The Celtics finally managed to do something that they have not done during the past 2 series.
The finally won away from home.
With that accomplished, they closed down the Pistons 4-2 to emerge as the Eastern Conference Champions and set a date with the Los Angeles Lakers for bragging rights as the World's Champion. Lakers earlier routed the defending champion San Antonio Spurs 4-1 where Kobe Bryant shows why he is the league MVP by carrying his team to the first finals for the Lakers since 2004.
Celtics started strong in game 6 today and led up until the middle of third quarter, where Pistons had a 10-2 run and started to pull away as many as 10 points in the fourth quarter. Just when it seemed the Pistons might be in control with a 70-60 lead early in the fourth, the Celtics scored nine points in less than 2 minutes and went on a 19-4 run that put them ahead 79-74. No thanks to Wallace.
Wallace really had a bad game. He had 5 fouls, 4 points out of 2-12 shooting with 0-6 from the three-point line, and 3 turnovers, one of them was a poor pass after a defensive rebound that turned into a basket for the Celtics.
And when they were down by 6 with less than a minute left, Wallace attempted a three which missed badly, and when Tayshaun Prince committed a turnover off a steal from Posey, it was as good as over for the Pistons.
But it's good to see Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce in the finals. They deserve to be there, after playing in the league for so many years. Garnett was with the Timberwolves for 12 years, and never made it to the finals. Allen was with the Supersonics and it was even worse there. While Pierce has been with the Celtics for 10 years now, it is the team that drafted him in 1998.
So it's going to be Celtics-Lakers finals. Boston has 16 NBA titles, the Lakers 14. Their rivalry, while most recently heated in the 1980s, goes back to the days of Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain. In the 1980s, it was Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. This year, it's going to be Kobe Bryant and Paul Pierce. Another history in the making, more Hall of Famers creating histories.
Whatever it is, it is definitely going to be a great finals.
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the Spurs and Pistons are getting a bit old, i'm even surprised that they lost their respective series. anyway, i'm really looking forward for the Finals.
i mean Kobe Bryant has been excellent in carrying the team to the Finals. the fact that Andrew Bynum is not in the line up is making it even more impressive, well at least they do have Pau Gasol now, and try to imagine if they're a full strength team....
Boston big 3 has been amazing this season but i don't think it would last long. i'll give them maybe another 2 more seasons to be competitive as they're getting quite old. this season is the best chance for them to win the Finals and for everybody to get their 1st ring (except for Cassell that is)
Najibest,
Too bad Flip Saunders got the sack, I think he did quite well in Detroit. First game is tomorrow, can't wait for it! And Cassell is just tagging along for the ride, he's not contributing much at all.
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