Josh Q. Public:Rah rah rumble seats and running boards, them was the good old days. Knee pants and dime a dance girls, oh Lord, them was the good old days. -Roger Miller
Public Service Announcement: Ok, here we go! Woooo doggie! Beat LA! Beat LA! Beat LA! Does it get any better than this? Huh? Does it? If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times, there’s nothing like blogging when your teams are winning. Just win baby! The Celtics are winning. Won Saturday night. Won Saturday night against Deetroit Basketball. Won Saturday night against Deetroit Basketball at the Palace of Auburn Hills. Can’t win on the road. My tucchus they can’t. Won Saturday night at The Palace of Auburn Hills and now face the Los Angeles Lakers at home on Thursday. I know, I know. We all know. Steve Buckley knows. Here comes the showdown. The hoedown showdown. The throwback hoedown showdown of epic proportions. From now until Thursday you will hear about it. You will hear about Russell versus Chamberlain. You will hear about Cousy versus West. Magic versus Bird. Parrish versus Kareem. McHale versus Big Game James. You’ll see visions of Havlicek stealing the ball. Greer is putting the ball in play. He gets it out deep and Havlicek steals it! Over to Sam Jones… You’ll see visions of Gerald Henderson stealing the ball. You’ll see visions of Sir Cedric in Kurt Rambis glasses. You’ll see clotheslines. You’ll see sky hooks. You’ll see baby hooks. You’ll see all of it. You’ll feel the rivalry. You’ll feel the tradition. You’ll feel the glory. The mystique. You’ll see, hear, smell, touch, taste all of it. You’ll have one, two, three, four, five, senses working overtime. You’ll be inundated. Saturated. Permeated. But while you’re getting caught up in all the nostalgia of it. All the pageantry of it. Life’s rich pageantry of it. While you’re doing all that, don’t overlook this here Celtics team. This new style Celtics team. And on the cool check in. Center stage on the mic. And we’re puttin’ it on wax. It’s the new style. Four and three and two and one. When I’m on the mic, the suckers run. Suckers have been running from these Celtics all season. Dollar Bill Simmons says nobody is beating the Lakers. Not Boston. Not nobody. Dollar Bill Simmons can go blow it out his ear. I’ve watched this edition of the Boson Celtics. This New Edition of the Boston Celtics. Candy girl. You are my world. You’re everything, everything. Everything to me. This new edition of the Boston Celtics has been everything to me. I’ve watched this new edition of the Boston Celtics roll through the NBA like an army of steamrollers. I’ve watched Kevin Garnett take this itty bitty city by storm. And he’s just getting warm. What Dollar Bill Simmons neglects to tell you is: Kevin Garnett and the Celtics play lockdown defense. Shockdown defense. Plymouth Rockdown defense. The Lakers ain’t gonna fall on Plymouth Rock, my brothers and sisters, Plymouth Rock is gonna land on them. The best defense in the free world is gonna land on them. Paul Pierce is gonna land on ‘em too. Like my main Winston Curchill always says, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the Truth has a chance to get its pants on.” The Truth has got its pants on now all right. Got his pants on and put this ballclub on his back. Put this ballclub on his back and carried them to the promised land. Mister I ain’t a boy. No, I’m a man. And I believe in the Promised land. There’s been the emergence of the kids. Rondo and Perk. There’s been the reemergence of Sugar Ray Allen. There have been plenty of reasons to love these Boston Celtics. So while you’re basking in the glory of years gone by, don’t lose sight of the here and now. Just stay right here folks ’cause these are the good old days.
Public Acknowledgements: Johnny Most, XTC, REM, Beastie Boys, Field of Dreams, LL Cool J, Malcolm X, Bruce Springsteen and Carly Simon
Wow Josh, there sure are a lot of Laker Homers out there! Most are the same ones that were saying that the Celitcs will be improved but won't make it to the second round this year.
If you corner them on all of their inconsistencies they just back-up to "well we got Kobe"
Good Post!
Last edited by evilquacks101 on June 2nd at 11:37 AM.
JoshQ
Well this'll be the series that'll brong back memories from a bygone era. Now you'll get Bird and Magic relinving a lot of those heydays. Hopefully this particular series will be something comparable to those in many ways. The characters are there and it ought to bode well for the NBA.
Gee, let's hope we don't see too much of Cousy vs West as Jerry was just 24 when Cooz retired. Jerry spent most of the 60s Laker/Celtic rivalry dueling with the game's premier lockdown artist, KC Jones. And why show Hal Greer having the ball stolen by Havlicek? He played for Philadelphia. Why not show Magic Johnson scoring at will(till he 42 points) against the vaunted Chocolate Thunder and Caldwell "Toons" Jones of Philadelphia in the 1980 finals if the Hal Greer play is relevant?
Yes, the Celtics have great defense. But the Lakers have a great offense, led by arguably the best lockdown defender in all of basketball.
So what does this mean to the average basketball fan?
Well, for one thing, a great offense led by a GREAT PLAYER will always defeat a great defense.
Didn't SHOWTIME always get the better of Bird's Celtics?
Didn't SHOWTIME always get the better of Isiah's Bad Boys?
Didn't Michael's BULLS always get the better of Sloan's defensive minded Jazz?
Didn't D-Wade's Heat defeat the defensive minded Mavs in 2006?
KOBE BRYANT, the MVP, is the difference in this series because no defense can stop his roll. His impact on his teammates and on the game is so big not even the ghost of Red Auerbach can do anything about it.
josh q. public. For the public, by The Public. Irreverent sports opinion from a Bostonian in New York. The one blog to read, when you’re reading more than one. Good to the last drop!
showdown. The throwback hoedown showdown of epic proportions. From now until Thursday you will hear about it. You will hear about Russell versus Chamberlain. You will hear about Cousy versus West. Magic versus Bird. Parrish versus Kareem. McHale versus Big Game James. You’ll see visions of Havlicek stealing the ball. Greer is putting the ball in play. He gets it out deep and Havlicek steals it! Over to Sam Jones… You’ll see visions of Gerald Henderson stealing the ball. You’ll see visions of Sir Cedric in Kurt Rambis glasses. You’ll see clotheslines. You’ll see sky hooks. You’ll see baby hooks. You’ll see all of it. You’ll feel the rivalry. You’ll feel the tradition. You’ll feel the glory. The mystique. You’ll see, hear, smell, touch, taste all of it. You’ll have one, two, three, four, five, senses working overtime. You’ll be inundated. Saturated. Permeated. But while you’re getting caught up in all the nostalgia of it. All the pageantry of it. Life’s rich pageantry of it. While you’re doing all that, don’t overlook this here Celtics team. This new style Celtics team. And on the cool check in. Center stage on the mic. And we’re puttin’ it on wax. It’s the new style. Four and three and two and one. When I’m on the mic, the suckers run. Suckers have been running from these Celtics all season. 
nobody. Dollar Bill Simmons can go blow it out his ear. I’ve watched this edition of the Boson Celtics. This New Edition of the Boston Celtics. Candy girl. You are my world. You’re everything, everything. Everything to me. This new edition of the Boston Celtics has been everything to me. I’ve watched this new edition of the Boston Celtics roll through the NBA like an army of steamrollers. I’ve watched Kevin Garnett take this itty bitty city by storm. And he’s just getting warm. What Dollar Bill Simmons neglects to tell you is: Kevin Garnett and the Celtics play lockdown defense. Shockdown defense. Plymouth Rockdown defense. The Lakers ain’t gonna fall on Plymouth Rock, my brothers and sisters, Plymouth Rock is gonna land on them. The best defense in the free world is gonna land on them. Paul Pierce is gonna land on ‘em too. Like my main Winston Curchill always says, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the Truth has a chance to get its pants on.” The Truth has got its pants on now all right. Got his pants on and put this
ballclub on his back. Put this ballclub on his back and carried them to the promised land. Mister I ain’t a boy. No, I’m a man. And I believe in the Promised land. There’s been the emergence of the kids. Rondo and Perk. There’s been the reemergence of Sugar Ray Allen. There have been plenty of reasons to love these Boston Celtics. So while you’re basking in the glory of years gone by, don’t lose sight of the here and now. Just stay right here folks ’cause these are the good old days. 
