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Thoughts on the Celtics getting the #1 seed.

The Cavs are playing awfully well right now and they're 6.5 games ahead of us which is a huge lead, considering they won't be losing many games.

[5.5 games ahead of the Magic]

http://espn.go.com/nba/standings/_/group/2

Health. Magic are a non-factor and the Cavs are vulnerable...as long as they don't get their (usual) ref-help, if we are healthy we can beat anyone in the East (although Atlanta scares me)

I dont care about the first spot, but I would like ORL to stay in front of ATL. I really would not like to play ATL in 2 round.

^if someone else can take out Atlanta, I like our chances (apart from the ref-help LeQueen will get)

MyInsatiableOne wrote:^if someone else can take out Atlanta, I like our chances (apart from the ref-help LeQueen will get)

I posted a long ass post on hemingways "still believe were champs topic" that concurs with this statement.
Atlanta is the scare team for me too because of there youth and depth. We can totally take Cleveland and if we play with passion we can beat Oralndo. It would be sweet to see upsets vs. all three in the 1st round though. Cause anyboby else including Chicago we could beat.

^right on!

MyInsatiableOne wrote:Health. Magic are a non-factor and the Cavs are vulnerable...as long as they don't get their (usual) ref-help, if we are healthy we can beat anyone in the East (although Atlanta scares me)

how exactly the are the magic a non-factor?

Because VC has been a bust and we've handled them pretty well this season...they're worse than last season and I don't see them getting past round 2 in the playoffs

Atlanta (with Crawford) is a scary team. Dude brings his A++++ game when he plays us every time.

I'm not worried about Orlando. Vince looks like he's done half the time and Howard is afraid of Perk.

I do think we can catch Cleveland, but we need to get healthy and get some Unbutu chemistry from two years ago.