I fucking love it. Get up by 25 against the Bucks. Take all your starters out. Play the second string for the whole half as they squander the lead, miss crucial free throws down the stretch, and then fucking win in overtime. With Brian Scalabrine on the floor the whole time?? Are you kidding me? The man who will do whatever he can NOT to shoot the ball unless he's in Boston, has been standing at the 3 point line for a minimum 30 seconds until the crowd starts cheering him on so he can hoist a brick over his shoulders - is he really the guy you want in clutch moments?
Fuck it, who gives a shit?
You've clinched a playoff birth, division title, conference title, and home court advantage with 6 games left to go in the season. Single greatest one season turnaround of an NBA team ever.
Let Scalabrine pass up open jumpers he can't hit. Home crowd LOVES him. He's the big, red haired, mascot for the team. I think he's the only white guy, too. And by the way, fuck anyone who thinks the Celtics are a racist organization. Go crucify Isiah Thomas some more. At least he actually deserves it.
But it was such a brilliant move by Rivers. This game doesn't matter as far as standings go. This is like the inverse pre-season for the Celtics. Sort of a post-season pre-season.
Like that house in House of Leaves.
So he rests his starters and then basically dares the bench to lose the game that's just been handed to them. Think if they had lost? Their confidence would be destroyed. And Boston's second string is what's going to carry them through the playoffs. But it's not their talent, it's their confidence. Confidence not a single one of them ever had until this season.
But I mean, they should've fucking won anyhow. Rivers rested KG, Pierce, and Ray Allen for a whole game against the Bobcats and they won.
Whoa, I just grossed myself out on sports.
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I'd read your sports column. If you were allowed to swear this much.
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