With the Boston Celtics staring down a Game 7 in Miami after a team-wide implosion on their home court put them there, Derrick White said it best: “I mean, we’re frustrated, but if it was easy, it wouldn’t be us.”
White had every right to be frustrated. He was, of course, just the latest Celtic in what was becoming a long line of them over the course of the Eastern Conference Finals to put together a great, complete performance, only to watch it slip away thanks to mistake after mistake down the stretch of the game.