To summarize, per Bontemps: - The Cavs didn’t win Friday, the Celtics graciously allowed them to - Tim leads with “well but injuries” in a game the Celtics blew a 22pt lead (4th biggest CLE comeback ever) - Boston “still clearly the best team in the East” as they... sit 7.5 BACKshow more

This is what it's going to be if/until the Cavs beat them in a series. As annoying as Tim can be, I'm OK w/ that. Nothing more we can prove in the reg season. Obv I think they're way too dismissive & that series was much closer last yr before Dono got hurt than they portray.

Yeah, I don't care about Vegas or even the opinion. Just putting it out there so people will easily be able to revisit the certainty with which this opinion was delivered.

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it’s never “well but injuries” when cavs are missing key players - guess that’s a grace only extended to poor poor boston, the ultimate league victims

I suppose I should at least be happy that it wasn't "this is brilliant strategy by mazzulla to hide his true difference makers"

boston is obviously the best team in the east bro. if you win the title then you'll be the best team next year if you're a few back in second place.

“Few” is doing some heavy lifting there. But I welcome your perspective as a champion, and I hope to someday also qualify away all the season’s losses due to apathy, as opposed to crediting my opponents.

Okay this guy is just a loser at this point

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Annoying that it was basically co-signed by the other two though. Windy was really the first one to say it

It's never the opinion that's the issue. It's the declarative certainty with which he states an opinion (which in this case, unsurprisingly diminishes the Cavs impact on the game outcome), followed by immediately distancing himself when these blow up in his face.