While it seems as though the online sports betting prognosticators feel as though a .500 mark over their past ten games means that the Boston Celtics are no longer the team to beat in the Eastern conference, the truth is that a brief slump in the month of
March is nothing this team is worried about.
Just a year ago it was this same Celtics’ team that limped into the postseason while looking up at the Cleveland Cavaliers and Orlando Magic, but nobody remembers that after they pushed the Los Angeles Lakers to seven games in last year’s NBA Finals.
Kevin Garnett has had pay per head injury issues of his own over the years, and while Glen “Big Baby” Davis has shown improvement over the years, he is still nowhere close to playing at the level of his All Star teammate. Rajon Rondo is a budding superstar on a team where he has all the tools to work his magic, but that’s only if veterans Paul Pierce and Ray Allen are healthy. The Celtics made sure those players over the age of 30 got the rest that they needed down the stretch last year, and it paid off for them when they got to the postseason. It will be no different this year with Allen and Pierce firing from all cylinders, especially against an improved sports betting bonus conference.
While only Orlando boasts the powerful big men to wear them down on the interior, any long playoff run will likely result in another finals against the two-time defending champion Lakers. Rivers and his players understand that full well, and that is why the Celtics haven’t worried despite some tough results in recent weeks. Boston will be back when the games actually begin to matter, and until they are taken out in the postseason, the Celtics are still the team to beat in the Eastern conference.
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