30 points 9 rebounds 7 assists. God it feels good to have LeBron James on your team in the playoffs… But god damn I have to respect this Celtics team BECAUSE THEY JUST WON’T DIE. I will not be surprised at all if the Celts win one in Boston and force a game 5 back in Cleveland.

If we’re being honest I was more impressed by the way the Celts played than the way the Cavs played but it’s the playoffs and style points don’t mean shit. 2 wins down, 14 to go. All that matters is the W in the left column.

Let’s look at the damn game tape

 

Gotta be stronger when you’re strying to dunk on Big Russia

Evan Turner and LeBron held their own on court dance recital

Mozgov. Dunk.

Trying to take a charge, flopping, and then getting dunked on is the most emasculating thing ever

Kyrie. So filthy.

LeBron to Love from halfcourt for the oop. Get up white boy!

This is when things started to get fun. The best part was LeBron kicking Marcus Smart right in his face.

Poor Kevin. Little Isaiah Thomas dribbled the ball right between his legs

Don’t try and guard LeBron too close because he will toss you like ragdoll and totally make you look like a weakling on national TV

Jared Sullinger screened his own teammate and LeBron got an easy 2. Whoops!

After the game Rachel Nichols addressed LeBron with comments ‘Bron’s son made about him concerning Michael Jordan

Couple quick thoughts:

-Tristan Thompson with the Gruden Grinder of the week type stats. 0 points & 11 rebounds. Those are the kinds of numbers that’ll put hair on your chest. Man’s game from Double T.

– Not a fan of Kyrie and LeBron scoring ALL 24 of our points in the 4th quarter. It’s only the second playoff game so I expect that to change. Need the other players to step up on offense.

– Mozgov contributing 16 points on offense is great but we shouldn’t expect that every game. Him yelling after every LeBron dunk/great play is like my favorite thing ever right now.

– Gonna need JR Smith to start making a couple baskets here and there. Everyone is going to have their eye on him in the playoffs and I don’t want him not scoring to become a national topic of conversation. Big fan of his 5 steals however. If he’s not hitting 3’s he’ll have to step up his defense and he’s done that so far.

– I think the Celtics are better than we all gave them credit for. Very well coached and they were streaking at the right time at the end of the season. Aside from the top 3 seeds in the East I could see the Celtics beating every other team in a seven game series.

– Every time I watch Isaiah Thomas I’m more and more impressed. If he wasn’t playing against the Cavs I’d definitely be rooting for him.

– How bout Big Perk getting some minutes in the first quarter? (let’s not do that again)

-Really need to see the bench score more than 7 points.

-HATE that the Cavs didn’t drop confetti after that dipshit Shaughnessy wrote yesterday’s article that centered around the Cavs dropping confetti. They should have doubled down and dropped about 4X as much confetti as they normally do after wins.

– Need another Dan Shaughnessy/Bob Ryan/Bill Simmons article bashing Cleveland. I’m starting to get bored with this series and I don’t want to let my guard down.