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Originally Posted by dalakhani
Memphis perimeter players weren't getting to the basket except for game 7 when Mayo had a few nice drives. Even so, those were on the break and not in the half court set for the most part. Randolph played out of his mind and Gasol did okay for most of the series. Again, the heat doesn't have players like Gasol and Randolph. From the halfcourt, the heat clear out. If the middle isn't open, the Heat become very stagnate on offense. Check what Boston did against them before and after the trade. Very telling.
You are going to say that the reason Boston finished 16-12 after the trade is because they rested players? Really?? The game against the Wizards they rested players...because it was the second to last game of the freaking season and they had already locked in the third seed not to mention they had just gotten blown out the day before against miami. If you are talking about the one the week before, they beat washington by 16 at home although they did blow them out in the fourth quarter after it being tight for the first three. Boston was 3-0 against Miami pre-trade. Then, in the biggest game of the regular season with the number 2 spot on the line, The Celtics get blown out on national tv and get outrebounded 42-26 while prior to that they had outrebounded miami cumulatively and in 2 out of the 3.
Either way its speculation as what they would have done. To me though, their record and stats don't lie. There was a big difference after the trade.
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I guess we saw a different OK/Mem series.
Perkins wasn't playing when he was traded and didn't play for a few weeks afterwards so their record isn't that pertinent. Plus I was only using the one game as an example. They lost quite few games down the stretch to bad teams because they were watching minutes of the old guys. I suppose the chemistry thing is impossible to quantify but IMO injuries and age are slowing Boston down more than chemistry issues.