Can you imagine if the Celtics had played the way they did in the first round against a Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, or Denver?
The problem with the Hawks were that they more were more athletic and could run and exposed the Celtics weakness, sort of the same thing with GS/Dallas last year.
The Celtics would sweep the Yao-less rockets, denver, probably phoneix, maybe win 5 or 6 against Dallas.
Thats bull . The Celtics took it easier and still got by. And thats just in the playoffs. Nevermind how they didn't have to play for while the entire west was battling each and every night.
Let me put it to you this way. Is Manu broken down by the confrence finals if the Spurs play in the East???
Regular season? yes west had it incredibly tough with a 50 win team not making the po's (GS), showed how tough it was, but the celtics in the PO's struggled pretty badly as well against the hawks and the cavs. The west's PO's series were all over around 5 games or so, the hornets series was the only one that went 7.
They struggled because they were taking it easy not because the Hawks were tough. Their series was 7 games and there is NO way that series was tougher than the one the Spurs/Suns played.
We could have prevented that. Manu had to carry the team in Feburary all by himself beause of injuries to TD and TP, if the spurs rested him in the RS and were like a 6th or 7th seed, manu would have been rested. But yeah the west's RS is pretty greuling/ tough
Yeah, I didn't see the Cavs doing very much running.
Not if they played as crappy and ball-less as they did against the Hawks. Denver is dumb enough that they still probably would have lost. But Phoenix , Dallas, and Houston would have toe dat weak sh!t up.The Celtics would sweep the Yao-less rockets, denver, probably phoneix, maybe win 5 or 6 against Dallas.
No one can really say that unless if you were a part of the celtics team or hawks team to find out that if the celtics were going easy on the hawks.
Bonner, maybe, after the first round.
LOL yeah OK. I'm pretty sure most people who follow the NBA realize that if the Celtics just slept on the Hawks and nothing more.
Yeah, Damon may have played as much as Tony.
The cavs had lebron james.
phoenix doesn't play and D. The celtics play the best d in the NBA. Shaq would be mismatched and who would contain pierce and allen at the same time?
Housten doesn't have yao ming. They would lose to the celtics. They'd shut down mcgrady.
Dallas is the only tha might have won, but dallas was playing incredibly ty so who knows abut that.
Actually people who watched that series were saying the exact opposite. From fans to analysts.
LeBron James? THE LeBron James?
Just hypothetically, say, how would the Spurs do against LeBron James? And, just for the sake of argument, let's say he had a better team that what he had this year?
the spurs are a good at D. the spurs can shut down james, while shutting down everybody else as well, where as the celtics can only shut down LBJ and take the risk of lettign the other player shoot some shots, when that happend LBJ went crazy because the cetlics had to play D on the other cav p layers.
nvm
If I read this correctly, you just said the 2007 Spurs >> 2008 Celtics. Even though the Celtics won what 8-10 games more than last year's Spurs team. Which I agree with, but which isn't necessarily the point.
THe point is, are you seriously trying to argue that 37-45 Atlanta was a mighty hidden power this year that would have given all the teams in the West a 7-game series? , I think even Denver would have swept Atlanta.
Seriously, I just want to know if anyone thinks that the Spurs would have had one broken down Manu by the time the ECF rolled around if they played in the East? Anyone?
Manu would be 100% if the played the east.
Manu woudl be 100% in the west as well if TP and TD did not get injured during the season.
The 2007 Spurs are >>>> than this years celtics. The spurs record was in the west and had to play tougher teams on a consistent basis, where as this years celtics had to play easy teams.
to the bold:I'm just going by some people were saying which I agree with (some fans and some analysts were saying) was that the hawks gave the celtics matchup problems. if the celtics played the bobcats i would not be suprised if the bobcats won because the cats owned the celts in the RS due to matchup problems. A similiar incident is the 07 mavs vs 07 warriors match up problems
Agreed, Pop even said it at the time that he had to play Manu all those minutes back in the spring to even insure we'd get to the playoffs.
his day is coming, and he knows it
Exactly... like the Heat and Laker games for Christmas?
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