I do not get this series. Not one bit.

[CoachBo]

Crazy series, especially when you consider that if the C's had stayed with the game 1 gameplan this series would be all but over at 3-1 Boston.

Cleveland will move to shut Rondo down in Game 5 with James. If they don't, it will be the coaching fail of the season.

So the onus will fall on two things: Effort and intelligence with the basketball. Rondo will have to challenge whoever guards him all night long, James included. This team MUST come prepared to defend and move the basketball on EVERY possession.

And it must exploit the good matchups that will be created if Brown moves James to Rondo - Pierce, Allen and Garnett will all have very exploitable matchups.

[jdpapa3]

The poster Who(leave the Abbott and Costello jokes alone ) brought this up the other day and it made a lot of sense: when you get two teams that are pretty even, the venue matters less and less. Neither team seems to get rattled by away courts and bench energy seems to happen with no real rhyme or reason.

[Q_FBE]

A bit of a head scratcher is this series for sure. The Celtics and the Cavs have taken turns browbeating each other. And contributions are coming from unexpected sources from both sides. Today it was Sheed, Tony Allen, and Glen Davis that was getting the job done in the 1st half of the 4th qtr.

Celtics got browbeaten in Game 3. Cavs in Game 2.

Homecourt might mean a bit more to Cleveland than Boston.

The experts are stumped now.