I definitely do have a kind of "playing with house money" feeling now that we are in the finals. I suspect that will change once the games start.
I truly believe we have a decent chance to win this. It is hard to gauge how good GSW are right now as they have only recently gotten all of Curry, Thompson, and Green back on the court together. Klay Thompson missed 50 games, Green 36, Curry 18, and they still managed to win 53 games.
I concede that GSW has the experience, the star power, and probably the coach, over us but I don't see GSW as any better than say MIL, even considering that Middleton was out. Or at least not that much better. I take Giannis over Curry and Holiday over Thompson.
We probably need to play better or more consistently than we played against MIL and MIA to beat GSW. But I think that upside is there, especially in terms of consistency. We played at times like a young team having trouble handling the bigness of the moment. Other times, we played like a really good young team with a world of confidence.
My hope is that the Celtics take a nothing to lose attitude as a way to deal with the pressure. The underdog, the team no one expected to be there. Not expected to win. But I think we will see the same pattern. Play loose, win a game, start thinking holy sh1t, we could win a title, tighten up, loose a game, rinse, repeat.