Boston Celtics: 3 keys to victory over the Raptors in game-one

In preparation for game-one against the Toronto Raptors, the Houdini pinpoints three keys to victory for the Boston Celtics.

The beginning of this week started with quite a stir, as rumors started to spread that the Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors were mulling over the idea of potentially boycotting their game-one bout in order to protest the latest example of unnecessary excessive force by a police officer on an unarmed black American.

The middle of the week saw this plan actual take to action for, on Wednesday, the Milwaukee Bucks staged a “walkout” prior to tipoff of their game-five exhibition against the Orlando Magic.

As a result, the rest of the games on the slate that day, and the following day, were subsequently postponed, and the fate of the Disney bubble seemed to be hanging in the balance.

Today, however, is a new day, for the NBA and NBPA ended up deciding to continue on with the 2019-20 postseason.

With this, the chance for the shamrocks to attain banner number 18 is still alive.

Before we get too ahead of ourselves, however, Boston must fend off the defending champion Toronto Raptors in the Eastern Conference Semifinals first.

This series is bound to be a long one, as both teams are coming into it red-hot off their 48+ win regular-seasons and series sweeps from the first round.

At this point, one cannot say definitively who will come away from this series as victors — though, some see Boston as relative underdogs. With that, I guess we’ll just have to take things one step at a time — starting with game-one.

If the Celtics want to come away from the exhibition leading the series 1-0, they’ll likely want to try and hone in on these three keys: