This one could be sweeeeeet!!!

[DesertDweller]

Beat ATL last night.

SHOULD have beaten them earlier this year when we were up 20 points much of the game. Rondo couldn't contain Teague / Schroeder!

I am finally turning around on the Rondo / Green trades. . . . maybe they were the right moves. I was sad to see them leave, but apparently we're better without. . .?

Aside from the obvious contract issues--I think Danny got rid of the 2 guys who liked to coast--and Not give their best efforts each night...The guys still here, play hard at all times (Sully sometimes relaxes).

Sully doesn't relax, I think he mostly gets frustrated at the officials as does Zeller with even more reason!!! they pinpoint these two guys, taking away a lot of our game.

[DesertDweller]

So, if we're lucky, we would lose in five as a speedbump team for whoever has the first seed.

Thrilling. One to tell the grandkids about.

You're like "Mikey",  in those old breakfast cereal commercials.  you know?  the kid that hated everything.
get a grip, D.o.s.!!!

[D.o.s.]

So, if we're lucky, we would lose in five as a speedbump team for whoever has the first seed.

Thrilling. One to tell the grandkids about.

You're like "Mikey",  in those old breakfast cereal commercials.  you know?  the kid that hated everything.
get a grip, D.o.s.!!!

Watching the Celtics get blown out by better teams is not my idea of a good time. Sorry if that offends.

[slamtheking]

So, if we're lucky, we would lose in five as a speedbump team for whoever has the first seed.

Thrilling. One to tell the grandkids about.

You're like "Mikey",  in those old breakfast cereal commercials.  you know?  the kid that hated everything.
get a grip, D.o.s.!!!

Watching the Celtics get blown out by better teams is not my idea of a good time. Sorry if that offends.

so you only watch games when the C's should win?  games when inferior or comparable teams blow them out?  Close games with anyone (how you'd detemine a close game in advance is beyond me)?

very small sampling this year and really any year since the KG injury

[D.o.s.]

It's a reasonable assumption that the Celtics would fare about as poorly as an eight seed than the 2013 Bucks did against the Heat.

I don't imagine that you watched much, if any of that series. I did. It was not fun basketball. Blowouts are very rarely fun to watch (the sole exception to this rule is the Celtics blowing out the Lakers -- that is always fun basketball). This is common knowledge.

So I must infer that you are either playing at being obtuse, or you actually are thick. In one case, you have my sympathies. In the other, well, practice makes perfect and I'm sure you'll get better at it the more you try.

[celticsclay]

It's a reasonable assumption that the Celtics would fare about as poorly as an eight seed than the 2013 Bucks did against the Heat.

I don't imagine that you watched much, if any of that series. I did. It was not fun basketball. Blowouts are very rarely fun to watch (the sole exception to this rule is the Celtics blowing out the Lakers -- that is always fun basketball). This is common knowledge.

So I must infer that you are either playing at being obtuse, or you actually are thick. In one case, you have my sympathies. In the other, well, practice makes perfect and I'm sure you'll get better at it the more you try.

I think that is the most pessimistic way it could turn out. That Heat team was probably at their apex that season. I believe it was the first season with Ray Allen and he had the most left in the tank. The big 3 were all healthy and had really hit their stride playing together and they went 66-16. There probably isn't a team that is as complete as them in this years east.  The one weakness of that team, inside play, was countered by probably the weakest frontcourt in the league for the bucks. They had Sanders playing really inconsistently, illasov and not much else. So yeah that was one of the worst all time first round playoff series.

A better comparison (one that won't actually excite the celtics) is the bobcats vs the heat last season. The bobcats, once jefferson got hurt, probably had even less talent than this current Celtics squad. Although they too got swept by the heat, at least the games were competitive. If we were to play the hawks in the first round, I don't think it would be unrealistic to expect us to steal 1 game and be close in 2 or 3 others.