Which teams should the Boston Celtics want to play in the 2022 NBA Playoffs — and more importantly, should the Celtics consider the strategic resting of players in certain matchups to help speed along such a matchup?
When it comes to the postseason, it can be the case that one team has another club’s number in terms of how they play against each other. In other words, sometimes the weaknesses of a given roster can be exploited with ease by a team built to do it, and even at times by lesser rosters in terms of the overall talent a team can bring to bear.
For some fans, such gamesmanship is an anathema to what we should want to see in the playoffs and represents a losing mentality. But at the end of the day when they talk about champions in prior seasons, they talk about how they managed to defeat the odds to accomplish one of the toughest feats in the sports by definition.
And rarely if it all whether they should have played another opponent.
Check out the hosts of the CLNS Media podcast Adam Kaufman and Evan Valenti as they chop it up on this subject with former Sports Illustrated reporter Ian Thomsen.
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