Avalanche

Boston Celtics

Starting 5:
Key Bench:

VS

Atlanta Hawks

PG: Mike Bibby
SG: Joe Johnson
SF: Marvin Williams
PF: Josh Smith
C: Al Horford

Key Bench:
Josh Childress

__________________
16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Avalanche

2 things:
yes i realise there is still a game to go but this is the official match up now, and the scrubzilla games arent getting game threads anyway lol

and if you want individual game threads cool... we'll just merge it all in here when the game finishes.

til then..... this is our first round match , do we get the brooms out, or are we in for a challenge from the young and upcoming Hawks?

__________________
16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

TheATLien

Rajon Rondo and Josh Smith were actually teammates at Oak Hill. Just an interesting tidbit I thought I would contribute here.

You're starting line-up for Atlanta is a little bit off, Childress is Atlanta's 6th man and Williams is their starting small forward. However, you are correct that Atlanta doesn't utilize their bench much. The starters have logged heavy minutes down the stretch.

Avalanche

ah yeah, forgot about Marvin.. consider it fixed

__________________
16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Avalanche

Just for the record:

BOS 106 - 83 ATL
BOS 98 - 88 ATL
BOS - 99 - 89 ATL

Are the results for this season, every time we played them we won by double figures, the most recent time was primarily with the bench.

__________________
16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

LamarButler

We better not underestimate this team. I don't think they'll beat us in a 7 game series, but we can't let an inferior team take any games from us and make it tough. This should be a sweep.

__________________

Avalanche

Definately should win in 4, and i dont expect any less...
ATL might steal one at home coming out with the energy of the young guys, but even that i find unlikely... C's in a sweep, 10+ point average

__________________
16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Avalanche

Well the bench (leon in particular) just took down New Jersey for the last game of the regular season, nice to head into the playoffs with the bench firing.
Meanwhile Atlanta comes into the playoffs by losing convincingly to miami.

random fact, new jersey is the 17th team who we swept during the season

__________________
16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

DienerTime

I say Celtics in 6

__________________

Avalanche

If it takes us 6 games we have serious work to do

__________________
16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

knicksfan89

celtics in a easy sweep, to please natasha and game 4 will be on a monday when I see her normally so that will be great

Avalanche

lol hey??

__________________
16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Avalanche

First game sunday btw... cant wait

__________________
16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

LamarButler

I'm so excited that I can't even describe it. I really think that Garnett, Pierce and Allen are gonna look like totally different players. KG will be back to grabbing 12 boards a game, Pierce will be getting 25 a game, and Allen will be totally lights out.

__________________