Celtics (1-3) at Heat (3-1) 5/11 Round 2 Game 5

[Tenacious D]

Celtics will lose because they have been playing 5 on 8 all night,:

Whatever makes you feel good but the fact is the Cs failed to execute and failed to stick their shots. Bron did. End of story/

[snively]

Was it me or was that LeBron steal a total double dribble?

[GrandTheftRondo]

I clearly made the right decision by not watching this game.

[Roy H.]

Such is life.  Wade and Lebron earned it, and our guys didn't.  The refs didn't help, but we made a ton of stupid mistakes to choke the game away.

[houseonfire09]

Celtics will lose because they have been playing 5 on 8 all night,:

Whatever makes you feel good but the fact is the Cs failed to execute and failed to stick their shots. Bron did. End of story/

Fine, but how do you win when it's impossible to breathe on Whistle wihout getting a foul called on you?  That is at least part of what took Pierce off his game.  I now know how Mavs fans feel.

[EJPLAYA]

Was it me or was that LeBron steal a total double dribble?

It wasnt just you. I think that lebron thought they were going to call a foul on us, started walking, realized they werent, and so kept going. My son was screaming at the tv. No help from the refs. That charge call on delonte at the end and the enthusiam that the ref called it with summed it all up. They hit the shots though and we turned it over.

[tenn_smoothie]

sickening.

[Birdmanbr]

The reason why we lost this series is not the refs, PP turnovers, KG's up and downs: we lost because we were not healthy enough. I am proud of this team and hope we can tweak our roster for next year.

[barefacedmonk]

Back to rebuilding....

[celticinorlando]

jeff green's turnovers and pierce's horrible plays tonight pretty much sealed it

[Drucci]

Very hard to swallow. Can't blame our guys for the effort or the heart, it was all there but once again we led all game to lose it all in the final minutes. I'm still furious at the calls Miami got and the non calls we didn't get. You will tell me we didn't lose the game because of it but they certainly helped us lose it, if the 4th quarter was called fairly Jones'3 would have cut the lead to 5 or 7 not 2, etc.

Also, LeBron's treys were huge, kudos for him although it was good defense and I would have lived with him taking these shots as the defender.

Finally it was just sickening to see LeBron and Wade celebrate like they won the title. Disgusting. I'm glad the team didn't salute them (except for Doc and Delonte).

Proud of the team, too bad age (and injuries once again...) caught to us. Big kudos to Rondo, JO and the others for playing through big injuries. Hope the band will be brought back together. But priority number one is to ship Baby out of town, preferably in Europe or China.

[celticinorlando]

this series was lost when wade busted rondo's elbow

[PosImpos]

Such is life.  Wade and Lebron earned it, and our guys didn't.  The refs didn't help, but we made a ton of stupid mistakes to choke the game away.

Yup.  Credit the Heat defense for clamping down late in each of these games, but I also think that a lot of those turnovers and misses come from an utter lack of energy at the end of the game.

Still, really hard to watch when the Heat go on a 16-0 run to end the game, much like they did in Game 2 and Game 4.

[lJesterl]

im done with the NBA. I rarely hard on officating. I wasnt with all of you last year in game 7. Yea game 7 had some bad calls but the Celtics lost the game.

This whole series has been gift wrapped to the heat. We can't drive to the basket and get a call but they get a call everytime they are in the lane. Last game jeff greene didnt get the rebound near the end of regulation because chalmers pulled him down.

This game was pathetic. Bosh passing for a 3 while standing out of bounds. Wade getting an and1 throwing the ball over his shoulder and NEVER getting touched, just fell.

Wade gets a foul when Kristic goes straight up and doesnt touch him. 2 non travel calls that would have been 4 points.
Lebron mauled pierce on that last steal and that last offensive foul just put the iceing on the cake. I will no longer watch the NBA until they do like every sport and hire a company of referees who are not under stern and who dont have betting on the side with a game of a 8 point spread and a 180 total score. Pretty close to it.

[outcry]

Was it me or was that LeBron steal a total double dribble?

He took about 5 steps before he slammed it. I started yelling at the tv.