The Celtics Season Is Once Again On The Line Tonight. Welcome To Game 6.
I know I know there's football in an hour but come on. We also have to address the massive Game 6 tonight for our beloved Boston Celtics and we're not going to do it while the games are actually being played. Anyone who tells you they know what version of the Celts we'll get in this game is a flat out liar. I have no idea to expect. It wouldn't surprise me if they laid an egg and it wouldn't surprise me if they were dominant from the start and played a full 48 minutes. The one thing I do know is it's going to be absolute gut wrenching hell to watch. Stress like you read about. Despite the fact that we saw this team respond once with their backs up against the wall, it's an entirely different animal to do it twice in a row. Then if you're lucky enough to do that, you have to replicate it a third time. This is the path the Celtics have made for themselves so that's what it takes.
Once you get to a Game 7, anything can happen. The blown leads, the brutal Game 4 effort, none of it matters. You have 48 minutes to earn your spot in the Finals. But in order to get to that place you need to win tonight. Game 6 may as well be Game 7 for the Celts and they need to play like that from the jump. No more of this slow start bullshit where you have no offensively strategy other than to shoot threes. Be aggressive. Attack the zone with purpose. Play with the right energy from the start. Play smart and take care of the basketball and we will live to see another day.
Don't, and the season ends tonight. It's that simple.
Only a few more hours to go. LFG.
(Shoutout to stoolie @skeletoncruise for the video. Love when talented people do cool shit on the internet about my favorite team that I could never do. You have a hype video, you send it to me, we blog it. Those are the rules.)