Son Goku 25 wrote:Fantaxp7 wrote:Assuming both team are healthy, we still have the edge.
As far as where things actually are, Kawhi is still an enigma.
That news that said Ainge was unwilling to make any move without some assurance of Kawhi's health is crazy to me. As far as we know there was nothing done to prove this.
And now the news that Kawhi is warming up to playing for the Raptors...
We have our own questions for health, however it is not nearly as serious, if Hayward and Irving aren't 100% until the end of the season, well, we've seen just how good our team is with out them.
Curious to know how the Celtics have an edge of a healthy Raptors team.
Boston has more talent. Leonard is the best player out of everyone involved based on past performance but he isn't light years better than Irving, it is just he is an excellent two way player and Irving is average at best defensively. Lowry is a good player but at his age I would have a hard time slotting him in over Hayward, Tatum or Brown. Horford is better than Ibaka or Valunciunas and Boston has Baynes to match up physically. Theis and Williams are question marks for Boston and I like TOR bench pieces but again we aren't even talking about Smart and Rozier. TOR's bench is going to make it so they may have a regular season advantage where night in and night out they don't let up on teams assuming they are healthy and Leonard is on board. But head to head or in a 7 game series I think TOR needs another star talent, while they upgraded DeRozan they still need another guy.