I admire your enthusiasm, but citing a home win (no matter how impressive) against a 37-45 team doesn't make the case. For example, a 37 win team in the East is equivalent to a 22 win team in the West, Minnesota for example. On February 13, 2008, the Lakers beat Minnesota at Minnesota 117-92. Can you imagine if a Lakers fan said "If the Lakers play like they did against Minnesota, no one will beat them."
I didn't imagine the Celtics beating the crap out of the west all year. The Celtics have the
talent to win, and if they can be a
mature basketball team I think they will be successful.
I said if the Celtics played the way they did in the last game of the playoffs no one could beat them, which is true. I didn't cite some game from the regular season. Hawks or not, the Celtics played complete basketball for the entire game during game seven, and they looked like the team they where in the regular season ( which when playing complete ball - beat all the best teams in the west).
If the laker's blew out the Hawks, and played pretty much perfect basketball and you said - " if the Laker's play like that for the rest of the playoffs - they won't lose) I would have no problem with that. I'm not saying that is going to happen, I'm simply saying that if the Celtics play like they did in game seven ( and like they did for the vast majority of the regular season), I don't think they will lose.
Spare me with the east west stuff, the Celtics record vs the best conference in the NBA says it all. They have the talent to win, it will come down to if they learn from what happened in Atlanta, and Rivers can hold them together as a team. Did they play at to high a level all year, I dont know. You could argue that they cant "turn it up a notch" in the playoffs, because they played at such a high level all year.
Most people are trying to think of any excuse to tell me why the Celtics won't win, and some people are telling me why they wont win next year. Fact is this is a very good basketball team ( that's still inexperienced as a team in the playoffs) that beat the best of the best all year during the regular season. If they play to their ability, they have a very good shot to win it all.