It was a fun run, 5 in a row was impressive, but it all got halted thanks to Dirk Nowitzki and awful play execution at the end of the game.
The Celtics had this game, they were up by 5 with with 1:45 left on the clock. But couldn't get their shit together and let an aggressive Dirk and a broken play they ended in a Jason Terry 3 tied up the game.
Then with 17 seconds left a 7 foot Dirk drilled a jumper in the face of 6'8 Big Baby. It was a tough match up for the smaller Baby, but hey, Dirk is just a great player. It was the match up that you needed at that time because Dirk was really getting at KG. Overall KG's performance was impressive: 18 points (14 in the second half) and 15 rebounds, but like I said, struggled against Dirk.
Rondo had another huge game last night: 11 points, 6 rebounds, 15 assists, and 5 steals. He did shoot just 5-15 from the field, with most of those misses coming on jump shot attempts. I like it, he needs to learn to do that, and will be forced to learn that post big 3.
Now on to the last 17 seconds:
Nothing happened once the C's inbounded the ball with 17.4 ticks left and had a chance to tie the game or take the lead with a three-pointer. The play that happened ended with Rajon Rondo launched a wide-open three-pointer from the left wing that found nothing but iron with 5 seconds left. Ray Allen got the rebound and the Celtics called timeout with 1.5 seconds left after Jason Terry fouled him (they had a foul to give. On the ensuing inbounds play, Rondo couldn't find anyone and with the five second clock dwindling he was forced to throw it into Kevin Garnett who fired off an awful shot that was an air ball. Ugly.
Because I'm an optimist lets here the positives.
The played their tails off in a hard back to back game.
They were once down 12 points and came back and had a shot to win it.
A lot of those missed jumpers will go down in other games.
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