These were our last tickets of the season.  Maybe our last time seeing Ray Allen in Celtics green.  Maybe the last time seeing Doc coaching the C’s.  Not to mention TA.  For sure Thibs is gone.  All these thoughts were hard to suppress while we were watching them play.  It was a fun game to attend – got to watch the Baby and Nate show, while Pierce had another one of his quiet nights captaining the team without much notice, but without him, no W.

On a fun note:  Jeannette’s Grandmother loves Nate Robinson; she always wants him to play because he brings such “spitfire” to the game.  She gets very annoyed with Doc when he doesn’t bring him in when she thinks he should.  When Nate was playing so long tonight, and so well, and we were all jumping and and waving our towels and yelling and screaming – Jeannette turned to her random neighbor seatmate at the Garden and screamed (to be heard above the din): MY GRANDMA LOVES THAT GUY!!!

Also on a fun note:  Our friends Barb & Jon flew out for the game – and even though their visit was short we had a GREAT time with them.  We even broke the seal on our BeerWorks boycott – it had to be done sometime, and why not with great friends?  Please come back soon Barb & Jon!

A little postgame video of Shrek & Donkey for you:

National Anthem:

Sneaky Rondo: 

AAHHHHH!!!!: 

Let Me Hear It!!!!: 

Our Last Starting Line Up We’ll See This Year

Perk: 

Rondo: 

Ray Allen: 

KG: 

The Captain and The Truth!:

Come Back Doc!:

Here we go: 

AND GINO!!!! 

WOOOHHOOO!: 

JFJ’s last game this season: 

Barb & Jon, J & Josh celebrating the W with our own postgame conference: 

We were displeased.

Lakers now up 2-1 in the series.

On a personal note, the 9pm start time is brutal for getting home after the game at a reasonable time to get to bed to be able to work properly the next day.  We rode our bikes to the game as it cuts our commute drastically.  But this definitely takes away from our “digest time”.  Normally we walk home.  This walk either lets us feast on the glory and come down from the high of a good win – or lets us sit (read: walk) and stew and analyze each play where it all wrong.  By the time we get home we have calmed down enough from either the loss or the win to be able to sleep.  Biking home does not allow this, we get home too quick, we don’t talk while we bike, and biking only brings your adrenaline and senses up – not down.  Sleep didn’t come easy after Game 3.

Sane people keep reminding us it is a 7 game series.

Needless to say, we walked over to Fenway Saturday night and enjoyed a low key baseball game on a windy, but nice and temperate, evening.  Red Sox won (1-0).  Our tickets were SRO – we were worried that might be a bit a much after standing all night at the Celtics game the night before, but it worked out just fine.  We really don’t mind SRO at Fenway.  It’s enjoyable.

]]> http://blog.joshandjeannette.com/2010/05/29/red-sox-v-royals/feed/ 0 http://blog.joshandjeannette.com/2010/05/28/eastern-conference-finals-champions-game-6-celtics-v-magic/ http://blog.joshandjeannette.com/2010/05/28/eastern-conference-finals-champions-game-6-celtics-v-magic/#comments Sat, 29 May 2010 03:31:55 +0000 JFJ http://blog.joshandjeannette.com/?p=1462 We didn’t originally plan to attend this game, but after watching the stinker of Game 4 at the Garden and the atrociousness of Game 5 from our couch – we wanted to be back at the Garden for Game 6 and be as loud as we could (who knows if it really helps), to feel like we did our part to help the Celtics.  But we did NOT want to see the C’s lose the series after going up 3-0.   Thankfully, we saw an awesome W (96-84).

Since these weren’t a part of our playoff package tickets we were in different seats.  They were up against the wall – and surprisingly awesome!  Our two seats were right at the end of the stair – no chairs in front of us – so we didn’t have people walking in front of us to get in or out of a row.  In addition, we were able to stand for the entire game (which was preferable for an exciting playoff game like this) and didn’t have to worry about blocking the view of people behind us.  It was awesome.

We only brought the phone camera this game – so the photos aren’t so great, but here is the view down our stairs:

The media crush as the Celtics win and the Eastern Conference Championship trophy is awarded (you can still see Gino in the first photo):

Jeannette’s new shirt for Ray Allen:

We were VERY EXCITED:

We went out and celebrated.  The evening ended in a park eating McD’s with a statue.

Overtime loss, 96-92. We played terrible, they played great.

This was the loudest we have EVER heard the Garden.  The crowd was amazing tonight.  We’re going to leave it at that.  Just two more shots:  The guys in green right before tip off and Ray at halftime.

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We just saw an amazing win (94-71) tonight.

Before some of our pictures – mostly a super charged hype machine full of quotes dogging the Celtics – here is what will be most remembered from Game 3:

We witnessed what may end up being the play of the playoffs. It will definitely be in the Celtics’ highlight reel for decades to come.

It was an amazing night to be in the Garden.

And onto pictures of some warm ups and a shot of their super star…

And the hype machine:

And Paul Pierce’s quotes from the end of Game 2, wanted the crowd to be crazy (which we were!).

And so the Boston portion of the series began:

Score after the 1st quarter:

Score after the 2nd quarter:

Score after the 3rd quarter:

GINO!!!! (With 5 1/2 minutes left to play!) AND Wes Welker got up did the Gino dance!  This is after previously being shown on the Jumbotron, standing and waving for the fans, THEN running in place and doing some jukes, showing the progress on his surgically repaired knee.  So awesome.  Wes doing the full on Gino dance was the icing on the cake!

CELTICS WIN!

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Holy Cannoli.

29 points, 18 rebounds, 13 assists for Rajon.   His 4th playoff triple-double. He has 1 more than Bill Russell now!

The Garden was wicked loud.  KG repeated part of his pre-game ritual at half-time, I think it helped: a 97-87 win.

Tonight Rondo showed his hand.  He had his triple-double before the 4th quarter even started! The crowd was chanting M-V-P for Rondo at the end of the game during his freethrows – and that is new!  It was awesome, made even better because it was in LeBron’s face. There was a girl with an awesome caricature of LBJ with a tear running down his face that the Jumbotron would show every time he would complain to the refs (a billion times over the course of 48+ minutes)  – and towards the end of the game it was joined with a sign that said “A King Without A Ring”. It was awesome. Have I said it was awesome?

Also awesome, care of the Jumbotron folks: after every foul LeBron committed (that got called, that is) he would complain for a bit, and then while lining up for the FT, he would stand and look up and wait for the replay on the Jumbotron, but the Jumbotron guys would only show Lebron in real time staring up, obviously waiting for the replay. He would look down, then look up, look down, then look up, over and over. It was great.

We didn’t bring the nice camera tonight, so just crappy camera phone photos for tonight – but thank goodness we didn’t because someone spilled beer and our bag got soaked.

We did get fun little mini foam fingers!  They even have tiny little finger slots.  Super cute.

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When you go to so many games, you get to witness history.

We saw Game 5 of the 2008 ALCS.  “The comeback of the Red Sox from a seven-run deficit is the second-biggest in postseason history, the largest since Game 4 of the 1929 World Series, and the largest ever for a team on the brink of elimination.” (Thanks Wikipedia)

We saw Rondo pass Cousy for the most assists in a season (Celtics record).

OK, I’m struggling to finish this post – (I just want to move on and forget this game already) so maybe I’ll come back and fill in the other random history we’ve witnessed at a later date.

But tonight we witnessed the worst playoff home loss in Celtics history.  (124-95).  It was brutal.  No defense.  And LeBron put on a Try-Out performance for Jay-Z’s team, as he was in attendance with Beyonce – dressed like it was a Lakers game.  Blech.

We thought we still had chance here (at tip-off):

Jay-Z and Beyonce for LeBron’s try out:

A little reminder to us that we have had it good:

It’s sad when a highlight of the night is getting to see our old friend Leon play… for the other team… in garbage time.