Boston is a serious sports town, and the Boston media handles things quite well. So it was good to see that they did not make a big to-do out of the Cavs dancing on the bench in the fourth quarter of Sunday's blowout. Ray Allen didn't like it, but I really feel it was just the Cavs enjoying their season as it winds down and come playoff time this team will be ready to go. And it will handle itself in a professional manner on and off the court.
As Paul Pierce said: "I mean, it was good to win and that's what they did. Hopefully, we'll get a chance to see them again in the playoffs. But I don't have nothing to say about that, they're enjoying it, they're having a good time."
Good for him.
The Boston Globe barely mentioned it, and Mark Murphy of the Boston Globe wrote it this way:
"The Celtics can't complain too much. Back home, they have Dancing Gino to rub it in on the vanquished. In Cleveland, they have Rick Astley. By the end of yesterday's 107-76 loss to the Cavaliers, the Celtics were treated to all sorts of indignities."
I'll post Gino in a few minutes here. All it is is a guy from back in the day shimmying to the BeeGees. The Celtics played it when a game was in hand, and though it had to be irritating to the losing team, I don't remember anyone complaining about it.
Ray Allen said this yesterday about the Cavs dancing while sitting on the bench: "I'm always going to remember that. If I beat a team, as happy as I may be in victory, I'm always going to stay humble. When you're going up there's always a team going down. When you play on bad teams you see it another way. We play each other too much (for this). Those are just great motivational thoughts for me."
But other than Allen, the Celtics didn't complain.
Steve Bulpett wrote in the Herald: "The Celts shrugged off the slap, knowing they're among the NBA's more demonstrative celebrators. Yesterday, they were a bug on the Cavaliers' windshield. They didn't have anything to play for – and they played that way."
Amen.
