For the most part, I’m a Daryl Morey guy.
Look, what else do you expect him to say?
When it comes to this specific Celtics/Sixers matchup though, there’s only one problem.
We just saw it in this year’s playoffs in both conferences.
Teams who can do that were the ones who gave the Celts issues last season.
Jaylen Brown averaged 48.9% from the floor with a 57.4% TS%.
It’s really that simple.
Even Joel Embiid’s struggles against the Celts (and Al Horford) are well documented.
But at the end of the day, I have no real problem with Morey talking like this.
They are now the hunted.
This is what happens with every champion.
You have the target on your back and 29 other teams are gunning for what you have.
It happens every year with every champ.
Every single team they played treated that game like it was the Finals.
so the idea of the Celts being the “hunted” isn’t exactly new for this group.
That’s really the only difference.
Sometimes when a team finally reaches their goal, they get complacent.
That’s what I’m most interested in seeing now that the Celts have finally gotten over the hump.
And so our guys are doing a good job of handling it.
Everyone wants what you have and everyone starts the year 0-0.
As we just saw with the Nuggets, nothing is guaranteed.
