Best yet to come for the Celtics

[tlongII]

http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/gasper/2010/06/best_yet_to_com.html

LOS ANGELES -- Feel better now Celtics fans?

You certainly should because the Celtics are headed home from the Left Coast locked up at a game a piece with the Lakers and their A-game never made an appearance in front of the A-List celebrities at Staples Center during two games.

The Celtics, specifically Ray Allen and Rajon Rondo, certainly had their moments, and the never-been-beaten starting five dug down deep over the final 5 minutes, 21 seconds to escape from LA with a 103-94 win and a hard-earned split last night. But they are capable of playing better basketball. That's not being negative. Quite the contrary. It's a real cause for optimism on Causeway Street for anyone with an interest in seeing Banner No. 18 ascend to the rafters at TD Garden.

The Celtics did what they needed to do and what all great teams do -- find a way to a win when they weren't at their best.

Earning a split in Los Angeles last night was a steal of Havlicekian proportions for the Green when you consider that the Celtics have yet to have a game in the NBA Finals where they didn't have a member of the Big Three plagued by foul trouble, where Kevin Garnett collected more than four rebounds, or where they slowed down the Lakers' front court tandem of Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum. The two Towers of Terror combined for 46 points and 14 rebounds in Game 2, while shooting an astonishing 25 free throws. Bynum had a playoff career-high-tying 21 points.

The Celtics, who pride themselves on defense, are not going to let that continue all series long.

"We still haven't played our best," said Celtics center Kendrick Perkins. "I thought Gasol and Bynum dominated still on the offensive end. Shot a high percentage from the field. We got to do a better job of controlling those guys, and we'll be alright."

The can't-be-counted-out Celtics won on a night when Garnett had just one more point (six) than fouls (five), and Paul Pierce was 2 for 11 for 10 points, converting his first field goal with 6:07 left in the third quarter, a backdoor lay-up off a beautiful feed from Rasheed Wallace.

I'm pretty sure if you presented the above scenario to Lakers coach Phil Jackson, who incredulously whined and pouted about the officiating after his team lost, he would have taken it.

The Celtics survived because Rondo was so much larger than his 6-foot, 1-inch frame, posting his fifth career playoff triple-double (19 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists), including 10 fourth-quarter points, and Ray Allen was beyond hot from beyond the arc with 32 points and an NBA Finals-record eight 3-pointers, including a 7-for-7 start on treys.

Still, with apologies to Jack Nicholson, this was not, "As Good as It Gets" for the Green, and they know it, not when outside of the sterling starting backcourt Boston shot 17 of 46.

"No," said Glen "Big Baby" Davis. "Kevin was what 2 of 5 with five fouls. Paul didn't shoot that well. I went [4 for 13]. I didn't hit those jump shots, even though I made those layups. A lot of guys didn't play capable of what they can play, so that's a scary fact when we're all cooking and we're all doing what we're supposed to do."

It's quite a scary thought for the Lakers, who were held under 100 points for the first time since the first round of the playoffs, a stretch of 11 straight games that started following a 95-94 series-clinching victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on April 30.

This wasn't like Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against Cleveland, when the Celtics put six players in double figures, shot 51 percent from the floor and led by 25 points in the fourth quarter. You have to believe that the Celtics still have that type of performance left in them for the Finals. They've had at least one decisive, clicking-on-all cylinders win in each of their previous playoff series.

Why should this series be any different? It shouldn't. If these playoffs have proven anything it's that the Celtics' best is better than the rest, just ask the Cavs and the Magic.

Now, the Celtics return to the parquet for three straight home games, starting tomorrow night. Since the inception of the 2-3-2 playoff format in 1985, only two teams have pulled off the home sweep, the 2004 Detroit Pistons, who unceremoniously ended the Kobe-Shaq era in Los Angeles, and the 2006 Miami Heat. Both teams won NBA titles.

That's why winning last night was huge.

"It was big for us," said Rondo. "It would be tough for us to go home and win three straight. It's possible, but it would be very tough with the defending champs. We did what we needed to do, came out here and got a split."

They did what they needed to do after a horrible Game 1 performance. As Pierce said, there was no where to go but up.

The captain liked what he saw in Game 2, but he knows there is still room for improvement.

"We didn't play our best basketball," said Pierce. "Hopefully, we can build on that and Game 3 it will come out."

As dire as the situation looked after a sloppy and soporific performance in Game 1 to have the series tied, 1-1, is the best possible outcome for the Celtics and reason to believe the best is yet to come.

[Giuseppe]

Phil, donning that X Cap left a lasting impression.

tee, hee.

[tlongII]

What's interesting is the arrogance that exists in both of these cities.

[scanry]

What's interesting is the arrogance that exists in both of these cities.

Both cities combined have what like 27 NBA championships. Why wouldn't they. Heck the Jailblazers acted cocky in 1999 & 2000 and we know what happened!!!

[Giuseppe]

Both cities combined have what like 27 NBA championships. Why wouldn't they. Heck the Jailblazers acted cocky in 1999 & 2000 and we know what happened!!!

Yeah, the Lakers got straightened out.

tee, hee.

[midnightpulp]

Celtics fans and the city as a whole has the freedom to act almost twice as arrogant seeing as they have 7 more titles than the Purple N Piss.

[LnGrrrR]

What's interesting is the arrogance that exists in both of these cities.
Eh, that was an article by Shaughnessy, right? Most Boston fans don't like his stuff anyways. There's alot of hack sportswriter in Boston, like Ron Borges. Shuaghbessy is right above the line of hack, but not by much.

[Giuseppe]

Lakers fans and the city as a whole has the freedom to act almost twice as arrogant seeing as they have 11 1/2 more titles than the Silver & Skunked.

muhahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Giuseppe]

Most Boston fans don't like his stuff anyways.

Not now. '85 & '87 broke their back. Bias & Lewis went into the dirt, a generation passed before they saw light again. No sooner did Red get set in his crypt and you rang, Phil gets some Jew tailor in downtown LA to make him that X Cap and Red tapped on that crypt seal:::"avenge me, boys!"....

...."Sure, but, you owe me money, tight ass."

- Dave Cowens

:rollin

[LnGrrrR]

I was only 4 in '85 so I can't speak for that time. All I know is that Shaughnessy flipflops as fast as anyone I know on most sports points it seems, and never addresses when he was wrong.

[Giuseppe]

I was only 4 in '85 so I can't speak for that time.

None of that crapola. You can't cherry pick your historicals, Ln. I'd like to start at '85 and go forward. I'd be 2-1 Vs. the Celtics, but, that ain't kosher.

We all have our crosses to bear: you taking Seattle's pants down to glean Bias, your karma circling the block and running over your dogma....us watching some gay guy nuttin' in Magic's keester some rotten cock snot...sending us into a 8 year tailspin.

Sometimes you eat the bear ('85), sometimes the bear eats you ('84).

[LnGrrrR]

None of that crapola. You can't cherry pick your historicals, Ln. I'd like to start at '85 and go forward. I'd be 2-1 Vs. the Celtics, but, that ain't kosher.

We all have our crosses to bear: you taking Seattle's pants down to glean Bias, your karma circling the block and running over your dogma....us watching some gay guy nuttin' in Magic's keester some rotten cock snot...sending us into a 8 year tailspin.

Sometimes you eat the bear ('85), sometimes the bear eats you ('84).

I'm not talking about sports history Culby, I'm talking about how beloved or not Shaughnessy was in the past. I just know most people don't like him now.

[Giuseppe]

If there is a poster here with a single hair on his ass (aside from me), I'm a monkey's ass.

[monosylab1k]

Eh, that was an article by Shaughnessy, right? Most Boston fans don't like his stuff anyways. There's alot of hack sportswriter in Boston, like Ron Borges. Shuaghbessy is right above the line of hack, but not by much.

Also the infamous John Tomase and basically everybody at the Herald.

[Giuseppe]

& don't even start your shit this morning, Mono. I'm in no fucking mood.

Savvy, squirt?

[monosylab1k]

& don't even start your shit this morning, Mono. I'm in no fucking mood.

Savvy, squirt?

I would log in as Greg Oden and talk shit, but alas, that's somebody else's troll, the password of which i know not.

lmmistakenidentityao!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Giuseppe]

I would log in as Greg Oden and talk shit, but alas, that's somebody else's troll, the password of which i know not. And you kicked my ass last time, so, please have mercy, Cubby.

Mercy granted.

Cubby is nothing if he ain't merciful.

[monosylab1k]

Don't push my shit in again, Mono. On second thought, do.

tee, hee.

lol changing quotes

[monosylab1k]

I like rape.

[monosylab1k]

I have no control over my pederastic urges. Katie girl and I like to kidnap small children, put a plastic bag over their head, and fuck them till they're dead.

tee, hee.

[Giuseppe]

lmcontrollinao!!!!!!!!!!

I still got it!

[Giuseppe]

Don't fret, Mono, your mother & dad are safe today.

tee, hee.

[Pillow Pants]

Don't fret, Mono, your mother & dad are safe today.

tee, hee.


#4

Thread: How many time do you masturbate a day?
URL: http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49710
Date: 7/11/07
Ranking: 4 / 10
Magnitude:8.5

This trolling was a vituperative vilification of that vaginal visaged bitch MANGINA. It all started in a thread entitled “How many time do you masturbate a day?” and the conversation was going along well until MANGINA came along and implemented that hackneyed old troll technique of criticizing someone just for the sake of criticism. Naturally, I stepped in to preserve the sanctity and integrity of the troll forum; a massacre ensued. The Jesus troll immediately answered my challenge but was annihilated so thoroughly that he had to call in MANGINA to relieve him. Unfortunately for them, it didn’t do much good. Enjoy!

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You're a troll named "MANGINA"...with a picture of three fags modeling manginas in your avatar...you have no discernible unique gimmick or troll method...and you're calling Fillmoe's family lame? Jesus, talk about irony.



I realize you're just trying to help, but take your pretentious bullshit elsewhere. We both know you aren't really the son of God...your immediate followers just deified you to ensure you philosophy (not your theology) would be attractive to the masses. In so doing, they adopted a plethora of perversions from other belief systems into your own, misattributed to you the things they personally thought, and re-injected the concept of fear into your teachings. Subsequent devotees used your message to slaughter millions of innocents in your name, substituting abject hatred for your altruistic tolerance. Your death on the cross (if in fact you ever lived in the first place) was in vain, since the sins you died to gain forgiveness for were promptly replaced with myriad new ones that plague your supplicants to this day. You don't deserve the right to invoke the name of God since you and your teachings were probably the worst thing that ever happened to humanity EVER. Now go back to eating dicks or whatever it is you do in your spare time and leave me the fuck alone.



You call that smack? Your name is MANGINA, meaning you automatically are gayer than shit and suck dicks all day long. That's not a name people self-apply where I'm from, but being a Lakers fan, it's no surprise you think it's cool to be a fucking faggot. You aren't funny. You think anal dentata is a curse, when really it's a blessing. You call me ignorant, but you do nothing to impugn my logical destructions of your bullshit persona. You look and smell like a dirty, cum-crusted cunt, and it's not my fault your mother was too dumb to figure out how to abort you with that coat hanger she shoved in her twat the whole time she was pregnant with you. You are a scourge on the troll forum, your family, and the whole human race. Go kill yourself. Thanks for playing.





Ripped-off insult.



Riiiiiiiight...so the fact that she was gang banged makes her less likely to spit out cum? Furthermore, if "I" was in her mouth (i.e. if my father's sperm had been ejaculated via oral sex), how would she possibly get pregnant from it such that "spitting me out" would have any effect at all? Do you actually think about what you're saying before you start foolishly typing?



How exactly would a vagina hit me in the face? Does it have arms? Does it have toes which is could "clench" into a "fist" to strike me? You say I wouldn't know a vagina, but I know for a fact that one couldn't hit me, so it appears as if you, sir, are the one who wouldn't know a vagina even if it bubbled gooey menstrual fluid all over your face.



Ripped-off insult.



So which is it: a puss-filled cyst or a canker sore? They aren't the same thing, you know. And since they aren't the same, it would be impossible for me to be both at once. Furthermore, "society" doesn't exactly have a colon since it isn't a corporeal being (let alone an animal). Once again, non-sensical insult.



Non-sensical insult.



I know what you are, but what am I?





"Faggot" is such a generalized insult that it may be used without "ripping off" anyone. Who knows who the first one to sling around the term "faggot" in this forum was? However, calling someone "cum-faced" immediately after they said you looked like a cum-crusted cunt is obviously a rip-off. It not only is a specific creative insult, but hearkens back directly to the post that immediately preceded it. Therefore, I am smart, you are dumb, you copy my shit, and you're a bitch.

Q.E.D.



I know how you smell inferentially...no one as retarded and as gay as you could possibly practice good hygiene. Plus, I like how you completely ignored the part of my post railing on you for your non-sensical insults. You don't try to justify what you wrote, you just pretend like my complete ass-raping of you didn't happen. You are a bitch, and I know that inferentially as well, since you live in L.A., and all Los Angelinos who post on a Spurs message board are bitches.

Q.E.D.



Once again, you ignore the part of my post where I make a fool out of you. I explained that your insult made no logical sense, and this is your retort? Since you have utterly failed to demonstrate your familiarity with the idiosyncrasies of a vagina, it is fair to conclude that you in fact have never been hit in the face with an orgasm induced pelvic thrust. Plus, anyone who would willingly perform cunnilingus on a woman is a SUPER bitch, since real mean with real penises don't give a mad fuck whether a woman has an orgasm...REAL men tell a woman to gobble a nut up, shut up, and get his cash. Once again, you have demonstrated your high degree of bitchery in an exceedingly public manner. You should be ashamed.



:sleep unable to detect ironic humor :sleep

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[Oh man, this is classic:]

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Surprise, surprise...you're too dumb to understand clear, cogent reasoning. Your response answers many questions. For one, why you're such a retarded bitch. For two, why you suck human dicks for a living not because you need the money, but because you in fact really enjoy it. And for three, why you haven't been able to hold a candle to me in our little mini smack war.

ConQueso proves once again why he is the King of the Trolls.

NEXT!

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But of course, CuckingFunt got so wet from how awesome I am intellectually and sexually that she just had to provoke a fight so I’d pay attention to her and she could flick her bean thinking about me cumming load after load of logic bombs all over her. Keep in mind I did nothing to provoke her and didn’t even mention her name, she just can’t keep her lips off my dick

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Oh yes, Funt, here it is again...open wide!

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Either way it's a cheap misappropriation of my phat smack. I said he "looked like a dirty cum-crusted cunt." As such, he looks not only like he is cum-faced, but also cunt-faced, since both highly descriptive images were incorporated in my original insult. Therefore, he's still a little bitch, you're a littler bitch for rushing to his defense, and yes, I still understand irony better than you.



You weren't smart enough to criticize the substance of my smack, so you instead had to criticize the style? Surprise, surprise, you're a Lakers fan. Regardless, we all know homophobia is funny, almost as funny as blatant racism. You had better hope you aren't a minority and someone here actually finds out about it, because that's when the real fun will begin. But in the mean time, why don't you try to rebut my cripplingly savage logical destructions of your bullshit statements? Please, try. You can roll your eyes and sleep or whatever, but you know as well as I that things like that don't impress anybody. You should get some material and come back to play again (and quit stealing my insults queer boy)!

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The rest of that thread is completely worthless: Funt argues with penisface about whether or not she’s an ugly man or fat woman, MANGINA shows what a ball-less homosexual he is and never returns, and I once again leave the troll forum a better place than it was before.

[Giuseppe]

He's flat earred cuz I superimposed some naughty pics of his mother onto his brain pan.

WOOT!

[Ashy Larry]

Eh, that was an article by Shaughnessy, right? Most Boston fans don't like his stuff anyways. There's alot of hack sportswriter in Boston, like Ron Borges. Shuaghbessy is right above the line of hack, but not by much.

I love Jackie Mac ...... she's really enjoyable

[LnGrrrR]

I love Jackie Mac ...... she's really enjoyable

Oh definitely. Boston is also blessed with some terrific sports writers as well... love Bob Ryan, Peter Gammons, Michael Smith (who went to ESPN fulltime), and many more. (You could include Bill Simmons in that as well, though he's not a 'classic' journalist.)

[Giuseppe]

love Bob Ryan

He's a fuck. He wouldn't acknowledge '85, or, '87.

[LnGrrrR]

He's a fuck. He wouldn't acknowledge '85, or, '87.

So all the writers you like are unbiased Cully? :lol

Edit: To clarify, just because someone is biased/is a fuck, does not mean they aren't a good writer and/or can't appeal to an audience.

[Giuseppe]

So all the writers you like are unbiased Cully? :lol

Edit: To clarify, just because someone is biased/is a fuck, does not mean they aren't a good writer and/or can't appeal to an audience.

Ryan put all in his eggs in the basket of Laker denial prior to '85. He's not a man. He's a worm. Even Heinsohn, as rampant a Celtic partisan as he is signed on with CBS with the pregnant threat of Laker breakthru. I can respect that. If no one knew better they'd a never known his allegiance watching and listening to his commentary. Sure, he was tightlipped and bushy tailed immediately after Game 6, but, he never uttered a bitter word. He's a man.

[LnGrrrR]

Ryan put all in his eggs in the basket of Laker denial prior to '85. He's not a man. He's a worm. Even Heinsohn, as rampant a Celtic partisan as he is signed on with CBS with the pregnant threat of Laker breakthru. I can respect that. If no one knew better they'd a never known his allegiance watching and listening to his commentary. Sure, he was tightlipped and bushy tailed immediately after Game 6, but, he never uttered a bitter word. He's a man.

Fair enough.

[Giuseppe]

Fair enough.

I look on Heinsohn as a hero, a role model, an example of man at his finest moment for what he did there. Why he signed on for that gig is beyond me. I could not have done that for money, marbles nor chalk. Did he do it because he was confident of further denial, that there was no risk involved? Only he knows. What is fact is he conducted himself with impartiality and class start to finish, even to the point of wearing a mixed color tie to honor both teams during that Finals.

It's truly a great moment in NBA history.

[Bill Simmons]

Yes, it's true that Bird beat L.A. once ('84) and Magic beat Boston twice ('85, '87). But when Bird and the 1986 Celts were peaking, L.A. avoided a guaranteed shellacking by getting "upset" by the young Rockets. That's a forfeit win for Boston, bringing the tally to Bird 2, Magic 2.

[Giuseppe]

I'd imagine it's a bitter pill to swallow knowing the score shoulda been even at 2-2 if not for the Lakers pussy ass tankjob of '86.

tee, hee.

lmemulatedao!