After Boston's Head Coach Brad Stevens led the Celtics to the Eastern Conference Finals without superstars Kyrie Irving & Gordon Hayward, expectations grew. When enjoying success without your stars its easy to say your a better team when they come back healthy. On paper you expect them to be the favorites in the Eastern Conference, but making a super team is like making homemade cookies. Making cookies you don't just pour the ingredience in a bowl, you have to mix them together. While adding to All-Stars to your successful team you have to integrate them into the team and that takes time. So while the Celtics season started off rough through the first 20 games of the season, Stevens finally has this team looking like a championship contender after finding everyone's role on the team.
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