Celtics in for a Game 7 screamer

By Brendan Hall
Fan Fanatic Sports Staff

Voicemail from one of my college roommmates, a diehard Lakers fan, after the Celtics lost Game 6 to the Hawks: "Hey, HEY hey, where you watching Game 7 homey? Where you watching? Ahhhh-hahahaha!"

Text from said former roommate: "Where you watching Game 7?"

Stupor-induced cat-call from across the bar by another old UMass buddy, Brookline resident and San Diego transplant, Vaughn: "Good one, Red. Lakers, baby. LAY-kers."

Everyone seems to be enjoying this seven-game, first-round, modern-day Othello except us Celtics fans. For the fourth time in six games, Game 6 went into extra frames -- this time three overtimes -- before the Chicago Bulls snuck away with a 128-127 victory, before a raucous United Center crowd and a plethora of half-nervous/half-angry Boston faithful watching from big screens all over the 617 area code.

Unlike that Hawks series last year, where you knew the Big Three were going to come out of the gates steaming mad and take control form the get-go, I feel like the ball is in Chicago's court. The Bulls could totally take this Game 7 by double-digits, and the viewing public would no longer be shocked. The Bulls have been shocking the establishment for the past two games, and now they've got nothing to lose in this final act of the series.

Should KG give it a go? I'm not going to cling to my crazy theory from Game 5, but at this point I'll take a wounded Tony Battie. Heck, I'll take Vitaly Potapenko, Eric Montross, Stojko Vrankovic, anybody at this point. The C's starting rotation needs some help, in the most desperate way.

That's all I got for now. More to come this afternoon.