(05-26-2024, 10:17 AM)The Jom Wrote: Celtics have 2 bigs. Of those, 1 is made of glass and currently out with an injury. The other is 37 years old (and only 6-9 anyway). Our bigs sprint down the court on every single offensive possession, while our guards look to hit them from 3/4 court distance. So if they station their guys in the corner on offense, they’d better be ready to sprint full court about, what, 60+ possessions per game? And do so at equal or better speed than our guys. Which I’m not sure they could ever do, even young and healthy.
When I was 16, in small-town western Kansas, during the off season we’d play ball in the HS gym on Saturday mornings. The coaches would play against us. The principal, the superintendent, a couple teachers, and a couple of guys from the community. Grown ass men. Some of them were better than us. They were definitely bigger. I remember my older brother huddling us up and telling us we were gonna run every single time we touched the ball. No matter what. Turnover. Missed shots. Doesn’t matter. We were gonna run their old asses right off the court. So we did. After about 10 minutes, we were the only ones running. Layup after layup. Till they quit. We played half court after that.
Will the Celtics have a counter move? Probably. They’re watching the same thing we are. And they’ll have a week off to come up with a game plan. But Minnesota is the deepest big team of all, and we’re running them right off the court. (See Towns, Karl-Anthony.) So how is Boston gonna protect their 2 compromised bigs?
1. Let´s finish the Wolves first. They tend to play much better on the road.
2. You all put way too much into how the Celtics have looked in these play-offs.
They were the best (?) team of all-time based on regular season pt. differential. They played in the weaker conference to begin with, and in each series the other team literally was missing their best player for at least half the series, plus more injuries to other starters. This would be like us in the West play-offs and playing the Clippers without Kawhi, the Thunder without SGA, the Wolves without Edwards after they beat the Nuggets without Jokic. This East is an epic shitshow. It´s like a G-League All-Star festival vs. the Celtics. This means absolutely nothing to me, except that the Celtics will be 100% healthy and rested.
The lowest seeded team we have played in the better conference was 4th. The highest seeded team they have played was the 4th seed, who also missed their starting C for the whole series and their best player for 40% of the series. Luka can barely focus, when he´s up a single game in a series against serious opposition, so how must the Celtics feel.
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