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Nice perfectly legal dunk by Radmanovic.
Nice perfectly legal dunk by Radmanovic.
Regular season, yes. Playoffs? Harder to tell. The Celtics let the Hawks average more than 100 points per game when the Hawks played their three home games. And then the Cavs and Pistons aren't exactly known for lighting up scoreboards offensively in the playoffs.
If the Celtics would have had to play the Suns and Hornets, I highly doubt their defensive statistics would be too pretty.
That's choking allowing those series to get that far. You can't give the Celtics credit for letting the Hawks and the Cavs drag the series to seven games. That was a horrible Hawks team and those Cavs were worse than the Cavs that the Spurs swept last year.For all the claims of "KG, Pierce, and Allen" being perennial chokers, I believe it's been those 3 same players who got them through 2 tough game 7's and a Game 6 on the road to get here. That's not choking.
The Pistons series win was somewhat impressive but the Pistons haven't exactly been juggernauts in the ECF lately.
Powe is the only athlete off their bench ... and he's streaky. Not to mention he'd mostly be going up against Duncan. House isn't athletic. Posey isn't athletic. Allen doesn't play. The benches would have been pretty equal.The Celtics bench relies on old players like PJ and Cassell? If I'm correct Cassell didn't even play much in the series against the Pistons. Leon Powe, Eddie House, Posey, Allen are all young and somewhat athletic bench players that could have given the Spurs interior defense some trouble.
Link to where I said that? Pierce hasn't exactly run through a gauntlet of great defenders this year.And you think Bowen would have had an easy time checking Paul Pierce?
Great defensively when the Hawks were lighting them up? Watch when the Lakers light them up on the road. Their defense goes AWOL once they leave Boston.Celtics defense has been amazing all season long and postseason. You can say what you want about their bench, coaching, "Big 3" etc but they are great defensively...
Lakers only down 2 now, they came back from 30 down
38.4 sec left
Had Manu not sustained an ankle injury in Game 1 against Phoenix, I am convinced we'd be there. He played as hard as he could injured, and his play bailed us out a few times, but he just did not have enough for the grind of the playoffs.
But this Laker squad is not the best team in the West. This Laker team is a joke. Injuries are injuries, they're a part of the game - but sometimes, it means a mediocre team goes further than they should. Cleveland in the Finals was more proof of that.
Boston should be able to finish off the Lakers in 5.
I blame the Spurs fans waiving the white flag on a series that didn't even take place.
The great, great Celtics defense giving up 50 in the fourth.
ROFL.
Great take
The great, great Spurs defense this year let this same Lakers team come back THREE times from at least a 17 point deficit.
I blame the SpursFans worried more about the Celtics winning a le than the Lakers losing...
Turn in your card.
The Spurs blow a lead when they stopped scoring. Not giving up 50 points in a quarter. And where was timvp claiming the Spurs were a great, great defensive team.
Great take
Rolling over and dying about a series that didn't happen is the way to ensure the Lakers lose?
If we didn't have such a mental block against the Lakers we might be in the finals.
Healthy Manu would have taken that over tonight. Ugh.
After the Lakers score 125 in Game 3, I wanna see the "Celtics defense is impenetrable!!" takes.
TIA
Pretty sure blowing a lead is a two-step/simultaneous process. You don't stop them plus you don't score. Unless you figured out a new way it happens?
In any case, the Celtics are creaming the Lakers, other than packing it in a bit too early tonight. They should take one in LA if they play well, then it's all over.
I think a healthy Spurs team would have beaten the Celtics. Like timvp said, they're not a clutch team, and none of them have been there before except Posey and Cassell. The Spurs would have had a huge mental advantage.
Uh yeah, how about scoring 34 points in the second half of Game 1? The Lakers scored as many points in that second half of that game as they did tonight in the fourth against the best defensive team in the history of the world. Spurs defense didn't lose Game 1.
1984 Finals all over again.After the Lakers score 125 in Game 3, I wanna see the "Celtics defense is impenetrable!!" takes.
TIA
Perkins with the hard foul on Farmar.
Celts win le
Rolling over and dying about a series that didn't happen is the way to ensure the Lakers lose?
Ok, so let me rephrase...I blame the Spurs Fans more worried about shoulda coulda woulda than the Lakers losing.
Happy now?
You get back to waiting for Santa Claus...
Meanwhile, the real Spurfans have some hating to do.(and no, that doesn't mean RC Buford)
Yeah, I wouldn't exactly call blowing a 30 point lead then barely winning by 6 a creaming.
What is this? 1985? My only rooting is for the Spurs. Moral victory championships ended a long azz time ago.
I hate the Lakers and the Celtics. There's no good outcome to this series. I'm still holding out hope that a ref scandal halts the NBA and the Finals are canceled . . .
They destroyed them, then let up. They shouldn't have let up and hopefully take the endgame more seriously in LA. For most of the game the Lakers weren't even in the same building.
The only thing great about tonight's game was not watching the Spurs lose again.
The Spurs couldn't beat the Celtics. , you all are smoking some crack. The Spurs got wacked twice this year by them.
Celtics and Lakers > Spurs
The Spurs made it as far as they could go. They need to retool.
This summer would be the perfect time for that to be flushed out.
I love how laker fans are complaining about Kobe and the Lakers not getting to the FT line, but I can see something from a non bias view, Kobe with his pinky injury, in these playoffs is determined to score more of his points with jump shots. In fact, he rarely drives to the hoop anymore for a contested layup or dunk, I think he knows if he injures that finger on a dunk or layup, the Lakers season is over so he is playing more conservative game with jumpshots and 3's.
Sure there are probably a few missed calls here and there but Kobe isn't getting fouled because he is not attacking the rim(with defenders between him and the basket) nearly as much before the injury
Oh well, at least tonight thinned out all of the Laker fan morons from this forum.
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