The way I see it one of the most fearsome teams in the playoffs is the Utah Jazz.

Deron Williams is a big part of that, and the task of stopping him now falls to the Houston Rockets.

Last night, Rockets' GM Daryl Morey talked to Jason Friedman of the Houston Press about the smart approach to handling Deron Williams:

Deron's good at everything, so you try and minimize the damage. [The Jazz are] most effective when he's passing the ball to cutters, and passing the ball to spot-up shooters like Okur, so what you want to do is get Deron going for his own offense. He's still effective, but that's usually the least bad of the options.

And I assume defending him has to be more of a team effort, since there's just no way Bobby Jackson or Aaron Brooks can handle Williams one-on-one?
No one can handle him one-on-one, but your best choice may be to still guard him one-on-one. You go back to the days of when Houston beat Phoenix in the '90s. Rudy chose to let Kevin Johnson be the guy who goes nuts and basically guarded everybody else, and [that strategy] helped win the series. So you can't stop everything. You're always just trying to move them into the offense that is the least effective.

Morey, a former Celtics' executive, also predicts that Boston will win the East "for sure."