One of the biggest surprises of the Boston Celtics Banner 17 crew was how fast the chemistry came together.
Whenever a new team is put together from a lot of moving parts with little or no experience playing together, a bit of a struggle tends to be the rule as the heavy-minutes players learn to properly mesh with one another.
So, apart from the deals which had to happen in the first place to make the last Bostonian "Big Three" a fact, the 2007-08 Cs' quick success was one of the bigger surprises regarding the team in a long time.