Good chance of it. Heat are ridiculously good, but still a flawed team, and beatable. If C's can beat them in a 7-game series, they can beat anyone. As long as they are healthy, there's a chance. Especially now that there is actually a bench.

We've currently built a very strong team with minimal flaws, let's hope our strength carry us through. Miami by comparison has big flaws, but big big strengths. Let's see if we can contain as much as possible their strengths and exploit their big flaws, and we failed for the most part in the playoffs, yet got them to 7 games and on the brink of elimination.

Lebron beat us by himself in game 6 however i don't feel like we approached game 6 like a closeout game. We approached it like well, if we lose tonight we got game 7 and you just can't do that.

With the current roster we have it's definitely possible, but not likely.  I think we still need to add a legit big next to KG.  We have a bunch of "nice" players at the PF spot (Bass, Wilcox, Green, Sullinger) but no real high level player.

If we could turn some of our depth into a high level PF, then I think we would be much more likely to win a title.

Probably not, but that's OK.  

I think we have a decent shot at winning a title (probably as good a chance as any team other than the Heat), but for it to be LIKELY for us to win one of the next two or three titles, we'd really have to be the presumptive favorites next year (which isn't the case).  The C's should be one of the four or five or six teams with the best chance of winning a championship next year, but it's not just the Heat we have to beat, it's all the Western Conference teams like the Thunder.  

And even if we are one of the five or six teams with a legitimate shot at the title, but that still means that each year the odds of a title aren't much better than 15% or 20%.  By the time 2013-2014 rolls around (and Pierce and KG are even older), our odds of pulling out a title are even lower.  And, there's an decent chance that either Pierce or KG will suffer a severe injury in one of the next few seasons, making our odds even worse.

I'd say we have maybe a 1/3 shot of winning one of the next three titles, but probably a 50% chance (maybe a tiny bit less) of making it back to the Finals.  

I voted for 'probably not' but only because I didn't see a better worded option to fit my expectation.  They certainly could win it all, but I think more than likely the Celtics will give us 3 years of a highly contested title chase and will be one of the top 4 or 5 teams in the league each year.

BTW, I just realized that this is post number 2,001 for me.  Hooray second star!

Quote from: Prof. Clutch on July 25, 2012, 12:18:08 PM

I voted for 'probably not' but only because I didn't see a better worded option to fit my expectation.  They certainly could win it all, but I think more than likely the Celtics will give us 3 years of a highly contested title chase and will be one of the top 4 or 5 teams in the league each year.

BTW, I just realized that this is post number 2,001 for me.  Hooray second star!

Congrats, Man.

TP & thanks buddy, I'm poppin' champagne over here.