Considering 0- Awful on the Road

This about expresses it for me.  “What???? Are you stinkin’ kidding?!”  I saw a few things:

1. Inability to keep Cleveland off the offensive boards.  This gave Cleveland too many 2nd chance points.

2. Inability to take care of the ball, particularly under pressure- leading to easy buckets.

3. Horrible officiating.  They made bad calls against both teams, but the sheer number of calls went against the Celtics.  LeBron took more FTs than the whole Celtics team.  It was free throws that kept Cleveland in the game in the first half before they went on that run to end the half.

4. Doc was smart to play House, dumb to play Davis.  House kept the Celtics in the game replacing a tentative Rondo (all those horrible whistles don’t help a guy be aggressive though).  I lost track of the number of times Big Baby was blocked underneath, or at least seemed unable to finish under the hoop.  Where was Powe?  Just because Davis played well in Game 5 doesn’t mean he’s going to play well in Game 6.

These are not the Celtics of my youth, so I don’t care about what Celtic teams of the past have done when up 2-0 in a series.  Irrelevant because Russell, Hondo, Bird etc. are not playing on this team.  Yeah, these guys have pretty much dominated at home.  So why can’t they dominate on the road?  Is it the officiating?  Are they replaced by look-alikes who can’t play?

Defensively, we can’t pay attention to the little change of direction LeBron makes while driving to the rim.  If you move your feet, it WILL be a blocking foul.  If you STAY PUT and he creates contact above the circle- it is a charge.  That move alone was killing us.