Pachinko_ wrote:ajones9219 wrote:Before they went on that mid March stretch the went on an 8-2 tear. That's my point really. They showed that they were a decent to good team for stretches and their record post dipo is not indicative of them as a team. They just played a brutal schedule from the end of January on, not just in March .... But I digress
My main point is you have people talking like the Celtics we're out here playing the Knicks in the first round. I'm arguing they swept a quality opponent and should have more respec put on their name lol
I mean you keep avoiding to look at the whole 35 game stretch that Dipo was down. It had hard stretches, easy stretches and everything in between, because it was nearly half a season. And there were plenty of bad losses in there that you would not expect from a true 5 seed. But ok, if you focus on that brutal stretch in March with top seeds from both conferences, when a good NBA team hits a stretch like that they typically lose 50-60% of those games. Indiana just couldn't do anything against good teams, they lost nearly all of them. You can only do so much when your best offensive talent is BB, I mean honestly answer me this: that was their best player, would he even be a starter on the Celtics?
I didn't avoid anything. Like I said when dipo went down they dropped a few in a row, which is to be expected. From there on out they basically beat the teams they were expected to beat, and lost to the teams they were expected to lose to. They even upset some good teams along the way. So my point is if dipo never existed and the offense was built around the rest of the team that they would still be a good team
