Celts "Coast" Into Round Two

Well, it wasn't the cake-walk we all thought it would be, but the C's made a convincing case for their worthiness by eviscerating the lowly Hawks 99-65 at the Garden on Sunday.

The scale of the rout was so epic that it doesn't even merit a player-by-player accounting. This was a team-on-team blow-out, with most of the New Big Three cooling their heels during the garbage-time second half.

Will this little scare spur them on to put the pedal to the metal on the road in Cleveland? I think it just might.