People are just upset that the Celtics are falling apart down the stretch at the worst time.
HCA is at stake. Everyone knows we arent winning the title without HCA over the Lakers. We can win the east without HCA because we are clearly the best team when healthy, but the road will be harder and many are afraid we wont have enough gas to also dethrone LA on the road in the finals.
Although HCA will be nice, its not something that will decide the fate of our championship run. All it takes is one victory on the road to neutralize the opponent's HCA. Health is the only critical factor that can hamper our chances. Nothing else.
It would be foolish to believe that Rondo is not going to snap out of this slump sooner or later. He is too good and too talented to go through a prolonged slump of this kind. I suspect we'll find out later that he had been playing with an injury.
I've seen this posted a couple times already and want to point out that it is a huge fallacy. Sure, we win one game on the road and we regain HCA; that part is correct. But people always leave out the second part of this equation which is the fact that we have to win ALL of our home games for it to matter.
In case people have forgotten, we DID win one road game last year in the finals yet still lost the series. Why? Because we also lost a home game, that's why!
Of course, anything is possible. But put in as someone that thinks we won't beat the lakers (assuming we get that far) without HCA.
