The Celtics Hold Serve

Tonight in Boston, the home team got separation in the third quarter and made it hold in the fourth. They've won the Too Tired game, just 48 hours after surviving LeBron, and it's 1-0 Celtics after an 88-79 win.

If the Pistons lose this series, they'll be able to look back to Game One, where they just seemed flat. When they don't have good energy, they turn the ball over and don't get loose balls themselves, and that's more or less what happened tonight.

If you are a Celtics fan, you can't be entirely confident following this game. While Kevin Garnett ate Rasheed Wallace's lunch, and Paul Pierce was able to be effective even in the face of Tayshaun Prince's defense, the game was still close late on a night when the best Piston might have been Antonio McDyess. (And no, Dice wasn't that great.) For the home team to win so many matchups and yet still have to sweat out a home game in the fourth quarter, that's not a great sign. The Pistons didn't play their A game, and yet they were still within striking range for most of the fourth.

If you're a Pistons fan, you're wondering where your experienced and effective backcourt of Hamilton and Billups was tonight, and whether Good Sheed will show up soon. But when the winner of Game 1 wins 79% of the series, any loss is a bad one. If the Pistons don't win Game 2, I'm going to regret picking them to win the series.