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thanks to the show in Atlanta, this line spread comes to us a little cheaper than the first two times around, but thus is the dichotomy of a young group of talent.  As good as they were at home, they have been struggled to get it going without the crowd's energy to push them over the top.  That building was electric and the adrenaline from that kind of support is a large part of how atlant  pulled the back to back upsets...

No way in hell the C's aren't ready for them, and you don't go to the garden and take the celtics unless you are ready to play championship caliber basketball as a team.  No way they let Joe Johnson and Josh smith kill them like that again.  Last two times they played in BOS, the celtics slowly wore them down and played solid games.  This has the make of an all home series.  I'll have my money on another Celtic slaughter and be ready to catch some more points when the hawks swing back home.

BOS -13 (buying they hook)

debating on 1st half, but without compelling evidence, I'll probably stick to the game, because ATL sometimes comes out strong on the road, but they can't maintain against the away crowd's energy

What i know about reading moneylines though tells me that this will happen. A 9 point spread should have been -1200. A 14 point spread should be around -2000, which is correct fro laying those kind of points. This one will get ugly 

first half only 4 me

boston's fans saw what the atlanta fans can do now they rae going to be LIVID! boston minus the chalk

cletics make the adjustments they should have made after game three in this one put poset on smith let kg run house on everyone i like celtics to win in a blow out they will come back rested and pissed off they havent lost two in a row basically all year and the hawks are coming into bean town were the celtics own all celtics ina  tremendous revenge blowout

CMJ... honestly, ATL is a different team at home.  A lot of youth based teams are like that and this is an extreme case.  Remember how hesitent everyone was to take the C's... they covered both times and wore the hawks down even though they looked alright early.  Add the revenge to that game 1/2 situation and you've got a good formula for success... well... the only game in this series I haven't called right was game 4 and I regret underestimating them at home, I just don't think they are deep enough to beat the C's in boston... good luck with whatever you do though man.