Bulls Won't Go Down To Boston's Bullies Too Easily

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Kevin Garnett can snarl, growl and bark all he wants. He still isn't playing in this series, and every time I see a camera cut to Garnett channeling his inner primal beast, my hope is that his knee buckles and someone takes him to a locker room far, far away.

Is that wrong to feel that way? Probably. But aren't you sick of so much attention to a player who is dressed in clothes I couldn't afford if someone quadrupled my pay.

In the end, the Celtics escaped with a 106-104 overtime victory in a game they had no business winning. Sure, Brad Miller (an 82 percent free-throw shooter) missed a pair late while Rajon Rondo got away with a blatant flagrant foul ... but it should have never came down to that.

The Bulls blew an 11-point fourth quarter lead in a game in which Ben Gordon played 50 minutes that normally he wouldn't have played, scoring 26 points on 6-of-21 shooting from the field and 11-for-12 from the charity stripe.

In the end, the Bulls' biggest shortcoming wasn't their lack of a big man. As usual, it was the lack of a strong coach, who failed to realize that Paul Pierce was slashing away as he scored 15 of his 26 points in the fourth quarter, including the game-winning shot over John Salmons.

Now, all the Bulls can do is re-group for Game 6 in Chicago.