Paul Pierce was excellent. KG was solid. Ray Allen did his thing. And Leon Powe was incredible. Aside from the lazy 4th quarter, the Celtics look sharp as a tack. I didn't think they'd look this good in Game 2. And I thought the Lakers would take over the series by now; and they did ... just about 2 minutes too late. So far, I still think the Celtics need to work on putting away the game in the 4th quarter throughout a series. They should have known better that Kobe wasn't going to lay down and die easy.
Speaking of Kobe, he's back to his natural state. It took a while - after getting his MVP award, and easily handling the Western Conference; but he's finally here. The spoiled jerk that thinks he's above the game of basketball, and that the referees have to bow down to him. He's back with his cheap shots to the head and pretending like he's so innocent once he gets caught. He's back to yelling at his teammates. The same Kobe that ran Shaq out of town.
We all should have known better than to believe all that "he's learned his lesson" and "he's changed" stuff. The real you always comes to light in adversity. We will now see what he's really learned being down 2-0 in the NBA Finals. The only problem is that it might be too late. Kobe might be the MVP of the league, but I think the MVP of the Finals (Paul Pierce that is) will have something to say about that.