Cleveland-Boston is going to be a struggle for both. Let them beat each other up so that if Pistons make it through Magic they'd have to deal with the beat up opponent. That series could go 7.

Yeah right.

Boston in five games......................

Too bad I was right about this game. The Hawks just couldn't do anything in the Garden.

I wonder what this series will end up meaning, if anything. Were the Celtics that much better at home (or worse on the road), or was it entirely because the Hawks' level of play was so horrendous on the road? If it's the latter, then Boston will have to worry about not being able to get wins on the road against these tougher teams. That would be surprising, considering how strong they were on the road during the regular season, but maybe it'll be an Achilles heel for them. Having HCA throughout the playoffs does relieve some of that pressure, but you definitely can't win a title if you can't win ANY games on the road in the playoffs. Nobody's ever been able to do that.

I'm not really sure if we don't have a better chance against CLE. Yea they still have Lebron, but the match-ups that used to kill us are gone.

On the other hand the Garnett/Sheed matchup is irritating, not because Garnett goes off, but Sheed has trouble scoring against him at times as well.

The refs would be atrocious in both series IMO.

If we win the ECF it's going to be a victory against the team we're facing and the calls.

Also which one is the better defensive team? I guess we'll see in the next series.

I'd MUCH rather see Cleveland.

1/2 their game is the refs and the other half is Lebron (not sure how much you can separate them). If Detroit plays well none of that matters with Cleveland. Boston is loaded with talent and CAN beat Detroit straight up.

Besides, I'd like the revenge.

Plus if we lose to Boston, Flip has an excuse. We lose to Cleveland and he's GONE!!!

This is still a toss up IMO who we would fare better against. Boston beat the Hawks today because the Hawks took to long to determine who was going to shoot and when they decided to attack the rim, the Celtics converged on the driver and caused a TO or bad shot. if we play that way, we may have the same issue. We cannot get in a trading hoop sequence with either team, because both La Bron and Pierce will try to win the game at the line in the end by continual penetration and the only two players that may think about penetration in the end is Billups and Stuckey, and the latter won't be in there down the stretch.

If you go with the Stern marketing scheme, we may have better chance beating the Cavs than Celtics if we get to the ECF. Why, well referee wise, Stern would love to see a Celtics-Pistons ECF, and an eventual Celtics-Lakers finals, but if the Celtics lose to the Cavs, I think he would rather see a Pistons-Lakers Finals rematch than see LaBron show up again.....then again Lebron vs Kobe will trump a Labron -Duncan finals any year, so who knows..... OK enough conspiracy rhetoric, this series is over, may as well close this thread.

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Are the Cavs good enough to win one on the road?