The Boston Celtics Are MAKING HISTORY

The Boston Celtics Are MAKING HISTORY

Is it possible the NBA has its first legitimate super team since the 2017 Warriors and no one realizes it I mean if we were to just go by winning percentage the Celtics are currently the most dominant team since that 2017 Warriors team and who better to tell us

How dominant they are than Steph Curry himself they’re hitting you know 10 threes in the first quarter like that’s so we we used to do the teams it’s kind of demoralizing especially on the road and this win in particular was such a strong indicator of how good this

Celtics team is because not only did they hand Golden State their largest halftime deficit in franchise history it was the way they did it initially the Warriors came out with the game plan to have Draymond Green sag off Jaylen Brown if that sounds crazy it was normally

Teams will have a Defender like Draymond sag off a guy like Aaron Gordon allowing the elite Defender to roam and cause Havoc off the ball well the Warriors decided to try this with Jaylen Brown because statistically he is the worst shooter not just in the starting lineup

But in the entire Celtics rotation and I think you guys can figure out how that game plan went and as brown connects again on a three Brown you B jayen Brown is scorching hot in this first but there’s a reason I mentioning this in particular because it shows the lengths

That teams have to go to trying to pinpoint point a weakness in this Celtics team and that’s generally the case when you have a starting lineup that has five Allstar or near Allstar level quality players and people’s first reaction to that would be to say I’m exaggerating we look at the numbers all

Of these guys put up last year compared to this year this is without mentioning the fact three of these guys are Elite Defenders and all of them can create for others as well it just highlights how much of a reduced role each of the guys have taken this year despite still being

Just as good if not better than they were last year particularly in the case of Chris Taps porzingis who is clearly The X Factor on this Celtics team I mean any player who is 7’3 with the ability to shoot from 30 ft and consistently punish mismatches is going to be a

Nightmare for opposition teams now consider the fact he is the third option sometimes even the fourth option on certain nights and that nightmare gets a whole lot worse just watch on this play where Brown brings the ball up the floor KP sets a pick and because bam chooses

To switch that means KP has the mismatch Brown throws a lovely entry pass over the top which allows KP to get to his hook shot which is money or in this play where he has the mismatch against Cade in the middle of the floor he doesn’t

Try to back him down all the way but it’s a quick dribble to get closer to the basket before rising up for the midi or even a matchup like this against a really strong defender in Aaron Gold Gordon that doesn’t mean anything to KP

Because all he has to do is rise up for what is effectively an open fair line jumper and the numbers back this up as well with KP comfortably the most efficient of any high volume postup player in the league and just look at the company he’s in which is a far cry

From what his reputation was like in Dallas and the reason this is so crucial to the Celtics offense is the added versatility you might not think of Boston as an all-time great shooting team because they’re led by two strong athletic wings but they are one of the greatest shooting teams in NBA history

And they take a lot I mean a lot of three-point shots in fact over the last two seasons they’ve had two of the top five three-point shooting seasons in NBA history and before you tell me yes this is obviously skewed to favor teams over the last few years but regardless the

Celtics are the best shooting team in the NBA KP only makes them better from a shooting standpoint but he also gives them a really high percentage form of offense within the paint that you can consistently go to and without being cliche having this added versatility

When the game slows down and is more of a grind in the playoffs can be the difference between let’s say the 2018 Houston Rockets and the 2022 Denver Nuggets and even two teams as dominant as last year’s nuggets and the 2018 Rockets don’t come close to this Celtics

Team in the regular season that is because we all know Denver are still going to be incredibly difficult to beat in the postseason but the Celtics currently have the third best net rating in NBA history if for whatever reason you want evidence as to how ridiculous

That is only three of the 11 other teams with a net rating higher than 10 have not won a championship the 2016 Spurs who lost to the 73 and9 Golden State Warriors and then well obviously the Warriors themselves and the 1972 Milwaukee Bucks and the Celtics

Don’t just have a net rating higher than 10 the only team with a better net rating in NBA history was the 96 Bulls this is not me cherry-picking numbers to make them look like a super team every number suggests that’s exactly what they are I mean guys they have the number one

Offense and the number number two defense in the league do you know how rare that is very and we have to talk about the two best players on the team because I know these guys have been together for a long period of time so there’s this desire to rank newer and

Fresher Duos ahead of them but the reality is these guys have consistently delivered and have never had a Supporting Cast this good before just take Jason Tatum for example whilst everyone’s debating whether he’s an MVP level player or not this is the fourth consecutive season where he’s averaging

Around 278 and 5 to go along with Elite defense let’s not forget that part of Tatum’s game there’s also just not many players in NBA history with this level of size speed handle and skill this is someone at 6’9 who can bring the ball up the floor receive a ball screen split

The defense and then just throw it down or just as easily if the defense chooses to Sag off on him he can pull up and hit threes at a really high level when I say really high level since the start of 2024 only one player is making more

Pull-up threes per game than JT that’s Luka donic and Tatum is doing this on a higher efficiency at nearly 40% so you have to decide whether you want an elite three-point shooter pulling up or if you think your big man has any chance at staying in front of JT when he has the

Chance to drive down kill and what makes this Celtics team so absurdly good is you could say almost the exact same things about Jaylen Brown obviously he’s not as good a shooter as JT but just look at what happened when the Warriors gave him all that room to shoot and they

Didn’t just give him space because he’s statistically the worst shooter on the team they did so in hopes it would take his best asset away which is getting to the rim relentlessly which he’s been doing super consistently over the last few weeks Aver aing 31 and seven a game

Including the game against Denver where I think the biggest silver lining for the Celtics was the Nugget’s inability to stay in front of brown because it felt like no matter who was guarding him he was either too strong or too fast just look at him on this play put Aaron

Gordon on skates Crossing one way before back the other way and then having the strength to absorb the contact and finish but when it comes to this Boston team it’s not just their talent or net rating of Point differential that makes them a championship level team you also have to consider how incredibly

Difficult it is to beat them in TD God winning 30 of a possible 33 games at home this year and if you want any idea as to how big of an indicator that is since 2015 only one championship team outside of the bubble has lost more than

One game at home the other six title teams combined to have a cumulative record of 60 and5 between them and we have an entire season to suggest Boston a damn near unbeatable at home the one clear standout loss being a twoo defeat to their biggest threat the Denver

Nuggets it just feels like such a strong advantage to be so good at home and have home court in every single series now when you’re a team this good there are so many players that need to be talked about Derek White has gotten a lot of love deservedly so but what about the

Likes of Sam Hower and Payton Pritchard Off the Bench who have been absolutely lights out shooting 44% and 39% from three respectively but what about Al Horford who is casually shooting 50 42 89 splits as your sixthman but easily the craziest part about this team is the

Fact Drew holiday is the fifth option this is someone who was the third option on a championship team just a couple of seasons ago and just averaged 19 and7 last year as the second best player on a team that won nearly 60 games no he hasn’t magically regressed his

Efficiency is actually at a career high he’s just taken a back seat but he still Drew effing holiday as your fifth option

They have the 2nd highest net rating in NBA history…