Two days off until Tuesday. We steal a win not playing our best, without our starting leadership guard and with Chris Copeland dealing with a bad shoulder/ normal rookie jitters.

Mike Woodson outcoached Doc Rivers

Suddenly, things don't suck that bad.

misterearl wrote:The Garden crowd, led by cheerleader John McEnroe, was in full throat.

Two days off until Tuesday. We steal a win not playing our best, without our starting leadership guard and with Chris Copeland dealing with a bad shoulder/ normal rookie jitters.

Mike Woodson outcoached Doc Rivers

Suddenly, things don't suck that bad.

Steal a win? Knicks were supposed to win this one. If not, they surrender home court advantage, and set a terrible tone for the series.

misterearl wrote:We Stole It

Panos wrote:
Steal a win? Knicks were supposed to win this one. If not, they surrender home court advantage, and set a terrible tone for the series.

Panos, absolutely. There is no such thing as "supposed to win" unless you are a bookie or an odds maker. The game still must be played on the court. Consider the Knicks coming into the game with several question marks...

Supposed to win? According to who? That entitlement, certainly does not extend to the players or coaches themselves.

We did not play well. Fact.

Word is ... the Knicks played lousy, and Carmelo was stressed and forcing it most of the game, and Tyson Chandler was hurt, and there was no Pablo Prigioni and no Amar'e Stoudemire and Iman Shumpert barely showed up either. (Though he was handy against Paul Pierce on defense.) And they won, and by the end, they'd won fairly easily. If the Knicks can get back to playing like they did for the last month of the season, the Celtics are in serious trouble.

But no need to think about that yet, particularly with a breathless crowd waiting for the Celtics back in Boston. The Knicks are ahead in a series for the first time since April 29, 2001, right before they lost two straight games to the Toronto Raptors... Game Two is Tuesday night at the Garden. The Knicks are bound to play better than they did today.... - Wil Leitch, NYMagazine

We stole game one.

Earl, if, in fact, the 2 seed needs to steal a win on their home floor in game 1 against the 7 seed, then I'm not too thrilled with any possibility of beating Miami in the ECF. So, I'd rather you said "they took care of business," than "they stole a game."

Panos wrote:Earl, if, in fact, the 2 seed needs to steal a win on their home floor in game 1 against the 7 seed, then I'm not too thrilled with any possibility of beating Miami in the ECF. So, I'd rather you said "they took care of business," than "they stole a game."

Panos - The Playoffs are a new season. "Seeds" are meaningless. This New York v Boston thing is much larger. This is about legacy, ghosts, confidence. It is about playing at a more intense level. Turning the pace up a notch. You never, EVER hear an NBA player mention ANYTHING about seeding because they know it does not mean anything.

This ain't the NCAAs

Knicksfan wrote:Lol at this funny controversy: steal or no steal?

Good point that seeding shouldn't matter and you aren't entitled to anything. Anything can happen in the playoffs.

But to say we stole the game means the Celtics had it and we took it from them. That I don't agree either. Yes, we didn't play our best game but it was a hard fought classic playoff game that went back and forth, leads changing as well as momentum. You can feel when a team has stolen a game the opposing team has dominated but got hot or something happened that they came back and won it.

This was a playoffs grinder. No team took control for good until the final 5 minutes with NY clamping down its D.

We stole nothing nor we were entitled to take the game. We won a playoff game.

well said

damn it feels good to be a gangsta.

win tuesday and go to Boston with a touch of swagger

Uptown wrote:

Panos wrote:

misterearl wrote:We Stole It

Panos wrote:
Steal a win? Knicks were supposed to win this one. If not, they surrender home court advantage, and set a terrible tone for the series.

Panos, absolutely. There is no such thing as "supposed to win" unless you are a bookie or an odds maker. The game still must be played on the court. Consider the Knicks coming into the game with several question marks...

Supposed to win? According to who? That entitlement, certainly does not extend to the players or coaches themselves.

We did not play well. Fact.

Word is ... the Knicks played lousy, and Carmelo was stressed and forcing it most of the game, and Tyson Chandler was hurt, and there was no Pablo Prigioni and no Amar'e Stoudemire and Iman Shumpert barely showed up either. (Though he was handy against Paul Pierce on defense.) And they won, and by the end, they'd won fairly easily. If the Knicks can get back to playing like they did for the last month of the season, the Celtics are in serious trouble.

But no need to think about that yet, particularly with a breathless crowd waiting for the Celtics back in Boston. The Knicks are ahead in a series for the first time since April 29, 2001, right before they lost two straight games to the Toronto Raptors... Game Two is Tuesday night at the Garden. The Knicks are bound to play better than they did today.... - Wil Leitch, NYMagazine

We stole game one.

Earl, if, in fact, the 2 seed needs to steal a win on their home floor in game 1 against the 7 seed, then I'm not too thrilled with any possibility of beating Miami in the ECF. So, I'd rather you said "they took care of business," than "they stole a game."

Celts stole game 1 of the 2010 playoffs vs the Knicks when Ray Allen sank that 3 on the no-call on KG's hip-check...

The 2010 Melo by himself playoffs? Those playoffs? The my-God-my-God-why-have-you-left-me-on-this-sheehit-forsaken-team-forced-to-pass-to-Fishlips playoffs?
The playoffs where everyone knew Melo would have been better off getting the 2010 frosh squad from Syracuse to play with him?

Celtics didn't have to steal anything. That series was over before it began.

ChuckBuck wrote:

jrodmc wrote:

Uptown wrote:

Panos wrote:

misterearl wrote:We Stole It

Panos wrote:
Steal a win? Knicks were supposed to win this one. If not, they surrender home court advantage, and set a terrible tone for the series.

Panos, absolutely. There is no such thing as "supposed to win" unless you are a bookie or an odds maker. The game still must be played on the court. Consider the Knicks coming into the game with several question marks...

Supposed to win? According to who? That entitlement, certainly does not extend to the players or coaches themselves.

We did not play well. Fact.

Word is ... the Knicks played lousy, and Carmelo was stressed and forcing it most of the game, and Tyson Chandler was hurt, and there was no Pablo Prigioni and no Amar'e Stoudemire and Iman Shumpert barely showed up either. (Though he was handy against Paul Pierce on defense.) And they won, and by the end, they'd won fairly easily. If the Knicks can get back to playing like they did for the last month of the season, the Celtics are in serious trouble.

But no need to think about that yet, particularly with a breathless crowd waiting for the Celtics back in Boston. The Knicks are ahead in a series for the first time since April 29, 2001, right before they lost two straight games to the Toronto Raptors... Game Two is Tuesday night at the Garden. The Knicks are bound to play better than they did today.... - Wil Leitch, NYMagazine

We stole game one.

Earl, if, in fact, the 2 seed needs to steal a win on their home floor in game 1 against the 7 seed, then I'm not too thrilled with any possibility of beating Miami in the ECF. So, I'd rather you said "they took care of business," than "they stole a game."

Celts stole game 1 of the 2010 playoffs vs the Knicks when Ray Allen sank that 3 on the no-call on KG's hip-check...

The 2010 Melo by himself playoffs? Those playoffs? The my-God-my-God-why-have-you-left-me-on-this-sheehit-forsaken-team-forced-to-pass-to-Fishlips playoffs?
The playoffs where everyone knew Melo would have been better off getting the 2010 frosh squad from Syracuse to play with him?

Celtics didn't have to steal anything. That series was over before it began.

All I was thinking on the game clinching play was thank God it was K-Mart finishing that bullet pass by Melo and not someone like Jared Jeffries...it's like night and day.

BEAT THE C'S! I DON'T HAVE ANY SYMPATHY FOR RONDO MIA!

DurzoBlint wrote:I don't think a you can win the Atlantic and still say your team is cursed. Just seems like no matter how good we do, we can't help but wont more. We want more, we want more, rah rah rah, I wish I was human again.

misterearl wrote:We want more

DurzoBlint wrote:I don't think a you can win the Atlantic and still say your team is cursed. Just seems like no matter how good we do, we can't help but wont more. We want more, we want more, rah rah rah, I wish I was human again.

Answer Man: Who thinks winning is better than losing? Okay, why?
Panos: Winning is better than losing because if winning is not losing... if there's more losing stuff then you might, you might want to have some more wins and your parents just don't let you win because there's only a regular season and The Playoffs are here.
Answer Man: Right.
Panos: We want more wins. We want more wins. Like, you really like it. You want more wins.
Answer Man: I follow you.
DurzoBlint: It's not complicated.

HAHAH I love hose commercials.

misterearl wrote:Don't Sleep The Celtics Defensive Effort in Game 2

DurzoBlint wrote:how do you "steal" a game your projected to win?

A. Because we played selfishly on offense (13 assists and a truckload of solo moves) and still managed to win. With defense.

Perhaps "steal" is not the best choice of words. Projections are not the same as reality.
We won the game we HAD to win.

So what you're saying is we stole a win from ourselves?