Your Boston Celtics are the reigning NBA Champions. That’s nonetheless enjoyable to put in writing and I could hold writing that at the beginning of each article all summer time lengthy. Oh yeah, and I’ve no intention of eradicating the “breaking information” banner on the high of the positioning till the Celtics really increase their very own banner. However I digress.
The Celtics are bringing again …just about everybody from their title crew. They received 64 video games within the common season final 12 months. The 12 months earlier than that they received 57 (we received’t speak concerning the playoffs as a result of we by no means need to once more).
Now we flip our consideration to the upcoming common season. Win totals are a lot much less vital than playoff outcomes, however they’re a reasonably respectable indicator of who shall be there on the finish.
I’m not a betting man, however I do take pleasure in seeing the Vegas over-under traces. They’re an excellent early indicator of how groups stack up towards one another within the minds of the consensus (sure, I do know that betting quantity tends to maneuver the traces and I’m positive it is extremely complicated – however that is shut sufficient).
Draft Kings has the Celtics at 57.5 wins. In order that begs the query, do you suppose the Celtics are going to exceed that quantity?
On one hand, the Celtics are simply nearly as good as they had been a 12 months in the past and now have the swagger of an NBA champion.
However, they might take their foot off the gasoline a little bit believing that they will ramp again up within the playoffs. The remainder of the league shall be concentrating on the Celtics, although to be honest, I feel most assumed they had been one of many high groups to take down the previous couple of years anyway. So they need to be used to that. In fact Kristaps Porzingis will miss a couple of months of the season (and certain be introduced on top of things slowly).
So I can see why the traces have the Celtics taking a little bit little bit of a step again. Then once more, they might take a step again and nonetheless be 2 steps forward of the remainder of the pack. So I assume we’ll see.
What do you suppose? Elaborate within the feedback under!
