Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Another battle in the CHI/BOS war



The Boston Celtics took game 5 in overtime over the Chicago Bulls 106-104. This is the fourth overtime in three different games this series setting a playoff record. The series is so competitive their has been 48 ties and over 90 lead changes so far. Despite Kevin Garnet being sidelined to injury and Ray Allen being in foul trouble throughout and eventually fouling out mid way through the 4th quarter, Paul Pierce stepped up. Pierce went on to hit clutch basket after clutch basket on route to 26 points. Rajon Rondo continued his excellent play scoring 28 points, dishing 11 assists and grabbing 8 rebounds. Kendrick Perkins scored 16 points, grabbed a career high 17 rebounds and tied a franchise record for blocks set by Robert Parrish with 7. Scoring machine Ben Gordon continued to show no conscious scoring 26 points. Despite a hamstring injury suffered in game 4 Gordon fulfilled the well known basketball quote, "shooters keep shooting". Gordon only shot 6-21 from the field, but got hot late in the game as usual. Kirk Hinrich was a huge spark for Chicago off the bench scoring 19 points. On the game's final play Brad Miller was hacked by Rondo. Rondo took a swipe, but for what, depended on who you were routing for. Celtic fans would say the ball, but I'd say Bulls fans would say his head. It looks as though Rondo wanted to foul preventing an easy layup for Miller. It doesn't look as the the blow to the head was intentional. Referee's elected to call a foul but not a flagrant foul. The blow required stitches. After review the league confirmed the ref's made the proper call. What do you think?

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