Will Zach Randolph suck tonight?

A lot has been said about Zach Randolph since his start in the NBA. "Isiah is gonna beat his ass for that one," and "Oh look, the Clippers still suck," were two common sentiments. A lot has been asked from him as well. Questions like "What happened to his face?" and "Why did he just take that shot?" were heard often.

Recently however, he has been a force and is showing me and the rest of the naysayers that it was his skill and not a typographical error that got him into the National Basketball Association (though I'm still not 100% convinced). While the Memphis Grizzlies have been on a tear recently, Zandolph has been able to actually be productive and go rebound-crazy. This is certainly not the Gandolph I know and love. What I remember are bounce-passes to his own feet and him putting up more prayers than Vatican Airlines. Not so anymore, the new era of Mandolph has arrived. So are we going to get new-dolph tonight (seen here looking impressive in this season's win against Cleveland):


or old-dolph (seen here sucking at basketball):


Oh Isiah's face is priceless there. Anyways, some of new-dolph's biggest numbers are in the rebounding category. This is a concern, since the Celtics look more like a group of stoners outside a dunkin donuts when the ball hits rim than basketball players. I'm still shocked that Boston Garden security hasn't cited them for loitering. So are the C's going to kick it up a notch, grab their fair share of boards and stop the basketball player who is pretending to be Zach Randolph? We shall see in an hour and a half.