but brooklyn that time is considered power house nung hindi pa nagsisimula ang season. but then it;s a fail. hindi nag work ang tandems ng mga players. kaya my halong luck parin.
It's not luck. Some of it is luck but like wacksy said, a large part of it was a calculated move on Boston's part.
They might have given Brooklyn 2 strong players in 2013, but they were 2 old players (Pierce was 35, Garnett was 36) who didn't have a lot of good playing years left, so Boston also knew that the Nets would enter their own rebuilding phase once Pierce and Garnett's times were up... and that would most likely happen to coincide with the timing of the draft picks they would get from them (2016 - 2018).
Some aspects of the Celtics' fortunes can be attributed to luck:
* no one expected Isaiah Thomas to go supernova
* lots of people expected the Celtics to get a high draft pick, but no one expected them to go #1 / lots of people knew that the Nets were bad, but no one knew the Nets were going to be this bad
* being in the East - in the West they might have been a 6th seed only
But at the end of the day, the Celtics are where they are mostly because of three things: (1) the moves that their FO made in the previous years, (2) Brad Stevens, (3) the response of their players to Brad Stevens' system
And this is coming from me, a lifelong Laker fan. I hate that the Celtics are where they are right now, but I gotta give respect where respect is due, and that organization made all the right moves over the last several years.