Kirk Goldsberry
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It was a decent defense, but Boston's a better defense.
And what I have in my notes is like, this is a classic two versus seven.
And even if Joel Embiid were healthy, I want to be clear, I would pick the Celtics predominantly.
pretty easily in the series, maybe not four or five games, but six or seven.
Um, and he's not.
And so I think the Celtics enter the series is the better offense.
One of the best offenses in the NBA.
I'm not sure that the Sixers will be able to slow that down by any means.
And then on the other side of the court, I think the Celtics enter the series as a top five defense.
And I'm not sure the maxi edge comb, Paul George offense will be able to do anything significant against this
really cohesive great rebounding defense that Boston has put together again, as they reinvented their front court on the fly this season and great job by, by Joe Missoula.
Ultimately, I agree.
This is not going to be very entertaining, not because there's not good players on both teams, but just because one team is so, so much superior and so deep compared to the other.
I just see no, no shot.
Yeah.
There you go.
I was talking to one coach about the Celtics the other day.
And he was saying like one of the,
One of the good things Joe Missoula is really good at is not just putting a weak link defender at the point of attack and attacking, but to put them where he would need to rotate in an off ball.
role.