20:18 - Cavs looks tight and unfocused in first few minutes. Pierce has five points and the Cavs have hit one shot. Shaq looks absolutely awful missing three shots and allowing Kendrick freaking Perkins to hit an uncontested basket. Celtics always look better than the Cavs early in the game. If the Cavs can hang around and drop the hammer late in the game, I think they will be ok. Cavs fans continue to tighten up any time the Celtics have success. Have some faith, wait I don't.
20:29- Anthony Parker has hit two 3's! Lebron has not scored. The biased, Boston-based media has taken shots at Lebron's supporting cast. Antawan Jamison and Anthony Parker are responsible for 12 of the Cavs first 15 points. Both players were not on the 2008 Cavs team that lost to the Celtics in seven games. That was two years ago, or wait let me speak your language; "a wicked-long-time" in basketball years. The 2008 Celtics aren't walking through that door folks.
20:31 Rasheed Wallace finally scored for the Celtics. That is note-worthy, moving on.....Oh no he hit a three as well, and now he got a rebound! More anxiety from Cavs fans, it's clinical at this point, we're all suffering from acute sports bi-polar disorder... too much baggage.
20:40 First quarter ends with Rajon Rondo draining a three. Difference in the quarter? Seven turnovers by the Celtics. Besides that, the Cetlics look good offensive and the Cavs are hanging in. Again, that is key to beating the Celtics, hanging in during the first half and breaking them down, when they break down; the second half.
20:44 Cavs down 9 looking embarrassingly bad. If Rasheed keeps hitting threes (he's hit 2) then the Cavs are done for. Wallace hits another shot and the Cavs are down 13 in a matter of one minute. Big Polar Cavs fandom now reaches suicide watch.
20:51 Cavs score 6 unanswered and Celtic coach Doc Rivers wants to talk it over. Bi Polar Cavs fandom reaches a mania stage, smiles, rainbows, and Cadberry Egg good feelings run throughout the Q. Sheed still frightens me, the Celtics signed him to seal the deal and if he can somehow finally prove his worth, this series is already over. On queue, Sheed hits his third three, Celts up 10.
20:55 Sheed's three is answered by a Shaq hook shot, this game just hit an "old-big men trying to get one more championship stretch."
21:01 Boston is fouling a ton. I like it, older players getting beat up when they already fall down in the second half. Feel free to quicken the process, Cavs down 2 and more importantly "hanging-in" early. Bi-Polar Cavs fandom has turned into a play by play of emotion, it's hillar-----sad.
21:07 Rondo is killing the Cavs, but the Celts are only up five. That tells you who the better team is. I'm starting to the think the Cavs will win this series, as for the Bi Polar Cavs fandom, not sure we will survive. By the way, 14 personal fouls for Boston, only 4 for Cleveland....keep that going please. (Update: in a matter of one minute that total is 17 for Boston)
21:16 Celtics can't miss from three point range, Rasheed Wallace does more than he has done all season, and Boston is only up 4 at the half? Not good for the Cryptics.
Going to watch the second half not write anything until after the game. I don't this turn into a Bill Simmons novel......errrr......column.
22:47 Blind rage is the only thing I can say about my feelings during the second half. I turned the game off after I threw a cup across the room, scared my saint of a girlfriend, and started running a blood pressure level that will one day no-doubt kill me.
Lebron is clearly hurt and my prediction of the Cavs hanging in went to s^&^! I think the Cavs are the better team, but they can't handle the intensity of the playoffs. They NEEDED to get the first two at home, now Boston has home court advantage. My new prediction 4-1 Boston. I can't see the delicate group of friends that is the Cavs recovering from this, they are too mentally weak.
I am not going to write about the Cavs unless they move on. I am not going to watch the games. I hope they win, but I am no longer emotionally invested, no "championship" caliber team should loose like this. In my mind they are dead.
