The "Don't Blame it on the Injuries" Mentality?

[Rondo_is_better]

Let me just make this as short as possible.

Excuses get you no where and  have the added affect of making you sound like a loser.

If we don't win it all, I'll do my best to avoid excuses... everyone already knows what it is, the Celtics are injured.

1. An excuse is different than a reason. A reason--like a massive injury problem-- is totally valid. An excuse is a fabricated reason that has no real merit. Our injury woes are a REASON not an excuse.

2. excuses do make you sound like a loser; good thing this isn't one. Its a very, very legitimate reason.

3. I'll do my best to avoid excuses too. I'm not gonna blame our elimination (if it happens) on some single blown call or anything like that. I will point to the loss of our best player and several key role players, though, not as the sole reason for our losing, but as an important factor. To do otherwise is just slapping on the "I'm competitive, BAHHH" blinders and refusing to acknowledge reality.

4. You end your post saying you won't mention the fact that the Celtics were injured..... because everyone will already know it?


What? So working with your idea, an "excuse" (reason) is BAD to mention directly, but its GOOD when people recognize it without your bringing it up? There's a logical disconnect there.

[fairweatherfan]

Let me just make this as short as possible.

Excuses get you no where and  have the added affect of making you sound like a loser.

If we don't win it all, I'll do my best to avoid excuses... everyone already knows what it is, the Celtics are injured.

I'd agree with this, except that none of us (maybe a couple of exceptions) have anything to do with the success or failure of this team outside of spending a little money on them, so it doesn't matter in the least what we think.  Nothing we do or say ever "gets us anywhere", in the final analysis.  I wouldn't say we would definitely win the title healthy, but I don't see how it's some kind of personal failing to say that injuries are severely hurting our chances.