Dew,
Since you love to handicap things, how would you have handicapped the possibility of a Celtic line-up of Glenn Davis, Tony Allen, Rasheed Wallace, Nate Robertson and Ray Allen going up against the Lakers first unit and losing (by eight, at one point, I think) in the 4th Quarter, taking over the game and leading the Celtics to victory?
That's got to be the ballsiest move ever by a coach in the championship finals of an NBA playoff. (And really, in a do-or-die situation for the Celtics.) Rivers kept, arguably, his three best players--and two certain Hall of Famers--on the bench for most of the 4th Quarter. Whatever the outcome of the series, you've got to give Doc Rivers his due.
Bladerunner