The Celtics defense experienced Pavlovian Conditioning tonight. In the second and third quarters they tried to play tight defense, and got constant foul calls against them. Some of the fouls that the Celtics committed where dumb, others where in the normal course of the game, and a couplewhere B.S. fouls. The combination of all those foul calls conditioned the Celtics to fear playing tight defense which resulted in a lack of defensive intensity in the 4th quarter and many open shots for the Pistons. That being said, the Celtics have only themselves to blame for tonights loss. Allowing Billups that easy lay up with less than minute to go in the game and only 3 seconds left on the shot clock was horrible. 
        Ray Allen finally had a good night with 25 points, but Rondo had the opposite with 10 points on 2-9 shooting. Now the Celtics must win a game on the road to survive; They are going to need their role players to step up and they are going to need to not make it easy for the refs to give them a bunch of fouls. The Pistons like to do a lot of up-fakes and it seemed like the Celtics fell for all of them tonight which resulted in all the foul calls especially in the third quarter.