Celtics v. Heat Game 6 Wrap Up: Unmitigated Disaster

Cue to the 22 Second Mark...That was the Celtics last night.

Open shot after open shot, after open shot. All led to brick, after brick, after brick. This wasn't about the refs, this wasn't even about Lebron, who was brilliant (seriously, that's as good as a game as an individual can have. The amount of "OH MY GODDD's from the Maestro last night was off the charts. I chose to express myself through explitives). This was about the C's coming out flat. 

They didn't run, they didn't shoot, they didn't pass. And it was team wide. Pierce took a few shots that I swear never got about the rim, just clanking underneath the front of the rim. Pietrus was back to his usual self, though the fans in my section must've all been newbies because they all for some reason anticipated a make whenever he chucked up a three...newsflash guys, he sucks. Allen was a non-factor. Rondo had the best game on the team and even he didn't play particularly well. Didn't help that he had absolutely no one to run with. Bass, actually Bass played ok. He shot well enough, but we didn't see much of him late. And then there's KG....Apparently Coach Olestra reads my blogs because they fronted him from the first quarter on and he was a shadow of himself as a result. No in-game adjustment for Doc on that, which is shocking. 

So now they're heading back to MIA in a do or die. I still take the C's, but that's only because I'm a homer.

This Guy Badly Needs a New Twitter Handle

Absolute glutton for punishment. 

You've gotta be a serious sadomasichist or have some serious thick skin to rock that Twitter handle. And honestly, they guy doesn't look like either, so I'm assuming he's foreign.

Probably has no idea why his @ mentions are blowing up daily with some serious hate tweets:

Hey NBA, Look Away, It's Dwayne Wade Mauling Rajon Rondo

Not a foul though. Solid play on the ball, not a foul at all. How many games would Pietrus have been suspended for the same play if he did it to Lebron or Wade? 2? Absolute Fucking Bullshit.

Not to mention the fact that this was then followed by Dwayne Wade's sure to be infamous Crouching Tiger,  Hidden Dragon move on KG:

Just a brutal stretch of officiating. I will say that one might be a 50/50 call, but considering the ref's owed the Celts one big time for the Rondo non-call, I can't see how you get KG there. The man was just kung fu'd. And you know what pisses me off the most about all the referee shenanagins last night? The fact that that's what we'll remember the game for. 

We should be remembering 53 mins (that's every single minute, folks), 44 pts, 8 rebs, 10 assists, 3 steals, and a whole lot of heart. This should be remember as Rondo's ultimate HOF highlight reel game. Instead it's just going to be remembered as game two in a series the Heat will presumably roll in 5 now, and a game where the Celts were whistled for 33 fouls, to Miamis 18. An absolute joke and a damn shame. 

 

 

If You Weren't Sure Before, Chris Bosh is Def the Odd Man Out in the Big 3

If this picture doesn't just define Bosh's role with the big three in Miami, I don't know what does. I mean look at it...

First off, they threw him at the very end of the bench. I don't know if that's his usual spot, or if its punishment for that 1970's clown suit he's wearing, but it says alot. By placing Bosh in that spot James and Wade effectively don't have to look at the Bostrich, at all. Just cast off, probably craning his bird neck all night long trying to get into whatever the guys on the bench were joking about. Poor guy. 

Secondly, look at his posture! Now look at James' posture. This is a man who DEFINITELY gets stuck with the middle seat on team flights. The guys on the Heat must pull straws to decide who gets to sit next to Bosh on flights. Just dominating the armrests and legroom from take off to landing while he insecurely cowers in the middle seat. 

Just look at him. James all comfy, elbows and legs spread wide, like he's taking a nice and relaxing shit on the toilet (the Heat backups actually were taking a shit on the court at that moment, so its nice symmetry really), while Bosh has to pull the always awkward and uncomfortable shoulder across your chest move and is clenching his legs together. It is the picture of uncomfortableness. He looks like a movie character who was just sexually abused and is afraid of human contact. 

Ladies and Gentelman, Chris Bosh...The Sexually Abused Character in a B Movie, and 1/3 of the Miami Big Three. 

Celtics Down Lebron and El Heat Once Again

 

Twice in 10 days! Someone go ask Stephen A Smith if this one counted against the Heat? He's gotta be running out of excuses for Lebron and Co by now, right? I mean this one was at home, and the C's controlled it, basically tip-buzzer. 

And another thing...all those old "Chris Bosh is a young KG" comparisons from a few years back when everyone still thought Bosh had real talent, is there anyone we can contact to get those expunged from the Internet for good? It's just embarrassing that those comparisons even exist at this point. Bostrich might be one of the least useful players on the planet on that Heat team. Hell, Tommy Heinson's comparisons of Greg Steimsma (I don't even know if that's how you spell his name) to Bill Russell hold more weight than the old comparisons of Bosh to KG. That's how far he's fallen.  I honestly can't wait for the playoffs to start and that's something I would have never said about this Celts team 2 months ago. 

In other Boston sports news, the Sox lost again, and I'm one step closer to the ledge

Miami Heat Lose Yet Another Prime Time Matchup, Media Yet Again Makes Excuses for Them

Real question, is Stephen A that delusional? Or in Stephen A-bonics "IS STEphen A THat DELusionAL? 

And I'm not complaining from a Boston perspective, I'm glad he gave the team it's props. They're now leading their division and have the second best record in basketball since the All-Star break. They're still old as hell and a fairly flawed team with some real weaknesses, but if anything this proves they've got a punchers chance in the playoffs. You know they'll go down swinging, and if they catch a team, like say, the Heat, by surprise, they could knock 'em out. 

Which is why I think Stephen A, and all the media types who keep defending Miami for these show down losses need a bit of a dose of reality. In the past month they've played the Lakers, the Pacers, Orlando, Chicago, Oklahoma and now Boston, a combined 8 times...They're 2-6. TWO AND SIX! And no one says anything about it, just "oh, the game meant more to the opposing team than it did the Heat."

BULLSHIT.  This is a team that comes into every big matchup with a media circus, wondering how they'll respond. They've stepped up twice. Once in overtime against the Pacers at home, and once at home against Orlando...Hell, that loss to Chicago was while Rose was out...The talent disparity is already huge between Chicago and Miami, but take away Rose? That should be like playing just another middling eastern conference team for Miami, but they couldn't do it. 

Once or twice is excusable, but not showing up 6x in a month, that's a pattern. Four of those losses were by double digits, by an average of 15 points per game...That's not exactly paining a picture of an elite team putting up a fight on a night by night basis. 

And the argument that it doesn't mean anything, that they're just treading water, doesn't really hold weight either. Coming into last month they were in contention for the 1 seed, now? It's all but gone. And trust me, in a seven game series against the Bulls, they want that home court advantage. Not to mention the fact that no other team in the league would get this much leeway...its a shortened season, every game counts more now than in any previous season. In the blink of an eye we're going to be into the playoffs, and they're going to be a team that went 10-7 in the last month when they should have been rounding into form for the playoffs, including 6 losses to playoff caliber teams (one to the Jazz for good measure). 

So yes, Stephen A, these games do mean something, and should mean something to Miami. What you're seeing is a team that gets down and quits. A team with no fight once another team imposes their will on them. A team of quitters who very much look like they're being led by a guy who's never been able to overcome adversity in his career. They're front runners who can't handle playing from behind, and that's a huge problem come playoff time.

But great analysis Stevie.