Man you got to love this team! Even though it was only a 6-point victory and the lead never went over 13 points there still was never a moment where the game was in doubt. Everything came difficult to the Lakers, mostly to Kobe Bryant who scored 38 points despite great defense by the Celtics while the rest of his teammates watched. Boston however responded whenever they needed too, including a heart-attack inducing play when KG threw an overhead inbound to Pierce who retrieved it over Fisher then dished it to Rondo who hit a difficult lay-up. Lakers couldn’t do anything about it, they were just chasing a piece of cheese tied to a stick the Celtics held in front of them the whole time.

Phil Jackson was even foolish enough to provide the external motivation for the Celtics going into Game 6. This was when both coaches were ‘Wired’ with a little over two minutes to play, Phil said ‘This team loses games in the fourth quarter.’ Really? Well your 4-7 in the Finals against that Doc Rivers coached team and on the brink of losing your third ‘NBA Finals’ series. Red Auerbach never lost that many.

A lot of people outside of Boston seem to not like this Celtics team. Shit even the city of Boston wrote them off on several occasions. The crowd fails to make the Garden a tough place to play, and are not willing to send them off with a significant applause for taking a 3-2 series lead. Mark Jackson even addressed it as the crowd stood with a minimal ovation.

My question is, how can you not love this team? It’s full of a collection of amusing personalities, which a lot of NBA teams INCLUDING LA lack. They love each other as teammates even though Pierce (great performance tonight) stormed off on Rondo because he felt slighted as the first half closed. More often you see what happened in Game 4 with the starters putting ego aside and earnestly rooting on their teammates as they took away their crunch time minutes. And of course this team plays with so much heart and toughness it will go down as their identity when sports historians look back at this team ten years from now.

My other question is how can anyone like the Lakers? Kobe’s reaction after Paul Pierce made him look like a boy was embarrassing, and even though he’s the second best player in the league he is by far the lamest. Their coach is consumed with so much arrogance he seems like the type of guy that wouldn’t use his directional while driving. And the rest of the team is full of complete pussbags and Ron Artest, who’s not a pussy but still dumb enough to remain irrelevant.

Pau Gasol was a beast the first two games. He was good in the next one, and effective in the last one. Today, a complete pussy just like it was 2008. Thank you Pau, and that thing your complaining about is called defense.