Glen Big Baby Davis and the Celtics Bench Crushed the Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers got a bigger problem now to face and it’s bigger than Andrew Bynum’s knee injury problem. It is the Boston Celtics bench not the starters, that will probably will give more headaches to the Lakers as the series is now tie 2 games a piece. The Celtics defeated the Lakers 96-89 with a big help coming from its bench players who have superb job in the game that coach Doc Rivers doesn’t bother to put them in longer playing time in the fourth quarter of the 2010 NBA Finals at TD Arena, Boston.

The bench onslaught of the Lakers started in the fourth quarter when the Lakers lead 62-60 as the final quarter starts. Doc Rivers gave his starters except for Ray Allen, a rest for the final quarter and tell them to get ready when things come up different when he deploys his bench players. So it was, a great bench scoring barrage started to hurt the Lakers, that Rivers didn’t bother to deploy his starters on the game who became cheerleaders at the courtside. The bench did all the hustle that was mostly with Glen Davis, Rasheed Wallace, Nate Robinson and Tony Allen that extended their lead in the fourth quarter. The Celtics bench had outscored the Laker’s 36-18 in which 10 of Lakers bench points came from Lamar Odom who played at center after Andrew Bynum did not came back to play in the second half due to sore knee. Even Garnett and Pierce had only joined in the game when it was already 2:51 left.

But the big difference was all Glen Big Baby Davis that had done so much damage to the Lakers hope of making the series 3-1. Davis played more than 22 minutes in the game scoring 18 points, grab 5 rebounds and was 4 of 4 in the free throw line. It was Davis’ star who outshined the All-Stars in the game. Even Kobe Bryant’s game-high 33 points and Paul Gasul 21 points failed to outshine the hustle and energy that Davis impact on the game.

Game 5 will again be played in the TD Garden, Boston, Sunday, and it is a now a 3-game series and is still a long way to the 2010 NBA Title. Lakers have less than 48 hours to make a plan to stop the Davis onslaught. If the Lakers win in Game 5 the pressure is on the Celtics but if a game like Game 4 happens in Game 5, then the pressure in on the Lakers going on their home.