Close your eyes and think about a team that had everyone talking in the preseason about Championship dreams. The team struggles out of the gate and doesn’t really find their groove except in streaks here and there. They get up for certain matchups and fail horribly in others.
Open your eyes and you could be looking at the 2010 Celtics or the 2016 Cavaliers or... you guessed it, the 2019 Celtics.
The 2010 Celtics had won at title (in 2008) and had enough veterans to put things together at the right time. It just wasn’t enough in the end to knock off Kobe and those Lakers rebounders.