great game.. bring on LA!!

I remember when I was a kid and the Celtics beat the Pistons and on channel 4 they showed highlights of the season with U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” I thought Garnett embodied that in his post game interview. This is so awesome. As great as it’s been to see the Sox and Pats win, this one would be the most satisfying for me! The Celtics back in the finals, world balance is restored!

 The officiating during the third quarter was unbelievably bad, especially that offensive foul called on Pierce when Rip fell on him. I think David Stern was misleading us all, when he said that there was only one referee who was dishonest. If these officials weren’t aware of the point spread in Vegas for this game, I’ll eat my hat.

Agreed on the officiating. We beat Detroit and horrid officiating. Go Celtics!

YEAH!!!!

When Detroit was down 0-1 they said “We’re not worried, we’ve been here before”

When Detroit was down 1-2 they said “We’re not worried, we’ve been here before”

When Detroit was down 2-3 they said “We’re not worried, we’ve been here before”

Now that they have lost their third straight Eastern Conference finals, Pistons should not worry, they have been here before.

great post, jeff.

offense wins games, but defense wins championships. Beat LA!

we had poise, especially paul-good paul showed up for the game. and speaking of poise, we should call him james poisey.we have a few days of euphoria to mend our wounds and get down to business. by the way, the architect of it all —danny was out there looking for prospects, working on next year. what an organization!

afflatus, beautiful!!!

note that PJ Brown sat the entire 4th. This is no coincidence. Doc made 2 major mistakes last night, which is well below his average:

1. After Powe showed exactly why he deserves minutes over PJ (better defense, quick enough on rotations, actually attacks the basket), Doc still put PJ in the second half… and we fall down 10. Shocker.

2. Minor point given the score and time left, but subbing out Posey for Allen when we were shooting free throws defied all logic. Posey had been shutting down Chauncey and they to start shooting 3s. So take out our best wing defender for our worst?

Other than those two points, kudos all around. Bouncing back after that horribly officiated 3rd Q was huuge.

cmoney I believe Perk and KG played the entire 4th quarter. KG was in foul trouble and was guarding Wallace. Doc put Perk on Wallace and KG on McDyess. Perk and KG, not PJ, Powe, or anyone else should have been on the floor. The guys on the floor had it going at both ends. Doc had them run the same play over and over. It worked. We won.

OK.. but I wasn’t complaining about that. that was good! My point was we probably don’t fall down 10 in the first place if Powe plays instead of PJ. PJ had an epically bad series for a guy getting 20mpg in the ECF en route to the Finals.