Playing the Pacers is like riding a mechanical bull. With every buck, you have to counter by shifting your weight over and over again. Once false move could make you lose your balance and knock you off.
However, in keeping with the analogy, the Celtics might actually be a real bull, one that could gore you with real horns.
In Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals, Boston played bully ball in Indiana’s china shop.
“When you play in the chaos, you have to embrace the chaos,” Joe Mazzulla said after his team won the points in the paint battle 54-36 and grabbed thirteen offensive rebounds.