Is the Celtics' Playoff Path TOO Easy??

[@Toothless49]

Their the one seed. Thats how its supposed to work 💀

[@cj0402able]

Ya they’re supposed to play the worse teams but both teams had their star player get injured

[@TheBballer]

@@cj0402ablehow is that their fault 💀

[@neo1343]

Yeh but the west seed has way more competition on the road to the finals

[@KDsburner-vg8vp]

Bro you seen how trash the East is. 2nd seed would be 5th in the West. They should be closer to a 70 win team with how bad the east is.

[@unknownuser69420.]

I hate when people say this. It’s not just the fact that they are the 1seed, it’s just these huge injuries make the road so easy

[@Firefist0123]

I like how they literally said this last year about the nuggets

[@irfbabOfficial]

Difference is the nuggets met an 8th seed in the finals that isn’t gonna happen this time

[@user-dh3kq8wp4h]

nuggets faced lebron and ad, kd and book, while the celtics faced bam and herro and mobley and garland

[@JimmyCooks-fg7st]

@@user-dh3kq8wp4hpheonix is horrible

[@JimmyCooks-fg7st]

@@user-dh3kq8wp4hand they played injured wolves team with two key pieces out, McDaniel there best perimeter defender and naz reed 6th man of the year

[@nobodybelievesunderscores4122]

@@user-dh3kq8wp4hdon’t even try to tell me that any of the teams the Nuggets played were good. The Timberwolves had a bad net rating (it was negative), the Suns were mid as heck, the Lakers were also mid, and the Heat sucked (-0.3 net rating) so don’t even try telling me that they had a hard time

[@kimemia_maina]

People saying these Celtics ate not battle tested seem to have forgotten that this core has been grinding out 7 game series for years leading up to this season

[@Youllneverfindmezx]

And lost most of them as well. Lost 2018, lost 2019, lost 2020, in 2023 they shouldn’t have gone to 7 with the Sixers but Jayson Tatum realised he can play like a superstar and saved the Celtics from being embarrassed in 6. Every single opponent in the West that is left in the playoffs have had a harder road to the finals then the Celtics and all of them are more than capable of terrifying them. It’s hard to break that narrative when we haven’t really seen Jayson Tatum seem like he really cares that much about winning the championship.

[@Jekrjedjje]

@@Youllneverfindmezx yea, so has 29 other teams for the past 7 seasons, there’s only one winner that’s the point of the grind doofus

[@EmmanuelAniTheSchism]

​@@Youllneverfindmezxyour statement is disingenuous. Didn't lose most of their game sevens because most of the time they were in the playoffs they didn't play to game seven. So, regardless of whatever nonsense you're spewing you are automatically invalidated.

[@EmmanuelAniTheSchism]

​@@Youllneverfindmezxit's especially disingenuous when you realize that Jayson Tatum has been five and two in all seven game sevens he's played in. The only times he's lost in game sevens is against the cavaliers in 2018 and against the heat in 2022. If you want to be a liar just say that

[@GrimReaper_2005]

And still haven't won a championship

[@Gochiefss]

All ima say is Jaden Mcdaniels🥶

[@mexicanviking9927]

McDaniels>Jokic fr 💀🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

[@Gochiefss]

@@mexicanviking9927frrr

[@unstoppable3peat]

Wolves in 7

[@Weeb-ej4bk]

@@unstoppable3peat nuggets in 4

[@adamishere15]

@@Weeb-ej4bknuggets arent making it out of the round

[@AyakaAkira31]

They just made it look easy

[@yung_drew]

Every team they played had their best player out for at least 2 games. It would be embarrassing if any of these series went to 6 games

[@yung_drew]

@mousersOG its bc yall had a micky mouse run the thunder 2nd round was harder than yalls 3rd, and yalls 3rd round was way easier than dallas's

[@sm_ked]

@@yung_drewAnd now they are abt to sweep dallas 😂😂😂😂😂

[@juanportillamorales8284]

As a Celtics fan sure we had an easy two rounds but we were the best team in the regular szn 🤷‍♂️ At the same time we didn’t deal with butler and Mitchell for the rest of the series…

[@GodlsAFK]

U didnt deal with jimmy and terry. Its bad enough u played miami without butler but every year we play yall WE DONT HAVE A POINT GUARD there was no excuse to lose to us in the first place any year we always play you with 2 or more key players missing. But yeahhh easy it definitely was. And every year your regular season is number 1 number 2 nothing has changed this year than any other year then more injuries. But Celtics won and they are there regardless of reasons regardless if miami had a full team or not a winner is a winner. But dont pretend it wasn't served up on a silver platter this year buddy. Im a miami fan i wish you the best go out there and represent all of us bring the bragging rights to the east. Take the west down FOR ALL OF US. doesn't matter if u like us dislike us and we are rivals in the finals the Celtics will be all of our champions. So start acting like it with pride and humility. Your the chosen ones this year. But ima keep it real Celtics are soft af buddy. They got zero heart and tons of talent. U gotta want it believe it to beat the west fam and miami has been there. Now its your turn. Dont fhk up!

[@KxngAntTae]

You guys played in a weak east 52 of out of 82 games all year and lost most of ur games to western conference contendending teams Like Lakers, Wolves, Clippers, Nuggets, OKC etc.

[@SpeedySlothStudios-123]

Bud called lakers a contender 😂😂😂(from lakers fan)​@KxngAntTae

[@miskiguled4988]

@@KxngAntTaelakers contenders 😂

[@WLJ1287]

@@KxngAntTaethey have a good record against top teams too so miss me with that

[@Scramblefred2399]

This is the nba. There’s no such thing as easy. Every single dude on the floor is one of the 400 best athletes in the world. People love to hate on what they could never do

[@ajayisbetter]

Put a bunch of benchwarmers up against the Celtics and see what happens. Just because they are in the league doesn’t mean they can fully compete with the superstars of the league

[@ItsNahni]

Yeah that’s why it says “easiest”…….

[@kenrickeason]

​@ajayisbetter Yeah, you're right.. But those bench warmers still will put up a fight, not making it too easy..

[@Scramblefred2399]

@@ajayisbetter you’re hating on the Celtics for being good? Tf is going on

[@isaacboyyy4271]

​@@ajayisbettervery true Plus you're not even playing the best

[@SethBurrows-k8q]

“Not being battle tested” homie. They been to the ECF past 5 years. I think there pretty tested. Bout 150 playoff games under the belt for there Jaylen brown and Jason Tatum and some of the roster.

[@caelfielding5188]

You can’t blame them. The goal is to beat whoever is in front of you and that’s what they’re doing.

[@tetsutetsu7206]

Not blaming them, just pointing out the fact that both of the teams they faced were absolutely plagued by injuries in a weak conference, this heat team was literally missing its whole offense and the cavs are pretty helpless without dmitch

[@rrcastillo9973]

​@@tetsutetsu7206 but the Celtics are injured too. Porzingis is literally like their Bosh on the Heat Big 3

[@tetsutetsu7206]

@@rrcastillo9973 yeah but porzingus is not the 1# option like butler and spida

[@rrcastillo9973]

@@tetsutetsu7206 still a 20ppg player on a team with a weak front court back ups

[@linchdawg]

​@@tetsutetsu7206How's that Boston's fault? Next time tell their opponents star players to stay healthy 🤣😂 everyone said Dallas would run through Boston but look what happened 🤣😂🤣

[@basketballerz23]

It’s called being 64-18 coming from a laker fan

[@Thrashippie]

Not even that I would rather see them play the bucks, healthy Jimmy , 76ers but the injury Gods blessed yall

[@12strong90]

@@Thrashippie nobody cares who you hold rather see them face. Tell them mfs be healthy next time tf

[@Thrashippie]

@@12strong90 tell your hairline to remain healthy and you look younger than me🤣

[@12strong90]

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[@DKsHighlights]

⁠@@Thrashippiethat was the worst joke I’ve ever heard.

[@willoconnell7189]

They won 64 games. Went 37-4 at home, 27-14 on the road. 41-11 against the East, 23-7 against the West.

[@hektor7798]

I was expecting Andrew to shit on the Celtics but W video. Yeah they have had injury luck (besides losing KP themselves) and if Knicks win game 7 they will have that luck for another series. Its a part of the game though i mean they can only play who is ahead of them. Like Nuggets last year. I'm sure whoever they face in the finals will prove if they are legit or not.

[@LasDegas]

Has everyone forgot that the Celtics have injuries as well? KP has been injured all playoffs and a 38 y/o Al Horford is our starting center... This is Brad Stevens proving he's one of the best in the game at building rosters and Joe Mazzula being a great defensive coach.

[@gc-ej5hf]

Brad is just genius.

[@AidanS99]

Usually the 1 seed has the easiest part to the finals. Jimmy Butler’s 2023 Heat were not the norm for an 8th seeded team!

[@halimawmanoodngyt]

bottomline east sucks

[@naterdurai2744]

Mavericks faced two out of three teams that don't have much playoff which was the Thunder and the Timberwolves. Plus played the Clippers without Kawhi. So they kindoff also had an easy path to the Finals.

[@JayYoung313]

I hate this “easiest path” bullshit… they literally are the team to beat. Just like how Lebron was the one to beat in the east all those years ago.. it’s other teams mission to beat these guys. It’s not their fault that they’re just better

[@goatpower321]

It is not about “fault.” Being great is about PROVING something on the court. People give a ton of credit to the champions because it means they most often had the most impressive resume in the playoffs, but sometimes the resume isn’t much better than another team.

[@marcnakashian523]

They are the team to beat and probably would’ve still walked to the finals without injuries. However, every single team losing their best player makes it a whole lot easier.

[@Ahsannn]

​@@marcnakashian523so what should Celtics do ??? Keep the game close entering the last 2 mins ??

[@ItsNahni]

@@Ahsannnwhy are you getting butt hurt about the objective truth? It’s literally a fact they have the easiest path to the finals because of injuries

[@prapra15777]

​@@ItsNahniYou're the one butt hurt in the comments of a team that you don't even like just to be a troll. You're just some hater trying to take credit and shine away from the Celtics. Easier or harder it doesn't matter because the Celtics are clearly the best team in the NBA

[@adamup8516]

the only ppl saying this r the little kids on twitter lol

[@kingkanyeornbafan_._5988]

Those little aren’t really wrong. They do have a easy past to the finals. But that’s the award of being the number 1 team in the east so the Celtics kinda earned it.

[@donevankerby4275]

No Jimmy buckets who torched them last year and a whole series with no Jarrett Allen and 2 games without d Mitch. They had it easy. A total of 10 games played and 7 of them without the other team’s best player. If they want to talk about all these other teams who had it easy in previous years, then this year they get it.

[@Jekrjedjje]

@@donevankerby4275i’m sorry but both of those teams weren’t beating them, no matter how much u wanna think and believe it, the heat lost every game in the regular season and lost their pieces that beat them last year, caleb martin was a shell of his former self and tyler herro shown he’s not ready for the playoffs.

[@Jackson54321]

People don’t understand you play whoever is in front of you, this NBA community is falling off in terms of logical thinking. Oh yeah we done with the 90s guys, and I know Miami and Cleveland have injuries but even without Porzingis Boston is an all time in terms of record and margin of victory. If they face the Knicks well they already beat them 2 times at MSG and 2 times at home. If they face Indy they already blew em out by 50. It’s a different level in the playoffs but Boston legitimately beat every team besides Denver, and that’s probably gonna be their biggest challenge, assuming the Nuggets take game 7 vs Minnesota.

[@Ravensflock68]

@@Jekrjedjjethey were and they have but keep living in Disney land you clown

[@LoneXWolfX99]

The Celtics can’t control who they face. It’s just unfortunate that the teams they’ve faced so far have dealt with injuries. You play whoever is in front of you. They are the #1 team in the East & the team to beat for a reason so I’m not buying that “easiest path” BS.

[@9inety6ix]

Correct, I wish the same can be said for LeBron in the 2010s

[@limitedbom2206]

@@9inety6ixyup. I’m not even a Celtics fan, but Isn’t it amazing people on tv go “the East was weak, there was only one other team with 50+ wins besides the Celtics” as if that’s some crazy new thing? 4 out of the 8 straight finals appearances by lebron were in the east that had one other team besides his with 50+ wins. 2 of the remaining 4 had 2 teams with 50+ wins. But they act like it was some act of god he made it to the finals over and over but this was a weak east year? The east has been the weaker conference since the early 2000s.

[@jeffcressotti]

Whatever path they have they EARNED it. Their top 2 players play hard all season unlike other teams resting guys often to save them for playoffs. So they’ve earned this seed and this current position. Don’t want to hear about this or that when it comes to injuries because you can go back in time and question basically every single title that had some fortune with it.

[@ItsNahni]

So it sounds like you’re just butt hurt about? Not arguing that it’s not true?…

[@prapra15777]

​@@ItsNahni It's not true. It doesn't matter who's in front of the Celtics they're winning the East so stop it It's just haters like you creating a dialogue because you're bored

[@dustcake2576]

Lebron hasn't played any 50 win teams during his entire heats journey

[@limitedbom2206]

I think they did in the first year vs the bulls, but that was it. But you did make a good point bringing up some peoples so called “goat”. They claim this years east was weak because there was only one team besides Boston with 50+ wins, but that was half of lebrons 8 straight finals appearances. 2 of the remaining were in the east with 2 other teams with 50+ wins. So the majority of the finals runs were what people call weak now. Interesting huh?

[@danamb9124]

I think most people say this because of injury. No jimmy butler or terry rozier for Miami and no donovan mitchel for half the series in Cleveland, it kind of makes sense. And heck, if the knicks win, they don't have randle, Robinson, anunoby, etc.

[@damonsonnier34]

I think that the 80s Showtime Lakers had a couple of the easiest playoff runs of all time. The Western Conference was at its weakest point in NBA history at that time.

[@peterfriedrich7145]

You are 100% correct

[@dinzehhh]

Forgetting the eastern conference gauntlet in 2022? KD and kyrie, giannis then jimmy? We’ve earned this

[@millyseb]

Everyone talking abt injuries making the path easier. I’ve heated every single pundit in the media saying how the porzingis injury makes them think the Celtics won’t win and they still do. Why do injuries to excuse losses count for every team but the celtics

[@chuckrambo4401]

Didn’t they play 82 games before the playoffs? Didn’t they win the most games this season? Didn’t they win the East and Home court because they were beating teams from the west and the east all season?

[@d9minator]

Didnt they beat the heat without jimmy butler and cavs without donovan mitchell?

[@Vi11ain100]

​​@d9minator let's be fair they where going to lose anyway

[@AngelHerrera-zl6yw]

@@Vi11ain100Boston fans said this in 2020 and 2023 and look what happened

[@nthingtoofear]

@@d9minator and without KP.

[@DiabIe37]

@@d9minator And how is that their fault? You play who is in front of you. Did people all of a sudden forget the Pacers could have EASILY been up 2-1 if not for some timely defense and clutch shooting? Is that not adversity?

[@kaspershaupt]

Being a top 5 team all time makes a lot of things easier

[@todayis_wenri4071]

pretty much all first seeds technically have an easy route to the finals lol it’s such a redundant argument everyone just wants to discredit the celtics

[@knoxconary]

Celtics are just good, and people hate to admit it how well their roster is constructed. It’s not an easy path, it never is. That being said, I think a West team will win the finals.

[@cj0402able]

The Celtics are good but you have to accept that the first 2 teams star players both get injured makes things really easy

[@theblazikenbro]

​@@cj0402ableand don't have to play bucks or sixers because giannis and dame got hurt while embiid was banged up again

[@RittenhousesRifle]

Murray is hurt and the Wolves are inexperienced. I’d take the Celtics over both of them in 6.

[@vm20709]

When you dominated the regular season like the Celtics did, of course it's going to seem like they have an easy path, injuries or not

[@wh0.tf_]

dont talk abt that 2021 bucks year if ur gonna conveniently ignore that giannis was injured in the ecf and they didnt have their starting sg through the entire playoffs . also the nets had at least 2 of their big 3 for every game in that series , had a chance to win it in overtime and still lost

[@maybefuture_youtuber2655]

Bro the record is one thing the heat lost Jimmy and Rozier Cavs lost Mitchell Allen LeVert these teams are missing their top guys and are probably lottery level teams without them

[@karlliebknecht2987]

The heat missed butler for most of the year, and they were actually slightly better without him.

[@hornetisntvoid5730]

Also Jarret Allen was injured

[@karlliebknecht2987]

@@hornetisntvoid5730 so was kristaps porzingis

[@armaanlatheef7897]

Didn’t people say that bout the nuggets last year, how they played the 7th seed, 8th seed, and 4th seed to get in the finals versus the 8th seeded heat? History does repeat itself, and I think the nuggets deserve that title

[@HomellAlcautor]

They said it in 2021 and 2020 too. Hell... 2020 went from "this is greatest 8th seed of all-time" to "it's just Dame, they're trash." Then "this Rockets team can win it all." To "Russ and Harden never could have made it past round 2."

[@JBdoesball]

When we said this about the nuggets everyone started getting mad and started defending jokic but when the Celtics got this hate everyone is hating

[@OwenSawchuk]

As a Celtics fan, I can admit that we are getting it so easy right now

[@KurtyAnderson]

That’s the whole point of getting the 1 seed

[@mitchelljohnson6106]

@@KurtyAnderson Well it’s not just that. Both heat and cavs had key players missing. Not like it’s the celtics fault, but it does make the path easier.

[@jamestome7788]

​@@mitchelljohnson6106Still it's not just that, more like this is the weakest Eastern conference and most stacked Celtics team in years. The East sucked ass this season

[@skylinez4793]

Theres going to be injuries from the west when they play too hard

[@prapra15777]

​@@mitchelljohnson6106 Porzingis has been missing too forgot to mention that i see 👀

[@oskarnogalski8178]

Andrew… they matched up against the Heat without Jimmy, and the Cavs that lost Donovan Mitchel, and soon it might (you never know) be an injured Knicks/Indi… comparing this team to 2017 GSW is insane

[@peterfriedrich7145]

Showtime Lakers only struggled to the Finals in 88. They never had a consistent threat in Western Conference. Shaq and Kobe had much tougher competition getting to Finals.

[@GusJuarez-kf2dc]

84' rockets with Sampson and Hakeem?

[@peterfriedrich7145]

@@GusJuarez-kf2dc 86 actually and they didn't get the Finals. Excluding 88 ever year they did go to Finals they would average 2 losses along the way. 1980 not sure they lost getting there. 82 8-0 83 8-3 84 11-3 85 11-2 87 11-1 89 11-0

[@eljefe6161]

I mean there's no excuse for them not to get out of the East for sure, Jimmy Butler got hurt, no Giannis, Embiid was banged up, Donovan Mitchell got hurt, it is what it is, so while if Minnesota gets to the finals they might be playing a better team, they won't be as banged up

[@dillsnick3950]

As a sixers fan, you don’t choose who you play. Just beat them and move on like you’re supposed to do

[@technostr1keforce536]

It feels like the teams around them are also not as good. Philly, Miami and bucks in one postseason was tough on them. Now that’s relatively easy

[@isaiahprom8709]

The nuggets faced two eight seeds, a seven seed, and a 4 seed. That was a cake walk last year

[@sombor894]

we not counting the segregation rings/playoffs lol

[@richardakinnenin3906]

Injured Heat, Injured Cavs, and potentially injured Knicks lmao okay 😂

[@FlyConnor12]

And if they play the pacers, the Pacers would beat the injured bucks, and injured Knicks lmao. It is the easiest playoff run in history. Celtics are good but could easily lose to healthy Knicks, or bucks, or 76ers, and possibly heat and cavs.

[@insanegamers6429]

@@FlyConnor12haha I’m choking on that statement 😂

[@Yashiro205]

@@FlyConnor12they wouldn’t even be here in the first place if Jimmy Butler and Terry Rosier were healthy lol

[@Alex-ib6mh]

People legit cant comprehend that the celtics are good. im not even a fan of them but celtic hate is insane.

[@HomellAlcautor]

I love how the 87 Lakers played TWO losing teams.

[@Fink02]

I am in no way a celtics fan, but i agree with you this is a garbage argument. They tried to do this to the nuggets last season as well, and of course after they won not during there run. You have to be good to win a chip, there's really no argument against that

[@stenstensson304]

I don’t even like the Celtics but you can only play the cards you’re dealt. Do you expect them to sit out in protest of Mitchell and Allen being injured and wait for them to get healthy so they can have a “real” series? All these what-ifs and asterisks are the worst part of NBA discourse. If my grandma had a fat hog she’d be my grandpa, but she doesn’t, so she’s not.

[@fergalosanchez7675]

It is too easy, whoever gets through to the finals from the west will be battle hardened. The Celtics are cruising through and won’t be ready

[@YutoIsCrazii]

Yeah this aged like milk

[@hanschristopherson8056]

This team is very confusing because they have the playoff experience but sometimes like last year they don’t seem to have that mental toughness needed to win

[@ZayWilson-v8l]

They the one seed, it's in the rewards

[@FerrisDempsey]

They got blown out by the cavs and cavs game back from a 20 point deficit

[@naf1566]

The East I the weakest conference. To me they should just get the 16 best teams in the playoffs so the Wests good teams don’t miss out. If you’re not good enough, you don’t deserve it imo.

[@tnromega7222]

The Celtics didn’t even have Porzingis

[@willuvsu2043]

the celtics earned the #1 seed why are people acting like the celtics have to mj and bron to be legit😭😭

[@marcnakashian523]

Everyone saying “they earned it” or “they are just making it look easy” clearly haven’t paid attention. Yes, they are the best team in the league and would have walked to the finals without any injuries, but every single team they faced losing their best player helps. No Jimmy, only a few games of Spida, Haliburton might be out, and a few other role players makes for very easy matchups. Not to mention the Bucks and Knicks missing multiple stars and key players each or the Sixers having an injured Embiid. The three real threats to them were knocked out due to injury before they could even matchup against the Celtics. Are they the team to beat? Yes. Do they have an incredibly easy path to the finals? Also yes. Two things can be true at once

[@rockonileva]

Heat without Butler, Cavs without Allen (and Mitchell for the close out), now Hali is injured... They were Lucky? Yeah. They cease to be an amazing team? Not at all...

[@Frank-nz1wr]

I’m ngl, I’m a Celtics fan and let’s be real, this run to the finals has been anything but challenging. U play who’s in front of u it’s true, but the east is so injured right now, the true test is in the finals. Also don’t forget the Giannis bucks championship run and how easy that was as well💀

[@xsirius9117]

2021 suns are def up there too they faced a lakers team who was up 2-1 with game 4 in staples before AD went dowm and in the 2nd round faced a nuggets team with no murray and in the wcf faced a clippers team with no Kawhi and proof that the suns run was a fluke is that they havent made the wcf since 2021 and have continuously fell short and even lost to a mavs team that wasnt supposed to take that team to 7 games the following 😭 and blow them OUT at HOME!

[@whats_holden_up]

Yall dont remember the 2017 Cavs. That was an unbelievably easy path

[@TidePodChan]

If the Celtics can't win a ring this year they're never getting one in the Tatum/Brown era, everything that can go right has gone right for em.

[@gabrielveloro]

Even if they have an easy path to the finals, that’s not their fault the other teams in the east are 🍑

[@psychichorse]

They've been lucky with injuries kneecaping their opponents, but the quality of the teams they face is also what comes with getting the 1 seed.

[@davenalunat1433]

Not just because someone makes it look easy it doesn't mean that it's easy. Why not just admit that if it looks easy maybe because they're just that good?

[@IndieMerchantSam]

I don’t get the battle tested argument, the core of JT JB Derrick White and Al horford has plenty of playoff experience and Jrue is a champion, while this specific roster hasn’t faced a real challenge in this playoffs, most of the rotation still have plenty of hard fought series under their belt, you can’t underrate that

[@LowBrowProgramming]

it’s just a shitty argument this guy is obviously on a tirade against the cs for whatever reason

[@dexteritygaming1008]

Doesn’t even matter because Mavs had a hard path and Boston is beating them 2-0

[@treythelegendarygamer]

nuggets went against 3 play-in teams

[@goldenstatewarriors9418]

Yeah being 64-18 with the top seed allows you to rest your starters down the stretch of the season to reduce injuries and being the 1 seed gives you easier opponents. Also makes up for three absolute gauntlet of a path they faced on their way to the Finals last time.

[@ScottFree-GB]

Hopefully other teams will look at this and take the regular season more seriously

[@scootergreen10.14]

Or they just have a dominating offense and defense

[@mjkeidljr8379]

it’s obvious they had it easier but the celtics are really good. if the heat were healthy that series was probably going 6 or 7 and if the cavs were healthy game 7 would be tomorrow night so it’s really all about perspective.

[@richschneiderman613]

This guy shades the Cs non stop he has 0 credibility

[@drodrig1]

We say this every year

[@KDsburner-vg8vp]

The Bucks only real challenge was the Nets. Giannis is a future HOF lock who'd already won 2 MVPs and 1 DPOY, he is absolutely a superstar. And outside of KD that year the best player in the East. Tatum is closer to Paul Pierce than Giannis or KD and has a very stacked squad even without KP (Who's never been to the finals)

[@ta.sakana8216]

They had the toughest path to finals in the year they lost to gsw tho.

[@averageproblem]

You have to calculate using the SRS score of each tewm they face and the total number is their difficulty

[@imyourdaddy9715]

So 2 things. Firstly The Nuggets have never beaten a team with over 50+ wins in the playoffs, last years run was historically easy for them and it was also the most injury ridden playoffs in nba history too until this year. So that is comparable to this year’s Celtics BUT that’s the point of being a good team and getting the 1 seed. It’s the whole incentive you play 82 games for. It’s earned and completely fair

[@lorddevil863]

What do you mean catch up? They did exactly what they were supposed to do. They have been so close with their go two super stars for so many years, I am not in the NBA or never been in a league, but if you ask me, I would rather see the other teams battle it out and hope I can get to the finals with as much conserved energy as possible.

[@genesisfgc]

I love how the point of the regular season is to make your playoff path objectively easier and now people are complaining about how easy the path is like THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT

[@terhembaunande9528]

Well they might just shock everyone and not even make it to the NBA finals.. heck that would be something!

[@HomellAlcautor]

The #1 seed hasn't made it past the ECF since 2017. It wouldn't be surprising. But the last team to do it and not be led by LeBron is the Boston Celtics.

[@Renegade36402]

Who are the battle testing for💀

[@recruit6916]

If the celtics go on to play nuggets, there is absolutely no possibility to say they had an easy path to a chip (if they somehow overcome jokic). Because that's the hardest opponent the last like 6 champions wouldve had to play until the raptors against the warriors

[@DebateBoyzPodcast]

That’s how it was for the 49ers until the lions and chiefs, The Knicks/pacers and nuggets/Twolves/Mavs/Thunder will be JUST that for Boston trust me

[@santos-idk]

That’s the whole point of a one seed.

[@avatardom7120]

You can only play whoever is infront of you

[@julianuga]

Don't forget what team beat the 84 Lakers in the finals tho😏

[@mickey8039]

Bro this argument is so fucking stupid. Of course they have an easy path, THEY ARE THE ONE SEED. The higher seed you get the easier your path is. That’s how it works guys.

[@itzjakedawgttvyt3749]

People forget the suns had one of the easiest path to finals ever in 2021.

[@sakthithanigai5036]

The Celtics average margin of victory in the playoffs is about where it was during the regular season, so like they aren’t any better or worse the way they are playing, which imo isn’t an issue cuz they lapped the field in the regular season winning 8 more games than any team in the nba.

[@mexicanviking9927]

Celtics playin on easy mode rn

[@flamasaur]

nuggets last year played 3 play in teams

[@mikkailtaliaferro7315]

The #1 seed is supposed to have the easiest path to the Finals. I thought everyone knew this.🙄

[@alsedveliganilao3594]

Bucks?! Did you not see Giannis getting injured?! And cakewalk to the finals?! Faced the Heat, God-mode Durant and Hawks (GA injured) then Suns. The C's on the other side 😭

[@jonathancohoon]

It's just the fact that in the conference finals they'll get either Pacers or Knicks instead of Bucks or 76ers. Boston took care of business like expected in the first two rounds but everyone just wished they had a tougher opponent in the conference finals. Whoever wins game 7 I think wins 1 game against Boston. Boston still loses to whoever comes out of the West though. The West is the AFC.

[@TheGrossMan469]

As a Boston fan speaking on behalf of all Boston sports fans. We truly do not give a single fuck

[@runnerup5676]

The bucks is an underated answer, that nets team and a hawks team without trae young, then the suns

[@HomellAlcautor]

That Hawks series was LITERALLY without Giannis and the Suns went against an injured Giannis who had to take breaks every 5 minutes before finishing a quarter.

[@runnerup5676]

@@HomellAlcautor A hawks team without trae young has who? While the bucks still had middleton and Jrue. Your gonna conveniently leave out cp3's and booker's injuries too on top of the fact they had no experience in the playoffs. Giannas had so much luck that year, considering the fact his team chokes every year. HE AINT A CHAMPION

[@benjaminglazer7217]

Injured heat injured Cavs and either injured Knicks or the 27th defense in the league. Context

[@CzarsSalad]

The 80's Lakers should top the list. The West during that decade is probably worse than the East in this era

[@francowanta6880]

so 64-18 is not battle tested? 8-2 so far in the playoffs not battle tested? do they need to drop games to be battle tested? come on now,

[@Polarbearz0]

Don’t worry nuggets or wolves will get them in the finals

[@RittenhousesRifle]

Wishful thinking.

[@DanTheSpearMan]

at the end of the day…why does it matter? Every 1 seed plays the same variations of seeds every year. It doesn’t change. Some years there’s some stacked teams…other years there isn’t. You can’t hold a “cake walk run to the finals” against the Celtics. It’s not like they chose it