4 Quarters - Eastern Conference Finals: Celtics vs Heat

5. Celtcs vs. 2. Heat

1. Can the Heat finally put to bed the "Big 4" of the Celtics Regime? - Think of this for a "perfect" storybook ended to the Miami Heat season: Winning a Championship having gone through the over-hyped Knicks, the bright future of a team who could challenge them in the future in the Pacers and ending the 4-year run of the Celtics "Big 4". Sounds good huh? Yea, this could be a signature series for this team. I am sure there's nothing more that this Heat team wants to do but to be the team that ended the Big 4's going away championship title. This will be a VERY tough task to accomplish.
2. Will Chris Bosh return this series to help out the Heat? - If a close-to-"healthy" Bosh can return in this series, this could pretty tilt the series advantage completely over the Miami Heat. But without Bosh, this could be a tough series to win for the Heat, considering the play of Kevin Garnett during these playoffs.
3. Can Ray Allen finally recover in this series from the ankle injury that sidelined him at the end of season? - If a close-to-"healthy" Allen can play then this could be the advantage the Celtics need to win this series. If Allen can stay on defense and knock down his shots on that ankle, then this could pose problems for the Heat guards. But if his ankle isn't up to par, this could be the straw that breaks the Celtics back, for good.
4. Under/Over: 60 ppg in this series that James and Wade can average scoring combined? - This is important because who else will score the Heats points if these two can't average 60 points a game. This was important in the last 3 games vs. the Pacers and it will be important in this series. Remember it is 2 against 4 in this series.

The "X" Factors - Rondo vs Chalmers. Since Avery Bradley is out for the reminder of the playoffs, this is the other non-Wade vs Allen X-factor I can think of. Mario Chalmers has to show up these round of the playoffs in order for the Heat to complete dominate this series. Without Bosh, the Heat would love to have someone step up to be the 3rd scorer, so why not Chalmers? I mean Rondo for the most part will hold up his own in this match-up, but to make it harder for Rondo would be the fact that Chalmers is consistant in his scoring.

Series Prediction - Heat in 7