Where is his 'I'm sorry' tweet? He thought we will lose to Miami.
Well Simmons latest...
Last 3 games = top-5 most shocked I've ever been by sports. Need a week to figure out what just happened. Happy though. Bring on Orlando!
But really he comes closest to the heart of the matter in his Game 5 ESPN running diary.
"...The Celtics were playing with passion and purpose again, two qualities that had been dormant from Christmas through Easter. I hadn't just written them off; I kind of hated them. I couldn't believe that a team just two seasons removed from such a special title season would mail in a half-season like that. The halcyon days of ubuntu were long gone. When I predicted them to lose to Miami in Round 1, my cagey readers thought it was a reverse jinx. Nope. I really thought we would lose. The Celtics had given me no reason to think they might show up for the playoffs. None.
There are three types of sports fans: hopelessly devoted, rationally passionate and irrationally passionate. I am the latter. I overreact to big wins. I fly off the handle with bad losses. When things are going wrong with one of my teams, I become exceedingly sarcastic and biting (as anyone who reads me can attest). That's just my DNA. I can't help it. I am a full-fledged, unapologetic over-reactor. That's my mental process for following sports. My father is much more loyal and rational; with the Celtics these past three years, any time we stunk, he was always the one with the cooler head telling me, "We'll be fine, we're gonna win the next one." So the following moment was a big deal: On Sunday, my father sold his Game 4 tickets back to the team online for face value. He didn't want to pay for what threatened to be another stinkbomb, saying simply, "I'd rather watch Game 4 at home for free." The 2009-10 Celtics had knocked the faith out of an exceedingly faithful man. It wasn't worth $550 to him (a lot of money, by the way) to see if the Celtics might show up.
Here's the point: Neither of us even remotely saw Sunday and Tuesday coming. I thought the Celtics would roll over on Sunday and lose Game 5. End of story, end of season. Then Rondo played the game of his life, and Pierce/Allen caught fire in Game 5, and suddenly it was halftime and I was sitting there thinking, "Holy ----, are we about to murder professional basketball in Cleveland?" "
(Emphasis mine.)
Maybe it's my growing hatred for him, but I don't buy this. I think he's 100% a band wagon fan, and he wrote this piece because he's very much aware of how he's now percieved in Boston.
I was annoyed that his chants caught on at the end of the game. Both because of the way he's bashed this team all season, as well as the fact that the chant OBVIOUSLY should've been 'N-Y-C'
What do you expect from other fans? Complete kool aid drinking and unrealistic expectations?
Changing your mind on how good you think your team is, is not jumping on a bandwagon. Rooting for another team then flopping back is. Simmons hasnt done that. He's not a clippers fans, he openly hates their management, he lives in LA and goes there to see NBA games. Completely reasonable.
The Celtics deserved every bad thing that was written about them this year. Maybe if they tried harder for 7 more games, they'd have home court and banner 18.
I guess I'm not a fan either then.
