Thursday, June 7, 2012

Eastern Conference Finals - Let's Get It!!!

     Man, Celts website calls the Garden the Jungle... why didn't I think of that?  It's going to be packed with green (trees/canopy reference) and oh boy, will our team be a real mean green machine tonight.  Celtics tip off at 8:30pm tonight and it's going to be loud and we're going to be proud.  After LeBron can't handle The Truth, the Celtics took Game 5 94-90 and I believe that we'll advance to The Finals tonight.  The Heat must tally a win in our den tonight and I just don't see that happening.
    What did I tell you last blog?  Doc Rivers and the Celts got this.  In my lifetime I've never seen a Celtics coach that has connected with the players as well as Doc.  He's like your dad.  He's at the game and you put that much more "umph" into your play to win it for him.  And no worries.  Not like Mayor Menino butchering KG (KJ) and Rondo's (Hondo) names will put us down; it's just another "Menino-ism"!
    After questioning the use of Chris Bosh last game, he'll need to play a bigger role tonight.  Bosh played in Game 5 for the first time since May 13th and didn't do too shabby.  In his 14:23 of playing time he managed to make 9 points and 7 rebounds - almost a double-double.  While Miami fans may be angry about the shortage of usage of one of their Big Three in Game 5, it was not Spoelstra's intention to overuse Bosh.  Tonight, look for Bosh to start and play big minutes.  While it "was not fair" to Bosh to put him in with 3 minutes left in Game 5, tonight expect him to do bigger things for Miami. 
     On the brink of elimination, Miami is 0-1 with their Big Three in the lineup.  Last year Miami got knocked out by Dallas with a 105-95 loss.  While it was a poor performance by the Miami, performance is the only thing to measure.  That means it is very well possible for the Heat to choke tonight, especially with a freshly returned Chris Bosh. 
   The Celts had mostly poor performance from Pierce (The Truth) and Rondo in Game 5, but let's expect Pierce to start off where he left off.  Pierce only sunk 6 buckets for 19 shot attempts with Rondo going 3 for 15.  Rondo had terrible turnovers as well making Boston fans cringe.  If these two don't come out tonight with their game faces on and top notch mentality, the Celtics might be in trouble.  On the other hand, Allen's ankle locked up in Game 5, but at the shootaround today he seemed fine.  Look for Allen to sink some 3's per usual and overall a tough battle to move on or continue on.

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