Paul Pierce won this game, just like every other close one, great game. Rajon did great as well, but a little bit disappointing on D. Move on guys
Please stop with the Rajon did great stuff. He had an okay game. Great? please. At least he was 50 percent from the line today and has now improved to a scintillating 8-24 or 33 percent for the season!
Of all the things he did today (14pts, 10 assists, 9 rebounds, 4 steals, only 2 TO's - Ray had 2 alone in a 10 second stretch), why focus on the negative?
And his man was the second leading scorer for the Knicks in limited minutes. Don't forget that fact.
I thought Rondo was fantastic defensively. Robinson was complete non-factor late in the game, and the Knicks deliberately avoided screen-roll's with Rondo's man.
I also thought Rondo was appropriately aggressive. His pull-up FT throw J is the shot he has to be willing to take in crunch-time.
Pierce gets the game ball though. As crappy as some of the possessions he used were, he remains the Celtics' most versatile player and delivered when it counted. His block was tremendous.
As for all, the we're horrible chatter, I liked this game. The Knicks played hard, played very energetic defense and found and exploited mismatches all night. The C's matched their intensity for the endgame and pulled out a dogfight.
Yes it would be nice if we didn't fall asleep after getting up 10, but that's what makes players like Nate Robinson and Al Harrington so dangerous. They come in during lulls in the game and explode offensively. After Eddie House's opening salvo, we had nothing off the bench to match them. Sheed and House started bricking their looks and Scal was far too tentative to have an impact. Games like this are when the C's miss Baby (and Leon Powe) the most.