I hope he plays and he plays, I want the Celtics to win this series with no excuses or asterisks for the Bulls.
I'll take a win any way I can get it. If Rondo sitting gives us an advantage, that's just fine with me.
I find it funny that everyone on this thread is either a "greenteamer" or "hater." Here are the facts: With Rondo, they beat us twice. Without Rondo, they lost to us twice. Yes, I know that their role players looked like Michael Jordan. That's because we let them. And while IT's sister weighed on the Celtics heavily, IT was the only one who actually showed up for that first game.
I'm rooting hard for this team but am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I'm a realist. As far as I'm concerned, there is no question in my mind that Rondo made a big difference in the first two games. This idea that we have fixed all our problems and would swat aside a healthy Bulls team is inconsistent with what I have seen so far. Our team has been playing boom or bust all year and, until the Bulls' hottest player got injured, looked like it was in bust mode.
Mike