They are slowly but progressively going more and more toward "the elbow" excuse ... man, for some reason people can not get their heads around anyone actually playing good defense on LeBron.
The Celtics won this series for one main reason: When they're healthy and in-sync, they just plain play better as a team ... at both ends of the floor. Tony and Paul and Ray played as well defensively on LBJ as anyone has all year, and the Cavs were not playing like the cohesive unit the Celtics were.
Awesome effort by the C's, and I can tell already that they are not going to get the credit for this that they should, and that the media in general is going to use every excuse possible rather than admit that the Celtics, when healthy, are just a better team.