1. Typically, when you think of a meeting between two great defensive teams in the postseason you think of slowdown, grind-it-out battles that end somewhere in the vicinity of 92-87. Typically, that’s the case. But not in this bizarro series.
Instead what we’re getting is a series where both defenses have indeed been great, but each game has seen one team lead by at least 20 – Boston’s near-comeback in Game 3 was the only real pushback we’ve seen from a big hole – because as soon as one defense gets rolling then the other team starts to struggle even more having to attack in the halfcourt, and the more that team misses the more the other side can try to push the pace.