It doesn't get any worse than this!!!

[freshinthehouse]

Being a Vikings fan has made it so I just expect most big games to end in a disastrous fashion for the team Im rooting for.

[SHAQATTACK]

Game 7 2010 is the worst loss I've suffered as a sports fan cheering for a team, I think.

Still gives me nightmares. Can't remember how long I was depressed after that but I know it was a long time when my wife threatened to not allow me to watch sports anymore.

Yeah......I don't even like to talk about this loss .....it's like a nightmare in my sports life concerning basketball and C's.

[Neurotic Guy]

We are a terrible team that has some promising players.  That's all we are going to be for the near future. 

You just described generations of teams for the Kings, Clippers, Nets, Timberwolves and all those other franchises who go from being outright terrible to "make the playoffs but have no shot at ever winning a title" and back again over the course of the decades.

The Timberwolves, for example, are coming off 9 straight seasons of losing records and in 8 of those 9 seasons, they won fewer than 34 games.

That near future you're talking about can remain the near future for a long, long, long time.

Mike

True that, but this generation of Celtics has to play itself out a little before I'm going to be discouraged.  Too early and too many assets still to unfold for me to be upset about a bad loss or a bad record.

[Beat LA]

This was THE WORST for me, especially 'cause I was there in the balcony overhang in the corner to the right of the Cs bench. Row 77, Row D, seat#1, so it happened right in my face:

The WORST part was that Bird got a wide open look after this and missed it long by about an inch.

TP...you have a good memory....that was down the other end, though...shot should gone down.

He missed by a millimeter - every time I watch a clip of that game, it's amazing to me that, even when Bird missed a clutch shot (which was practically never, lol), he doesn't do so by much.  I think he shot one from half court in 1987 against the Hawks in Atlanta and it hit the back rim lol .  Unbelievable. 

Even if we had won game 4, though, we weren't winning that series, because there's no way that we could have won a game in LA, and who's to say that we would have won game 5?  The Lakers would have been even more focused, and we just had too many injuries.  What's amazing about game 4, though, is that the Lakers got a 32-16 edge in free throws, including 15/16-1 in the fourth quarter, and we lost by one point.  Yeah, okay .  We should have gone to McHale more down the stretch, but if you look at the replay on Kareem's missed free throw, the issue isn't whether or not there was a foul (although there probably was), it's that Mychal Thompson hit the ball out of bounds - not McHale or Parish, which puts us up 1 with 8 seconds to go or something, and I'm assuming that Larry would have made his free throws, and we would have held on.  God I hate KC Jones.  The major mismatch in those 3 series wasn't on the court - it was on the sidelines.

That being said, does no one remember the 18 game losing streak?

[prov1ml34]

Being a Vikings fan has made it so I just expect most big games to end in a disastrous fashion for the team Im rooting for.

Vikes fan too. Don't get me started....

I wish it were 2008-2009 again when both my teams were doing awesome (up until when it counted)....

[2short]

Ml Carr throwing a season
Rick pitino doing everything unCeltic like he could

That is bad.

Magics hook shot  . $1000 loss

[Beat LA]

Game 7 2010 is the worst loss I've suffered as a sports fan cheering for a team, I think.

Still gives me nightmares. Can't remember how long I was depressed after that but I know it was a long time when my wife threatened to not allow me to watch sports anymore.

Yeah......I don't even like to talk about this loss .....it's like a nightmare in my sports life concerning basketball and C's.

I was actually going to make a thread about game 7, just to ask if anyone had rewatched it.  I finally did this year, and, yes, it sucked, but what struck me was just how easily we could have won both that game and series with a few minor adjustments (not to mention if Ainge had signed a few other guys off the scrap heap).  To me, it was almost a carbon copy of the game 7 between the Pacers and Bulls in 1998.  Every time Chicago got within 3 feet of the basket, it was a foul , but that's what I would have expected.