The Celtics remain tough to beat at the New Boston Garden, they took a 2-0 series lead against the Celtics last night with a 108 - 102 victory. Up by 24 at one point the Celtics squandered a comfortable lead by were able to hold on in the final seconds thank to clutch free throws and a huge block by Paul Pierce on a Sasha Vujacic three pointer. Despite Pierces last second heroics, it was an unlikely set of hero's that fueled the home team to victory.
Leon Powe is the epitome of work man he battles for boards dives on the floor for loose balls and is always there to do the dirty work a very overlooked quality now a days. He answered the call on the scoring end last night exploding for 21 points in only 15 minutes of action, with a Celts bench not usually known for helping with the scoring load this was instrumental to the win. Rajon Rondo was also the catalyst for the offense the entire night, while only scoring four points he dishes out 16 dimes while only having 2 turnovers. Rondo also pulled down 6 boards had 2 steals and 1 block. Powe and Rondo were the x factor that the Lakers could not match. It is widely accepted the being more comfortable in your own arena allows your role players to perform better and that may be the case so far in this series as the Lakers bench has been unable to provide the spark and sustainability it did in previous series. Or maybe the younger bench of the Lake Show are just getting out the jitters. Either way if the Celtics keep getting big contributions from their "the other 9" it looks like there wont be much show time in LA.
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