In terms of talent, the Celtics remain the team to beat

[ArksNetsSince99]

Denver are fools gold. Much as they won the championship, they are not the best team in the league. They only fluked it because of a once-in-a-lifetime run by Miami which surprisingly knocked out the true favorites: Boston. After spanking Milwaukee and Philly towards the end of the season, Boston were given a 65% of winning the championship at the start of the playoffs by analytics websites like 538 and ESPN. They were the only team to tick all the analytical boxes for what usually makes a championship team. And given that they will come back largely with the same team next season, they will most likely be the analytics favorites at the start of next season as well. The Celtics remain the team to beat and a smart GM in the next few months will look towards matching Boston in terms of talent, rather than looking for a "Jokic stopper"

Is this real life , real poster , live person ?

Or I should click on crossroads or bicycles 3 times to find out ?

[ArksNetsSince99]

They hated me because I spoke the truth

No , not like this

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rofl: rofl:

[cam24thomas]

You need your best player to have a high IQ and your coach too, talent doesn't help much if you don't have IQ.

[Zeshawn10]

Lol I'm sure max strus, Caleb Martin, and Gabe Vincent will find a way to bully them again. Celtics are soft as charmin

[CallMeKahn]

Denver are fools gold. Much as they won the championship, they are not the best team in the league.

My brother in Christ, that pretty means they actually are.

[NirvanaFC]

Denver are fools gold. Much as they won the championship, they are not the best team in the league. They only fluked it because of a once-in-a-lifetime run by Miami which surprisingly knocked out the true favorites: Boston. After spanking Milwaukee and Philly towards the end of the season, Boston were given a 65% of winning the championship at the start of the playoffs by analytics websites like 538 and ESPN. They were the only team to tick all the analytical boxes for what usually makes a championship team. And given that they will come back largely with the same team next season, they will most likely be the analytics favorites at the start of next season as well. The Celtics remain the team to beat and a smart GM in the next few months will look towards matching Boston in terms of talent, rather than looking for a "Jokic stopper"

Bro you need to pick a lane, can't be moving goal posts - picking Miami to win and then saying Denver was a fluke

Said it before and I'll say it again: if you beat both the favorites, you are the favorite. Heat in 6

If anyone else had beat the two favorites on their way to the finals, they would be the favorites themselves. The anti-Miami bias is insane at this point

[watch1958]

Its the NBA's fault for not having an analytical championship for the Celtics to win.

I think they are having an analytical parade in Boston this weekend. Maybe it should be 65% of a normal parade.

[aminiaturebuddha]

Whenever I argue this point, I just get hit with a bunch of emotional arguments. The Celtics have the better defense and better 3pt shooting. Nuggets shot 33% from 3 in a 'dominant' finals, yet the Celtics shot 40% from 3 when they 'shat the bed' last year. Just on that fact alone, it would have been the Celtics game to lose had they reached the finals

Well petition the NBA to ret-con this as well as last years Finals and give the Celtics their much deserved titles. I mean, that would be the right thing to do right. That way everybody wins!!

Look, clearly the Finals are just a "guideline". The NBA shouldn't be confined to awarding the championship to the team that wins it. It's that kind of narrow thinking that will lead to people actually wanting to watch the games be played by human beings.

[Profound23]

Disagree, currently if you are going off of pure talent PHX is the team to beat.

Also, Denver is not fools gold.

[Curmudgeon]

The Celtics were the team to beat last year, and the year before that and the year before that. Talent means nothing if you don't make plays, and for the most part the Celtics don't, except for Tatum and the guy they just traded. Now we can watch the Celtics beat themselves again by throwing passes away, dribbling the ball off their collective feet and woolgathering on defense.

[cam24thomas]

Disagree, currently if you are going off of pure talent PHX is the team to beat.

Also, Denver is not fools gold.

Phoenix can't defend anyone in the paint/post, so hard to believe they'll ever be "the team to beat".
Jokic and Giannis are too much for Phoenix.
Also, Jokic and Giannis can both dominate close to the basket, whereas Phoenix rely on perimeter shooting, so when Phoenix go cold....

[jkvonny]

Denver are fools gold. Much as they won the championship, they are not the best team in the league. They only fluked it because of a once-in-a-lifetime run by Miami which surprisingly knocked out the true favorites: Boston. After spanking Milwaukee and Philly towards the end of the season, Boston were given a 65% of winning the championship at the start of the playoffs by analytics websites like 538 and ESPN. They were the only team to tick all the analytical boxes for what usually makes a championship team. And given that they will come back largely with the same team next season, they will most likely be the analytics favorites at the start of next season as well. The Celtics remain the team to beat and a smart GM in the next few months will look towards matching Boston in terms of talent, rather than looking for a "Jokic stopper"

Bro you need to pick a lane, can't be moving goal posts - picking Miami to win and then saying Denver was a fluke

Said it before and I'll say it again: if you beat both the favorites, you are the favorite. Heat in 6

If anyone else had beat the two favorites on their way to the finals, they would be the favorites themselves. The anti-Miami bias is insane at this point

Good find!
Yup. I remember him in those game threads for NBA Finals. Kept saying Heat in 6 or 7 and each game was the Heat turn to win.

[jkvonny]

You need your best player to have a high IQ and your coach too, talent doesn't help much if you don't have IQ.

OP.

This...

[jkvonny]

Lol I'm sure max strus, Caleb Martin, and Gabe Vincent will find a way to bully them again. Celtics are soft as charmin

OP

This....

[LakersLegacy]

Denver are fools gold. Much as they won the championship, they are not the best team in the league. They only fluked it because of a once-in-a-lifetime run by Miami which surprisingly knocked out the true favorites: Boston. After spanking Milwaukee and Philly towards the end of the season, Boston were given a 65% of winning the championship at the start of the playoffs by analytics websites like 538 and ESPN. They were the only team to tick all the analytical boxes for what usually makes a championship team. And given that they will come back largely with the same team next season, they will most likely be the analytics favorites at the start of next season as well. The Celtics remain the team to beat and a smart GM in the next few months will look towards matching Boston in terms of talent, rather than looking for a "Jokic stopper"

In terms of talent (that has not yet won)the Celtics are the team to beat

Nuggets, Warriors, Bucks, Lakers already won. Celtics are due after making the conference Finals back in 2018 and making the Finals in 2021 + unicorn now

[sammo89]

Denver are fools gold. Much as they won the championship, they are not the best team in the league. They only fluked it because of a once-in-a-lifetime run by Miami which surprisingly knocked out the true favorites: Boston. After spanking Milwaukee and Philly towards the end of the season, Boston were given a 65% of winning the championship at the start of the playoffs by analytics websites like 538 and ESPN. They were the only team to tick all the analytical boxes for what usually makes a championship team. And given that they will come back largely with the same team next season, they will most likely be the analytics favorites at the start of next season as well. The Celtics remain the team to beat and a smart GM in the next few months will look towards matching Boston in terms of talent, rather than looking for a "Jokic stopper"

Bro you need to pick a lane, can't be moving goal posts - picking Miami to win and then saying Denver was a fluke

Said it before and I'll say it again: if you beat both the favorites, you are the favorite. Heat in 6

If anyone else had beat the two favorites on their way to the finals, they would be the favorites themselves. The anti-Miami bias is insane at this point

I am actually being very consistent. In both situations, my opinion is that Denver is not that good

[jkvonny]

Denver are fools gold. Much as they won the championship, they are not the best team in the league. They only fluked it because of a once-in-a-lifetime run by Miami which surprisingly knocked out the true favorites: Boston. After spanking Milwaukee and Philly towards the end of the season, Boston were given a 65% of winning the championship at the start of the playoffs by analytics websites like 538 and ESPN. They were the only team to tick all the analytical boxes for what usually makes a championship team. And given that they will come back largely with the same team next season, they will most likely be the analytics favorites at the start of next season as well. The Celtics remain the team to beat and a smart GM in the next few months will look towards matching Boston in terms of talent, rather than looking for a "Jokic stopper"

Bro you need to pick a lane, can't be moving goal posts - picking Miami to win and then saying Denver was a fluke

Said it before and I'll say it again: if you beat both the favorites, you are the favorite. Heat in 6

If anyone else had beat the two favorites on their way to the finals, they would be the favorites themselves. The anti-Miami bias is insane at this point

I am actually being very consistent. In both situations, my opinion is that Denver is not that good

And you were wrong, too.

Consistently wrong.

[Buckets22]

We might have just witnessed the hottest of all hot takes in 2023

[BBallFreak]

Get past Miami first.

[audiosway]

Yikes OP. I bet you are fun at parties.

The most talented team in the league right now is Denver. It didn't matter who they faced this year. Denver is stacked from top to bottom.