This is the least enjoyable season since...

[liam]

The Year Reggie died.

[slamtheking]

The Year Reggie died.

that was the offseason but just remembering that was a real gut punch

[liam]

The Year Reggie died.

that was the offseason but just remembering that was a real gut punch

True. but it was the death of the future. Lewis was an amazing all-star player.

[tenn_smoothie]

The Year Reggie died.

that was the offseason but just remembering that was a real gut punch

True. but it was the death of the future. Lewis was an amazing all-star player.

The Celtics never recovered from the loss of Len Bias and Reggie Lewis.
What other NBA team lost their two best players of the future in such a short time ?

[ozgod]

There have been many unenjoyable seasons I've suffered through, the majority of them happening before 2005...this isn't even the worst in the last few years. I still think Kyrie's last season was the worst. Because expectations were so high. This year I didn't really have high expectations after losing Hayward, and with Covid 19 putting everything into perspective. I had a feeling we were going to struggle. Not this bad, but I've managed my expectations better this year than I did with the Kyrie team. That team was loaded but we just couldn't put it together and then all the backbiting in the media was a major turn off.

[Ilikesports17]

The Year Reggie died.

that was the offseason but just remembering that was a real gut punch

True. but it was the death of the future. Lewis was an amazing all-star player.

The Celtics never recovered from the loss of Len Bias and Reggie Lewis.
What other NBA team lost their two best players of the future in such a short time ?

Very very very different, but Oden and Roy

[Ilikesports17]

1997- 15-67 was not a lot of fun. Especially when we lost the lottery and a chance at a once in a generation superstar.

I think our expectations are just too high with the parts that we have right now. At least in 97 we did not get trolled though.

That was a terrible season

That was the year Pitino just quit on the team no?

ML Carr was the coach! He tanked us perfectly only to come away robbed by the lotto balls! Pitino came in after and soon after let Billups go because we know Billups would never amount to anything. Pitinio could not figure out which position to play Billups! Good ole days.

And then Billups eventually ended winning a championship and having a nice career

They should have been more patient

They gave up on billups way too soon but people overstate how bad that move was. He didn’t figure it out until year 5 like 3 teams later.

[Moranis]

1997- 15-67 was not a lot of fun. Especially when we lost the lottery and a chance at a once in a generation superstar.

I think our expectations are just too high with the parts that we have right now. At least in 97 we did not get trolled though.

That was a terrible season

That was the year Pitino just quit on the team no?

ML Carr was the coach! He tanked us perfectly only to come away robbed by the lotto balls! Pitino came in after and soon after let Billups go because we know Billups would never amount to anything. Pitinio could not figure out which position to play Billups! Good ole days.

And then Billups eventually ended winning a championship and having a nice career

They should have been more patient

They gave up on billups way too soon but people overstate how bad that move was. He didn’t figure it out until year 5 like 3 teams later.

And Kenny Anderson was the starting PG for several seasons in Boston. 

The trade was Billups, Brown, Thomas, and Rogers for Anderson, Popeye, Tabak

Anderson was only 27 at the time of the trade and stayed in Boston for 4.5 years and was obviously the starting PG on the ECF team.  It wasn't like they sold Billups off for a way past his prime one year rental.  Anderson worked out fairly well and they didn't even lose him in free agency.  They ended up trading him, Forte, and Potapenko for Baker and Williams. That said, Boston could have done without the Vin Baker trade.

[slamtheking]

1997- 15-67 was not a lot of fun. Especially when we lost the lottery and a chance at a once in a generation superstar.

I think our expectations are just too high with the parts that we have right now. At least in 97 we did not get trolled though.

That was a terrible season

That was the year Pitino just quit on the team no?

ML Carr was the coach! He tanked us perfectly only to come away robbed by the lotto balls! Pitino came in after and soon after let Billups go because we know Billups would never amount to anything. Pitinio could not figure out which position to play Billups! Good ole days.

And then Billups eventually ended winning a championship and having a nice career

They should have been more patient

They gave up on billups way too soon but people overstate how bad that move was. He didn’t figure it out until year 5 like 3 teams later.

And Kenny Anderson was the starting PG for several seasons in Boston. 

The trade was Billups, Brown, Thomas, and Rogers for Anderson, Popeye, Tabak

Anderson was only 27 at the time of the trade and stayed in Boston for 4.5 years and was obviously the starting PG on the ECF team.  It wasn't like they sold Billups off for a way past his prime one year rental.  Anderson worked out fairly well and they didn't even lose him in free agency.  They ended up trading him, Forte, and Potapenko for Baker and Williams. That said, Boston could have done without the Vin Baker trade.

spot on with this.

Billups has somehow become the poster child of some that want to make up some reason for the C's not knowing how to evaluate talent.  Billups took years to develop and was the #3 pick.  Just need to go through the Latest Discussion sessions pretty much every day to see how every year we seem to make a pick that's a bust regardless of how little playing time that player has gotten as a rookie.  Billups was getting lots of playing time as a rookie and stinking up the joint.  no way this fanbase would have waited 5 years for him to start putting it together.

[Celtics2021]

... when?

The easy answer is Kyrie’s final year, but even that season had some bright spots before the playoffs.

I am having a hard time coming up with any redeeming qualities of this season so far.

I think this year is still more enjoyable than the Kyrie year.  The Kyrie year had long bouts of inconsistent play combined with many instances of teammates sniping at each other.  This team has the inconsistent play, but they seem willing to keep trying to work through it together.  Who knows what will happen in the end, but I give this year’s team a much better chance to have it all click together than I do the 2019 team.

The All-Star break can’t come fast enough for these guys tho.  They are in a terrible place collectively.

[Surferdad]

Wyc, I've stopped watching...and I'm not alone.

[philr13]

... when?

The easy answer is Kyrie’s final year, but even that season had some bright spots before the playoffs.

I am having a hard time coming up with any redeeming qualities of this season so far.

I think this year is still more enjoyable than the Kyrie year.  The Kyrie year had long bouts of inconsistent play combined with many instances of teammates sniping at each other.  This team has the inconsistent play, but they seem willing to keep trying to work through it together.  Who knows what will happen in the end, but I give this year’s team a much better chance to have it all click together than I do the 2019 team.

The All-Star break can’t come fast enough for these guys tho.  They are in a terrible place collectively.

As bad as they've played lately I do think the Kyrie year was more frustrating. I expected big things from that team and they were capable of it. When I look at the roster this year, I'm not surprised that there are problems. I wish they were better, but if the starting line-up is ever able to play together for an extended stretch we may still see some good basketball.

[PhoSita]

I think the biggest difference between this season and the Kyrie season is that at least back then it still seemed like the Celts had a lot of options for improving.

Granted, by the end of that season when Horford left at the same time Kyrie did, I remember feeling pretty deflated.  But they still had Hayward, they still had a lot of picks coming.  Felt like there were moves to make, and the cap situation wasn't quite as limiting.