But the Celtics' defense denied Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire any opportunity to beat them, forcing the Knicks to rely on their shaky supporting cast.
Stoudemire worked for three days to get back on the court after pulling a back muscle in Game 2. His treatment will resume Saturday, but Stoudemire said he would not be fully recovered by Game 4. If the Knicks are to salvage the series, it will be up to Anthony and the Knicks' shaky supporting cast.
The Miami Heat and the Cleveland Cavaliers, the East champions of the past two years, have the inverse problem: elite stars surrounded by shaky supporting casts.
Mother smiled at the slumping, soggy cake, topped with eight lurid pineapple slices, most of them with a cherry in the middle, two with candles, and, on the sloping side, "MOTHER" spelled out in shaky worm-cast piping, with scrolls and roses around it.
Aside from 17 points from forward Tangela Smith, Sacramento's supporting cast was shaky.
A "British tourist" giving his name as James Bonar was featured on national television dishing out effusive praise for "wonderful" Azerbaijan, but his shaky command of English cast doubt on his authenticity, leaving some to question whether he'd been used prop to promote the games.
Take The Blair Witch Project, the lodestone of the modern found-footage genre (after Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust), which never broke from its then innovative point-of-view format, even when the screamy cast and shaky handheld aesthetic threatened to try the audience's patience.
"Proof" comes in many forms, from fuzzy photographs and shaky videos to plaster casts of footprints and tufts of hair.
It's pretty clear that even the cast have a shaky grasp of the offside rule, and the goals are mostly scored with a ball on a stick.
It was hard to assess the quality of Blitzstein's ensemble writing given the spotty quality of the Bronx Opera's cast and some shaky musical togetherness.
