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Sunday, March 06, 2022

DHL Dan CXX - Back On The Celtics Bandwagon

It's interesting what a decent sized winning streak can do to change the attitude of certain sports columnists:
It might be time to start thinking ‘why not us?’ about the Celtics, and other thoughts

Picked-up pieces while cursing baseball owners and players …

Except for his boss - don't want to mess up those paychecks!
▪ The Celtics are fun again. And they are good. Sunday afternoon at home against Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and the Brooklyn Nets, the Celtics have a chance to go on national television and announce their candidacy for the 2022 NBA championship.

Wait … too much too soon, you think?

Probably. But maybe not. There are no current NBA monster teams (think 1985-86 Celtics), and given what the Celtics have been doing, you can make the “Why Not Us?” case for this group.

They have a terrific starting five, play the best defense in the league, and finally seem to be buying in on new coach Ime Udoka. In the cold and dark of March — with no football or baseball — this brings out the Full Scalabrine in some of us.
Two months ago he was calling the team annoying and frustrating. Winning cures a lot of things.

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