I can believe anyone picked Dallas to win this. Kyrie, Luca, and nobody else vs. a solid 5? After winning 12 of 14 no less. No respect. Apology not accepted. REPEAT ON TAP!!!
Can only apologize and admit when I’m wrong. Which has been a lot lately lol but they definitely are the favorites and so far my pick to repeat. We’ll see what happens though because New York is out there looking very formidable.
Most definitely. And them losing Hartenstein is a bigger loss than most realize, especially when you have bigs in Randle and Mitchell that struggle to stay healthy and that Thibs element you mentioned. Definitely have my concerns about them. Boston still unquestioned favorite to repeat tho imo.
Really think the Knicks missed the forest for the trees. Yes they now two wings capable of doing a solid job defending the Celtics wings on the perimeter, but as someone who watched nearly every Celtics game this year, what really bothered Boston more than anything else was teams who had big interior presences. Losing hartenstein without a replacement is such a big loss for NY.. Brunson specifically suffers the most on the offensive end (imo) from Hartensteins departure, as he was so good at screening and such a threat in the short roll it made it hard for teams to blitz Jalen out of pnr. Mitch is much easier to attack in space on the defensive end and is not as adept at processing and making reads on offense. He will struggle mightily with the porzingis matchup. Also, the Knicks have a logjam now at the forward spots. I think they’ll logically come to the conclusion that they need to move Randle for a big, but I’d be concerned that by the time they come to that realization, Randles value may be even lower than it is right now. I still think Milwaukee poses the biggest threat to Boston out east.
I think everyone was blinded by the old Celtics with Marcus smart and didn’t have faith. Celtics fans knew this team was different, there was no team besides maybe Denver who could have kept up with us
Definitely won’t deny the role that played in my prediction at all. I’m very much I need to see it first to believe it when it comes to teams or players that have struggled to overcome something in the past, (something I’ll be applying to Kyrie when he plays against Boston going forward) but like I said in the video Boston was my favorite in the East over Milwaukee because of the Jrue acquisition among other acquisitions. His defense, IQ, and calming presence was huge this entire post season…and I think they have him locked down for the next 4 years. But yeah swapping Jrue in Marcus’s place was huge.
The only reasons most people picked Dallas is because they hate Boston and they fell for the banana in the tailpipe with Dallas. Take away Luka and Kyrie, the other three starters for Dallas are rotational players off the bench. Gafford was Porzingis’ backup with the Wizards, PJ Washington was coming off the beach and sometimes starting with the Hornets and Derrick Jones Jr. was a journeyman player. The way Dallas played defense by keeping their bigs near the basket was not going to work when Boston can play a true five out offense. Lastly, Boston’s defense was disciplined and locked Dallas up. In all four loses, Dallas was held under 100 points.
See but it was that Minnesota series that sold me to a degree and kinda fooled me. I felt like Minnesota was the best team in the west after upsetting the defending champs. I had picked Minnesota to win that series vs Dallas, and when they found a way to beat a team that had the best defense in the NBA & having guys like Ant Edwards, KAT and Gobert and Naz Reid. I felt as tho they could do the same to Boston severely underestimated Boston’s depth. Bostons strategy to involve Luka in everything as well as clamp down defensively on Dallas was the entire series. They created so many looks with so much help being committed to whoever Luka was guarding. In addition to the obvious poor play of Kyrie. No hate truly but some distrust from what I’ve seen the past few years and not being super challenged in the East with most teams having injuries. Mad respect to them this year they earned it and they’ll be even tougher next year since they’re even more confident.
@@ITLIsaac Everything you just posted is what Boston did to Dallas in both of their regular season games. The only team that had a shot from the West at beating Boston was Denver. Denver would have loss in six because their bench is weak and you could tell the hunger to win another chip was not there. Minnesota loses to Boston in five, and everybody rode Minnesota because of the MJ hype with Anthony Edwards. A majority of channels that discuss the NBA playoffs be discussing these games based upon feelings and not basketball. Dallas made no adjustments at all in the Finals. They looked like a WNBA team that had a Plan A with no adjustments if their strategy to win was figured out. Go back and watch Kyrie get loss on where Jaylen Brown was at on the floor in game 3. The ball goes right by him and JB swished a 3 from the corner. The Mavs had nobody they could hide Luka and Kyrie on against Boston like they could against Minnesota.
The regular season element you mentioned tho is always tricky. Because you don’t know how things translate from regular season to playoffs. In 2016 the Cavs lost both matchups to Golden State in the regular season including getting thrashed at home, but still beat them in the finals to win it all. And by your logic, how could you be so certain Minnesota wouldn’t have had a shot against Boston? Especially with the fact that they split the season series, with one of those game going to OT. So I do think they’d would’ve been a better matchup, I don’t know man, predicting is hard in general but factoring regular season is tough. I’ll admit the Kyrie factor was a feeling thing though. There was nothing that suggests he’d play well enough for them even have a chance. He hasn’t played well in Boston since he’s left. Interested in seeing how he plays against them going forward. And your definitely right about adjustments and not being able to hide those guys on defense anymore.
@@ITLIsaac Minnesota’s weaknesses were always their role players. Conley and McDaniel are inconsistent on offense and Rudy Gobert has always been a donut in the playoffs. The rest of the NBA did not have enough of a team to compete with Boston. The 2016 Cavs is an anomaly. They needed everything to break their way to come back from a 3-1 hole.
@@therealdarrell282correct the defense is there but they just need more role players that can play both ends of the floor and not just one. Even Kat showed being inconsistent at times on offense
Jaylen Brown to Joe Mazzulla during the finals: " If Luka stays, I stay. If Luka stays, keep me in." All 4 games win by the Celtics, the Cs kept the Mavs to below 100. Strong D wins games.
Out of all the arguments against boston, the one that bothers me the most is "they arent battle tested & theyre road was too easy". First of all, when they went to the finals in '22, the narrative was "their road was too hard!" Well which is it? Should a team have a tough road or an easy road to the finals? Also, JB & JT been to the ECF 6 out of 7 years or so. On that road, theyve beaten Embiid 3x (i think) giannis twice, KD & Kyrie, jimmy twice & lost to steph & klay. If that aint battle tested, what is?
Very fair argument, definitely didn’t consider that as I forgot how hard that 2022 road to the finals was for Boston. And something to consider going forward. Because based on how I see what you just pointed out, does being more battle tested throughout the playoffs work as a disadvantage? See Boston losing to Golden State and Dallas losing to Boston (even tho I’d attribute that more to Boston just being better). Or does being battle tested even matter at all? Maybe it does more so when the teams are more evenly matched? Interesting things to consider going forward.
@ITLIsaac Absolutely. Personally, I don't think it matters at all. In a 7 game series, with good health permitting, the best team wins 95 out of 100 times I would bet. The Celtics were so much better that I think they rested players to AVOID winning 70+ games & adding undue pressure. I think people lose sight of the journey & on that journey, there's ups & downs. JB & JT have had that. Now here's the scary part: 👇 JB & JT were at least 4 to 5 yrs ahead of schedule when you think about what ages great players win titles. It's usually aligned with their physical primes. JB & JT winning titles in their age 23 & 24 to start a season would've been crazy & historical abnormal joining the likes of bird & magic, Bill Russell & Tim Duncan as the best players on their team to win titles (these names come to mind, im sure theres a few more).
I actually agree and I think they are primed to win more going forward. My only concern with how many is dependent on how long they can keep these surrounding pieces together under the new CBA. Keeping JB and JT should be simple enough to a degree but how long can they keep Porzingis, and White, and Holiday. They’re going to need to take advantage of those draft picks in the future to maximize JT and JBs window.
5:18 "Dallas didn't do too terribly..." Well, remove that weird Game 4 from the equation and you will see how bad the Mavs were beaten in almost every aspect of the game. I consider Game 4 "weird" because, clearly, Boston wanted to win at home.
Nice apology video but to be honest I don't care. I'd imagine that if you start doubting the Cs again for whatever reason you'll do exactly that: doubt them. Then if they prove you wrong you'll make this kind of video again and repeat the cycle. Thanks anyway.
I don't think this result was that hard to see and I think a lot of analysts just missed the mark in the obsession with star power. I called this series pretty much exactly how it went not because I'm smart or knowledgeable, but because I've seen it before. The Celtics used a very similar strategy against Dallas that they've used against the Bucks over the last few years. In fact, there's a lot of similarities. Both the Mavs and Bucks are teams that consist largely of roleplayers who are reliant on one (sometimes two) supreme offensive talents to open up the floor for the roleplayers. By exploiting opposing doubles, these teams are both able to get great looks for guys that otherwise are not consistent offensive talents. The Boston strategy against teams like this is to refuse to give the double. Brad Stevens once said when referring to either Giannis or Embiid (can't remember which) that they're fine with losing because one guy goes off for 60 points, simply because mathematically it's almost impossible to repeat that four times in a seven game series. Different in this matchup is that Luka has always been questioned on his defense whereas Giannis is an elite defender. I figured Boston would simply make Luka's life hell by putting a strong, physical defender on him and then by targeting him when he was on the defensive end. In other words, force Luka to be elite and play 100% on both ends of the floor, which is something very few (if any) players can do. I actually thought they'd put Derrick White on Luka, but Brown was probably a better pick because his strength and physicality. Boston's strategy was correct. When defended by average to above average defenders, the Dallas roleplayers reverted to their average selves, which wasn't enough to get them past the Celtics.
Hate is strong. Instead of using your brain you let your hate for Boston make your prediction. The Celtics has owned the Mavs so i just don' t understand why so many people pick Dallas beside the pure hate for Boston.
i really admired the celtics script. they fooled all teams by displaying their offensive power and came playoffs, they clamped even the highest scoring team in the nba, pacers. i think that was the most interesting series the celtics had. pacers were just so dominant on offense but Celtics showed their mighty defense even without porzingis and it really helped them win against dallas easily coz pacers presented lots of offensive problems that led them to buckle down on the defensive side. and indeed, defense wins championship
They had an excellent year but you got me thinking. Who was their toughest test, I would argue it was cleveland more so that Indiana, what do you think?
I’ll completely agree the Western Conference finals had me fooled. Watching the way Minnesota had beat Denver (the defending champs) and the watching them lose to Dallas the way they did definitely made me overlook the flaws Dallas had. And I know a lot will disagree with me but looking back I definitely felt like Minnesota or Denver would’ve been a better matchup for Boston. And seeing a team like Dallas win the way they did against Minnesota moved me for sure but definitely put too much on that WCF. Can’t even deny that. Things is now tho, with so much emphasis I had on Denver being defending champs coming into last year, I’m gonna put that same weight into Boston. They’re the favorites to me and we’ll see if any one can beat them next year because as of now… I don’t see anyone beating them.
"Not being tested" should have had been treated as an advantage... we saw how good the celtics were the entire regular season including owning the mavs. In the playoffs they were already up handily in qll the series where people got hurt... you should have seen how gpod the celtics were plus being rested.
No definitely don’t disagree with you here. Overlooking regular season results is something I probably won’t do again. Another comment I saw earlier too said I judged the Celtics too harshly from the past and the change from Smart to Jrue was a big deal. But I can definitely admit that oversight that I won’t make going into next year. Boston the favorites this season we’ll see if it hold tho lots of good teams coming for the crown next year.
Some of the mainstream media analysis of the defense has really made me eye-roll in that Jaylen defending Luca was impressive and very important, but people used it as a knock on JT. JT couldn't guard Luca because the Celtics entire (impeccably planned) defensive scheme revolved around Tatum guarding the center.
I don’t think it should be knock but it definitely is a credit to Brown, in addition that I felt like Brown was more efficient than Tatum and I thought overall was more consistent in these playoffs than Tatum was. Tatum definitely did a better job getting his teammates involved but something was missing with him. I wasn’t super impressed by this playoff run to be quite honest.
@ITLIsaac ask yourself who would u rather contain brown or tatum?and now u know the answer to browns offensive success he doesn't get double like tatum or draw the defense and tatum passes more and does less iso now
picking dallas for momentum reasons made no sense, since nobody had more momentum than boston. if it seemed like they hadn't been tested, it was because they were good.
Celtics for sure were the better regular season 3 point shooting team but they were alittle up and down all post season coming into the finals. Which was why I made the comment, but tbh 3 point shooting for most teams in the post season weren’t all that this year. But used more of the post season sample size more so than the regular season. Trying to figure out what metric is better in predicting playoff winners, regular season or playoff trend is something I’m gonna look at especially for this playoffs going forward.
You should not have looked at the numbers itself but more so the matchup. I understand regular season is tricky since Minny swept Phoenix in the playoffs and in the regular season Pheonix had their way but just matchup wise, it was a bad matchup for Dallas especially having coach Mazulla put Tatum on their bigs to negate any action they could have with their bigs
Agree with everything you said. Especially that valuing numbers over matchups mistake I made. That Tatum angle was something I didn’t anticipate at all and didn’t anticipate it being as effective as it was. But definitely keying in on matchups alittle more over numbers going forward.
Never said they wouldn’t be, honestly believe they will be here for awhile. Locked down a lot of key rotational pieces for at least the next 4 years. Could be the beginning of their reign. But I am skeptical because I believed the same thing about Denver coming into the year, and no one has won back to back chips since 2018. We’ll see tho, they’re the best suited team to do it.
Na you were way too easy on Luka doncic. He was horrible on both sides of the ball. He was horrific on defense and pretty bad on offense. Free throw percentage horrible 3-point percentage horrible, And he became extremely predictable and one-dimensional. If he was guarding somebody he was bigger and stronger than he would bully his way by them and get all the way to the rim if he wasn't strong enough to get by you he would always settle for a step back or a fade away.
I’ll definitely give that I was easy on him for sure. Because this was a celebration/apology to the Boston Celtics for doubting them I didn’t want to dwell too much on Dallas. I isolated Kyrie tho because he played so much worse although this wasn’t a great series for Luka his numbers were still there on lower efficiency. Kyrie no showing in Boston gave Dallas no shot regardless of how great Luka could’ve played imo…although lol one could argue Luka’s inability to defend could also be a hinderance to any chance Dallas had no matter how well Kyrie could’ve played. But they were for sure both not good enough.
I agree I thought I was watching a funeral video lucky for me a Celtics fan it was a funeral video for the Dallas Mavs the reason why people pick the Dallas Mass was out of pure hate for Boston Boston has put up with a hatred of every single US city for the past 50 years and as Tom Brady always said they hate us because they ain't us true bostonians like myself do not give a f$$$ what the cities think of us we just keep winning baby
humility is one of the greatest virtues ever
I can believe anyone picked Dallas to win this. Kyrie, Luca, and nobody else vs. a solid 5? After winning 12 of 14 no less. No respect. Apology not accepted. REPEAT ON TAP!!!
Can only apologize and admit when I’m wrong. Which has been a lot lately lol but they definitely are the favorites and so far my pick to repeat. We’ll see what happens though because New York is out there looking very formidable.
@@ITLIsaac except Tom runs his guys into the ground
Most definitely. And them losing Hartenstein is a bigger loss than most realize, especially when you have bigs in Randle and Mitchell that struggle to stay healthy and that Thibs element you mentioned. Definitely have my concerns about them. Boston still unquestioned favorite to repeat tho imo.
Really think the Knicks missed the forest for the trees.
Yes they now two wings capable of doing a solid job defending the Celtics wings on the perimeter, but as someone who watched nearly every Celtics game this year, what really bothered Boston more than anything else was teams who had big interior presences.
Losing hartenstein without a replacement is such a big loss for NY..
Brunson specifically suffers the most on the offensive end (imo) from Hartensteins departure, as he was so good at screening and such a threat in the short roll it made it hard for teams to blitz Jalen out of pnr.
Mitch is much easier to attack in space on the defensive end and is not as adept at processing and making reads on offense. He will struggle mightily with the porzingis matchup.
Also, the Knicks have a logjam now at the forward spots. I think they’ll logically come to the conclusion that they need to move Randle for a big, but I’d be concerned that by the time they come to that realization, Randles value may be even lower than it is right now.
I still think Milwaukee poses the biggest threat to Boston out east.
@@jayG21219 that’s debatable on calling Milwaukee a threat. Celtics have Jrue Holiday he will be there to help the team get better against Milwaukee
I think everyone was blinded by the old Celtics with Marcus smart and didn’t have faith. Celtics fans knew this team was different, there was no team besides maybe Denver who could have kept up with us
Definitely won’t deny the role that played in my prediction at all. I’m very much I need to see it first to believe it when it comes to teams or players that have struggled to overcome something in the past, (something I’ll be applying to Kyrie when he plays against Boston going forward) but like I said in the video Boston was my favorite in the East over Milwaukee because of the Jrue acquisition among other acquisitions. His defense, IQ, and calming presence was huge this entire post season…and I think they have him locked down for the next 4 years. But yeah swapping Jrue in Marcus’s place was huge.
The only reasons most people picked Dallas is because they hate Boston and they fell for the banana in the tailpipe with Dallas. Take away Luka and Kyrie, the other three starters for Dallas are rotational players off the bench. Gafford was Porzingis’ backup with the Wizards, PJ Washington was coming off the beach and sometimes starting with the Hornets and Derrick Jones Jr. was a journeyman player. The way Dallas played defense by keeping their bigs near the basket was not going to work when Boston can play a true five out offense. Lastly, Boston’s defense was disciplined and locked Dallas up. In all four loses, Dallas was held under 100 points.
See but it was that Minnesota series that sold me to a degree and kinda fooled me. I felt like Minnesota was the best team in the west after upsetting the defending champs. I had picked Minnesota to win that series vs Dallas, and when they found a way to beat a team that had the best defense in the NBA & having guys like Ant Edwards, KAT and Gobert and Naz Reid. I felt as tho they could do the same to Boston severely underestimated Boston’s depth. Bostons strategy to involve Luka in everything as well as clamp down defensively on Dallas was the entire series. They created so many looks with so much help being committed to whoever Luka was guarding. In addition to the obvious poor play of Kyrie. No hate truly but some distrust from what I’ve seen the past few years and not being super challenged in the East with most teams having injuries. Mad respect to them this year they earned it and they’ll be even tougher next year since they’re even more confident.
@@ITLIsaac Everything you just posted is what Boston did to Dallas in both of their regular season games. The only team that had a shot from the West at beating Boston was Denver. Denver would have loss in six because their bench is weak and you could tell the hunger to win another chip was not there. Minnesota loses to Boston in five, and everybody rode Minnesota because of the MJ hype with Anthony Edwards. A majority of channels that discuss the NBA playoffs be discussing these games based upon feelings and not basketball. Dallas made no adjustments at all in the Finals. They looked like a WNBA team that had a Plan A with no adjustments if their strategy to win was figured out. Go back and watch Kyrie get loss on where Jaylen Brown was at on the floor in game 3. The ball goes right by him and JB swished a 3 from the corner. The Mavs had nobody they could hide Luka and Kyrie on against Boston like they could against Minnesota.
The regular season element you mentioned tho is always tricky. Because you don’t know how things translate from regular season to playoffs. In 2016 the Cavs lost both matchups to Golden State in the regular season including getting thrashed at home, but still beat them in the finals to win it all. And by your logic, how could you be so certain Minnesota wouldn’t have had a shot against Boston? Especially with the fact that they split the season series, with one of those game going to OT. So I do think they’d would’ve been a better matchup, I don’t know man, predicting is hard in general but factoring regular season is tough. I’ll admit the Kyrie factor was a feeling thing though. There was nothing that suggests he’d play well enough for them even have a chance. He hasn’t played well in Boston since he’s left. Interested in seeing how he plays against them going forward. And your definitely right about adjustments and not being able to hide those guys on defense anymore.
@@ITLIsaac Minnesota’s weaknesses were always their role players. Conley and McDaniel are inconsistent on offense and Rudy Gobert has always been a donut in the playoffs. The rest of the NBA did not have enough of a team to compete with Boston. The 2016 Cavs is an anomaly. They needed everything to break their way to come back from a 3-1 hole.
@@therealdarrell282correct the defense is there but they just need more role players that can play both ends of the floor and not just one. Even Kat showed being inconsistent at times on offense
Celtics were tested during regular season (64-18) and passed the test.
Jaylen Brown to Joe Mazzulla during the finals: " If Luka stays, I stay. If Luka stays, keep me in."
All 4 games win by the Celtics, the Cs kept the Mavs to below 100. Strong D wins games.
Absolutely! Defense wins championships.
Out of all the arguments against boston, the one that bothers me the most is "they arent battle tested & theyre road was too easy". First of all, when they went to the finals in '22, the narrative was "their road was too hard!" Well which is it? Should a team have a tough road or an easy road to the finals? Also, JB & JT been to the ECF 6 out of 7 years or so. On that road, theyve beaten Embiid 3x (i think) giannis twice, KD & Kyrie, jimmy twice & lost to steph & klay. If that aint battle tested, what is?
Very fair argument, definitely didn’t consider that as I forgot how hard that 2022 road to the finals was for Boston. And something to consider going forward. Because based on how I see what you just pointed out, does being more battle tested throughout the playoffs work as a disadvantage? See Boston losing to Golden State and Dallas losing to Boston (even tho I’d attribute that more to Boston just being better). Or does being battle tested even matter at all? Maybe it does more so when the teams are more evenly matched? Interesting things to consider going forward.
@ITLIsaac Absolutely. Personally, I don't think it matters at all. In a 7 game series, with good health permitting, the best team wins 95 out of 100 times I would bet. The Celtics were so much better that I think they rested players to AVOID winning 70+ games & adding undue pressure. I think people lose sight of the journey & on that journey, there's ups & downs. JB & JT have had that. Now here's the scary part:
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JB & JT were at least 4 to 5 yrs ahead of schedule when you think about what ages great players win titles. It's usually aligned with their physical primes. JB & JT winning titles in their age 23 & 24 to start a season would've been crazy & historical abnormal joining the likes of bird & magic, Bill Russell & Tim Duncan as the best players on their team to win titles (these names come to mind, im sure theres a few more).
I actually agree and I think they are primed to win more going forward. My only concern with how many is dependent on how long they can keep these surrounding pieces together under the new CBA. Keeping JB and JT should be simple enough to a degree but how long can they keep Porzingis, and White, and Holiday. They’re going to need to take advantage of those draft picks in the future to maximize JT and JBs window.
@@wannabegolfin24-72 The Jays were 25 and 26. Still pretty young for their first chip, but they aren't _as_ far ahead as you claim
5:18 "Dallas didn't do too terribly..." Well, remove that weird Game 4 from the equation and you will see how bad the Mavs were beaten in almost every aspect of the game. I consider Game 4 "weird" because, clearly, Boston wanted to win at home.
APPOLOGIZE TO MY CELTIES!
Nice apology video but to be honest I don't care. I'd imagine that if you start doubting the Cs again for whatever reason you'll do exactly that: doubt them. Then if they prove you wrong you'll make this kind of video again and repeat the cycle. Thanks anyway.
Respect to you man 🍀 🍀 🍀
I don't think this result was that hard to see and I think a lot of analysts just missed the mark in the obsession with star power. I called this series pretty much exactly how it went not because I'm smart or knowledgeable, but because I've seen it before. The Celtics used a very similar strategy against Dallas that they've used against the Bucks over the last few years. In fact, there's a lot of similarities. Both the Mavs and Bucks are teams that consist largely of roleplayers who are reliant on one (sometimes two) supreme offensive talents to open up the floor for the roleplayers. By exploiting opposing doubles, these teams are both able to get great looks for guys that otherwise are not consistent offensive talents.
The Boston strategy against teams like this is to refuse to give the double. Brad Stevens once said when referring to either Giannis or Embiid (can't remember which) that they're fine with losing because one guy goes off for 60 points, simply because mathematically it's almost impossible to repeat that four times in a seven game series. Different in this matchup is that Luka has always been questioned on his defense whereas Giannis is an elite defender. I figured Boston would simply make Luka's life hell by putting a strong, physical defender on him and then by targeting him when he was on the defensive end. In other words, force Luka to be elite and play 100% on both ends of the floor, which is something very few (if any) players can do. I actually thought they'd put Derrick White on Luka, but Brown was probably a better pick because his strength and physicality. Boston's strategy was correct. When defended by average to above average defenders, the Dallas roleplayers reverted to their average selves, which wasn't enough to get them past the Celtics.
Hate is strong. Instead of using your brain you let your hate for Boston make your prediction. The Celtics has owned the Mavs so i just don' t understand why so many people pick Dallas beside the pure hate for Boston.
i really admired the celtics script. they fooled all teams by displaying their offensive power and came playoffs, they clamped even the highest scoring team in the nba, pacers. i think that was the most interesting series the celtics had. pacers were just so dominant on offense but Celtics showed their mighty defense even without porzingis and it really helped them win against dallas easily coz pacers presented lots of offensive problems that led them to buckle down on the defensive side. and indeed, defense wins championship
They had an excellent year but you got me thinking. Who was their toughest test, I would argue it was cleveland more so that Indiana, what do you think?
You and the rest of the haters will still pick whatever team goes against Boston.
Picking Dallas over Boston from jump is WILD anyways. Y'all were gassed off the Western Conference playoffs and saw what you wanted to see.
I’ll completely agree the Western Conference finals had me fooled. Watching the way Minnesota had beat Denver (the defending champs) and the watching them lose to Dallas the way they did definitely made me overlook the flaws Dallas had. And I know a lot will disagree with me but looking back I definitely felt like Minnesota or Denver would’ve been a better matchup for Boston. And seeing a team like Dallas win the way they did against Minnesota moved me for sure but definitely put too much on that WCF. Can’t even deny that. Things is now tho, with so much emphasis I had on Denver being defending champs coming into last year, I’m gonna put that same weight into Boston. They’re the favorites to me and we’ll see if any one can beat them next year because as of now… I don’t see anyone beating them.
It sounds like you're making this video at 2am and desperately trying to not wake up your girlfriend.
Would highly recommend adding background music in future videos. Really good content tho. Keep up the good work
Really appreciate the kind comment. Definitely exploring background music for future videos as well, thanks for the feedback!
"Not being tested" should have had been treated as an advantage... we saw how good the celtics were the entire regular season including owning the mavs. In the playoffs they were already up handily in qll the series where people got hurt... you should have seen how gpod the celtics were plus being rested.
No definitely don’t disagree with you here. Overlooking regular season results is something I probably won’t do again. Another comment I saw earlier too said I judged the Celtics too harshly from the past and the change from Smart to Jrue was a big deal. But I can definitely admit that oversight that I won’t make going into next year. Boston the favorites this season we’ll see if it hold tho lots of good teams coming for the crown next year.
Some of the mainstream media analysis of the defense has really made me eye-roll in that Jaylen defending Luca was impressive and very important, but people used it as a knock on JT. JT couldn't guard Luca because the Celtics entire (impeccably planned) defensive scheme revolved around Tatum guarding the center.
I don’t think it should be knock but it definitely is a credit to Brown, in addition that I felt like Brown was more efficient than Tatum and I thought overall was more consistent in these playoffs than Tatum was. Tatum definitely did a better job getting his teammates involved but something was missing with him. I wasn’t super impressed by this playoff run to be quite honest.
@ITLIsaac ask yourself who would u rather contain brown or tatum?and now u know the answer to browns offensive success he doesn't get double like tatum or draw the defense and tatum passes more and does less iso now
Might have been a sweep if Porzingas had played the entire series...Who knows though..
😂😂😂 dont kiss our asses now.
picking dallas for momentum reasons made no sense, since nobody had more momentum than boston. if it seemed like they hadn't been tested, it was because they were good.
Bro how in the fuck did you think the Mavs were better shooting 3s when that’s literally the Celtics offense
Celtics for sure were the better regular season 3 point shooting team but they were alittle up and down all post season coming into the finals. Which was why I made the comment, but tbh 3 point shooting for most teams in the post season weren’t all that this year. But used more of the post season sample size more so than the regular season. Trying to figure out what metric is better in predicting playoff winners, regular season or playoff trend is something I’m gonna look at especially for this playoffs going forward.
1:40 yeah… you definitely RODE something 😂😂
Did this guy just say he thought Dallas was the better 3pt shooting team.. 🤦
😅😅yeah that one threw me as well. Maybe dude hadn't watched Boston this season?
yep
"COACHING ADVANTAGE" ON DALLAS SCREEN...joke of the universe for sure.
Most of those bench points were in the blowout.
You should not have looked at the numbers itself but more so the matchup. I understand regular season is tricky since Minny swept Phoenix in the playoffs and in the regular season Pheonix had their way but just matchup wise, it was a bad matchup for Dallas especially having coach Mazulla put Tatum on their bigs to negate any action they could have with their bigs
Agree with everything you said. Especially that valuing numbers over matchups mistake I made. That Tatum angle was something I didn’t anticipate at all and didn’t anticipate it being as effective as it was. But definitely keying in on matchups alittle more over numbers going forward.
Jrue had a consistent jump shot and let's the game come to him. Jrue > Marcus Smart
Couldn’t agree more. Both are also very good defenders, but personally, I think Jrue is a better defender than Marcus as well.
@@ITLIsaac smart yes he can defend but was a offensive liability. He wasn’t a consistent shooter like Holiday.
I agree with your analysis but you don’t know about the future of the celtics bro!!! they gonna be nice for a while!
Never said they wouldn’t be, honestly believe they will be here for awhile. Locked down a lot of key rotational pieces for at least the next 4 years. Could be the beginning of their reign. But I am skeptical because I believed the same thing about Denver coming into the year, and no one has won back to back chips since 2018. We’ll see tho, they’re the best suited team to do it.
Na you were way too easy on Luka doncic. He was horrible on both sides of the ball. He was horrific on defense and pretty bad on offense. Free throw percentage horrible 3-point percentage horrible, And he became extremely predictable and one-dimensional. If he was guarding somebody he was bigger and stronger than he would bully his way by them and get all the way to the rim if he wasn't strong enough to get by you he would always settle for a step back or a fade away.
I’ll definitely give that I was easy on him for sure. Because this was a celebration/apology to the Boston Celtics for doubting them I didn’t want to dwell too much on Dallas. I isolated Kyrie tho because he played so much worse although this wasn’t a great series for Luka his numbers were still there on lower efficiency. Kyrie no showing in Boston gave Dallas no shot regardless of how great Luka could’ve played imo…although lol one could argue Luka’s inability to defend could also be a hinderance to any chance Dallas had no matter how well Kyrie could’ve played. But they were for sure both not good enough.
Rofl coaching advantage to Kidd?
Mavs in 5-6 mavs have greatest duo in history yea aight shut that up real quick lmao 🤫🤫idk how people picked mavs
Missed you form being w/ Bruce never do it again.
Your voice can put a dead person to sleep
I agree I thought I was watching a funeral video lucky for me a Celtics fan it was a funeral video for the Dallas Mavs the reason why people pick the Dallas Mass was out of pure hate for Boston Boston has put up with a hatred of every single US city for the past 50 years and as Tom Brady always said they hate us because they ain't us true bostonians like myself do not give a f$$$ what the cities think of us we just keep winning baby
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