New Look Celtics

[TCCcaddie]

We are now a quarter of the way into the NBA season and my Boston Celtics are 20-2 and have the best record in the league and Pierce, Allen, and Garnett are unstoppable. What do you think their chances are of winning the championship or going 72-10 or better?

[DGStinner]

So far, the Celtics have the exact same record the 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls had when they went 72-10.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/...996_games.html

[Bowker]

We are now a quarter of the way into the NBA season and my Boston Celtics are 20-2 and have the best record in the league and Pierce, Allen, and Garnett are unstoppable. What do you think their chances are of winning the championship or going 72-10 or better?

I think the chances of the finals are tremendous.

Playoffs, unless some horrible injury comes up, is inevitable. Look forward to Garnett holding up the trophy this year.

[TCCcaddie]

I think the chances of the finals are tremendous.

Check this out for finals odds.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/playoffodds

[deakanutz]

Awesome the C's are finally good again since the Len Bias curse. What a year for Beantown, Sox, C's, Pats, BC for a while, B's still blow.

[TCCcaddie]

I wasnt around when Bias or Duncan happened but my dad had season tix for them from74-88 and he keeps saying that Bias sent the celtics into a freefall. He propably would have prolonged the big 3's career by 3 years each. Then Reggie Lewis just crippled us. My dad curses Tim Duncan and prays everytime he get on the floor that he breaks his ankle because we lost him. When we made the draft day deal for Ray i was really mad cuz i thought that we lost most of our chips for KG. But when we got him i was so happy because i wanted to experience the glory that has escaped the celtics during my life.

[Bowker]

Check this out for finals odds.

72.5 huh? Pretty good chances I would say.

Especially considering my Wizards only have a 0.7 chance.

[neudi]

The celtics have played the easiest schedule out of anyone so I don't see that they have proved themselves until they play the pistons tonight, first real big test if they win then they are real otherwise we'll see in the long run.

[TCCcaddie]

Its January 5th and the celts are 28-3 now! Round 2 with the Pistons tonight!

[neudi]

I hope the celtics win tonight I want them to break the bulls record.

[TCCcaddie]

29-3 BABY!! Who'd thought that Big Baby would be doin all this, I knew he was going to be good but damn!! Celts are looking good but Ray Allen is playing like a dog these past couple of games he better get his game together.

[golf_junkie27]

I won't get excited about the Celts until they go through Texas and take their first meaningful West Coast trip. That's not a comment against them just what I use as a measuring stick.

The one thing that I don't like hearing is that KG is rejuvenated. Anyone who watches this guy play knows he's like this 24/7/365. He is truly one of the few professionals. Good team, bad team, makes no difference. He's a beast. It also looks as though he's packed on some muscle. The guy is truly amazing.

[neudi]

The big three are huge for the team, but their bench has been stellar when called upon, such as baby shaq, he is just nasty.

[bca42]

I like the thread topic here..

First I'm from Boston so there's a bias. But I haven't watched a C's game in at least 15 years. Mostly because I don't like the way the game/league changed post late-80s, but second I guess because the most storied franchise in it's history was repeatedly a non-factor.

I gave them a few games into this season, but then I have watched nearly in entirety every single game . They are impressive and I'm happy for Pierce to finally have some help. Only time will tell for them...but they have a chance. Those 3 guys have to stay healthy and more importantly their bench has to find a way to become reliable. They're too hot and cold up to now.

[golfchief]

There playing pretty good, to bad for them as the Pistons are going to win it all this year.

[Mark19]

I love these Celts...I can remember the days of the old Garden watching Bird play as a kid. I haven't been this excited about basketball since.

[TCCcaddie]

Havent been on the forum for a while, we've come back down to Earth and now KG's been out. Hope that they rest him until the all-star break to keep him rested. Just took a hard fought loss to the Cav's last night but still the out look is good. It took one of the better teams in the east to play us hard the entire night and they only won by one, and we didnt have KG and Pierce was fighting through the flu so thats not bad.

[rookie]

Have not watched them since the Bird days. Loved the Magic Johnson matchups. Maybe I will have to tune into a game.