Okay, as I said when the "Heat" led by 26 in the second quarter of G3, this one's over. And I say it tonight with zero fear of lightning striking me. This series, Boston's previous series, but both teams this series, it is, and they are, disgraces to the Association.
NBA basketball is structurally complex: there are 10 moving parts at a time on a too-small rectangle, two string-masters, lots of strategy. But the swings, intragame, intergame, in this series are reminder that however much you gin it up, basketball is still a simple game: you throw this ball into that hoop with the strings hanging off it. It is not an 80-piece orchestra, the production is not a symphony, and the string-master is no maestro. All of the strategy in an NBA game, the elaborate weaving and passing, the picks, the switches, zone or man--none of it matters unless you can put this ball in that hoop. The wild swings are not evidence of complexity, they are evidence of incompetence at the simple. This series is not what professionals worthy of the label do, it is juvenilia; these coaches are not genius savants, you don't get flummoxed by one Williams rather than the other, by White rather than Brown, by Adebayo finally going Bam when all anybody was talking about before G3 was "What's wrong with Bam?"
No, the coaches are not geniuses and these players are no more professional, and with the same level of emotional immaturity, without the excuse of excessive youth, as 15-16 year old Rocket Leaguers. It is embarrassment that one of these teams will win and become one of the two best in the Association. G'night, I'm done.
