You Gotta Beat Somebody Before It's a Rivalry

I'll give the Knicks and Amare some credit. They played well against a team that has our starting center, his back up and the back up to to our back up on the bench. You think Amare would be able to dunk whenever the fuck he wanted with Shaq or Perkins in the paint? Nope. Somebody would be flattened on the hardwood. There's no doubt New York is improved and they'll probably be able to hang out around with the good teams in the league but that's where the story ends. They can hang with the big boys but they can't beat the big boys. Celts were behind all night until it was grown man business time and Sugar Ray remembered what it felt like to light up Madison Square Garden. But let's get to the real important part. Is Paul Pierce one of the most clutch players of all time? There wasn't a doubt in my mind he was going to score. You give him 12 seconds on the clock and that's just enough time for him to dribble, spin and step back to the corner key for his sweet spot. Pierce and Kobe are the only guys you say "Oh shit" when they have the ball in their hands and the clock winding down