Despite Blowout Loss and Injuries, Celtics Still Optimistic for Game 7

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LOS ANGELES -- The Celtics have less than two days to somehow wash off a most humiliating defeat. As for Glen Davis, it took him about two minutes.



After Tuesday night's game, the Boston center was sitting at his locker with his head buried in his hands. Then he stumbled to the shower.



There must have been healing powers in the water.



When Davis came back, it was as if Boston's 89-67 defeat to the Lakers, which left the NBA Finals tied 3-3, never happened. Davis even offered what sure sounded like a guarantee for victory in Thursday's Game 7, also at the Staples Center.



"We'll come to play,'' he said. "We'll compete, and we'll be there at the end holding the trophy up.''



One could say Davis is being delusional. Gumby would have been more aggressive Tuesday than any of these other guys in green had just been.



The Celtics were outrebounded 52-39, including 30-13 in the first half when they looked shell-shocked for a while that starting center Kendrick Perkins had been lost for the game with 5:30 left in the first quarter due to a sprained right knee.

 

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