Celtics: Winning When They Shouldn't

[The_Game]

btw maybe my post made zero sense because u failed to see that i mentioned a lot of ur guys don't have experience in pressure situations in the playoffs...thaat and u guys just don't match up well against the pistons. o, and ur not deep

alot of our guys? I'm a spurs fan

celtics don't have experience? what? all of the celtics big 3 have made the conference finals one time or another. posey has won a championship. Experience will not be a problem for that team. Infact the big 3's experience will be what could be the key.

who says celtics don't match up with the pistons? how on earth did you come to that stupid theory? it's more like the other way around....pistons will have to deal with 3 stars....while sheed plays KG well enough he isn't going to stop him. pierce and allen are guys detroit may struggle to deal with.

the fact people say boston aren't deep enough is idiotic. their bench is very underrated. guys like house, posey,allen and davis have been terrific role players for that team..a big reason why they are 17-2. their bench has scored 46, 47 in the past 3 games..not deep enough? hardly...

[Bruno]

What has done Boston this year is very impressive.
What is more impressive for the future is that their success is based on the defense.
While Garnett and Allen were the two biggest addition of this summer, there is another one who shouldn't be underrated with Tom Thibodeau who was JVG assistant. Cavs have done the same thing with Hank Egan and it works very well for them.
Boston schedule was very easy and we will have to wait to see if they are at the same level than Spurs/Suns/Mavs. IMO, their biggest weakness is the lack of depth at PF/C.

[bostonguy]

alot of our guys? I'm a spurs fan

celtics don't have experience? what? all of the celtics big 3 have made the conference finals one time or another. posey has won a championship. Experience will not be a problem for that team. Infact the big 3's experience will be what could be the key.

who says celtics don't match up with the pistons? how on earth did you come to that stupid theory? it's more like the other way around....pistons will have to deal with 3 stars....while sheed plays KG well enough he isn't going to stop him. pierce and allen are guys detroit may struggle to deal with.

the fact people say boston aren't deep enough is idiotic. their bench is very underrated. guys like house, posey,allen and davis have been terrific role players for that team..a big reason why they are 17-2. their bench has scored 46, 47 in the past 3 games..not deep enough? hardly...

Well you know how much Spurs fans love to circle jerk with Piston fans. A 1 man Cavs team and a no name poing guard outplayed the Pistons that ENTIRE series. Pistons were lucky they werent swept. Again as long as Boston is healthy and playing their game...NO ONE is good enough to take them out in a 7 game series in the East. The Pistons will be there in the ECF to wish us good luck in the finals like they have done the past 2 years with the Heat and Cavs.

[sickdsm]

Until the Pistons dismiss Flip there going to dissapoint. I know that, JamStone knew that a year into it and and the rest of the NBA world knows that.


Boston's only threats are injuries or a team that gets on fire, like a Golden State. Det, Cle, Miami, NJ.....Ah , i can't think of the top "contenders" for the east. Anway, there not as much of a threat as people make them out to be.

[Tippecanoe]

Until the Pistons dismiss Flip there going to dissapoint

this man speakth the truth

[TDMVPDPOY]

beatin leastern teams, nothin special about it when 90% of the teams in the weak east are scrub teams and you play them 4 times each, so celtics have it easy here compared to playin western teams 4 wins each.

[Tippecanoe]

so basically
celtics lose = celtics suck
celtics win = celtics still suck

ahh, i see

[JamStone]

Until the Pistons dismiss Flip there going to dissapoint. I know that, JamStone knew that a year into it and and the rest of the NBA world knows that.


Boston's only threats are injuries or a team that gets on fire, like a Golden State. Det, Cle, Miami, NJ.....Ah , i can't think of the top "contenders" for the east. Anway, there not as much of a threat as people make them out to be.

Your bitterness towards Flip Saunders dies slow. No one in Detroit thinks he's the greatest coach in the league. No one expects him to perform coaching miracles. And, there are plenty of criticisms Pistons fans have of him. But, what's the point in ing about them? He's not getting fired. Dumars has made that clear. He's the coach for now and the best thing we can do is support the team and hope Flip improves some of his coaching flaws.

As for Flip and the Pistons disappointing, well that's true of 29 NBA teams every season. Difference with Flip coaching the Pistons, he's been with them two seasons going on his third and his disappointments both have happened in the conference finals. In Minnesota, disappointments almost always happened in the first round.

The Pistons have the talent to get past the first round despite any coaching flaws by Flip Saunders. They have the talent to get out of the East and have fallen short two years. There are 26 other teams that should be so lucky.

Is Richie Frahm ready to break out this season?

[ShoogarBear]

The Celtics are an amazing team.

They may be the best team the league has seen since the 2006-2007 Dallas Mavericks.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

The Celtics are an amazing team.

They may be the best team the league has seen since the 2006-2007 Dallas Mavericks.

What was the magic number ESPN was trotting out during its Mavs nut riding phase? Best 46 games ever or something? If the Celts keep this up I can only imagine what kind of whacked out, arbitrary stat they'll find to push on us.

"This team had the highest combined margin of victory over the New York Knicks in a single season ever! Start gassing up the parade floats."

[sickdsm]

Your bitterness towards Flip Saunders dies slow. No one in Detroit thinks he's the greatest coach in the league. No one expects him to perform coaching miracles. And, there are plenty of criticisms Pistons fans have of him. But, what's the point in ing about them? He's not getting fired. Dumars has made that clear. He's the coach for now and the best thing we can do is support the team and hope Flip improves some of his coaching flaws.

As for Flip and the Pistons disappointing, well that's true of 29 NBA teams every season. Difference with Flip coaching the Pistons, he's been with them two seasons going on his third and his disappointments both have happened in the conference finals. In Minnesota, disappointments almost always happened in the first round.

The Pistons have the talent to get past the first round despite any coaching flaws by Flip Saunders. They have the talent to get out of the East and have fallen short two years. There are 26 other teams that should be so lucky.

Is Richie Frahm ready to break out this season?

LOL, youre still all worked up that I was high on Frahm, what, a couple games into his wolves career after he was on fire and hustling around? Didn't i say he was our Hoiberg replacement? Not like i penciled him in the ASG.

You need a crash course on disspointment. Would you reallly say the wolves not winning the le this year is a dissapointment? Hardly. See, failing to meet expectations is a dissapointment. Whoopty do, Pistons do good in the regular season and underachieve in the playoffs. , that's exactly what the wolves always did with Flip. Just subs ute a better team, lesser compe ion, and it just ends up happaning a few days later than here. He took over a team that was a couple of bounces away from being a two time defending champion to decency fast. Flips teams have always been that, decent. Kinda funny how our one good year happaned when KG, Spree, and Sammy played on there own.


, the wolves, Blazers and teams like that are more likely to win a le before Detroit.

Why do you get all pissy about the critisisms i make about Flip when you agree whole-heartedly?

[JamStone]

not pissy. just don't see a reason to dwell on it. fans don't like a lot of things flip does. he will remain the coach so long as the pistons don't have a monumental collapse. not much else to discuss. why dwell on it?

[TampaDude]

The Celtics are an amazing team.

They may be the best team the league has seen since the 2006-2007 Dallas Mavericks.

Now THAT'S funny!!!

[spursfan09]

Why does Boston play SA so late in the season? anyway "winning when they shouldn't" is stupid comment. Ofcourse they should be winning, especially in the east. But its a shame they won't play the class of the league until sometime in Feb.

[Reggie Miller]

The Pistons match up much better against the Spurs than they do the Celtics.

One factor that people ignore in the Pistons' recent struggles is that they have lost a lot of depth since 2003-2005. I'm not really sure how much impact this has really had though, since LB didn't exactly empty the bench every night in 2003-2005.

[TampaDude]

The Celtics will NOT win the East. Book it.

[Cry Havoc]

The Pistons match up much better against the Spurs than they do the Celtics.

One factor that people ignore in the Pistons' recent struggles is that they have lost a lot of depth since 2003-2005. I'm not really sure how much impact this has really had though, since LB didn't exactly empty the bench every night in 2003-2005.

Aside from Hunter and McDyess, they didn't have a lot of bench depth back then, either. The strength was and is their starting 5. If anything, I still point to the loss of Ben Wallace as a turning point. They can no longer match up well with bigger teams.

But you guys have a really fine young player in Maxiel. It's not like your bench is devoid of any contributors.

[Reggie Miller]

Actually, I think you got it. Ben Wallace may be the key. I forget, because he has played like dog poopie in Chicago.

[JamStone]

Mehmet Okur, Corliss Williamson, Lindsey Hunter, and Mike James gave solid bench minutes in 2003-04. 2004-05, there was less depth losing all of those three and replacing them with Antonio McDyess, Carlos Delfino, and Elden Campbell while still having Hunter.

The depth issue and starters playing too much really started the seasons after the championship. In 2003-04, the Pistons had pretty decent depth and used it.

[The_Game]

The Celtics will NOT win the East. Book it.

With such great logic to back up your claim how can one disagree?

seriously have the rest of your posts been this idiotic?