Celtics suffering from "Randy Burridge Syndrome"?

[cordobes]

Weekly Standard's Dean Barret writes an article that sums up a feeling that assaulted me after the two losses in Atlanta:

"n the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Boston Bruins had a player named Randy Burridge who became emblematic of the franchise. Burridge always gave the proverbial 110 percent, and was a good little player. Problem was, he did much better in the regular season than he did in the playoffs. Over the course of his career, he scored a goal once every 3.5 games in the regular season, but only once every six games in the playoffs.

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My concern with this year's Celtics, admittedly based on a small sample of only five playoff games, is that they won't react well when their intensity is finally matched. In their series with the Atlanta Hawks, the Celtics have played two of their worst games of the season. The fact that the younger, more athletic Hawks equaled the Celtics' effort in those games seemed to bewilder the Celtics. The Celtics will probably get by the Hawks, but more talented teams that are ready to finally start trying lay in wait"

Read the whole thing, as they say. It ends in a moderately optimistic tone.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/05/celtic_concerns.asp

[Bahku]

I think this "playoffs" thing is a learning process for this team, like the rest of the year has been. It's new .... they haven't been here before, and it's a new level of intensity.

However, I DON'T think they're doomed ... not at all. I think, if nothing else, that this team has learned how to adjust ... how to recognize their weak spots and make necessary changes to correct them.

I think that's what's going on now, and that they'll do whatever needed to step up their play to the level required of the post-season. It's an up-and-down process, and won't happen all at once, but I truly feel it WILL happen, and is taking place even as we "speak".

They'll do what's needed and more, and play their best.

[Donoghus]

Wow...Randy Burridge.  There's a name I haven't heard in years.  TP for kickin' it old school.

[butterbeanlove]

not really. Losing more sleep over the two losses in Hotlanta (which I attribute 80 percent to the officials, but that's another thread) than this guy.

[hockeymann23]

no matter your feelings.. we respecty those...no personal attacks allowed