Boston is going crazy right now. Think about what has happened within the last 8 months:
The Patriots went 18-0 en route to yet another championship but came up short. But the New England area still had a horse in the race.
The Red Sox won their second World Series championship in 3 years, sweeping the Colorado Rockies with ease.
The Celtics are in the NBA Finals once again, going against their arch rivals the LA Lakers.
The Lakers are against the wall now, as the Celtics went up 2-0 in the series, beating the Lakers 108-102.
But it's far from over. With this garbage 2-3-2 series that Bob Ryan talks about here much more eloquently and succinctly as I could ever hope to imagine, it is not even close to being a sealed deal.
The Lakers know it. The Celtics know it. The Boston fans know it. You have to when they are up 24 points in the fourth quarter and start playing safe and let the Lakers go on a 31-9 run to pull within a FG.
If the Celtics want to win their 17th banner, and win it for Red, they need to go for the jugular when they are pouring it on. They need to close them out. Dan Shaughnessy wrote an awesome article about his little meeting with Red, and this banner will be even more special if the Celtics win it all, because it would prevent Phil Jackson from passing Red for total championships, and it would push the Celtics up another banner on the Lakers for total championships.
I take exception to the fact that Phil Jackson is crying about how the Celtics took 38 free throws while the Lakers only took 10. I loved Phil when he was with the Bulls. I thought he did great with Shaq and Kobe, and understood people as well as the game. But he needs to look at who the more aggressive team was. The Celtics are a drive to the hole type of team, physical, in your face. The Lakers are a true perimeter team, letting the game flow from outside to the inside. They are more finesse, and when you are shooting jump shots all night, you won't get the fouls. It's as simple as that. It really is.
Everyone says role players play better at home, so we'll see what the Lakers have as far as role players and whether or not they want to fight for a championship.
The Celtics would love to put number 17 up in the rafters for Red. 2 more.
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