the paint, then wildly double too late to stop him but just in time to leave Sasha open for a three. Nice strategy, dumbasses!
Of course, the officiating crew made it a goddamn circus out there but Celtics fans shouldn't complain because PJ Brown literally committed a foul every offensive and defensive sequence and most of them weren't called. Additionally, the Celtics shot 68% from the line and a staggering 34% from the field. I am going to hammer KG a little more here- when was the last time a power forward shot 35% for a playoff series!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? His shot selection makes Antoine Walker look like Steve f*****g Kerr.
I know what the reaction will be from the people that don't take every game personally like I do for whatever reason- they'll say, "The Celtics played awful and still almost won. That's encouraging!"
That argument is garbage, because it wasn't that the Celtics played awful, but THEY WEREN'T PREPARED. That indicates that this series is seriously in doubt. The fact that Phil Jackson put Kobe on Rondo blew the Celtics' collective minds, as if they had never seen a playoff adjustment before. Kevin Garnett, who is being marked by two Europeans about as fleet footed as Oliver Miller wearing clown shoes on a goddamn balance beam, thinks it wise to shoot fadeaway jumpers from 20 feet along the baseline. Honestly, he's taking Sam Cassell shots. Exclusively.
The Celtics could have, and should have, won this game. The Lakers beat the Celtics with a two-man game tonight with their bigs in foul trouble and shooting terribly from the free throw line.
My suggestion for the Celtics is to take that godforsaken gameplan, stick it next to Scalabrine's @$$, light a match, and incinerate that paper with the Scalabrine Gas Effect. What a joke.
Yes, it's still a 2-1 series lead, but it could have been 3-0 with a "C" for execution tonight and I am pissed off.Source URL: https://ledger-heath.blogspot.com/2008/06/celtics-do-everything-wrong-play.html
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