I feel like Capela makes Boston the team to beat in the East.
East is wide open. No top teams in the East. Boston are right there already. Adding a guy like good solid big man like Capela could give them that little extra to move them ahead of the pack.
Um, I like the Green kool-aid as much as about anyone, but the Bucks are historically good this year. Doesn’t mean they’re unbeatable, but to call the East wide open and without any top teams is, well, outside of reality.
Acquiring Capela without giving up a key player would likely move the Celtics to a different tier than the Raptors, Heat, Sixers, and Pacers, but in no way propels them to “top team in the East” status.
The Bucks are a "historically good" regular season team. That does not mean they will be a historically good postseason team.
They were a historically good regular season team last year too when they lost to a very good but unexceptional Toronto team.
That they got a lot to prove.
60 wins is not “historically good”. It’s very good, a team that would be considered one of the favorites, but in an elite class amongst the teams throughout history. Their net rating of 8.6 last year was once every 2-3 seasons good, but again not insurmountable.
This year’s team is on pace to be a top 3-5 team of all-time. It has taken a significant step forward from last year’s squad. It is historically good. Sure, it’s future has yet to be written, but to say that the conference is wide open and has no good teams, when one team will probably win the conference by 10 games... I’m really just speechless at this point.
A Capela trade with Kanter as the main outgoing salary has the potential to move them from the teams in the group of 2-6 beneath Milwaukee into the clear #2 on its own, but that’s it. It’s an improvement, and would increase the Celtics’ chance to get through the Bucks in the playoffs, but Milwaukee would remain the prohibitive favorite.