Rooting For A Loss - II

The Boston Celtics lost Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals last night, and since a local team lost the game, Shank whips up a column about it:

In the end, the young Celtics looked . . . young. They got tight. They couldn’t put the staggering Cavaliers to bed. They couldn’t stop the indomitable LeBron James. And then they collapsed altogether.

“We just had one of those nights,’’ Celtic coach Brad Stevens said after the Celts dropped an 87-79 Game 7 to the Cleveland Cavaliers at TD Garden on Sunday. “. . . the pain is part of the path.’’

Ooooh. The pain.

We are not supposed to be disappointed. This was a “house money” series. The Celtics never expected to get this far after they lost Gordon Hayward and Kyrie Irving during the regular season. But then they advanced to the conference finals. And then they took 2-0 and 3-2 series leads and looked significantly better than the Cavs. Finally, most painfully, they took a 12-point lead in Game Seven on their own court.

You get the sense that Shank would like to take a steaming dump on the Celtics, but somehow reality gets in the way.