Lucid Morbidity
The Shamrock Headband —
... Tonight's loss sucked on a number of levels, but the primal point seems to remain: the Celtics aren't the same team as they were in the regular season. And ultimately, that is what sucks most. The Celtics' team we loved this year never would have laid the egg that this team did tonight, just like it never would have been forced to play seven games against Atlanta and Cleveland. But this current group - same in form, different in persona - seems lucky just to be here. If you were to tell me before the year we would be 2-2 with the Pistons in the EC Finals I would have been ...
Celtics Miss Early and Often in Game 4 Loss to Pistons
Celtics 17 —
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If the Celtics would have won this game, it would have to have been gift-wrapped by the Pistons in the 4th quarter. But there is no NBA team that is that generous at this time of year. Pistons defeated the Celtics to even the series with a 94-75 victory in Detroit, but the Celtics fought hard to keep this game from being more of a blow-out than it was.
The Celtics pulled to within 5 with 10:18; 8:37 and 4:51 left in the 4th quarter, and that is after the Celtics were somehow only down by only 4 points at the half. How they were even that close was ...
Celtics Struggle as Pistons Tie Series at 2-2
LOY's PLACE a celtics green blog —
... didn't show up in game 4. If this pattern continues, the Celtics should come out the winners. Game 5 is very important as the Celtics must now protect their home court. The team that comes out with the most energy and aggressiveness to start the game has won in each case. It will be up to the Celtics to be sure that they are the ones that come out with that energy to start game 5 because they don't want to have to go back to Detroit down 2-3 in the series. [Box Score] [Discuss this topic on the Celtics Green Forums!] ...
McDyess should be the face of the Pistons …
Detroit Bad Boys —
… because if he were, there’s not a person alive who could say they’re cocky, arrogant, complacent, or any other negative adjective commonly affixed to this team. Witness his post-game press conference:
For more on Miggidy (and video of Maxiell annihilating KG), head to FanHouse.
Pistons 94, Celtics 75 box score / NBA.com
Bittersweet game 4 victory
PistonsNationBlog.com —
McDyess is my homeslice! (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images) The Pistons led wire to wire in the 4th game of their best-of-seven Eastern Conference Finals winnning 75-94 to tie the series at two games a piece. [ Box Score ] Why bittersweet you ask? (caution, rant ahead) It was a great win for our guys but it really smarts to realize we could just as easily be up 3-1 in this series. There’s nothing the Pistons did last night that couldn’t have been done on Saturday. The fans that attended game 3 got ripped. I have to go on record with respectfully disagreeing ...
Stimulated
Empyreal Environs —
... I see when I switched over to NESN is Bartolo Colon drinking some Starbucks. There was also a carafe in the dugout with more java readily available. But all the caffeine in the world couldn’t energize the flagging Mariners and their poor record, which is the worst in the majors. David Ortiz homered in the fourth right about the same time Rasheed Wallace got his fifth foul. The former event helped lead the team to victory while the latter was yet another advantage that the Celtics failed to capitalize on in their Game 4 loss. ...
