Please.

Convince me. Someone. Anyone. Talk to me and convince me that what we are seeing in the new York and Toronto games and games much like these games all year is something that will not be seen in the playoffs.

Because I just don't get the confidence some of you have thinking that what you will see in the playoffs is something that is so much different than what we saw in the regular season.

Through all these years of watching sports, longer than some of you not as long as others, I have rarely seen or can even remember a team playing this poorly suddenly hitting a switch and getting championship caliber better.

I myself have brought up the 69 Celtics but I was 4 years old and have no recollection of that. Someone brought up Miami in 2006 but I don't remember that team being this bad at the end of the year. Maybe, but I don't remember it. Other than that, I can't think of any others and even Danny Ainge has said he thinks its a dangerous mindset and he hopes his team doesn't have it.

So please, someone anyone, convince me that they can turn it around and be a contender because my own experience and most of history tells me its just to unlikely to happen.

The only argument that works is that the Celtics have been playing possum since Christmas, but that's just so implausible.

I got nothing for you Nick.

Just blind optimism at this point, which I can go with to a degree. 

Hope for the best.

Quote from: nickagneta on April 07, 2010, 09:29:57 PM

Quote from: Redz on April 07, 2010, 09:28:01 PM

The only argument that works is that the Celtics have been playing possum since Christmas, but that's just so implausible.

I got nothing for you Nick.

Just blind optimism at this point, which I can go with to a degree. 

Hope for the best.

Kinda what I'm going with at this point.

Hope for the best, expect less than that.

Yep, just hope for the best. Whats the alternative?

Quote from: nickagneta on April 07, 2010, 08:39:34 PM

Please.

Convince me. Someone. Anyone. Talk to me and convince me that what we are seeing in the new York and Toronto games and games much like these games all year is something that will not be seen in the playoffs.

Because I just don't get the confidence some of you have thinking that what you will see in the playoffs is something that is so much different than what we saw in the regular season.

Through all these years of watching sports, longer than some of you not as long as others, I have rarely seen or can even remember a team playing this poorly suddenly hitting a switch and getting championship caliber better.

I myself have brought up the 69 Celtics but I was 4 years old and have no recollection of that. Someone brought up Miami in 2006 but I don't remember that team being this bad at the end of the year. Maybe, but I don't remember it. Other than that, I can't think of any others and even Danny Ainge has said he thinks its a dangerous mindset and he hopes his team doesn't have it.

So please, someone anyone, convince me that they can turn it around and be a contender because my own experience and most of history tells me its just to unlikely to happen.

  OTOH, can you convince anyone that what we're seeing vs NY and Toronto *is* what we'll see in the playoffs?

  And, while we've played poorly for the bulk of the season, there are only 3 teams in the entire league that's more than 2 games ahead of us in the loss column. I don't know that you can make the blanket statement that teams that are playing like us never win titles because, for the most part, people wouldn't have noticed.

  If either Paul or KG had stayed healthy, not both of them, we'd be a top 2-3 team right now.