It’s official, the Celtics are the Heat’s dolphins in the Eastern Conference! Thanks to the last two months with a bang, the men of Ime Udoka offer themselves a confrontation against the winner of the play-in match between Brooklyn and Cleveland.
Second in the East, who would have believed it two months ago, but thanks to a fiery final sprint, Boston will therefore face the seventh from the play-in tournament. Since the All-Star Game, Jayson Tatum’s gang has won sixteen games and lost five. almost optimal efficiency, and that necessarily gives a nice rise in the standings which ends beautifully by styling the buzzer of the regular Bucks and Sixers. At the initiative of this big return to the front of the stage? A collective jump led by executives Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, who closed the 2021-22 financial year at 26.9 and 23.7 points respectively on average. They will also have been well supported by the efforts of luxury lieutenants like Dennis Schröder before his departure and Marcus Smart, one of the big favorites in the race for the best defender of the year trophy, just that. In short, in two months of competition, the Celtics have gone from a team in poor shape unable to kill a game to a team that can absolutely invite itself to the top of the East in a big month.
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The Celtics’ opponent? It will therefore be the winner of the first Eastern Conference play-in game between the Cavs and the Nets. Inevitably, we immediately think of a potential opposition with Brooklyn, synonymous among other things with a reunion between the capital of Massachusetts and Kyrie Irving. However, it is absolutely not impossible that the C’s do not have to get rid of Darius Garland and company in a week. But all that is still uncertain… and speaking of certainty, the one we have at the moment is that the Greens will arrive full of confidence in the first round of the postseason.
We can only congratulate the Celtics for having had the strength of character to afford an exceptional end to the season. Now, heading for the Playoffs, pockets full of valiantly acquired confidence!