That was easy: 10 Takeaways from Celtics/Cavaliers

The Boston Celtics emerged Wednesday night with another win under their belt, keeping things simple and blowing out the Cleveland Cavaliers by 25 to improve to 42-13 on the season as we get ready for the All-Star Brea…

Wait, that was a playoff game? Surely you can’t be serious.

You’re telling me that the game I just watched brought the Celtics one step closer to winning the NBA Championship? That totally chill, comically stressless and frankly somewhat relaxing basketball game actually counted for one of the 16 wins the Celtics need to take home the title? Really?

What a breath of fresh air. What a glorious change of pace. What a wonderful way to kick off the second round with a completely unremarkable obliteration of a team that was ripe for unremarkable obliteration. I still have plenty of notes, but they’re the “listen you killed it but here’s how to go up even another level” type notes, not the “if you keep messing around we might run into trouble” type.

Many of you may have already noticed that Jiu-jitsu apprentice Adam is off today, getting dental surgery probably as a result of having to fight off hordes of bandits and assassins as he leaped through the rooftops of Birmingham like some sort of ninja Mary Poppins. And per his instructions, I will conclude the introduction by saying the Celtics formed a perfect fist—thumb under the knuckles rather than wrapped in the fingers—and punched the Cavaliers directly in the mouth. Let’s extract some teeth, shall we?

1. If Derrick White is going to play like this for the rest of the postseason, the Celtics are going to win the NBA Finals

I couldn’t mince words here: if Derrick White is going to be this going forward, it’s over for the rest of the league.

White has a 100 percent approval rating among Celtics fans. Any concerns about the trade that brought him here have long been assuaged, but White hasn’t just broken through whatever ceiling the NBA had prescribed for him: he personally rebuilt it 40 stories higher and then shattered it with a single stone.

He is and has been an excellent basketball player, but people are kidding themselves if they said they knew this would happen. In the playoffs, White is averaging 22.8 points per game while shooting 57 percent from the floor, 50 percent from three and 90 percent from the free throw line. Six games is a real sample size too, and his splits over the last three are even crazier.

But more than stats, he’s got the look….