Well, it didn’t take long for things to get back to normal in Boston. Celtics fans are chanting “Honey Nut Cheerios” as the Celtics play the Knicks in Game 6 of their playoff series. It’s of course directed toward Carmelo Anthony, and it’s so totally tasteless and wrong. And funny.

After the New York media had spent the previous week singing his praises, hailing him a changed man, he goes and gets ejected/possibly suspended for Game 4. Once a pipe layer, always a pipe layer. Details after the jump.

To say the Boston Celtics have been struggling on offense over the past two days is an understatement. Sure, two playoff games on the road against a good, motivated team like the Knicks isn’t a great sample to draw from, but the Celtics are averaging 74.5 points in those games — 22 points less than their regular season average. They shot 19 percent from the field in the second half last night. We haven’t seen offense that bad in over a decade. What’s the deal?

J.R. Smith’s juiced for the playoffs, and he’s expressing it through the classical art of Slam-Dunkery. Truly magnificent. The pipe master is laying it this afternoon off the bench, as the Knicks and Celtics engage in a cat-and-mouse, back-and-fourth type contest. We’ll keep you updated if he tweets or texts something raunchy.

Sometimes business gets in the way of pleasure.

The Knicks are on fire right now, and punishing the KG and Rondo-less Celtics from beyond the arc. First half alone they hit 11 of 17 triples. Carmelo has 18 already, and the red hot J.R. Smith is handing out the pipe. In an ironic twist, Mr. Smith has 11 points at the half, none of which have come from three. In fact, he hasn’t even attempted one yet. Apparently his new strategy of getting to the rim is for real, because the old J.R. would be on this 3-point train like a boxcar hobo running from some lady he just stole a pie from.

If you care about long regular season winning streaks in basketball, you missed an important thing.

Seriously: you missed an insane night of basketball.

As the saying goes, fool me once, Shane on you. Fool me twice, Shane on me. Both videos after the jump.