Boston Could be on the Verge of a Historic Choke

Boston Could be on the Verge of a Historic Choke

Well the Boston Celtics who make no mistake are historically great this season were up to their old tricks Monday night as they blew a 30-point lead against the Atlanta Hawks what yeah they were doubling Atlanta up at the end of the first quarter 44-22 and with just a bit over 4 minutes

Remaining in the first half were up 68- 38 but that didn’t stop the Seas from collapsing and having their niname win streak snapped by the 11-point underdog Atlanta Hawks this loss just the latest of a string of troubling outcomes for Boston this season as they had their historic 12-game win streak snapped

Earlier this month by the Cavaliers when the Celtics blew an 18-point lead in the fourth quarter Cleveland meanwhile was without Donovan Mitchell in that game and while none of these losses really matter in the grand scheme of things as the Celtics are still easily cruising to

The number one overall seed in the NBA Playoffs as they are 10 full games up on Milwaukee in the East and six games up on Denver for the overall best record these losses are indicative of a larger problem and make no mistake the Celtics have been historically excellent this

Season and it isn’t difficult to see why they were the only team in the NBA last season to have two players make either the first or second team as Jason Tatum made the first team and Jaylen Brown made the second team the Celtics then decided to part ways with Marcus Smart

In the off season but replaced him with Drew holiday who was all NBA Defensive first team a year ago oh and they added christops porzingis who has somehow managed to stay relatively healthy this year while averaging 20 points and seven rebounds per game on 51% shooting not

Bad for a third option all of it has resulted in the Celtics producing a historic net margin of differential which is typically the single best indicator for postseason success their plus 11.5 Point difference per game is substantially leading the league for context the number two seed in the East

Milwaukee Bucks are currently at plus 3.7 while the number one seed in the west and defending NBA champion Denver Nuggets are plus 4.8 but the Celtics aren’t merely destroying the field in this metric this season they are producing one of the best single seasons in NBA history the plus

11.54 net differential for the Celtics is currently the fifth best ever behind only the 1971-72 Lakers the 19771 B the 9596 Bulls and the 201617 Warriors those four teams didn’t merely win the NBA titles in those Seasons they easily destroyed their playoff fields and are generally regarded as four of the greatest teams

In NBA history the 71 Bucks team led by Kareem Abdul Jabar and Oscar Robertson the Lakers team the famed Wilt and Jerry West pairing that still holds the all-time NBA record for longest win streak of 33 games the legendary 72- win Chicago Bulls in 9596 and the Kevin Durant Warriors in

Their first season together and this season Celtics are in that conversation yet it certainly doesn’t feel like they are on those teams levels and it’s easy to see why it’s likely because of their outrageous history of taking steamy loads in their pants when the Stakes are

At the highest diddly poo and they are LED in this pursuit of pooping themselves by none other than epic gag artist Jason Tatum who should realistically already have an NBA championship to his resume as the Celtics actually had a 2-1 lead in the 2022 Finals over the Warriors but they

Would never win another game from that point on losing three consecutive to get closed out and give Steph Curry his fourth round rank in that elimination game six of those NBA Finals Tatum had just 13 points on six of 18 shooting and for the series he shot a heinous 37%

From the field and an even more puzzling 65% from the free throw line but along for the ride with his All-Star pants crapper is village idiot head coach Joe Missoula who was pontificating his way through every postgame press conference a year ago on the way way to helping

Perpetuate one of the most humiliating losses in playoff history his Celtics went into the Eastern Conference Finals against a significantly undermanned Miami Heat team who were missing their second best player for the series and were barely 500 in the regular season but the Celtics started that vomit

Session off from the jump when they no showed in game one and got obliterated in the third quarter getting outscored by the heat 4 6 to 25 the loss set the tone for the series as the Celtics would be stunned at home in game two and then

Blown out of the building in Miami in game three to fall into an 03 hole to the overwhelming Underdog eight seed the Celtics would then win three straight before an all-time epic collapse in game seven at home getting blown out by 21 points as a 7 and 1/2 Point favorite

Against again an eight seed oh and back to Tatum who had 14 points in 41 minutes on five of 13 from the field in that winner take all and while Boston looks to be a historically elite team who has been favored to win the title for basically every stage of the season of

The last two straight years now and Counting they are still that same highly schizophrenic and inconsistent team that is horribly coached by an underqualified and inexperienced 35-year-old and they will continue to play down to their competition fortunately for them there isn’t much standing in their way of at least

Getting into the NBA Finals as the East is as thin as it has been since a certain self-proclaimed King was slithering his way around that conference sure the bucks with Giannis anetta Kumo and Dame Lillard seem formidable but speaking of coaches with a penchant for pissing down their leg in

High leverage situations I give you Doc Rivers ladies and gentlemen the all-time leader in NBA history for blown 3-1 leads the very guy who has lost more potential closeout games than anyone ever that is ridiculously bad uh it it really is um and with the buck and Celtics seemingly on a collision course

In the Eastern Conference Finals the real winner is all of us who will get to witness a series play out in a hilarious display of one upmanship between rivers and Missoula trying to determine who can out choke whom and the prize for the team that does advance to the NBA finals

Likely will be a meeting with the best player on the face of the planet the presumptive league MVP this year his third in Four Seasons and the defending world champion Denver Nuggets and the nuggets for what it’s worth have already beaten Boston in their two meetings this season in practically any other year

Ever a team that has been this thoroughly dominant would be substantial and overwhelming title odds favorites but this isn’t any other year and this Boston team just reminded us yet again of what levels they are capable of plummeting to when the stakes are at their highest

This year’s Boston Celtics are statistically amongst the greatest teams in NBA history. And yet they will still do what they always do…find a way to choke.