Back Breaker!

my voice! where is it? i think i lost it ;D

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Oh my God! Phil Jackson outcoached by Doc Rivers!! Eat your heart out Bill Simmons!!!

Paul Pierce… I am a believer now.
Ray Allen… Solid as a rock.
Kevin Garnett… Still the Big Ticket.

NEVER LET UP!

speEchless! spelling-less too, jeff.. haha. what an amazing game. sonny mclean’s in LA – the one refuge for C’s fans – off the hook.

Awsome job Doc, you made me a believer

Pierce .. who hasn’t always been faithful to him
Allen clutch
house and posey sleep welllll please

That should be the series. Celtics can close this out in Game Five.

Great second performance from the boys in Green. The defense was excellent. Night and day from the first half.

Amazing… just amazing!!!!!

Ok I have a question… Should the Celtics “throw” Game 5 on Sunday so key players can be well rested for Game 6, where they can win it all?

Tears. To see the emotion on Paul Pierce’s face and the depth of that emotion. He knows more than anyone what this team stands for, the history of excellence, and what it means to beat the Lakers and stop Phil from soiling Red’s legacy. I will take my daughter to a game someday and point to that 34 in the rafters and tell her about tonight. The Truth is up there.

The Lakers are whiny, classless, one dimensional players. The C stands for Class and C’s are kicking the Lakers *!!!!!!

Man I would love to put LA away on their home floor Sunday night. That would give this series that extra “kick in the teeth” it deserves. Man I hate the Lakers!!

Was it Van Gundy who said the game was over at the end of the first period? No wonder he isn’t coaching!

My voice is gone…I was in an NYC bar, half LA fans half Boston fans. AMAZING. I’ve never had a better time in my life…

One of the best games I’ve ever seen. I still can’t believe it. Its such a blur – I’m not even sure how it happened. It kept going to 11 or 12 or 13 and then going up, and then suddenly – POW! I have to get up at 6Am and I’m not sure I"m sleeping. GO CELTS. BEAT LA!

yeah boy this is probably the most amazing game i have seen in my life. I was about to cry at half time and then …wow. amazing just amazing. yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

The Lakers CAN come back. They LIKELY won’t, but they’ll put this game behind them and compete in the next game (and the one or two after that, depending). The Celtics are obviously in a great position to win, but they can’t let up now. After the Nets blew that 21-point 4th quarter lead, everyone was saying they were done. In fact, it was the Celtics that didn’t win another game in that series. This was an unbelievable win. One for the ages. But still just one win to make it 3-1. Don’t count out the Lakers just yet.

One game. O.N.E. THat’s what we need. I don’t even want this to come back to boston. win it on fathers day. dont give the Lakers hope. this series isnt over by a long shot. They can come back before you know it

I will say the series is not over but
I won’t add ‘by a long shot’though. Celtics need 1 win, Lakers need 3. But I agree C’s can’t let up.

The Celtics are now 3-0 when I don’t watch their playoff games. Clearly I need to go somewhere else on Sunday…

Pierce looks like the Terminator in that picture and we pretty much terminated the Lakers tonight!!!!!!!!

Village Idiot: In a word, no. The Celtics need to put this one away on Sunday if they can. Winning in Boston would be nice, but every win the Lakers get is dangerous. Gotta kick ‘em while they’re down and put it away. When there’s only one game left between you and the championship, you don’t let that opportunity go if you can possibly help it.

Ray Allen not getting enough credit for a great game. Thats ok, but he deserves a bit more for sure. Love Posey and thank God House played and made some big shots. Congratulations, to everyone we are so close now. Have to put it away!

Kobe Bryant: “We wet the bed.” Allen, Pierce, Garnett, all played solid in the 4th, they did NOT wet the bed, that’s what defines this gutsy Celtics team. They step up when needed. I’m so gay for Ray Allen! Ever since he put on that d@mn shooting sleeve he’s been awesome. 48 MINUTES tonight and he’s still beating guys to the basket. Allen and Pierce are co-MVP’s of this series.

Epic

very epic

I was flipping on Doc early.

Sticking with Eddie was soooo money. His floor spacing allowed KG to get going, which allowed everyone to get going. SO AWESOME.

Unbelievable. I’m so happy for Doc and Paul.

Though it would be nice to win back in Boston, I don’t want the Lakers to have even a glimmer of hope. We must win game 5.

Plus, winning 4-1 would so thoroughly embarrass all the experts who picked against the Cs. That would be worth not winning at home.

The best game ever!!!!!!!

Incredible……. this team played like champions….. every single player: Paul, Ray, Kevin, Posey, House, Powe, Brown…….. Call it a hunch but I think we’ve silenced all the critics.

The Village Idiot said:
  Ok I have a question… Should the Celtics “throw” Game 5 on Sunday so key players can be well rested for Game 6, where they can win it all?

If that was a serious question you really ARE the Village Idiot. :D

Jaycelt said:

If that was a serious question you really ARE the Village Idiot. :D

Jaycelt.. Yes, that really was a serious question… ;D, and yes I am The Village Idiot. :P

Pierce’s defense on Kobe down the stretch was huuuuuuge. Huge. Mammoth. Cannot possibly be overstated.

At this point I think we can all agree that Sam Cassell IS the Mole. Bill Simmons was right. Eddie House warmed into the game like shooters usually do and ended up a key factor. Posey was nearly as big as Pierce’s D on Kobe.

This was (and is) awesome. I’m delirious.

i am in LA and love to see the anger over this… incredible can’t believe it…

What a game!

It isn’t over. The Lakers are still a dangerous team. If tonight’s game and game 2 taught the team anything, then it’s that it is never really over until the final buzzer sounds.

In some situations (say San Antonio and Detroit, Miami and anyone) taking a game off to win on your own home court is acceptable. If it’s Boston vs LA or Boston vs Phili – closing out the series on the opponents court is even sweeter.

At some point, the Doc haters are going to have to look at themselves in the mirror and come to grip with the idea that Doc not only knows how to coach this team better than they do, it is not fairly obvious that Doc can coach his team better than Phil Jackson can coach his.
BS Simmons needs to offer a public apology to Doc for all of the terrible things he has said about him on several occasions(not that it matters, Doc could care less about Simmons, his probasketball knowledge/credibility/coach evaluation skill have as much weight as a Lindsey Lohan testimonial at an abstinence seminar)[ponder what that means]. He also needs to officially seperate himself as a “national fan voice of the Celtics.”

Ray Allen did not get enough credit for his clutch play. The Celtics can, absolutely, stop the Lakers offense. The Lakers cannot stop the Celtics (which is constantly overlooked by everyone – Ray Allen, KG, Paul Pierce are all offensive juggernauts who play selflessly, imagine how much more fluid the offense will be midseason next year). Yes, the team’s strenght is their powerful committment to defense, but the fact that when firing on all cylinders their offense is as potent and as full of as many weapons as anyones.

What a game.

I think I’m gonna send Po a flower arrangement and marriage proposal.

Ray Allen did not get enough credit for his clutch play.

Word. But talking about clutch play, check this out. A buddy of mine just pointed it out to me:

Celtics scored on all 10 of their final possessions. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playbyplay?gameId=280612013. Starts at 5:24.

And if that’s not enough, every Celtic on the floor scored. six for posey, three for eddie, four for KG, four for ray, three for PP.

How’s THAT for clutch team play?

Before I forget: Kobe’s postgame was wonderful! When asked how he was going to handle the loss his response was [paraphrased] “I’m gonna go get drunk.” NICE.

The Lakers threw their biggest haymaker at the Celtics; the Celtics got up off the matt.

“I’ll take a world class offense over a world class defense any day!” – Mark Jackson. No wonder he is ringless and was able to interview his way out of the Knicks coaching job . . . sheesh . . .

Where do I send that flower arrangement and proposal ring, Po?

RA, KG and PP are offensive machines. To make best use of them you surround them with guys who can hit the 3 and therefore maximise the space they have to operate….

so who are our 3 best bench shooters?

Posey and House

This was truly a great victory and a TEAM victory. I agree with many above that Ray Allen deserves much credit, but to me if I had to pick one person responsible for this win it needs to be Doc Rivers. And it’s not about plays, substituion patterns or any of that stuff. Doc believed and he would not permit his players to not believe. He willed them to believe. I listened to the post game show on Comcast and Mike Gorman, who was in LA, mentioned something that happened that he had never experienced before. He told us the NBA person who monitors the mikes the coaches wear made it a point to come out after the game and tell Mike that he had never experienced how a Coach would not stop believing and not stop letting his players believe that they would win this game. And he was talking about more than the blurbs you hear that were broadcasted. Evidently they tape everything. And to make it a point to approach Mike Gorman and tell him what he (the NBA guy) had never experienced before, a coach inspiring his players like this. I just wish I could articulate this special moment better. I also hope the Celtics can win this on Father’s day. I would be a meaningful tribute to Doc. (His relationship with his father).

Both Ray and Paul outplayed Kobe in the series overall. ;D

“The Lakers can’t come back from this. They just can’t. Back breaker”.

That’s just crazy talk Jeff.

What happened in the series against the Nets when Paul performed his other miracle comeback?

Never, ever, ever, ever count your chickens.

The Lakers still have Kobe and any team with Kobe, is a team to respect until the deal is done.

Whilst we were incredibly good to win today, it could so easily have gone the other way.

Please don’t jinx us with that sort of talk in print.

Go the Green !!!!

Cheers

Aussie

“epic”

Impetuous. Homeric.

Of course…you have a problem with that?

Geez, Jeff, I just wish you hadn’t thrown in that last line.

Bill Simmons must be hating this. How can he possibly write a negativity-laden, Doc-bashing column now?