Any Day Now…

Posted by Mike Giardi May 11, 2008 at 4:58 pm

I was going take the attitude of the less said about the Celtics performance last night, the better we’d all feel. But maybe I’m a glutton for punishment. Or maybe that loss continues to annoy me, like the Great Gretzky dog does when he’s desperate to go outside and I’m in the middle of something. Gretzky will just stand there, practically attached to my hip, and stare. Drives me nuts, but at least he doesn’t bark, and he eventually gets his way. Kind of like the Cavs last night. They stared down the C’s in the opening quarter, and the NBA’s best team during the regular season blinked, a lot.

You knew that Cleveland would come out fired up, in front of a hungry home crowd. A great team weathers that onslaught. The C’s didn’t, at least not last night. The defensive rotations were slow, there were too many open jumpers…or better yet, unchallenged jumpers. Pros make those shots. The Cavs did for the first-time in the series.

The scary thought is, LeBron still can’t shoot straight. He was 5-for-16, bringing his series totals to 13-of-58. That is Todd Day-esque. I coninue to find it hard to believe Bron Bron will not go off at some point during the next week, and singlehandedly carry his team to a win. Or two. There’s too much at stake for “The KIng,” to keep playing like he’s basketball’s version of Alex Rodriguez. Similarly, there’s too much at stake for the C’s to stop living up the billing of best team in the league. Which ones of those patterns will continue? That will decide this series.