Sometimes I wonder if people actually read the post - or just gloss over it and then fire away at the poster.
I never once said we are the best in the league at every position, I didn't even scare that comment.
What I did say was "I am comfortable" going up against any team at any position with the team we currently have in Boston - especially if Jeff Green is 100% healthy this season.
We could have injuries because we're old - so could every other title contending team. Bosh and Bynum are glass, Howard is coming off back surgery, Wade off Knee surgery coming off Knee surgery, Kobe and LeBron have a lot of hard miles on them for their ages, Nash is 38 and Pau 33 and showing real signs of slippage, far more than Pierce and Garnett.
I truly do not consider my post fantasy land, at all. But around mid season of last year I also thought we had a real shot at getting to the finals largely because of how gritty our current team is.
We were completely beat up AND exhausted from lack of depth last year and were one game away form the finals.
We're adding Lee, Bradley, Jet, Jeff Green, Wilcox, Sully and Collins to that "crap of a Boston team we saw play against Miami a couple months ago.
Yeah, we have absolutely no shot this year - none. Why don't I just stick my head in the sand now and call it a day. I'm sure that's what KG, Pierce and Rondo are doing - 100%.
Wade was guarded by a 37 year old Ray Allen with completely banged up ankles last year. Will his effectiveness being altered at all by having Courtney Lee and Bradley hawking him for 48? I would say very much so.
Will LeBron being affected at all by having a healthy Pierce and Jeff Green hawking him. Yes, it will be a much more difficult road for him.
How will Bosh react to getting hammered by Collins and Sully when KG isn't in. He hates contact.
My point was that I am completely comfortable with matching up against any team in the league - and I am.
I think Pierce and Green is a solid match up with LeBron or Durant.
Collins and KG a good one two punch on Howard.
Lets' see how close to the rim Pau Gasol can push the 280 pound Sullinger - when KG isn't hounding him
Lets' see how Kobe deoes with a combo of Lee, Bradley and Pierce hounding him - Green at SF is Pierce is on him.
Or how Nash will do getting hounded by Rondo and Bradley for 38 minutes.
Much like last year I think people greatly underestimate the heart and toughness of this Celtics team.
Likewise, I think people might be greatly underestimating exactly how deadly Rondo is going to be with all the new weapons he is now going to have on the floor with him.
An argument can be made that Rondo has every bit as much impact on games as Howard or Kobe, LeBron or Wade, Duratn or Westbrook and certainly Andrew Bynum.
In fact outside of LeBron, I'd argue he is #2 on that list. Howard can disappear - Rondo rarely does.
It's not who has the best players - it's who has the best team. And we have assembled a very compelling team in Boston. That is no fantasy.
Nah, no head in the sand for me. Not at all.
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