MacGregor is another Globe guy who cheerleads and gives a slanted, 1-sided report, as you have, along with most others, picked up on.

He is more lapdog than watchdog.

Ott is wholly underserving of being here, the final 4, though good for them for taking advantage of a strange playoff format that had the better teams go at it early in the playoffs, allowing a scrap team like Ott to weasel through to the east finals.

MacGregor has not mentioned this, not in his DNA to be the contrarian.