« Reply #45 on: February 05, 2024, 10:29:56 AM »
Denver were an up and coming team. Made a surprise run to the WCF in 2020 and lost. Then had two injury hit years where Jamal Murray did not play at all in the playoffs and MPJ did not play in one of them. They lost while their co-stars where injured. Then they won the title the first year their team was healthy.
Jokic won his first MVP in 2021. Again in 2022. The two injury hit years. Title in 2023. First healthy year.
Sure, but we're one buzzer-beater bouncing out from having a very similar discussion about the Embiid Sixers, and that's the point: that the narratives are often crafted after the fact.
And would that Sixers team have been significantly different, mentality-wise, such that we wouldn’t have blown them out in second half of game 7 last year? If that Sixers team is a recent champion, do people give the Celtics more credit for winning in big games?
And that’s why I don’t buy the mentality arguments at all. In the last two playoffs, they’re 3-1 in game 7s, including victories over the defending champs, the Eastern Conference champs from two seasons earlier, and these Sixers, who are sometimes hailed as being a bounce away from champions.
Agreed.
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