Poll Thread: Who wins?

Who wins?


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wade boggs chicken dinner

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I haven't seen this as much here as I've seen this elsewhere but there is obviously a lot of chatter about who on the Celtics guards whom on the Cavs, especially who takes Lebron?

The problem the Celtics face and have faced versus Cleveland over the past few years is that A. the Celtics LOVE to switch and B. the Cavs LOVE to screen in order to draw the match ups they want (and excel at this).

It'll be interesting to see if the Celtics continue this trend (which is very much a staple of how they play defense) or if they "adjust." Does Brad think with perhaps Morris, Brown, and Tatum (two of which they didn't have last year) on the floor at the same time they are better able to switch everything and there's no need to modify the way they play the Cavs?
Funny you should ask this question. Some reddit guy went through the playoffs last year and apparently everyone got torched by LBJ except Jae Crowder, which is to be expected. (Here's the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/bostonceltics/comments/8iqoxz/how_lebron_james_destroyed_the_celtics_in_2017/).

Brad is going to start out by switching. If he doesn't switch, he's really got to trap the PnR, and then, as they say, if LBJ can beat the trap, it's 4-3 the rest of the play and giving up open 3s is a fast way to lose the game.

I think the Cavs are going to try out a variety of different switches but when they need a bucket, they will get Rozier switched onto LBJ. It will be interesting to see how BOS defends that.
 

riboflav

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Funny you should ask this question. Some reddit guy went through the playoffs last year and apparently everyone got torched by LBJ except Jae Crowder, which is to be expected. (Here's the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/bostonceltics/comments/8iqoxz/how_lebron_james_destroyed_the_celtics_in_2017/).

Brad is going to start out by switching. If he doesn't switch, he's really got to trap the PnR, and then, as they say, if LBJ can beat the trap, it's 4-3 the rest of the play and giving up open 3s is a fast way to lose the game.

I think the Cavs are going to try out a variety of different switches but when they need a bucket, they will get Rozier switched onto LBJ. It will be interesting to see how BOS defends that.
My greatest fear, and I hope I am somehow wrong, is that SoSH is about to learn how terrible Rozier is at guarding PnRs.

Off-ball (or on-ball) screens that lead to LBJ with Terry on him well, lol, it's over.
 

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I had the exact same feeling watching that. But as a metaphysical counter to that: anyone who spent the last few years taking bets against the inevitable is rich by now. Cubs won a World Series. The 73-win Warriors fell. Brady won and lost Super Bowls in unthinkable fashion. Trump. These are weird times.
The... Cubs?