The Sky Is Falling/No Championship This Year etc...Merged Threads

[guava_wrench]

You heard it here first.

This team does not have what it takes.

Ray Allen's career is over.  He'll be a nice 6th or 7th man going forward, but his days as a front line player are over.  Pierce isn't far behind.

Deny it all you  want. Ive seen enough.  It's time to rebuild. 

This is not something that can be fixed by April. It will only be worse in April.  KG, Allen, Pierce and Wallace look like they are playing in slow motion.  Age has caught up with them.

It's over.  Time to rebuild.  Oh, they'll win 50 games because there are alot of bad teams in the league.  But they won't make it out of the 2nd round of the playoffs.

Time for you and looks like lots of people around here to eat crow! LOL @ this poster, he should be banned for this nonsense!

Guess what? Ray's not going anywhere and just hit a clutch dagger tonight to seal and keep our win streak sailing!

You want to disagree with a poster fine. We've all disagreed with the brick before.

But don't say a guy with a long history here should be banned. I bet we find some nonsense too if we look over every single one of your posts.

"Deny it all you  want. Ive seen enough.  It's time to rebuild."

That does deserve to be mocked a bit. To have opinions that strong after a rough stretch? Too much of a flavor of the week feel.

[indeedproceed]

You heard it here first.

This team does not have what it takes.

Ray Allen's career is over.  He'll be a nice 6th or 7th man going forward, but his days as a front line player are over.  Pierce isn't far behind.

Deny it all you  want. Ive seen enough.  It's time to rebuild. 

This is not something that can be fixed by April. It will only be worse in April.  KG, Allen, Pierce and Wallace look like they are playing in slow motion.  Age has caught up with them.

It's over.  Time to rebuild.  Oh, they'll win 50 games because there are alot of bad teams in the league.  But they won't make it out of the 2nd round of the playoffs.

Time for you and looks like lots of people around here to eat crow! LOL @ this poster, he should be banned for this nonsense!

Guess what? Ray's not going anywhere and just hit a clutch dagger tonight to seal and keep our win streak sailing!

You want to disagree with a poster fine. We've all disagreed with the brick before.

But don't say a guy with a long history here should be banned. I bet we find some nonsense too if we look over every single one of your posts.

"Deny it all you  want. Ive seen enough.  It's time to rebuild."

That does deserve to be mocked a bit. To have opinions that strong after a rough stretch? Too much of a flavor of the week feel.

I'd say that it's completely wrong and pretty illogical but I don't think he needs to be mocked for it.

[Bahku]

I have to agree with IP ... great discussion and discourse is made up of many things, and while some of those discussions may be emotional and heated at times, mocking someone should not be on the list of acceptable tools for proper discourse or dialogue.

That said, I have to completely disagree with Brick's statements, and say that Ray, Paul and the other "old" guys, are FAR from done or through being "front-line" players. They are the core and strongest parts of this team, and will be for a while to come.

Not sure what games are being discussed here, but to say that it's being looked at from a 'half-empty" perspective would be the understatement of the year! This is one of the best teams in the NBA, if not THE best, and to say that the core players are done and that all we have left for hope is to start rebuilding, just makes no sense at all.

If anyone needs proof, just look at the record, look at the stats, look at how evenly the scoring is distributed, look at how well we play defense, look at the connection and chemistry this team has, look at how well they communicate and how unselfish they are with the ball ... to even consider taking statements like Brick's seriously, would take a huge amount of proof and statistics to the contrary of what's really taking place.

I just don't get how anyone could come to such a conclusion, but for now I'll give Brick the benefit of the doubt, and just ask for an explanation of how he could watch this team play and make such a negative assumption ... of how a team that's twenty-and-four does "not have what it takes" ... of how two of the league's elite players careers are "over".

I have seen a lot of negative critiquing of this team on here before, but none that is just so completely opposite of what the reality appears to be. I'll admit that the Big Three are older and nearing the point in their careers where they will start winding down. But to say three of the NBA's current best players are through, along with their team, (which is ranked at the top of the NBA), is not remotely realistic.

Sorry, but one and one just does not make two here, so please help us with our math ... we're all missing something.

By the way, remember that guy for the Celtics tonight who came off a late pick and had the ball passed to him and rotated to the top of the circle and launched a last-second three that he drained to put the gamne away tonight against the Grizzlies? Somebody needs to tell him, (and the rest of the NBA teams and fans who fear this Celtics club), that his career is OVER.

[Jesus Shuttlesworth #20]

Praise Jesus, not only are the Celtics on a collison course with the Lakers, they are making everyone eat their words about them being done. The person who started this thread should have to retract their statement. I know it seemed really smart at the time and you wanted to throw it in everyone's face that you called it, but you were 100% wrong. I've got no problem with any of this, but you gotta own when you are wrong especially when you are being negative. Honestly, I love it when negative Boston fans are wrong, cause even if you were right, we are all spoiled anyway.

[Casperian]

Praise Jesus, not only are the Celtics on a collison course with the Lakers, they are making everyone eat their words about them being done. The person who started this thread should have to retract their statement. I know it seemed really smart at the time and you wanted to throw it in everyone's face that you called it, but you were 100% wrong. I've got no problem with any of this, but you gotta own when you are wrong especially when you are being negative. Honestly, I love it when negative Boston fans are wrong, cause even if you were right, we are all spoiled anyway.

Noone has to admit anything.
When did the Tony-Allen-Fans admit they were wrong?

At the time this thread was created, there were good reasons to be concerned with this team, even Ainge said that we were not playing like a contender.
Who says that some criticism from the fans can´t be a good thing and light a fire under some player´s butts?
The streak, the intensity, more Sheed in the post, all these things happened after the criticism. If everyone was all sunshine and lollipops, what incentive would be there for the team to step up their game?

And not to take anything away from a 10-game-streak, but let´s not forget, most of the wins came against sub-average teams, so the real test for this team is still to come.