And Somehow I Now Feel Let Down

It was a very good game, but not transcendent like the last three. It went the way very good games usually do; both teams kept fighting, but a small lead in the last two minutes has a way of becoming an inevitability, as the desperate measures required to cut into that lead with limited time inevitably fail more often than they succeed, which compounds the problem, which is how a five point game turns into a ten-point loss. As a Celtic fan I'm happy, but as a basketball fan this wasn't nearly the chest-tightening brain-scrambling emotion-effervescing experience the series deserved as a final act. Still one of the greatest series of all time and probably the best I've personally seen.

Side note: whenever possible, the production staff for sporting events like to come up with cutesy names for their informational bubbles, playing off the names of athletes or their teams. Tonight there was a statistical bubble entitled: "Bull-iant Play," or something like that, with the heavily forced pun on "Bull-iant" for "Brilliant." I instantly thought that there was a much better pun they left on the table, for virtue of being less forced: "E-Bull-ient Play," which actually would be spelled exactly like the word being evoked, but then I realized that 85% of the viewing audience would have no fucking idea what "ebullient" meant.