Cleveland, Check. On to Orlando!

the Heat is our victim

lewis cant guard him ,i hope we can take it in 6 imma pray for it,we got the match ups in our side so i think we gotta good chance at pulling it off

We’ve put a serious dent in the LBJ legacy. Now we can reinforce Vince Carter’s.

2010 would certainly crack my Top 5 favorite Celtic titles ever!

8 more wins to go…do not take the foot off the accelerator until then!

As a Laker fan I hope we can have a rubber match to determine bragging rights for the past 3 years. As many analysts have mentioned this week when healthy this version of the Celtics have yet to lose a series, so lets hope it keeps up for one more series.

The Magic simply has more weapons than the Cavs. Playing the Cavs, once you can contain LBJ, the rest is pretty much harmless. But the Magic has more options, esp in the perimeter. If they are on fire, their 3 pointers can rain on you like those volcanic ashes. If the Celtics defenses the perimeter well, then it is be game over for the Magic.

Rondo will have a worthy opponent in Nelson.

It would be interesting to look the comments many of you have made as little as a few weeks ago or a month ago. You don’t really deserve the right to rejoice in the team’s win. This is no shocker and shouldn’t be to you. It’s nice to see how they have come together, but it was just a matter of the timing of the KG’s recovery and the work to get to re-mesh as a team, not the talent or the players’ collective abilitiy to do this. The guys got healthier and played the way we thought they could, coming into the season. KG leg strength is a lot further back and the signs were there of that in the late stages of the season. T. Allen is finally physically essentially what he was before his knee wrist and ankle derailed him.

This is the team that many of the posters here dumped on and had little perspective and little faith in management and coaches and a ridiculous sense of the nature of healing from injury for pro athletes who must push their bodies to the limits of the possible. So don’t point and say others said the Celts wouldn’t or couldn’t beat Cleveland or be a real threat in the playoffs. Many of you were there too. And now everyone is jumping up and down.

Those analysts (experts) who almost all picked the Cavs, they shouldn’t know the Celtics as well as we who follow them closely. (I note that Charles Barkley said that he wanted to pick the Cavs in a sweep but was willing to give the Celts a game at home. And I remember before the series started an ESPN analyst saying the Cavs had a big edge because of the KG would not be able to cover Antawn Jamison in that match up. Most were pretty pathetic in analyzing these teams. Although I have to give credit to Kenny Smith for his understanding what the Celtics have giving them a real chance against the Cavs).

So to the many of you who reacted like 8 years olds during the season with daily knee-jerk reactions to what the team had done in the last game or two, without regard to injury, the rotation juggling and the constant searching for the teamwork their success depends upon, and to those who derided KG as a has been, T. Allen as worthless and so on, please try to have a little perspective when your knee aches on a rainy day and you want to diss the players and management. And please appreciate their pride and effort and how they’ve worked to get the team back together in time to compete and hopefully do more in the playoffs.

Maybe I am wrong, but I think that Nelson is overestimated by ESPN experts, especially when his matchup will be RR9. I hope Rondo will take him to school. If Sheed, T.Allen and BBD play as well as in the series with the Cavs, we will beat them. I can’t wait for Sunday.

  I think his play was perhaps the greatest key to the wins. He played a LOT of minutes and in many cases played better then PP who he replaced. Both on defense and offense.

Not sure if Tony is that smart even.

I have to join the love fest here.

Time is limited for me right now. But I’m watching dvd replays of the games when I can. What a gutsy, hard headed team, cold blooded team.

Get…out…of their way.

Orlando will be some series.

I am loving what I am seeing. Even Sheed woke up and is being the player I hoped he would be. They need him. He is an x factor for the Cs now.

The Celtics may not have been the Untouchables this season.
but they are the Unpredictables.

loving Tony Allen – x-factor #2.

This is just so satisfying to see happening.

dwight howard then kobe, this could be one heck of a run while beating the best 4 players in the game along the way.. just positive thinking/wishing over here!

on to disneyland. the magic can shoot free throws (except for howard) and free throw shooting is not our specialty. one area of weakness. vince is playing well and can make the big shot. we will have to deflate him. we have to scramble to the 3 point line. last year, reddick played ray very well and became a factor in this series. we can’t let that happen again. nelson is one of the few pg’s who is smaller than rondo and i wonder if rondo can post him up. keep up the defensive intensity. kg instead of mikki helps here. we know that tony is primed and stubby as well. sheed is the x factor and if he gives us the energy, we look hard to beat.

My Cavs sucked… but good luck to you guys.

Tony Allen is the key in this series.

If he can lock down the perimeter, I have faith in Baby, Sheed, and Perk in stopping Dwight.

Celts in 6.

for weeks we were chasing the 2 seed and then it became the 3 seed. IN the end we wound up as the 4 seed and strangely enough that’s probably the best thing that could have happened to us. We matched up great with Miami and had a relatively easy first round. Milwauke would have been tougher and had we played the Magic in the second round and had we won , I doubt we would have had anything left for the Cavs. We played the cavs when we had more energy and that was key. No matter what you say about Orlando – and they are a very tough team and are playing great ball right now- they do not present the same physical challenges as leBron and Shaq. Howard is tough but it’s not like playing against a 260 pound linebacker like LeBron who is quickm stong and just a bull. So in the end our seed position helped us in my opinion.Of course that won’t mean anything if we don’t win the next series.

The ESPN analysist (outside of Chris Brussard who is very fair) are so anti-Celtics that they no longer make me mad. They just make me laugh. The Celtics just won the series in six winning three games in a row including one epic blowout on the road in Game 5. Yet according to every “expert” the Cavs are “still the better team”. Even after the Game 5 blowout, at least three of them were claiming on the Daily Dime Chat yesterday the Celtics would not win another game in this series. Now Adande and Hollinger are claiming the Celtics will lose to Orlando in five. What a joke.

Also did anyone else catch the graphic last night claiming that the Lakers advanced to an “NBA RECORD” 22nd Conference final? I almost threw the remote through the TV when I saw that. The Celtics have won 17 titles. So that is 17 conference final trips right there. Then add in 58 (lost in finals), 67 (lost to Phily in conference finals), 73 (lost to the Knicks in coference finals), 75 (lost to the Bullets in conference finals), 77 (lost to Phily in conference finals), 82 (lost to Phily in conference finals), 85, 87 (lost to Lakers in NBA finals), 88 (Lost to Pistons in conference finals) and that is 26 trips to the conference finals. How can those boneheads mess that up. It is like the Celtics don’t exist in ESPN world.

I don’t think ESPN is trying to reach people that know sports history. Or know what a sophisticated fan is.

I know the Celtics are going to lose in Round 1

On Tuesday, I thought Dwyane Wade could beat by himself what I described in a recent e-mail as a “decrepit, non-rebounding, poorly coached, dispirited, excuse-making, washed-up sham of a contender.”

(BTW, the misspelling on Dwayne is his, not mine).

Runs really well with Rondo and looks like a favorite target of Rondo’s because of his athleticism and hustle. Celts need to build around Rondo with hustle players like TA.