Celtics Doom

I missed the first half of this game, so instead of a full recap I'll just make a few Bullet points. Haha, get it?

• Pierce's game winning shot was pretty fucking amazing, but a fallaway three pointer while double teamed was just about the worst option you can have at that point. This is not poo-pooing Pierce so much as it's making the point that without Delonte or a reliable Wally Sczcerbiak, Pierce HAS to take that shot regardless of how difficult/unlikely it is.

• If you just can't get enough of Tommy's ref-baiting, tonight found our man spouting invective over TWO replays of the "controversial" past two games against the Wizards, wherein Gilbert Arenas was given the exact same calls Paul Pierce always gets in tight situations. The normal headache one gets when Tommy trots off into la-la land was increased by a factor of ten during these ugly moments. It was a towering example of professional self-indulgence along the lines of Kublah Kahn’s decree for the creation of a stately pleasure dome in Xanadu, or recent events involving Kevin Federline and the unchecked abuse of a Florida recording studio.

• I can't imagine Gomes is going to lose his starting job this season, or maybe even next. He and Raef are just far too coaching friendly for the hyper insecure Doc Rivers, and it will be far too tempting to try and convert Al into an explosive scorer off the bench, and to ultimately make Perk a kinda-specialist who gets minutes against teams with bigger front lines. While we all dig Gomes, it's doubtful that he can consistently get the job done against the Wallace Bros or any of the legit big players in the game. I would hope that at very least we get to see a couple games with Gomes and Perk starting together, and determine if that makes any basketball sense.

• In the post-game interview with Gorman, Pierce was about as genuinely happy as I've ever seen a professional basketball player allow himself to appear. It was strange to see him beaming and gushing about how much he loves being a Celtic, but I guess that’s a valid emotional response to hitting a game winner while in mid-stride of your career season. No report yet on whether or not he got roped into hanging out with the Wyc Grousbeck (who made the trip to our nation’s capitol) for a fine evening of cocktails, college life anecdotes and many, many uncomfortable silences.

Quote of the Night - "...which has hurt in some critical ball handling moments," Mike Gorman on the topic of Orien Greene's inability to reliably hold, dribble or pass the basketball. The immature among us found this far more interesting as a Brokeback Mountain-esque double entendre, a common broadcast theme which Gorman's hyper-earnest-ness plays right into. I can only imagine that Oriene's general (and underdiscussed) clumsiness would extend to the realm of ball handling in all of its iterations, but to get to the point of causing hurt, that's simply remarkable. Way to go, O!