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The Cleveland Cavaliers '120-88 loss to the Boston Celtics Tuesday night, the biggest point-margin loss in a home playoff game in team history.A couple of players need not hang their heads. Shaquille O'Neal has tried his best to turn the clock back and be a potent force. Anthony Parker worked hard and had some success when he was assigned to cover Rajon Rondo. Zydrunas Ilgauskas played 14 1 / 2 minutes, and the Celtics scored only 14 points - less than one per minute - in the stretch. Anderson Varejao, but maybe not 100 percent with a sore back, had some jerk in his patented energy.Let's give the Celtics their due. They executed their offense and played stifling defense. Of course, the Cavaliers helped them accomplish both tasks. Let's try to pin it down. Who, or what, was most to blame for the Cavaliers' 32-point loss in one of the most important games in franchise historHuh? Mike Brown only gets 32% of the vote for this humiliation? The guy has a 100 Million dollars worth of athletes and the leagues MVP for the last 2 years while this is the exact same team the Celtics fielded 2 years ago other than Rasheed Wallace. Mike Brown has been out coached every year in the playoffs and has made a career out of riding Lebron's coat tails. This will all be proven after he is fired as coach of the Cavs and then has to coach a team where his coaching skills, and lack there of will be tested.