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Originally Posted by Brian Swartz
Yes, it's surprising that it's going to Game 7, I just mean it's not the shocker to me that it seems to be to most people. I had Atlanta winning one game, maybe two, while everybody else seemed to think it would be four games, probably all by blowout. The salient point is that the Celtics are not a typical #1 seed in terms of having played together in the playoffs, a coach who has been through this before(as a coach), etc. -- they are in kind of a unique situation and some hiccups are to be expected.
Basically just saying that the predictions of Boston as an unstoppable juggernaut after the regular season never made a whole lot of sense to me. It would still be historic if they lost to Atlanta.
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See, I don't know how much weight you can lend to the theory of playoff inexperience.
The Celtics absolutely DESTROYED teams in the regular season. Their average point differential for the whole season was over +10 per game. Second best was around +8 or so. They won almost 30 more games than the Hawks in the regular season.
I understand that the playoffs is a different beast, but the talent discrepancy between these two teams was insanely large.