The Celtics Were Built To Shine
If it hadn't been made clear during the first four games of the NBA Finals, or in their previous 14 playoff games, it should be clear now: The Boston Celtics are the best team in the NBA by a considerable margin. Say what you want about injury luck or favorable matchups, but only a great team can earn the Larry O'Brien by going 16-3 in the postseason and winning the clinching game by 18 points.
The deciding game unfolded the same way countless Celtics wins have. Boston guarded straight-up, using its ultra-switchable lineups and its ability to defend 1-on-1 in space to choke Dallas' supply of layups, lobs, and kick-out threes. On offense, they played five-out and used spacing, iso-ball, and a whirring drive-and-kick game to manufacture as many three-point attempts as possible. The box score from this game—Celtics win 106-88, shoot 13-of-39 from three-point range—could have been the box score from any one of Boston's 64 regular-season wins. That it was produced so easily in the last game of the season against ostensibly the best the West had to offer speaks to how hard it is to stop this team from doing exactly what it wants.
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