The Champs Rebound

Well the Boston Celtics avoided disaster by defeating the Chicago Bulls 118-115 in Boston Monday night. The defending champs evened out the best of seven series at 1, and more importantly avoided going to Chicago down 0-2. Ray Allen redeemed his dismal Game 1 performance, in which he shot 1-12 from the field, by hitting a 3 pointer with 2 seconds which gave the Celtics the lead. Allen finished the game with 30 points, although the true hero in this game in my opinion was Boston point guard Rajon Rondo. Playing with a sprained ankle, Rondo had a triple-double, finishing with 19 points, 16 assists, and 12 rebounds while adding 5 steals. I'm very interested to see how Boston plays on the road without Kevin Garnett. Last year the Celtics were horrible on the road in the first two rounds of the playoffs, losing 3 games in both Atlanta and Cleveland. We shall see, hopefully Chicago can take care of  business on their home-court and put the Celtics on the verge of elimination. Game 3 of the series is Thursday at 5:00 p.m. in Chicago.

Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Mike Brown was named the NBA Coach of the Year. I couldn't disagree anymore with this choice, as I felt this award could have gone to a number of candidates not named Mike Brown. First off let's talk about Nate McMillan of the Portland Trail Blazers, who would have been my pick if it was up to me. Portland went 54-28 this year, which was 13 games better than last season. If Portland had the tiebreaker over Denver in the regular season, they would have been the #2 seed in the Western Conference. Please tell me at the beginning of the season who would have thought that Portland would be this good??? I'll answer that question...NO ONE! Yeah people thought Portland would be a dangerous team that would probably make the playoffs, but as the #4 seed and a win away from the #2 seed? No way! If you were to tell me at the beginning of the season that Cleveland would be the #1 seed in the Eastern Conference, I would have believed you, after all they do have LeBron James who is arguably the best player in the NBA. The point is, Portland exceeded expectations and Nate McMillan did the most with the least amount of talent. I really have to wonder how much of Cleveland's 66-16 record was because of Mike Brown coaching or how much of it was the fact that LeBron had an MVP type of season putting up ridiculous numbers. You could also argue Rick Adelman of the Houston Rockets or Greg Poppovich of the San Antonio Spurs were more deserving of this award. Both coaches led their teams to the playoffs in a superior Western Conference without two of their best players in Tracy McGrady and Manu Ginobili respectively.  Heck you could even say Doc Rivers of the Boston Celtics was more deserving of this award for the work he did with a Celtics team who played without Kevin Garnett for the last couple weeks of the regular season. This is only the beginning of the awards for Cavaliers fans as LeBron James will almost certainly be named MVP in a few weeks. The MVP talk will be a good one, I still think Dwyane Wade is the more deserving candidate, but LeBron will get it since he is on the better team.

 

Game 2 of the Jazz-Lakers series is tonight. Hopefully the Laker fans in attendance will actually be loud during the game, and not just in the final seconds chanting "We Want Tacos" like they were in Game 1. I'm expecting the Lakers to win this game by 10 points or more.

Yesterday was 4-20, and I was really amazed at the amount of idiots on Facebook who made their statuses something related to smoking weed. I mean do people really think they're badasses because they are saying that they smoke weed? 

24 was very good last night, as was Monday Night Raw. Today's forecast in Phoenix: Sunny with a high of 99 degrees!