Everyone tells you about the difficulty of winning a championship, but what happens after winning – when the champagne stops the flow and fades invincible?
You find yourself playing 82 players, or having to crowd a higher severity than most good teams, or specify the time of using this reservoir of energy that is not unlimited.
The arrangement shows that Boston Celkus is one loss away from a total of 18 years from last year, when they gathered throughout the season and the post -season stage, they are barely touched or challenged on their way to demand barley No. 18.
The seventeenth loss this season came in the fog of Detroit the aggression, dance Motown and a hint with the Pistons team winning in the eighth consecutive match, which made the American Professional League a notice of impressive victory 117-97 against Celkus on February 26 in Little Ceres Arena. It could have been said that the largest match in the regular concession season since the 2007-2008 season, when I took Paul Peres Pierce Garnet Ray Allen Celtics at the Oporne Hills Palace in a preview of the Eastern Conference Ends.
Celkus was not ready for the emotional attack that the press brought. Detroit’s youth and its improvement were clear from the opening of the opening ball, as the players sensed an opportunity for more leather on the wall.
This is not the case for each game, but there is an additional motivation for each team that opens its doors to Celkus visitor or walking in the TD park in Boston this season. Whether they are aware of it or not, they play two games in one match, almost every night. Mental and physical fatigue is hard like actual competition.
There is a reason-not the largest, but the worker-the American Professional League did not have a repeated champion since Stephen Carrie Kevin Durant Golden Stepet Woriors in 2017-18. It is the longest such an extension in the American Professional League since the late 1970s, immediately before the start of the magic nodes of hegemony.
“We have to search again.” Krientsbus Pirzis said last week in Detroit: “We want to win another championship, and we must search again.” But you know, the season is long. “
Porziņģis was the last piece of Celtics last season, along with JRue Holiday. His health was a problem throughout his career, but when he was right, the diversity that apparently provides it makes them unbearable.
Last year, Celkus was 43-14 in 57 games he played. This year, Celkus ranges from 20 to 12 years, with the majority of his lack of activity at the beginning of the season, as he recovered from an ankle injury he suffered in the American Professional League finals last June.
“We are working for something, we want the peak at the right moment,” said Pirzis, who was measured and calm after the team lost in Detroit. “We do not want to exaggerate the reaction to the loss, but with every loss we can learn something and take something from it. Tonight does not differ.”
All the stars, Gilin Brown, were flowing from the night before, Celtics sat. It was one of those nights as it was required. Jason Tatom had the disturbing swing in his chest overnight, not that Taum was really neglected (he had four transformations), but there was no other booths from the lead on the ground to reduce pressure.
Tatum numbers match nearly with last season, with a slightly low shooting rates, but everything else carries its shape. Brown improved the gameplay, while the shooting had decreased slightly from 3.
As long as these two are in a straight position, although Celkus has a strong chance.
“I think we have a great continuity,” said Celkus coach. “I think this is what you trust throughout the season. (Brown), puts his body on the line regardless and sometimes you should save the players from themselves. This is the best for everyone and the best for the team. And you trust in continuity throughout the season.”
It was one of those nights, at the end of the successive road with games against the competitors for the Cleveland and Denver title at home. Cleveland defeated a major deficit in the shock of Celkus on national television, in a blessing of the title, while Celkus took care of Nags two nights after that – again, on national TV.
“It’s a little (everything). Tatom said last week:” You are playing against the teams trying to win the title. “Everything is important. So it never rises or very low. “
Cavaliers means much more than that in some eyes because it is likely to be in a collision for a meeting in the Eastern Conference Finals in a match match in the second round series last year, which Celkus won easily.
But Cavaliers are real competitors, and the season chain ended by winning two teams each. In the equivalence economy today, though, there are many competitors at this time of the year more than usual.
It seems that Mazzulla, which confirms that the unique dodges of the quality of the coach in this team, see the variable squad and hostile energy in the squares as opportunities instead of obstacles.
“It is not as much as it is a responsibility we are talking about,” said Mazola. “It is a compliment that we must implement and armed.”
Milwaukee Bucks is still lurking, after finding a rhythm after the deadline for trade. New York Nix is likely to be explosive, but Celkus dealt with them in their three meetings this year.
And if they should return to the finals, the Western conference is full of hope, from the pioneering thunder in the conference to the increasing Lakers-which they play in another singing match on Saturday night-to the aforementioned nuggets to the Golden Stayet Warriors, who have operated it since the Celtic Jimme Bitler trade.
Since the formulation of Tatum and Brown, they have always been in the championship conversation, making the conference finals in the past four years. But it is a little different being heroes.
“You must be in it,” said Tatom. “In recent years, we got a really good shot. Now, on a night basis we get the best snapshot for everyone. We are like the standard. You win the championship and this is with any hero in history. The following year, they are the standard and men are trying to get what they have. So our responsibility comes with that.”
They wore the crown well, even with calm. The only thing that separates them from the last Champs of Vintage is continuity, whether in style or employees. The Nuggets lost the critical pieces in Bruce Brown and veteran Jeff Green after winning the title of 2023. Woorrez was 2022-23 chemistry problems from the training camp on.
Milwaukee Bucks is likely to have from 2021 to 22 years the best chance to repeat on paper, but health has cleared its width, as anyone will have very thin margins in today’s game.
The best eight scorers in CELTICS this season returned, and Payton Briton Pretchard played a bigger role as a better candidate for the sixth man award of the year-43 of the profession shot on Wednesday against Portland, where it reached 10 triple throws, while Derek White added 41 years.
Last year, Selkus was sufficiently experienced, and now wondering whether they were this year’s age in some locations. The vacation will be 35 years old by the time when the finals take place and deal with annoying injuries, and it is recently a nervous problem in his right shoulder. Porziņģis always has infection concerns, and Horford is close to 39 years old.
But … they are still a team on both sides, and the third in offensive and fifth defense efficiency. This is usually a prerequisite for the dispute, regardless of the record. As they were under the leadership of Mazzulla, CELTICS launches 3s more than anyone, that is, less than 2s more than anyone else – and perhaps this will determine their fortunes.
Last year, Salkus defeated everyone with mathematics. This year, they will have to be more cunning to overcome a large number of competitors.
