The Boston Celtics have won back-to-back series in five games.
their championship capacity is not truly testedJoe Mazzulla's squad hasn't really been pushed to their limits and around-the-clock coverage dictates an exploration about if that will cause some problems down the road.bandied about such a conversation on Thursday morning, with Tim Legler explaining why losing only two games this postseason may actually be a bad thing for the Celtics.As with all this stuff, it's important to say right up front that Legler may be 100 percent correct.
One can also make the argument that the Celtics have built in a significant amount of challenge — the perfect amount really — into their postseason push without putting themselves in actual jeopardy. They've dropped both Game 2s they've played in to lose homecourt advantage before storming back to win three straight with conviction. So they've got a taste of that challenge and peril but not had to develop deep, long-lasting indigestion.
Sports punditry is an art more than it's a science so people can look at a situation and see a million different reasons for why something is or isn't happening. And everyone gets to be proven right if they choose to see it that way. Or hope that everyone forgets that they were wrong. If absolutely forced to guess what's going to happen then, yes, Boston will lose in the Finals — probably to a more talented Denver Nuggets team.
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