Celtics and Bulls do it again!
No matter who you root for in the NBA playoff series between the Bulls and the Celtics you have gotta say it is thrilling basketball. The Bulls and Celtics went into overtime for the third time, making this the first postseason series in NBA history to have three OT games. That’s three from five games.
Not only was the game decided in OT, it right down to the wire. The Bulls ran a great play with just a few seconds left in OT to give Brad Miller a clear run to the basket. The big man should have gone for the dunk but he chose to lay it up and in the process was clobbered across the head by Rajon Rondo. The result was he missed badly on the layup. After picking his teeth up from the floor and cleaning up the blood, Miller stood at the foul line with his team relying on him to sink both free throws.
As the building rumbled due to the Boston crowd going off, Miller took his first shot. He missed badly. The look on Ben Gordon’s face said it all. Miller now had to miss the second and hope his team got the offensive rebound. He failed to even hit the rim and with that miss there went game five to the Celtics. The final score was 106-104.
The fact that the Celtics even got the match to OT was impressive. Kevin Garnett was on the bench in his street clothes and Ray Allen fouled out with 5:27 left in regulation. After Allen left the game it was the MVP of last year’s NBA finals, Paul Pierce who stepped up to carry the Celtics. He hit the jumper to tie the game after the Celtics came back from 11 down early in the fourth quarter. Pierce also knocked three more buckets in the final 77 seconds of overtime.
Rajon Rondo scored 28 points and dished out 11 assists to outplay Derrick Rose. Ben Gordon starred again for the Bulls with 26 despite going into the game with talk about a suspect hamstring.
“Paul Pierce was unbelievable,” Noah said. “Guys are hitting crazy shot after crazy shot. It’s all about who’s going to make that shot at the end of the game. We had our chances, and that’s what makes it so tough. But we’ll be back: I still feel that we can win the series.”
The series continues with game five in Chicago on Thursday.
Those of you who watched the game do you think it was a flagrant foul when Rondo hit Miller with seconds to play in OT? Leave your comments below.
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