Celtics 2024 Playoff Run Thread

[celticinorlando]

Sounds like the Celtics are targeting mid ECF return for KP

[Phantom255x]

I saw this post and quite frankly, I feel the same way:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bostonceltics/comments/1ctvh9w/this_timberwolves_season_reminds_me_of_the_202122/

This Timberwolves' season reminds me of the 2021-22 Celtics team

•was a play-in team the previous season because of injuries

•showed true potential in the regular season by having the league's best defense

•Vibes are great

•Eliminated Kevin Durant's Big 3 by sweeping them

•Took the defending champs to Game 7 in the conference semis

For what it's worth, that Celtics team was my favorite in the Brown-Tatum era but this current team is undoubtedly the better one

And btw. Could the Celtics be the "Golden State" in the scenario, with them having the easier road to the Finals (not much mileage) and having the experience which Minnesota still doesn't have? If MIN wins Game 7, this could be a real parallel.

Also, GSW beat Brunson in the WCF 2022. We could face him next round ECF lol

[radiohead]

Sounds like the Celtics are targeting mid ECF return for KP

Hopefully we’d be at 1-1 at least. Getting 2 games at home would be great though!

[SparzWizard]

Sounds like the Celtics are targeting mid ECF return for KP

Hopefully we’d be at 1-1 at least. Getting 2 games at home would be great though!

Def losing Game 2 lol 

[SCeltic34]

Perhaps the best aspect of this year's team (and our teams in recent years) is that we're a very good road team.  That's not common in the playoffs.  We're 4-0 this year. 

Contrast that to the Knicks-Pacers series, where the home team has won every game.  Even the 2008 Celtics team didn't win a road game until they played the Pistons in the ECF.  If we hadn't won a road game this year, this team would be labelled as mentally weak.  We've had two bad game 2s at home, but I don't see how any fan could reasonably complain about our team's performance in the playoffs so far this year.

This team has what it takes.  If we can play well at home with Porzingis healthy, we'll be hanging banner 18.

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

Sounds like the Celtics are targeting mid ECF return for KP

Hopefully we’d be at 1-1 at least. Getting 2 games at home would be great though!

Def losing Game 2 lol 

lololol

[ozgod]

ESPN's Michael Wilbon doesn't trust the Cs and thinks that a healthy NYK team, or Indiana as is, would beat them. Like probably more than a few of us here he's been scarred by our 18 regular season and 2 playoff losses and doesn't think we can do it. He thinks we're going to choke.

ESPN’s Michael Wilbon said he would pick the New York Knicks to beat the Celtics in a theoretical East finals between the two. That is, if the Knicks were not decimated by injuries.

“If the Knicks were healthy, I would take them to beat the Boston Celtics, who I can’t trust,” Wilbon said on ESPN’s postgame show following the Indiana Pacers and New York’s Game 6 on Friday night. “And they’re not healthy, I’m not even sure if I can take them to beat Indiana.”

https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-celtics/2024/05/18/nba-playoffs-celtics-knicks-eastern-conference-finals-michael-wilbon-comments/?p1=hp_featurestack

[Who]

ESPN's Michael Wilbon doesn't trust the Cs and thinks that a healthy NYK team, or Indiana as is, would beat them. Like probably more than a few of us here he's been scarred by our 18 regular season and 2 playoff losses and doesn't think we can do it. He thinks we're going to choke.

ESPN’s Michael Wilbon said he would pick the New York Knicks to beat the Celtics in a theoretical East finals between the two. That is, if the Knicks were not decimated by injuries.

“If the Knicks were healthy, I would take them to beat the Boston Celtics, who I can’t trust,” Wilbon said on ESPN’s postgame show following the Indiana Pacers and New York’s Game 6 on Friday night. “And they’re not healthy, I’m not even sure if I can take them to beat Indiana.”

https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-celtics/2024/05/18/nba-playoffs-celtics-knicks-eastern-conference-finals-michael-wilbon-comments/?p1=hp_featurestack

If NY were healthy. Not just Anunoby but Randle. M Robinson and Bogdanovic too.

If they were healthy and Boston was without Porzingis, I'd have NY as the favourite in that series. Boston would need Porzingis to beat a healthy Knicks team.