Celtics made mistakes, but the refs decided this game.

[hpantazo]

The celts played horribly when Rondo was off the floor. Rondo was off the floor because of poor reffing. The two things went hand in hand in this one.

wrapping up Lebron was Rondo's fault, not the refs

that was 1 foul, the other 2 were questionable at best

[OsirusCeltics]

Lebron got fouled twice very hard in the first Qtr by Rondo and KG.  He didn't didn't get in anyone's face or shoot off his mouth.  Pierce got fouled hard and did.  I am not saying they were great calls by the ref but there are other ways that Pierce can show his toughness if that is what he needs to do.

Also, this is shaping up to be a great series.  The Celtics are going to have their hands full with this team but if we get even a few breaks, we certainly can take them.

Oh please those were not flagrant like fouls. Those were "I'm not going to let you dunk, so I'm going to hold you for you to make your free-throws"

If it was so malicious how come Lebron didn't react the way JO shoulder bumped him in the stands??

[TerreHaute]

We scored on jumpshots and post moves. Most of those were not of the going to the basket variety. They got theirs on dribble drives to the lane and rim, which will lead to more fouls. I am only saying we need to do a bit more of the same, or use some head fakes to get guys in the air and get fouled on the way down.

Most of Rondo's and Green's misses were driving to the basket. West had a handful of drive attempts as well. We just missed a bunch of those drives because of contact or otherwise.

We did miss a bunch of easy shots. I thought we got fouled on some of them. It just seemed to me that when we went in the lane to shoot we were shying away from contact and they were looking for it (generally). Why would a ref bail someone out who is not forcing the action but shying away? The refs were most terrible at a time when we started make a run with the JO flagrant and Pierce ejection, but I thought we did not force the refs to make foul calls as often as the Heat did (for various reasons) and that will account for a pretty big free throw discrepency.

[droopdog7]

Dwayne Wade literally lowered his shoulder into Pierce's chest. That kind of play is blatantly flagrant.

Jones literally wrapped Pierce's head up. How are these 2 things not flagrants, but that innocent foul by Jermaine is? Absolute rubbish.

First of all, the op has it backwards. It should be, the refs sucked, but we were outplayed anyway.

That said, wade ramming into pp was even more of a flagrant that jones' play on pp.  In a just world, the NBA would hand a flagrant to jones and wade (and take away jo's).  But that won't happen because stern doesn't want to make it seem like the celts were jobbed.

[Jack_Frost]

We didn't lost because of refs, there are so many reasons

1) Miami wanted more
2) Rondo and KG looked cold (you can add KG passed on so many good shots)
3) Pierce started the game with no effort
4) Doc gave Baby too many minutes (i think Krstic can help for about 10-15 minutes, he was helpful the minutes he played)
5) I didn't remember JO or KG go 1vs1 in the post, maybe one or two times JO who took a jumpshot at the end
6) No inside presence
7) LeBron, at least two times, stayed 5-6 seconds in the paint. Not refs shame, but didn't help.
Miami deserved it, i don't believe we can win game 2 right now without changing our offensive solutions