I guess Vegas thinks that Boston Celtics fans are as
dumb as Cowboy fans. Celtics are favored by eight
tonight down three games to one. And by the
way, for all you guys out there that have
taken shots at Jason Tatum's game that he comes up
small. My man is only averaging 30 to 10
this entire postseason and in elimination games in his career
, he's averaging 27 a half points per game and
shooting over 41% from behind the arc. He's had
14 career elimination games and to his credit he shows
up. Yes. So I know that's part of
the reason why a very good argument can be made
and we've talked about it once this series started that
on a piece of paper where the game is not
played. The argument is a fair one. The
Boston Celtics have more talent, man to man.
1 to 12. Right. Yes, the Miami
have proven it ain't about individual talent. We play
the game as a team, the team will always
beat the individual, but here's what's weird about it
. All Miami did was get off to a 3
to 0 lead and they lost the game at home
, which they didn't play well one game where they
kind of gave up on their offensive ball movement guys
, you know, setting picks screens back door passes
. Great man to man defense. They didn't play
well in a single game. They are, have
to have a single game where they don't play one
to be even fairer about it. It was the
second half. They played fine in the first half
, they had a nine point lead and now all
of a sudden it's as if they didn't beat Milwaukee
, they didn't beat the Knicks. They don't have
a 31 lead and they are actually well respected basketball
voices saying they better win today because if they don't
win today, game six is really a game seven
. What are we talking? That's what we're talking
about. If they don't win today in game six
is going to be tough. You agree? I
agree with them. I, I agree with them
totally. You know, uh, you, you
can't say, uh, ok, we got another
game, we got another game. No, you
gotta say we gotta close this out tonight. We
got, if we don't close it out tonight,
then next game game six is gonna be even tougher
for us. You don't know, from a,
from a pressure stand. You don't know who's gonna
show up. You got young people, even though
they was there last year, the pressure still shows
up. And so I I, I'm looking at
the heat coming out tonight, set in the stand
set in the stage that we have to win tonight
. Let me stop there and ask you the question
. They played a good first half in game four
. If you go back and watch it, which
I did, they had a nine point lead.
The offense was cooking, they scored 60 points,
whatever it was in the second half, they just
stopped playing. It was very strange to watch them
to Boston's credit. All of a sudden the Celtics
couldn't miss a shot, right. Which obviously plays
into it. But you've been there, why does
the team suddenly forget who they are and start playing
a different kind of basketball? That is the question
, you know, and I don't, I don't
know it either. The answer to it because we
used to do the same thing. We come out
and had to say, hey, we have 12
, we want to push it to 20 ok.
If they come back and if it goes down to
eight, then we're gonna be in a dog fight
. Sometimes it goes down to eight and you're in
a dog fight, sometimes you push it to 20
and then they quit and then you, you just
cruise from there but you, you don't understand that
, but you gotta understand that both the Celtics have
fighting them. You know, they was, they
was reading for 2.5 days that how they do it
, how they let themselves down, how they quit
on each other, how Missoula is going to get
fired, how, uh, you know, everything
transpired from, you know, way back before the
season started. So it was a lot of things
going on. But, you know, at,
at the 8 37 mark when they call a time
out, Mazula called a time out. He didn't
like what he was saying. He got into his
team and said, look, fellas, if we
wanna win this game, we have to stop letting
them, um, getting into the paint, we
gotta stop letting them get second chance points. We
got to stop letting them, uh, we got
to start letting them feel our presence. And from
that point on, they went on an 18 oh
run and then they, they, they, they
seized the game. No, I'm talking about that
was in the third quarter. He called the time
out in the third quarter in the middle and,
and, and, and they started running away with
the game.