Deveney: Season could be deemed failure if Boston Celtics lose tonight

[libermaniac]

Who cares?  2 weeks from now, if we don't get by the Cavs, it won't matter anyway.  These are the Boston Celtics.  It's either winning the Championship or not.  Moral victories don't matter.  And given that nobody in their right mind expected a title, it really doesn't matter if they beat the Wiz and then lose to the Cavs or just straight out lose to the Wiz.  It's been a good season regardless.

[slamtheking]

Have to admit that at this point I'd be very disappointed if we don't get to the ECF.  Should have already won the first 2 rounds and been playing Cleveland already.  team has no one but themselves to blame for their p----poor starts and those absolutely inexcusable runs they've allowed washington to have in every game.

only game where they played hard most of the time was game 5.

[Kuberski33]

Just getting out of the first round would have been a success last year.

Getting dispatched by the Wizards, a team proven significantly inferior to you during the regular season, and on your home court to boot -- no way this could be anything but a disappointment.

Honestly I don't buy that the Wiz are significantly inferior.  I think they've proven that their first 5 is better than ours and while there's allegedly a difference in bench strength ours has played like crap for too much of the playoffs and the series is deservedly at 3-3. 

If we lose tonight, the season isn't a failure unless you overestimated how talented the Celtics are.  We basically have 3 good players, one who potentially could be good in Brown - and then a bunch of complimentary guys.  The same types of guy who make up spots 3-9 in the rotation of the majority of teams.

Whatever happens tonight, happens.  Even if they win they're going out in 4 or 5 vs Cleveland so I call the season a success.  Brad has gotten everything he can out of the current roster.

[JohnBoy65]

I agree with what a lot of people have said. You can't look at the end of the year and determine the failure/success of a season. You set those parameters at the beginning of the season. We've pretty much done as much if not more than people expected.

If you want to say losing this series is a collapse because we were up 2-0 or 3-2 fine, but you don't get to change your expectations at the end of a playoff run.