The Play's The Thing

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Any time you want to put up a bullet about the terrible officiating, that would be ok with the chatroom Jeff.

In honor of the overplayed overhyped Lebron and all his commercials – this game was Kid N’ PLay and we were freestyling on Death Po Records

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The officiating was the absolute worst I’ve seen, and yet the Cs won going away. Great energy level for the team. The best since Denver. An embarrassing loss for the Cavs. The Cs playing without KG, Scal, TA, then Rondo gets hurt, BBD gets ejected and the Cavs still don’t come close.

Great win.

Wow, that was the best game I’ve seen in a long, long while! VERY impressive and I’ve got these guys back up at the no.1 spot in my own power rankings now. DAMN that was SAHWEET.

Free Throws:

Cavs 38
Cs 12

..their personal ref, Eddie F. Rush, their +26 (!) FTA advantage, the league’s desire to make Lebron GOAT before he turns 25 and get the heck out of Boston. Go cry some more than you weren’t awarded even more free throws, you wimps. You folded like cowards at the end, too. Quitting with over a minute and a half left in the game? Losers. I hate that team.

Big Baby, Powe and Perk dominated that team tonight. Our bigs have heart – as does the rest of our team.

Pulls his starters with a 1:30 left and still a chance. These clowns thought they were going to roll tonight. The refs helped them in every way possible but the Cs played like true champs. Cleveland left the Garden like true chumps.

Anyone have the final stats for this or where’s the best place to find it?

..the Celtics end up getting stuck with Eddie F. Rush as an official for the games?

+26 FTA for the road team? That’s what home court gets us?

I’m thrilled with the victory, but there should still be some loud objections, from the Celtics organizations, to what happened this evening. Disgraceful.

When KG got hurt, I posted that if a Cleveland win against a KG-less team didn’t mean too much.

But a win over the Cavs by a KG-less team was huge. Especially when LBJ was defended well, and was outplayed by PP. LeBron settled for a lot jumpers tonight. Great D by Boston. This loss was felt. April 12th will be huge. I think he’ll have a point to prove. Homecourt AND the MVP will be on the line.

Great work by the C’s. Hopefully we can pip Orlando on Sunday also.

I have fallen in love with Leon Powe’s style of play. A dependable team players whose not afraid of getting dirty if need be. How long do we have him locked up to stay at the Garden?

…complain about the refs. That way people can’t call us sore losers! Seriously…

I have to admit that yesterday I was apprehensive about the game. With all the injuries in our team and the Cavs now having Joe “I’m not looking for a buyout” Smith, I was worried.

But after last night’s fantastic performance, all I have to say is YES WE CAN!!!

The Big 3 of the game (Perk-Baby-Powe) brought their playoff game, and the rest of the team just followed.

There was one thing that really surprised me. Although I thought Moore was a bit soft on the glass, his passes and court vision were pretty good for a big man. Along with his contagious energy, at least right now I think he’s a better addition than Joe Smith would’ve been.

Overall, it was a solid victory over the Cavs/refs’ team.

not much to be said after all the good comments above.. I just think it’s going to be
as important to beat the Magic on Sunday.
I’m really interested in how the officiating is going to be. I just hope the refs are going to let them play and won’t punish Perk (who was playing great tonight) for being physical with Dwight Howard..

i saw a toughness by the celtics bigs that will make any fan happy.
it was only one game but a big one, a great way to start the weekend.

38-11 in FT attempts is ridiculous. C’s were clearly the superior team. I was surprised at how soft the inside D of the Cavs was, but they were still plenty of hand-checks, etc that didn’t get called.

Moore outplayed Smith and looks like a better fit for the C’s.

Key to the game: Paul played outstanding D on James.

Our undersized bigs (Baby, Powe) may have turned a corner in this game. The KG injury is a blessing in disguise.

I agree with wondahbap that this was a bigger win for a KG-less C’s than it would have been for the nearly full-strength Cavs to beat a severly undermanned C’s team.

I must admit i was quite worried about this game, thinking that for the first time the Cavs would win in Boston, thanks to KG’s absence… but I was truly excited by the game and the intensity of the Celtics! I hadn’t seen them play with such an intense defense and so much concentration since a long time, I think that the Cavs were a big motivation boost and the C’s showed up for the challenge.

Big Baby, Perk’ and Powe were really great and dominated the paint, but Pierce was also unstoppable and did a pretty good job defensively on LeBron. Ray-Ray, who was a non-factor in the first half, allowed the C’s to keep their lead in the third quarter and he also made a dagger 3 pointer at the end of the game.

Despite the horrible officiating (all the Cavs’ way as the free-throw differential shows it), the C’s won the game and they can now retake the first place in the Eastern Conference to get HCA! Go C’s!

Great game by C’s. All out effort by the bench guys, especially Leon. He needs to be more consistent. Scary moment when Rondo started hopping up and down on one leg. (Which, btw…quite impressive that he could balance on one leg for as long as he did.) Brought back horrible memory of pp getting hurt in the finals and KG’s injury.

First to admit I was against the Stephon pickup, but he’s impressed me with his willingness to pass first, shoot second. So much so that, as I think someone else already mentioned, it looks like he’s overthinking it every time down the floor. I like how he’s making the effort to fit in, and I agree with Tommy H. that Stephon will behave because he wants to win a championship. (Let’s hope I don’t have to take back that comment). AND he’s attempting to play D. “Critics said he wouldn’t and he couldn’t…how do you like them apples?”
Good contribution by Mikki Moore. Glad to see MM outplay Smith overall.

Can’t remember the last time I saw the C’s dominate in the paint like they did last night. And I’ve watched many C’s games. It was great to see them not settle for jumpers. The officiating did bother me mainly because I remember how Tommy H. has said for years that the C’s should shoot drive to the basket. Especially, pp because he usually will draw the foul. Tommy would always say that even when the C’s weren’t so great. So last night, they did what Tommy wanted-they went inside, a lot. And they weren’t getting the “and 1”. That was frustrating.

If pp is considered one of the superstars of the league, why is it that he doesn’t automatically get a call like the Lebron’s and Kobe’s of the world??

Overall, great execution, great defense, and coach did a great job of keeping his guys composed after the bbd flagrant 2.

I know it’s a long season, and it’s hard to stay motivated over 82 games, but I’d love to see the C’s continue to play like this the rest of the way and throughout the playoffs. And I’m waiting for Stephon to give us a show. I wouldn’t have said that a week ago. But they will need his scoring during the playoffs.

my second half analysis had to be brief because I didn’t want to wake the baby or wife with my typing

I would have praised Paul and Powe more had I more time