17 field goals. SEVENTEEN. That’s all the Miami Heat — as a team — could must after four quarters of basketball last night in Boston. They finished 17-59, although, they were without Shawn Marion, who is out with back-spasms and Dwyane Wade, who’s out for the season.

Seven… I say, seventeen son (Foghorn Leghorn)… or only four more than David West had last night against the Raptors. In the Warriors/Mavericks game and Josh Howard and Monta Ellis combined to make 26 out of 51 baskets.

How bad is your team when two players in another game can out-shoot the nine players Pat Riley used in Heat/Celtics game?

Oh wait, he was watching college basketball. I guess he’s not to blame. Moving on.

The game was so bad, not one of the Celtics big three played longer than 25 minutes. A normal NBA game is, of course, 48. This means the Heat were so very bad, the Celtics only needed their starters for what amounts to one half of basketball.

Futility, a state that’s captured brilliantly in this photo of Ricky Davis, captures all that needs to be said about Miami’s effort quite nicely:

Paul Pierce summed it up thusly, “They got D-Leaguers out there, so I think we just handled our business.”

Tags: Boston Celtics, Exercises In Futility, Just Bad, Miami Heat, Seventeen Shots

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