[tonybologna]

With the victory today here on Super Bowl Sunday we have now moved into 3rd place in the Eastern Conference. I posted a few weeks ago if we would get things together & play the way we're capable of playing that we could get up to that 3rd spot. I just don't think we're going to move up any farther into the Eastern Conference standings though. I think it's the Bucks & Raptors #1 & #2 respectively.

I do think the Raptors can end up being the #1 seed in the East though but it's going to be tough for them to do so with the way the Bucks are clicking & have been for a long while now. The 3-way combo of the Greek Freak, Middleton, & Brogdon are playing just as well as any other 3-way combination in the league including the Warriors Big 3. Add to that Eric Bledsoe, Tony Snell, & Brook Lopez' play & this Bucks team is going to be tough to beat in a playoff series regardless of venue.

The good thing we can now say though is that we're finally starting to play like we were expected to do so. There is one caveat to that though. Gordon Hayward. He's just not been able to get his game going consistently. I'm beginning to wonder how much the serious injury from last season has really affected his game now. He really doesn't seem like the same player that he was in Utah.

He isn't shooting nowhere like he's capable & he's also hesitate quite a bit to take the ball to the rim. If he was to get his game going then we are no doubt going to be able to play with & possibly beat both the Bucks & Raptors come playoff time. GO CELTICS!