I kind of feel bad for KG and Pierce

not that I am a fan of them. A basketball game lasts 48 minutes, and it's an imperfect game. Both sides will make dozens of mistakes in many many possessions. There are uncontrollable insidents and games could easly be influenced by officiating. That's why at any given night, any team can beat any one.

However, in playoffs, 2 teams facing each other for at least 4 consecutive times. Therefore, there is no surprise between them. There is no move, play, or strategy that your opponent hasn't seen. Especially, teams in same conference face 3 to 4 times a year, year after year. That's why it all comes down to executions, and on the end, it's all about individual talents and team play. 

Without Rondo, with KG and Paul both passed their primes long time ago, Green still raw, Boston Celtics just doesn't have enough horse power or fire power to carry them over the finish line. 

Celtics started very well, both offensively and defensively, and winning simply on executions. But if you don't have enough to execute perfectly throughout 48 mins, you are just going to hand it over to the more talented team.

Dark horse happened before, but normally was due to regular season injury on key players. In other words, with full strength, those teams would not have been seeded that low in playoffs. But if they do, and their key players come back on time and in form, they will have a dark horse surprising chance. But this Celtics team is not going to have Rondo back, nor would KG drink youth juice to turn the close back. They will continue to put up a good fight, especially at home. But unfortunately, that's probably just not enough.

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• 我总，你觉得英文更舒服？ -月下赏雪- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:14:13

• 不是的，就是打字快一点:) -Warsteiner- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:15:21

• 哦？什么时候，我的英文也能这么溜 -月下赏雪- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:17:05

• 老生常谈，翻来覆去地重复，就那几句话溜，没用的:) -Warsteiner- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:18:39

• 写简历。 -oldpp- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:19:50

• 嗨，老PP，你怎么这么闲？不是除了林谁也不看吗？： -月下赏雪- ♀ (6 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:24:41

• 是啊，俺偶尔上tt视察一下而已。不看篮球。 -oldpp- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:26:42

• 哦，领导视察来了。首长辛苦了！！ -月下赏雪- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:28:56

• I feel very good for the Knicks :) -geneseo- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:15:03

• Me2, melo终于证明自己一次。绿队伤了好几位，明年再来吧 -白娘子- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:26:00

• NBA就是一个轮回的过程。成功组队，老去，重组。。。 -geneseo- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:28:55

• 绿队现在青黄不接，真的想点办法了。 -新林迷- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:19:52

• 买，就一个字 -oldpp- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:22:08

• 没事，绿人夺冠前一个赛季连败22场。 -i751- ♂ (26 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:24:18

• 老板爽气吗？ -新林迷- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:31:03

• 但是Rivers没有理由很固执地打小球，play老人。赛季前一个很好的中锋放着不用 -Net-A-Porter- ♀ (115 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:41:47

• I didn't have a good feeling on this game -Net-A-Porter- ♀ (310 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:32:53

• 抱抱。 -雪花无声- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:40:14

• 抱~ 如果雷霆打决赛，我还得看阿杜掉一次眼泪。哎。 -Net-A-Porter- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:43:36

• 下一场赢。 -月下赏雪- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:42:23

• 他们真的老了。呜呜。。 -Net-A-Porter- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:44:31

• 辉煌过，就挺不容易了，是吧？更别说还能发挥余热 -月下赏雪- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:47:20

• 谢。明年重新来过。 -Net-A-Porter- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:48:38

• Take it easy, at least your team is not the worst one, think abo -新林迷- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:43:20

• think about Rockets, you can imagine how hard for us to see this -新林迷- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:45:17

• you are right. I was never beaten up so badly :) -Net-A-Porter- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:47:51

• We have been beaten up badly several times :) -雪花无声- ♀ (31 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 20:42:28

• Hugs :). have a good night. -Net-A-Porter- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:46:17

• You too, tomorrow is another day! -新林迷- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/23/2013 postreply 19:56:00