Breakdown: Boston's bench costs them Game 2

CelticsBlog found this 5/24/2008 on bucksdiary.blogspot.com [flag]

In an attempt to find a scapegoat for the Celtics devastating home loss last night in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference championship series, a lot of people are pointing the finger at Rajon Rondo. That is wrong. Rondo was actually excellent. By my calculations, he slightly outplayed his counterpart, Chauncey Billups. In fact, using the Win Contribution metric , the entire Celtic starting ... [link]

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