Dream big, Celtics fans. The Green Team has done this before.This looks like a classic rope-a-dope - write nice things about the local teams when they're winning, then blindside them when they lose. The rest of the column is a stroll down Celtics memory lane and the standard game recap.
The Celtics overcame a 12-point deficit, scored 41 points in the third quarter, and beat the Miami Heat Friday, 121-108, to extend their Eastern Conference finals series to a sixth game. The Celtics are attempting to become the 14th NBA team to crawl out of a 3-1 series deficit.
Sunday will be one of the great sports TV days in Boston history. We’ve got Patriots-Raiders at 1, Tom Brady at 4:25, and Celtics-Heat in Game 6 at 7:30.
Shank “It’s back to basics,” Celtic coach Brad Stevens said after his team’s big second half. “We need to be better again in Game 6.”
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Saturday, September 26, 2020
Eruption
No, not that eruption! Shank's talking about last night's game, an emphatic Celtics Game 5 win over the Miami Heat:
He did this morning
ReplyDeleteI didn't see it until this morning; for some reason the tweet wasn't up late yesterday afternoon and the Globe doesn't post his columns to Shank's Globe home page, or they haven't in a few months.
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