6/6 - Finals G1 vs. DAL - Comeback Song
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My current all-time favorite Celtics-Mavs moment (very open to having a new one a week or two from now):
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZh-KmlzjFU
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZh-KmlzjFU
Nice one.
That 88 team had a few randos. I've completely forgotten about "Dirk Minnifield" but he played 14 MPG for them and makes a few appearances in that clip. Had also forgotten about the Artis Gilmore Experience in Boston (not pictured).
Mark Aguirre was one of those guys who would have been a complete nightmare with three more inches.
Lots of Dirk Minnifield and Fred Roberts that year, with some Brad Lohaus and Connor Henry sprinkled in. I'm convinced they would have been in the Finals if they had used Reggie more that year instead of Sichting and Paxson and Minnifield.
I've now reached the stage of killing time that involves doing an Artis Gilmore deep-dive...
Whoa, what a rookie year for the A-Train!
23.8 PPG, 17.8 REB, .598 FG%, 5 BLK, was league MVP in the ABA at age 22. I had no idea...
Game 5 of the ECF ultimately determined the series. They lost in OT. Ainge played 47 minutes and scored 0 points (0-6). 1 basket by their entire bench, which as you note his lack of PT, gave Reggie a DNP. Bird went 9 for 25. McHale (and Roberts who replaced him fouled out)
None of the 6 games with Detroit were decided by double digits.
Gilmore has a fascinating career, started when he transferred from Gardner-Webb Junior College to Jacksonville University. As the legend as it, a fellow player on the team told Jacksonville Coach Joe Williams he had a friend who was 7-feet that could really play. Williams rolled his eyes and figured it wasn't true, that his friend was probably like 6'6" and not a real prospect. Then he met Gilmore and it turned out his friend was lying, he wasn't 7" he was 7'2".
Im getting 2022 Nets G1 vibes. Celtics start off cold and Kyrie goes 8/11 in 1H. Celtics make a big run in the 3rd quarter and it's a close one.
I watched that Timpf video in the other thread which kept showing how the Celtics simply couldn’t stop Doncic. But in every clip the Celtics were ahead by double digits.
Thats how I think tonight will go. Many empty points for Luka in a convincing and easy Celtics win.
Thats how I think tonight will go. Many empty points for Luka in a convincing and easy Celtics win.
So I have a question about the clothsline.
Back in '84 I was still a Laker fan. (Yeah, I know. I grew up with them) What did Rambis do that deserved that? In today's NBA, that would have been a Flagrant 2, right? Do we love it just because it was our guys? I still don't quite get it. (and wow was I pissed off at the time.)
If I'm not mistaken, on YouTube, there are both Johnny Most's call AND Chick Hearn's call of the event. Rashomon in the NBA!
It was a dirty foul. Hard foul as well? Sure. But dirty as shit.
https://www.basketballnetwork.net/old-school/kevin-mchale-on-the-only-regret-he-had-after-clotheslining-kurt-rambis-in-the-1984-nba-finals
"My only regret, honestly, is that it wasn't Worthy or Magic or someone better. It just happened to be Kurt Rambis. I was just like, no layups. Whatever happens, there’s not going to be a layup," Kevin said. "Normally, you and I, Max, we were pretty good defenders. We made plays on the ball a lot. We'd try to slap it or challenge it up top or get our body in the way. I wasn't making a play on the ball. I was like, screw it."
Today was the epitome of shit for me to the point that only an hour delay on my flight home to Boston from Dulles is probably the highlight. A game 1 win would certainly top that. Get it done!
did CJM keep a straight face while saying no decision yet? Whatever decision is…it’s been made
This Dan Hurley/Lakers story reminds me of A-Rod’s opt out during the 8th inning of Game 4 of the 2007 World Series.
Fuck off Lakers, A-Rod, Kyrie and the ESPN Sportscenter crew for splooging all over themselves about the Mavs.
Go Celts! Set the tone early and win this game!!
Fuck off Lakers, A-Rod, Kyrie and the ESPN Sportscenter crew for splooging all over themselves about the Mavs.
Go Celts! Set the tone early and win this game!!
One of my all-time favorite plays, also from the game, is Larry Bird depositing Michael Cooper into the second row beginning at about 22 seconds in this highlight reel.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qCNlrOu2Zu8
edit The clothesline is about a minute in or just after. Best part of that is Rambis getting up to go after McHale but Worthy comes over and inexplicably knocks him back down.
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Would be nice if someone, anyone in the media had the balls to predict a Celts sweep. Because it’s fucking happening.
I feel barfy. Let's get this party started already!
(Also, why the fuck does my kid have a band concert during Game 1?! Poor planning local school that is nowhere near Boston).
(Also, why the fuck does my kid have a band concert during Game 1?! Poor planning local school that is nowhere near Boston).
It's been a long time, but I seem to remember both teams taking some liberties in that series, to the extent that the clothesline felt appropriate.
Win it, so that Oshea Brissett never has to pay for a domestic beer or a full pizza in Boston ever again.