Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Another OT thriller
Is this series great or what? ... Paul Pierce may have come through in the clutch. But Kendrick Perkins played his best game as a Celt and deserved last night's MVP award. ... Runner-up MVP has to go to Tommy Heinsohn, who was in full glorious Johnny Most mode last night, snarling at the refs and biased right to the last buzzer. I could have sworn I heard him yelling at the Celts when Comcast was cutting away for a commercial, "Inside, pleasssse!" -- an apparent reference to the complete breakdown of the Celts' inside offensive game in the fourth quarter. ... Well, maybe he wasn't in full Johnny Most mode (he gets rolling around 40 seconds and hits his "yellow, dirty" stride at 1:40).
Is this series great or what? ... Paul Pierce may have come through in the clutch. But Kendrick Perkins played his best game as a Celt and deserved last night's MVP award. ... Runner-up MVP has to go to Tommy Heinsohn, who was in full glorious Johnny Most mode last night, snarling at the refs and biased right to the last buzzer. I could have sworn I heard him yelling at the Celts when Comcast was cutting away for a commercial, "Inside, pleasssse!" -- an apparent reference to the complete breakdown of the Celts' inside offensive game in the fourth quarter. ... Well, maybe he wasn't in full Johnny Most mode (he gets rolling around 40 seconds and hits his "yellow, dirty" stride at 1:40).
