[OldSkoolBasketballParticipant]

In the five seasons they won one title, two trips to the finals, and five division titles. A regular season record of 273-121 and playoff 54-39. Do you think they overachieve, underachieve, or meet expectations? I think they meet expectations with the factor of their age. 

[UNCbasketballbumParticipant]

I think they achieved expectations.  Let’s not forget that KG was injured in 09 and didn’t play in the playoffs and the infamous perkins shoulder injury for game 7 of the 2010 NBA finals in LA that Boston fans swore they would’ve won if Perkins had been healthy.  The big 3 easily could’ve won 3 titles instead of 1.  2008 was a great year for Celtics fans since they had been mired in mediocrity for so long.  What the big 3 did to turn the culture around in Beantown that year was extraordinary.  I think all Celtics fans will take the 1 title in 5 years, although it easily could’ve been more.

[ShekiruBoomParticipant]

Damn that Perkins infamous "shoulder" injury

[DolanCareParticipant]

Great question. It’s hard to say, since the expectations for the team in the 2012-2013 season was very different than when they first got together. They could have won a 2nd title, but the fact they didn’t wasn’t an example of underacheiving.

[ChewyParticipant]

Lebron was running through the East even with his poor supporting cast. Celtics best player had to take on directly  a focused Lebron and would get worn down in a 7 game series. Same thing happened after they got KG and Ray but the difference was Pierce could more or less match Lebron while KG and Ray took turns leading the Celts in scoring. They needed these two guys to take over the East and it worked.

But Boston fans don’t count Eastern Conference Championships. It’s actually pretty simple: 2 rings or more= overachieve, 1 ring= what was expected, 0 rings= dissapointment.

If LA didn’t pull off the Pau Gasol trade (along with their own KG injuries) Boston could have been looking at 3 peat.

[BostonkingsParticipant]

 As a big Celtics fan, the big three that was brought in by Danny Ainge, their purpose was to bring a championship to Boston, and that’s exactly what they did, they brought Boston a championship in 2008, although the 2010 Finals still haunts me because game 7 in my opinion was not called fairly at all. The Celtics COMPLETELY outplayed the Lakers and some bad no calls and phantom calls by the refferees completely outdid the Celtics effort, I’m not saying I’m blaming the reffs for the Celtics defeat, because they had a chance in game 6 to close it out being up 3-2 in the series but couldn’t do it, but I honestly believe, and I’m not just saying this beiung a Celtics fan, if the game had been called fairly in game 7 2010, the C’s would have their 18th banner hanging in TD Garden and would have been the 2010 NBA champions

[Cavaliers420Participant]

 They overachieved imo. Given there age and what they actually had to work with they made some great runs for Boston. I’ll never forget Lebrons last playoff series against Boston as a Cavalier when the Celtics fans were cheering "New York Knicks!" To this day I feel as though The Big Three forced Lebrons hand into joining D-Wade and Bosh simply because he thought to beat the Celtics he needed them, which I guess he was right.

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