While the team was unsuccessful in Sunday’s 114-112 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, the Boston Celtics have shown in recent times that there could be some truth to the notion that they can go on an NBA Finals run.
We are well beyond the half-way point in the season, and are at the critical portion of the NBA’s six-month regular season gauntlet. Good news Boston Celtics fans: your team has the capability to not only reach the even more intense post-season gauntlet for the sixth consecutive seasons, but also possess legitimate title aspirations.
Regardless of the shenanigans that happened in the team’s recent loss to LeBron James‘ Los Angeles Lakers, the Celtics are still a top three seed in the Eastern Conference and have proven capable of hanging with all of the league’s top teams–even stealing games from the Milwaukee Bucks and the Lakers in the first match-up between the NBA’s greatest rivals.
Momentum is clearly on the side of the Celtics this season. Free agent signings are delivering as they were intended to. Youth is developing at the appropriate rate. Guys are stepping up on a game-to-game basis because the coaching culture is strong.
Heading into the All-Star break, there were signs that the team was capable of having several players step up game-to-game…a must for a seven-game series. Since the mid-February classic, the Boston Celtics have reinforced several notions.
Winning against bad teams, and competing (and arguably being robbed against) great teams is what the Celtics floor is. Here are three truths that speak to their ceiling in 2019-20: