How 'bout them Hawks! They almost blew it there--Bibby choked at the line, and why the $#% didn't they foul on the last play?!--but the Celtics' inability to score in the 4th was fatal. They went 5 minutes in the middle of that quarter without scoring a single point, which is pretty pathetic.

I'm sure Boston will dominate Game 7, but now they'll get a taste of how fickle the media can be. Everyone's been on their jock all year long, but from here to Sunday, it'll be nothing but comparisons to Golden St.-Dallas. ESPN was starting up with that even before the game was over tonight.

This really made my night, hell yes.

I don't know about game 7. What if they get really uptight with this enormous pressure? They were expected to breeze through into the conference finals to meet their destiny in Pistons, but clearly it's not working out.

Ray Allen/Sam Cassel are killing BOS defensively in this series.

Joe Johnson is effin awesome. I don't feel so irrational not about not wanting to fact ATL in the 1st round. The only team i wanted was TOR.

Now let's see if the Hawks can learn to play on the road. I'm so happy for them. JJ deserves it, and JS has always been a beast.

Also Al Horford quickly became my favorite rookie this year.

Looks likely if we make it to the ECF it's going to be the Lebrons.

I would trade Flip for some other people: Pop, Sloan, Urkle Sr., Woodson, Laimbeer, McMillan.

I'll gladly eat my words later if I need to. Still a lot of pressure on Flip. But more on Doc. 'Course, if Doc doesn't get Boston to the finals, he can call Flip for therapy because Flip knows what it's like to carry the best regular season record into the playoffs and have nothing to show for it.

If you think about it coaching aside, these are 3 players that haven't really proved anything in the PO's.

KG was retarded in the 4th. I mean when Sheed is going inside more than you, you've got problems.

Our players for all their drama have shown when it comes down to it, they can win it. How big LB was in that remains uncertain to a degree.

Also i would trade Flip for the ball boy so i guess yes.

edited to add;

Damn Mike Bibby for almost choking away that game offensively and defensively.

If Atlanta hadn't lost by 19 or more in all 3 games in Boston this series, I might agree, but there's been no indication that they can even compete up there. Of course, the weakness for Boston that's been exposed is that they're very beatable on the road, and it's dangerous to have to rely so much on home court against better and more experienced teams.

Its one game.

Anything can happen.

I'll be watching for sure.

Yeah, I'm not totally writing off the Hawks for Game 7, but come on, the Celtics are still the massive favorites to win that game. As much as I can't stand them, you need to have some pretty strong blinders on not to see that. I give the Hawks maybe a 5% chance of winning this next game, 10% at best. 40% chance the Celtics win by single digits, 50% it's another blowout. I'll be ecstatic if I'm wrong, but I'm trying to stay realistic.

It can go two ways for the Celtics. This "scare" from Atlanta can be their wake-up call or they'll continue to struggle the rest of the playoffs. I doubt they'll continue to play poorly on the road. Besides, they match up well with Detroit, but that Cleveland series could be brutal for them with the LeBron Parade to the Free-Throw Line.