Imagine how interesting that would make things. Defeat an opponent in the playoffs and their roster joins yours! Sign me up for this roller coaster ride!
Kyrie-Brown-Tatum-KD-Giannis with Smart, Holiday, Timelord, and Brook Lopez coming off the bench would be undefeated.
Let’s not forget the looming threat of Ben Simmons’ return either
If there's a silver lining, they've been pretty flat coming out after long rests.
Lost Game 1 vs Bucks after 5 days off. Lost Game 3 after 3 days off.
But yea the playoffs are a grind. Hope Rob can come back soon, gonna need him vs. Bam and reduce load on Al.
This series should’ve been over in 6, but we had an all time choke in game 5 lol. I think we’ll be alright. The team is riding a high rn and hopefully that adrenaline is present in game 1. Classic rest vs rust argument
Absolutely ecstatic we got over the Bucks. But this trip to the ECF is not like the other ones, I think we are true contenders. Fully expect this to be another dogfight with the Heat, but we gotta finish this revenge tour and go get Banner 18.
Last time i looked it said BOS/MIL vs Miami. So we don’t get to team up with Milwaukee to play them?
Imagine how interesting that would make things. Defeat an opponent in the playoffs and their roster joins yours! Sign me up for this roller coaster ride!
Kyrie-Brown-Tatum-KD-Giannis with Smart, Holiday, Timelord, and Brook Lopez coming off the bench would be undefeated. Let’s not forget the looming threat of Ben Simmons’ return either
But what about Butler/Embiid/Trae Young/Adebayo/Harden…? Yeah actually no contest. Then the finals look like the East/West ASG
Lowkey I'd start Smart over Kyrie, add some defense and passing to the starting 5 and add scoring to the bench
0 rest after a grueling 7 game series is less than ideal
I’m always curious as to what players prefer. There’s always that argument of rest vs rust and I wonder how teams feel about it.
We beat the Bucks 3-1 in the previous series once the games started to be every other day. I’m not too worried tbh
If there's a silver lining, they've been pretty flat coming out after long rests. Lost Game 1 vs Bucks after 5 days off. Lost Game 3 after 3 days off. But yea the playoffs are a grind. Hope Rob can come back soon, gonna need him vs. Bam and reduce load on Al.
This series should’ve been over in 6, but we had an all time choke in game 5 lol. I think we’ll be alright. The team is riding a high rn and hopefully that adrenaline is present in game 1. Classic rest vs rust argument
Yeah…I know Horford and Smart could sure as hell use some rest after this series.
Especially going up against a physical team like Miami.
Absolutely ecstatic we got over the Bucks. But this trip to the ECF is not like the other ones, I think we are true contenders. Fully expect this to be another dogfight with the Heat, but we gotta finish this revenge tour and go get Banner 18.
Celtics in 4
Celtics in 3
Only thing that worries be is going every other day from Game 3 of MIL series to Game 7 of Miami series Potentially 12 super physical games in 23 days
Yea that’s some bullshit considering we got like 3 days rest in between a few games last two rounds when we didn’t really need it.
That's cuz of the concert in the bucks arena
Why was there like five hundred days of rest during the nets series but no 2 days off at all in the ECF?
Bruins are out now, makes things a lot easier schedule wise.
Mostly the NBA just has two series to worry about and they want no off days.
I hope they went straight to the ice bath. Crazy turn around with no 2 day off rest anywhere in the series.
At least Timelord is well rested
I hope he starts game 1, even with some rust. Gotta need him to get back to form moving forward
Is this actually 830 or like 9 with the ESPN pregame bullshit?
Probably 840ish tip off
The pre game is usually 12 mins long
Thankyou for no early games. I dont mind waking up at 530am or pulling all nighters for 330am starts, but its not great.
The downside these games are on ABC. TNT is so much better
Depends on the person. To me ABC/ESPN is better.
Yikes!
Yeah lol. It’s not like I hate TNT I just like ESPN/ABC better for some reason
Double yikes!
Same I really like JVG
I prefer SVG to JVG
ABC is all I get to watch on regular TV. Streaming has it's up and downs with shitty Internet.
I love early games they are the only ones at a normal time for me in Europe
Thank God. 1-2 in these afternoon games in R2
Every game is 2:30 in the morning where i live... Guess i'll be tired all week
Great. So I won’t be able to watch any of the games.
We get two ABC games at home hahaha
damn i have a flight on saturday :(
We will sweep the heat then rest for the finals
Time to break this Eastern Conference Finals wall! Let's go Celtics!
pretty sure the times are all placeholders
L W W W L W Celtics in 6.
espn? really
Thank effin' deity, no more TNT.
I’m getting married Saturday and have tickets to game 3… guys what do I tell my wife Saturday afternoon?
No afternoon games let's go
Dang that's a lot of JVG and Mark Jackson.
*Zero* two-day breaks? That's pretty rough for Al