My goodness, stop overreacting! Yes, they threw this game away.

[CelticSooner]

why shouldnt we worry? we have a nonexistant bench (including ray)...

thats a huge problem. I dont blame the starters (though KG was off). I blame the fact that we're basically using 5 players a game. We wont win 18 with this...

its about effort. when the team is driving to the basket and kicking out and fighting for balls they are one of the best in the NBA.

when Rondo/pierce are walking the ball up court and settling for jumpers, we are horrid.

the good thing is, I think the celtics finally realised they cant let this team hang around because they arent just going to lie down.

They haven't learned anything. They've been doing this stuff for years. Extending series they shouldn't. These aren't the Bulls they are an offensively inept Sixers team. No rest from here on out against better opponents. It wouldn't matter if the starters were younger, healthy, and had reliable backups. We all know that isn't the case though.

[celtics2]

Yes, the Celtics threw this game away, but sometimes you know what just happens, and there's nothing you can do about it.

If the Celtics are the better of the two teams, they will win the series. If they lose the series, then they weren't the better team, and there's no shame in that.

The Celtics will come into game 5 and take care of business. It's the first team to win 2 games. If we can't do that, then we aren't the better team, and don't deserve to advance. Yes, a 3-1 would have been nice, but we can't have all that we want.

Throw away games in the Playoffs = make Summer Plans.