"Glen Davis referred to him by his full name, almost as if he were a different person.

"Rasheed Wallace came.''

After watching Wallace miss 4 of 5 shots in the Eastern Conference semifinal opener against Cleveland and accumulating the team's lowest plus-minus (-20) in the postseason, the Celtics were calling on their most prominent offseason addition.

His answer was immediate.

Wallace knocked down his first five shots last night, and when the ball went long off the back iron after he pulled his sixth, he kicked at the hardwood, hopping mad as he went back the other way. He was expecting perfection, even if the outside world had written him off as a bust.

Wallace finished with 17 points on 7-of-8 shooting, going 3 of 4 from the 3-point line, a shot that abandoned him most of a the regular season. He said nothing after the game, letting the numbers — and his teammates — talk for him."