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NBA Playoff Picture: David Blatt is pretending the Celtics will be a tough matchup

By Josh Hill

Apr 12, 2015; Boston, MA, USA; Boston Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas (4) shoots against Cleveland Cavaliers guard Matthew Dellavedova (8) in the second half at TD Garden. The Celtics defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 117-78. Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports
Apr 12, 2015; Boston, MA, USA; Boston Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas (4) shoots against Cleveland Cavaliers guard Matthew Dellavedova (8) in the second half at TD Garden. The Celtics defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 117-78. Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports /
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The NBA Playoff picture appears to be pretty much set, but that’s not stopping Cleveland Cavaliers head coach David Blatt from making his team’s first-round matchup seem harder than it is.

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This weekend will see the NBA Playoffs tip off, and with it will come a new brand of basketball. Where there might have been teams happy with mediocre performances in the regular season, the cream has risen to the top and the best teams in the NBA are still standing — for the most part.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are one of the most dominant forces in basketball as they’re led by a barrage of talent from LeBron James to Kyrie Irving and Timofey Mozgov. Don’t forget about Kevin Love, or J.R. Smith either with Mike Miller, Kendrick Perkins and Iman Shumpert to boot.

That’s what the Boston Celtics are facing this postseason and to call it anything other than a lopsided series is to be lying about what the series will look like. Still, Cleveland Cavaliers head coach David Blatt isn’t going to buy into the notion that there are easy series in the postseason and he’s talking up the Celtics like he coaches them or something.

According to Dave McMenamin from ESPN.com, Cavaliers head coach David Blatt is trying to make it sound as though the Celtics are going to be a tough matchup for his team in the first round of the playoffs.

Cleveland and Boston used to be a good matchup but the tides have since turned. LeBron James is a different player than he was in 2010 and the Celtics no longer tout talent like Rajon Rondo, Kevin Garnett or Paul Pierce on their roster. Boston is a shell of the team they used to be and that’s why they’re not as intimidating as Blatt may want them to appear.

Of course, Blatt isn’t going to sack the Celtics before a series with them, but he’s being a little too generous with saying the matchup isn’t ‘simple’ — because it couldn’t be anymore simple than the black of white nature it is.

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