MIAMI \u2014 The facts of postseason life were turned inside-out by the Heat Sunday. One team lacked cohesion and trust, and it wasn\u2019t Miami.<\/p>\n
Was it arrogance or uncertainty that undid the Celtics throughout their 99-90 Game 1 loss?<\/p>\n
All they knew was that Paul Pierce (19 points and four turnovers) had himself thrown out the game after being outsmarted by Dwyane Wade<\/strong> with seven minutes remaining in the game.<\/p>\n Pierce<\/strong> made two mistakes uncharacteristic of a future Hall-of-Famer who should know better. Just 59 seconds before his ejection.<\/p>\n Wade<\/strong> and Jones <\/strong>(25 efficient points) had dumped the Celtics in a deep 87-74 hole at the time of Pierce\u2019s ensuing run-in with Wade<\/strong>, which makes Pierce\u2019s<\/strong> ejection less the cause and more a symptom of Boston\u2019s opening-game downfall. Wade<\/strong> was running the baseline defensively when he bore through a Pierce<\/strong> screen. Referee Ed Malloy <\/strong>instantly called double technicals on both stars, and then pointed Pierce<\/strong> to the locker room.<\/p>\n \u201cI was trying to get through a screen,\u2019\u2019 said Wade<\/strong>. \u201cI ran through it. He (Pierce<\/strong>) followed me. Paul <\/strong>had some words for me and the referee thought it was a little too much.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MIAMI \u2014 The facts of postseason life were turned inside-out by the Heat Sunday. One team lacked cohesion and trust, and it wasn\u2019t Miami. Was it arrogance or uncertainty that undid the Celtics throughout their 99-90 Game 1 loss? All they knew was that Paul Pierce (19 points and four turnovers) had himself thrown out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}