But it isn't going to happen, we beat him for years like a dog.
That's a bit of a stretch. The C's knocked his team out of the playoffs twice. His team knocked the C's out of the playoff twice. Seems even to me.
Lol... it took a transcendent performance by our own Paul Pierce (with help from KG and Ray) to knock off King James and his crew of bums back in '08... we beat them by a whole 5 points in Game 7. We came very very close to never winning Banner 17. LeBron's best teammate in those playoffs was Delonte West. Pretty pathetic supporting cast.
When did Ray help? The Cavs shut him down in that series. I think he had like 4 points, off of free throws, in game 7. That series really showed how awful our half court offense was. Cleveland's defense was outstanding, as was ours, but watching us try to score at times was painful, quite honestly. There's no way that that series should have hinged on whether or not PJ Brown makes that critical 15 footer, or when Pierce got the trademark Celtic luck on that free throw. It was always pick and roll, pick and roll, pick and roll, pick and roll, pick and roll, pick and roll...for both teams. It's pathetic.
Don't underestimate Lebron's teammates, either. Yes, Cleveland got all the calls, but there were a number of guys who killed us in that series. After watching what Daniel Gibson had done to Detroit the previous year, and knowing what Delonte was capable of in the big moments, I was extremely nervous. Plus, Ben Wallace allowed them to trap the pick and roll and apply full court pressure, Big Z was a great pick and pop jump shooter as well as a passer, and Joe Smith routinely killed us off the bench. Pavlovic was a tough, gritty player who hit big shots, Varejao flopped as much as his hair and got away with it, but what irritated me the most was the inability to exploit Wally Szczerbiak defensively. At all. Remember, we trailed at the half of game 5 if I'm not mistaken, and it was Rondo who saved us with some huge shots. There was a lot of talent on that team, and that's why I don't buy that we would have beaten them a year later, with or without KG. Posey was gone, our bench was considerably weaker, and they routinely whooped us in Cleveland, even when we had everybody. I think Lebron had 38 in one game and made Pierce look bad, and they had the revenge factor from the previous year. If we had beaten Orlando, we would have been embarrassed in the 2009 Eastern Conference Finals. Without KG, that's a 5 game series - tops. Orlando's strengths were Cleveland's weaknesses, but that was a tight series as well, which is why I really don't understand why people say that Lebron had no help when he was in Cleveland. He did win back to back mvps for a reason, you know. That 2008-09 team, had they not rested everyone against the Sixers in the final home game of that year, could have tied the 86 Celtics record for home court mastery. They finished at 39-2. It was death playing there, and the only team to win at the Q that year was the Lakers, after they had finished sweeping the season series with us, which told me that we wouldn't have beaten them, either. Even in 2010, I thought that we were going to suffer the same fate as the 91 pistons against the Cavs. We were really the underdog in that series, so it shocked me that we defeated them. I guess that I look at things differently, plus I tend to worry a lot haha.
To answer the original question, btw - HELL NO! Lebron a Celtic? I don't even know how or where to start on that one, because the guy is the antithesis of what this franchise has always stood for, imho.
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