Boston Celtics vs. Cleveland Cavaliers preview: Jaylen Brown vs. Donovan Mitchell?
The Celtics will take on the Cavs in the second round of the playoffs. Is this a better matchup than the Orlando Magic? How does Boston matchup against Cleveland? Will Jaylen Brown vs. Donovan Mitchell be a key matchup? John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal and Tom Westerholm discuss the defensive matchups that could work best, the carryover from the Miami series, and the two biggest concerns for the Celtics.
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Thanks John what should our game plan be against the Cavs. Can Garland and Strus defend or no they can’t with Mobley at center what can we do to him on offense and Mitchell just have to guard him properly and make him the primary scorer.
Also Cavs fans were chanting “we want Boston” today after winning game 7 and Mitchell was telling the crowd not to say that Celtics are 2-0 after an opposing team says that chant
Garland is going to be a huge liability on defense! He will have trouble with Holiday on him! Horford can pull out one of the bigs so he can’t protect the paint. The match ups are in our favor. Tatum should be able to kill hit matchup and JB too. Expect white to go off! They’ll send help for JT and JB. White will be open.
Magic had Jalen suggs jogging IN A GAME 7 all game long. They defended horribly. During game 7 i switched to wanting the Magic…mainly because they really didnt feel the urgency IN A GAME 7
There's gonna be locked on crossover with cavs during this series john?
Even if Brown is on Mitchel, the Cavs will just switch to get Brown off Mitchel and probably on White, that is what they always do…
So no porzingis, possibly no wade and allen. So we go to the matchups.
White>garland
Spida>Jrue
JB>okoro
JT>Strus
Al=mobley
Coaching i'd give the slight edge to Joe. Bench i'd take pritchard, sam and luke over merill, levert and morris sr. Levert is the best player but the next 3 players who are better are celtics. If levert isnt the best bench player in this series (Sam is due for a heater series), the cavs will be in trouble.
So the only advantage the cavs have is spida over jrue. If jrue locks him up, this series is over quick with celtics in 4 or 5. If allen returns, then this becomes more interesting and it becomes celtics in 5 or 6, depending on how much of allen is back.
Boston won the regular season series 2-1.
Just don't get comfy like the last time
John, any possibility we see some Springer minutes thrown at Mitchell?
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Hoping JT is a bit more engaged this series and that he & JB are in attack mode. So guys…were the baseball hats planned?🤔 #fashionstatement ☘️🔒
Cavs wont win. Regardless of lineup they’ll be at a disadvantage . DG and mitchell are undersized and can be picked on. Strus and whoever the other forward is wont be able to contain tatum and brown. We have better shooting, we don’t foul, and we won the rebounds in every game vs cavs in regular season. I think Jrue will have an excellent series and everyone else gets theirs per usual.
i we rebound well cs will be fine only thing concearns me is there offense rebounds
Celtics should win this series…big issue is next series with knicks , which mCs can’t win without KPand without JB and Jt elevate their game to another level