The season is still young but there are already narratives being repeated in the media in an attempt to define this year’s Boston Celtics. First of all, this team is the photographic negative of last year’s squad. Secondly, they are exceeding most people’s expectations. Finally, however, the Achilles heel is the center position and that flaw will prove fatal in the playoffs if they don’t make a move to improve the middle.
That may be true. Certainly they’ll have to face some rather large human beings in the playoffs and it is hard to “hide” a positional weakness over the course of a seven game series.