Celtics-Lakers

[JoeFan11111 at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/26/08 1:50:56 PM, shizzjr at hotmail.com writes:

> Agree as well. Here is where I am encouraged:
> 
> 1) A number of bad calls went against us
> 2) LA clearly treated this game as much more important than we did
> 3) Phil played his starters quite a bit more than Doc did, showing that Phil 
> felt more 
> of a 'win at any cost' mentality
> 4) LA with the home crowd behind them, acting as if this were game 7.
> 

Agree several bad calls went against us, but several also went 
against LA.   In the end it was our defensive schemes doubling 
and tripling Bryant while leaving Gasol alone that lost the game.

Come on,   who has more pride than our players and coaches? 
The Celtics treated this game just as importantly as LA did.
They had a letdown against lousy GS but as someone here
mentioned, maybe that was to be expected after the LA game.

I think you’re mistaken that Phil played his starters more than 
Doc did.   A small point, but if you look at the box score, you’ll 
see that our starters played 185 minutes while the Lakers’ 
starters played 176 minutes.

Sure the home crowd was an advantage.   But face it, if this
game was in Boston and we won, Celt Nation would have been just
as elated and acted with the same enthusiasm. That's what fans do.

Joe



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