Killing Dinosaurs

Being the esoteric loafer that I am, my love for ruminating on the concept of *team* has been pretty well expressed in these postings. With the Celtics this season we've all been talking about how the sum of the parts is obviously more than just the individual pieces. That was clear again this afternoon. Everybody is just so together on the team. This is most beautifully revealed on the defensive end, which we could all wax poetic about. Gorman said during the broadcast that the current group is the best Celtics' defensive team he's seen in twenty seven years, and who can argue with him? Team defense like this will just fuck up other teams. Sedition, baby. Tom Thibodeau is gonna get a medal before this is all through.

In contests like today's, individual stats glean little. No player really stood out offensively - and it mattered none at all. Again the absence of Ray was unfelt. Ubuntu is occurring, and it's ineffable. Special props to Posey at the end there, he was fucking out of sight, singlehandedly stopping the Raptors from scoring like five times in a row. Marvelous stuff...