This Finals will be seen as an example of how much experience matters when it is all over. The Celtics look like the better team most of the time, so it is easy to conclude. They are down 3-2 to the Warriors and have said it with me. I don't think I'm so sure.
The Celtics are strange. The team that made it this far couldn't swing so wildly from looking unbeatable to looking like five guys trying to get through the same game. It is sometimes in the same quarter. The Celtics are so talented that they could eat it before this round. The C's lost 104-94 in Game 5, which was a bright example.
Boston couldn't hit a bull with a snow shovel in the first quarter The only thing keeping them in the game was the fact that Stephen Curry was 0-for-9 from 3-point range. They weren't much better in the second quarter, but finally made a few 3s and locked in on defense to keep the Warriors at bay.
In the third, the quarter that has been an odyssey for them all series and most of the playoffs, they made the Warriors not just struggle to score, but struggle to get one foot in front of the other. They beat Golden State by 11 and had a player with nine points and three assists. The Warriors couldn't do much. The Golden State possession looked like they were trying to move a couch to a third floor walk-up, while the C's had a lot of open looks. They went 9-for-9 from three in the second quarter and 8-for-8 in the first.
They just left. They may have just taken some time to enjoy the scenery and lost track. Maybe they just like to play with their food. They might be able to destroy their own creation to give them the furor they need. The Celtics used Jordan's banked three at the end of the quarter as an excuse to collapse on themselves, seemingly for the fun of it.
He couldn't find the net. They put the basketball in a container and made it sick. Andrew stole the show on defense. The Celtics lost because Curry didn't make a 3 and scored only 16 points.
What do you do to do that? It is possible that the intensity that the C's bring on defense is so volatile that it spills over at times. They can go from being in every opponent's space constantly and covering up every driving and passing lane to chucking the ball all over the arena like they were steamin' WilleBeamon on a coke. You need a Hazmant suit if you want to watch the Celtics play with such fury.
Celtics coach Ime Udoka seems to have gotten them this far because both players and he seem to be angry at each other. They are great when they point out the rage in the world as a whole. The mess of last night's fourth can be traced back to when it turned inward. There are long stretches when the Celtics look like the best team in the league. They can't keep it contained for long. Every game has at least one point where it goes barf.
They have a chance to win the series. Facing the axe made them realize that if they go off the boil one more time, they will have to use text messaging for the summer. They are facing a team that has been around for a long time and is just about the most even-keeled outfit around. The Warriors don't have to match the Celtics' high points if they don't match their lows, which is how they got the lead in this series.
From deep game, they won. They just jumped that canyon.
This is from Australia. The Aussies were playing a game in order to get into the World Cup. The turgid affair at the end of the season went to penalties. The ploy of subbing in their backup keeper for the shoot out was too cute. Australia tried to have their backup be crazy.
Andrew Redmayne is said to be this person's job. It's not the saving of penalties that puts shooters off. Any interaction anyone has ever had with an Australian is pretty much summed up by the look after he saved one. No one has ever told an Australian to knock it off or no Australian has ever listened, that's why Redmayne is put on display, no matter what arena you run across them in.
At least he knew what he wanted to do. We can't say that.
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