Baby, You're No Good

After the Boston Celtics bow out of the Eastern Conference semifinals, Shank does the inevitable post mortem:

Let’s face it, the Celtics are not as good as they think they are

If you like basketball you know the right team won.

The Miami Heat, worthy in every way, beat the Celtics, 125-113, in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals Sunday night and will advance to the NBA Finals, where they’ll play LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers starting Wednesday night. LeBron vs. Pat Riley. Pretty sweet.

Let the record show that the 2019-20 Celtics in no way deserved to win this series. They gave it a pretty good run, but in the end they presented as front-running posers who folded whenever a game went into crunch time. Green Teamers should face the fact that these Celtics — who are fawned over and comport themselves as if they’ve already put some banners in the Garden rafters — have won nothing yet.

I didn't watch enough of the series to know one way or the other; it's really difficult for me to watch sports without fans in the stands. I do know that the Celtics had no answer to Miami center Bam Adebayo; he tore up the Celtics in Game 6.