Stephen A says, "Crowd in Boston is one of the best in the business" but..

[Mogreen17]

chooses Wizards to advance..

Once again, we find ourselves written off.

Crowd in Boston will indeed be rabid, ready and have this team fired up for sure!

Lets go Celtics!!

[Smokeeye123]

I mean, I see how an impartial person could pick the wizards...It's been an even series.

[hpantazo]

Well there's only so much the crowd can do. Our players have to play with very high intensity all the way through, and minimize mental errors.

[TheSundanceKid]

I don't think it's them writing us off. They were talking after Game 6 basically saying that John Wall is the 2nd best player in the East and stars tend to come through in Game 7. They also mentioned how IT has had more help in this series than John Wall which is true.

I do think that John Wall is the best player in the series but I do think they are underestimating how effective the Cs are at home. KO tends to have bigger games in the TD Garden and the calls are more likely to swing our way. It's too close to call imo. Although obviously I'm picking the Cs

[green_bballers13]

Stephen A Smith grew up in NY when the Celtics were way better than anything else basketball related in NY. He's partial.

The crowd will be rocking tonight. There's a buzz in the air already. Big night for the Celtics- lets get this win.

[Chris22]

Stephen A is a legend in his own mind.

[wdleehi]

Good.   Let the media keep telling the Celtic players they are not good enough.   

[RJ87]

I don't think that's them writing the team off. This team can be so Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde at times you don't know what you're getting. My heart says we win tonight, my head says something else and that's because I just flat out don't trust this team.

What I'm hoping to see tonight is a Celtics team that's locked in from the jump and playing tough perimeter defense on Wall and Beal, hitting jumpers and playing within itself. But it wouldn't shock me one bit if what we actually see tonight is a Celtics team that's already won in it's head, jacks up bad shots and gets decimated on the boards and in transition.

[liam]

I'm hoping for game 5 again. If we play like that we win!

[JohnBoy65]

It's hard to close out a series, and that's why it's so hard to stomach the game 6 loss. The way this team plays there will literally be no outcome that surprises me. We get blown out? We probably didn't shoot well and turned it over. We blew Washington out? We made 13+ 3s. Lose a close game? John Wall probably has a lot to do with that. Win a close game? IT has one of his 4th quarters.

That's why I am so nervous, but this is better than already being eliminated.

[jpotter33]

I mean, I see how an impartial person could pick the wizards...It's been an even series.

I mean, the Wizards are 1-5 on the road this postseason and have failed to win a game in Boston since early 2014. I don't see them finally getting over that hurdle tonight in a game 7.

[SparzWizard]

I mean, I see how an impartial person could pick the wizards...It's been an even series.

I mean, the Wizards are 1-5 on the road this postseason and have failed to win a game in Boston since early 2014. I don't see them finally getting over that hurdle tonight in a game 7.

And their 1 win on the road this postseason came from an elimination game. S-c-a-r-y. But maybe because the Hawks are inferior to the Celtics coach-wise and talent-wise. The Wizards have came close twice this postseason at the Garden.

[PAOBoston]

I don't think what he said was that outlandish. Cs and Wiz are pretty evenly matched imo. Wouldn't really shock me if they won tonight. In fact, I think they will tbh. Hope I'm wrong on that though.

[hodgy03038]

Eat that Stephen A!

[csfansince60s]

Shaq and Sir Charles picked against us tonight too.