| Ryan on Eastern Conference Playoffs |
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| Written by Ryan.W | |
| Tuesday, 22 April 2008 | |
 Honestly, the Boston Celtics will be playing like men among boys in the Eastern Conference. Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce are just too powerful a combination for any team in the East to handle. It not just that these three can score at will, but there defense is the best in the NBA and they can stop anyone. Not saying that the East is just terrible (well it is pretty bad), but the Celtics are just that good! I could almost say that the Celtics will go undefeated in the playoffs, 12 straight wins without a real challenge until they get to the NBA finals against a real team (the Lakers) in the West. Once again, another bold statement, but it is hard to argue that the Boston Celtics aren’t the best team in the NBA as of right now. Only 16 losses all season long! That is pretty amazing if you ask me, I know the East wasn’t that competitive this season, but a lot of those wins were against the best in the West too. Anyways, enough about the Celtics, lets get to the rest of the victims; I mean teams in the Eastern Conference playoffs. I only see one team giving the mighty Celtics a run for their money and that is the Detroit Pistons. I am not as confident in this analysis as I was before they got beat in game one by the Philadelphia 76ers, but if I know the Pistons they will come back with a vengeance in game two. The Pistons have the best starting five in the NBA hands down! Rip Hamilton, Chauncey Billups, Rasheed Wallace, Tayshawn Prince and Antonio McDyess. No other team in the league has a starting five as talented and experienced in the playoffs as the Detroit Pistons. All these boys are solid defenders, dependable in the clutch and offensive threats at any given moment of any given contest. As for the rest of the East you have a lot of teams that have no business in the playoffs like the Toronto Raptors who last season were a good team with potential, but have dropped the ball over the course of this season and should be a somewhat easy sweep for the Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic. Then you have the Atlanta Hawks who I believe will be a very good team in the near future with some young players (Josh Smith, Al Horford) and seasoned veterans (Mike Bibby, Joe Johnson) learning to play together, but against the Boston Celtics, they are nothing but a D-league team that will be like a scrimmage for KG and company. The Washington Wizards are another team that I believed had a chance to shock some people with a healthy Gilbert Arenas, key word “healthy”, but since Arenas hurt his wrist in the first game the Wiz have been terrible and no problem for LeBron James and his Cavs. In game two they were beaten by an unheard of 30 points, the game was physical and actually was competitive in the beginning, but then LeBron took over and it was just that, over! The final two teams are the Orlando Magic and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Now these two teams are talented and could possibly go far in these playoffs, but much like the Hornets, the inexperience of the Magic will be their undoing and the weak supporting cast of LeBron’s will be theirs. Don’t get me wrong, I believe any team with a player like LeBron James has a legit chance of getting far, but if you watched the NBA finals last year, you know that King James and the Cavs couldn’t hang with a team like the Celtics or any team in the West for that matter. Although the East is seemingly predictable, you truly never know what can happen, so I suggest you watch with an open mind because the 76ers already took one from the Pistons and I never would’ve thought that would happen!         Set as favorite Bookmark Comments
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