If the C's picked up KD35 last summer, or maybe Cousins, then the Celtics would have been in the same conversation with Golden State and Cleveland.

My expectations are...Celtics should get past the East Semis before getting wasted in the East Finals. Unless a big injury happens to one of the Cavs' Big 3.

No use in giving up assets under contract on rookie deals for expiring vets who would need to be re-signed. Look at what it would have taken to get Ibaka, the rumor was Rozier  and a pick?

Look what Rozier  is doing now...

I honestly am starting to believe we can win it all this is year with the ability to put 3 all defensive players on the court with IT and Horford running the offense. Jaylen/Green as the wild card, and KO/Rozier giving you consistent production.

Quote from: rocknrollforyoursoul on May 04, 2017, 12:46:56 AM

Quote from: SparzWizard on May 04, 2017, 12:40:31 AM

If the C's picked up KD35 last summer, or maybe Cousins, then the Celtics would have been in the same conversation with Golden State and Cleveland.

My expectations are...Celtics should get past the East Semis before getting wasted in the East Finals. Unless a big injury happens to one of the Cavs' Big 3.

I think the Cavs would survive even an injury to Love or Kyrie; as long as they have LeBron, they have the best team, because LeBron's still the best player in the game and gets the most calls.

As far as Danny's thinking, I think he views any success this season beyond a first-round win as gravy, like playing with house money. Don't get me wrong; he'll take the success now. I just think he's not expecting a higher level of success just yet.

Can we stop with the narrative that Lebron somehow gets favoritism from the refs.  Dude may be on his way to supplanting MJ as the greatest player of all time and he's earned every bit of it.  He's pretty much that good.

He is supplanting MJ? MJ has twice as money titles and retired for years in his prime. That ship sailed. Comments like that just come off as a Lebron fanboy and that won't get a warm reception here. Lebron is a great player, absolutely no doubt about that, and is having a much better career than our main love here, Larry Bird. That being said he is way closer to Kobe than MJ.

No. Even in that cas we'd be very far from Golden State and far from Cleveland. And I agree with the premise "Banner or no asset wasted", so I'm very happy with the outcome of the trade deadline.

Obviously we still have to get out of the 2nd round but I think that, although Cleveland is way better than us, they are a good matchup for us and we don't back down mentally from them like Toronto does once they face adversity. Not saying we would necessarily win the series but it'd be a tough one.

Quote from: Ogaju on May 03, 2017, 11:33:30 PM

are we closer than what Danny thought at the trade deadline? Would a few little moves have put us over the top into the conversation with Cavs and GSW? Are we in the conversation?

Having watched how thoroughly Cleveland is demolishing Toronto, despite their acquisition of two of the players we most wanted, no, I don't think those moves would have put us over the top.

This is kind of what I'm thinking, too. Cleveland was sleep walking for most of the regular season and now they're murdering Toronto. If the C's advance, it might be an interesting series or it might be like that Cleveland game in April where the C's looked like amateurs.

The streak is great but it doesn't change history.

No change.  No small move puts Boston in Cleveland's class.
I still think Boston should have acquired Cousins. He could have potentially made a difference against Cleveland especially if the price was essentially Brown, Zeller, and picks.