If you look up the definition of intractable in the dictionary, I can assure you that you will find these Boston Celtics. Every year in the NBA, it is said that the rival to beat that season is the champion of the last ring, but what is clear is that the rival to beat this year is Mazzulla’s Boston Celtics.
They currently occupy first place in the Eastern Conference with a 57-14 record, which also allows them to lead the NBA in general with a huge gap over their pursuers, the Thunder and the Nuggets.
The ease with which the Boston Celtics are winning games is overwhelming, as with their latest victory over the Bulls, they have now won nine in a row, adding to their 20 wins in their last 22 games.
The Celtics’ management has taken a lot of risks this year in the transfer market and it seems to be going well so far, but in the NBA, if you don’t win the ring, finishing first in the regular season will be considered a failure.
A monstrous starting five:
If the Celtics in recent years have been characterized by being a very choral team and giving importance to the bench, this year they have broken with that philosophy. You lose important players like Smart, Robert Williams III or Brogdon in the transfer market, but in exchange you bring Porzingis and Jrue Holiday to form one of the best line ups in the league.
In the possible Celtics starting five you have playoff experience (and even Holiday winning the ring), youth and freshness of the Jays, defence both inside and outside the paint and scoring, a lot of scoring.
Of course, it will be very difficult to beat these Celtics in a seven-game series, but there is one piece that will be key for this team to get the ring. I’m talking about Kristaps Porzingis.
The Latvian power forward is the ace up the Boston Celtics’ sleeve and the reason they have risked so much to obtain his services. After two difficult seasons in Washington in which he proved he could be a good offensive asset for his team, he cleared up a lot of doubts with his arrival at TD Garden.
Porzingis isn’t having his best season numerically, but that’s obvious when you share the same roster with a bigger star like Jayson Tatum. Despite this, his numbers are not bad at all, as he averages 19.7 points, 7.8 rebounds and 1.8 blocks. I am sure that the Latvian will be very important in some playoffs, as with his 2.21 meters, if he is accurate with the three-point shot, he is an unstoppable weapon.
We will have to see if Mazzulla doses his most important players these last games in order to win the ring or if on the contrary they suffer a setback that prevents them from achieving this feat.
Will the Boston Celtics be able to keep up the pace in the playoffs?
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