The Boston Celtics pulled out a win in Cleveland which is very hard to do. Avery Bradley has been the toast of Boston through last night and for the rest of today. He’s making it very hard for me to call him ‘Chronically Average’ with that clutch buzzer beater.
I have hyped the C’s up since they made the Playoffs last season and I think they’re doing pretty well considering they’re all small ball. They’re tied for 3rd in the Eastern Conference. They’re 8-2 in their last 10 games. I have been telling you the Boston Celtics are legit and they’re making that oh so true at the moment, especially when they beat the East leading Cavs, a key win for their season.
“If you play this game, you should believe you’re going to win until the horn goes off,” Bradley told reporters in Cleveland.
Echoed Stevens: “I’d say that this group has never [stopped playing] — that’s been a calling card of this group. We haven’t come out on top all the time, but we’ve won a couple games now where it’s under 10 seconds [and we were] down three or four. … I think we’ve also put ourselves in position, in multiple games — we were down seven against Dallas with 33 seconds and had a chance to go ahead or tie with the ball with 16 seconds [to play]. This game can change quickly and you just gotta kinda stay with it.”
“In the big picture, [Friday’s victory] really does count as one [win],” Stevens said. “It gives you a sense of you’re improving and getting better. Obviously, they didn’t have Kevin [Love, thigh bruise] at the end of the game. We hope he’s OK, but I think that, for us, it was — it would have been disappointing to lose that lead and not come out with a win. They made huge plays late in the game and I thought we missed some pretty good looks — I thought we got good looks. But then for our guys to stay poised and score five points inside eight seconds is a good deal.“
They have made a name for themselves, preaching hustle and squeezing out a win even if they weren’t the best team on the night. I don’t know how much that’ll hold up in the Playoffs but they’re looking good before the All-Star break. Lets hope that they can keep it after the All-Star break.
