Or single coverage against Perkins and Wallace.
That's what the Celtic defense does. It makes you take the lowest offensive option while rushing passes. EVERY team has averaged high turnovers against the Celtics in the playoffs this season. No coincidence.
The Lakers are not going to beat the Celtics.
compelling argument. it's not the lakers' fault they're making every other team look like shit, i mean the suns jazz and thunder would be right below the East's "big 3" if they were in the East. If the Lakers were fraud contenders who looked dominant by beating up on shit teams in the regular season/playoffs (aka cavs and magic, though magic are admittedly good and would be in the finals had cavs beaten celts) then it would've shown by now. But it hasn't; face it bud, lakers are legit.
After the celts were done with them yes.
its going to be different than 08'. With Artest on Pierce now, Pierce wont have his way in this series. Last time I believe they switched between Walton/Ariza? and that is just a completely favorable matchup for Pierce. He for sure wont average 30 ppg again this series.
The Suns and Thunder werent good? I think you just confuse The Lakers running through these playoffs with the Lakers are playing nobody. The Suns were running through good teams until we played them, but the Lakers are just running through everybody because they are just better
Whilst I agree with other parts of the post, there are actually so many things wrong with that statement that I just had to highlight it.
just my opinion. I feel if cavs/magic played LA without ever playing boston they would both beat the lakers in a 7 game series. The celts made them go down a level with how they play, i dont think LA could do that to those teams.
Another user gets added to my ignore list. Lakers fanboys are so utterly irrational. Clearly two sixty win teams two straight years are awful. (I know Orlando only got 59 both times the point remains). The East is weaker than the West, but that is pretty irrelevant, the Cavaliers and Magic were stellar teams.
The Cavs are a steller regular season team, but lets ease up there when it comes playoff time buddy. There quite less than steller when it comes playoff time, especially against actually good teams
you must be joking
Last I knew the Cavaliers have made it past the first round year after year. Ease up on trying to be some superior arguer, and especially ease up on the bullshit condescending language (I am not your buddy, and yes I know it was a facetious "rhetorical tool", but I despise you, so ease up on the bullshit). Even stellar teams lose in the second round. There were 4 apparently stellar teams this regular reason in the east; one was proven to maybe be not remotely so (Hawks), three were proven to basically still be so (Cavaliers, Magic, Celtics). Cavaliers lost but it is not like they were swept, they just inexplicably choked like hell and/or maybe we (but mostly you) are not giving nearly enough credit to the awesome again Celtics!
