A Plea: Stop talking about Ray Allen

[AB_Celtic]

I've been holding back on writing this post for a while now, because I wanted to see if things would die down on their own. But it's been around two weeks since Ray Allen decided to join the Miami cHeat, and we're still talking about him.

I personally think it's pointless to look into it this much. Ray left for his own reasons, reasons we'll probably never know. Yes, he took less money for the same number of years. Yes, he went to (arguably) our biggest rival right now. Yes, he betrayed Pierce and KG, the true Celtics. But there was a reason Ray left, and however pointless it may seem to us, it mattered to him.

He's moved on from the Celtics and it's time we move on from him (until he comes back to the Garden, that is).

All I'm trying to say is that we've had a very successful offseason, and there's still lots going on. We should be happy and we should be excited with what we have, and not just because, y'know, "we should," but because we're going to have an excellent team next year if everyone stays healthy.

We have KG, Bass, Wilcox, and Jeff Green returning. We have Jason Terry for some punch off the bench. We have three EXCELLENT draft picks in Sully, Melo, and KayJay (yep, you heard me, KayJay). And we still have the possibility that we'll add more, like Courtney Lee or the ever-loveable Pietrus. Barring major injuries, we're going to win a lot of games next year and we're going to compete in the playoffs. So let's focus on all of this positivity for a bit, and leave behind the negativity Ray introduced when he went down to South Beach.

What I do not want people doing is replying to this with any mention of Ray. I'm moving on. If you haven't, feel free to comment on any of the other Ray threads going around. I, for one, am going to spend the rest of my offseason watching the summer league and learning more about some of our awesome acquisitions. I'm not judging you if you don't, but you might be a lot happier if you just forget about the guy for a while.

I'm out, and go Celtics
AB_thefaithful_C

[Jon]

Not gonna happen.

Antoine Walker threads popped up around here as late as last year.

And as you can already see, there's a Ryan Gomes thread now floating around, and he hasn't been here for 5 years. 

[Jeff]

we need more Perkins/Jeff Green trade threads

(sorry, couldn't resist)

[Chris]

we need more Perkins/Jeff Green trade threads

(sorry, couldn't resist)

Bring back Sheed?

[esel1000]

we need more Perkins/Jeff Green trade threads

(sorry, couldn't resist)

Bring back Sheed?

Posey!

[bfrombleacher]

By begging us to stop talking about Ray...you've started talking about Ray.


We lost the game!

[AB_Celtic]

By begging us to stop talking about Ray...you've started talking about Ray.


We lost the game!

Not really. I've asked that this post not have any more mentions of him.

[myteamisbetterthanyours]

(Non-Ray related comment)  The sky is blue, the clouds are white, my jersey is Green.  I AM A CELTIC. I AM NOT A TRAITOR.

[Interceptor]

I, for one, am going to spend the rest of my offseason watching the summer league and learning more about some of our awesome acquisitions. I'm not judging you if you don't, but you might be a lot happier if you just forget about the guy for a while.

Being excited about this team, and dumping on Judas, aren't mutually exclusive endeavors for me. I can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time, true story.

[Lightskinsmurf]

I've been holding back on writing this post for a while now, because I wanted to see if things would die down on their own. But it's been around two weeks since Ray Allen decided to join the Miami cHeat, and we're still talking about him.

I personally think it's pointless to look into it this much. Ray left for his own reasons, reasons we'll probably never know. Yes, he took less money for the same number of years. Yes, he went to (arguably) our biggest rival right now. Yes, he betrayed Pierce and KG, the true Celtics. But there was a reason Ray left, and however pointless it may seem to us, it mattered to him.

He's moved on from the Celtics and it's time we move on from him (until he comes back to the Garden, that is).

All I'm trying to say is that we've had a very successful offseason, and there's still lots going on. We should be happy and we should be excited with what we have, and not just because, y'know, "we should," but because we're going to have an excellent team next year if everyone stays healthy.

We have KG, Bass, Wilcox, and Jeff Green returning. We have Jason Terry for some punch off the bench. We have three EXCELLENT draft picks in Sully, Melo, and KayJay (yep, you heard me, KayJay). And we still have the possibility that we'll add more, like Courtney Lee or the ever-loveable Pietrus. Barring major injuries, we're going to win a lot of games next year and we're going to compete in the playoffs. So let's focus on all of this positivity for a bit, and leave behind the negativity Ray introduced when he went down to South Beach.

What I do not want people doing is replying to this with any mention of Ray. I'm moving on. If you haven't, feel free to comment on any of the other Ray threads going around. I, for one, am going to spend the rest of my offseason watching the summer league and learning more about some of our awesome acquisitions. I'm not judging you if you don't, but you might be a lot happier if you just forget about the guy for a while.

I'm out, and go Celtics
AB_thefaithful_C

Yeah, when does that ever happen tho.

[AB_Celtic]

we're going to have an excellent team next year if everyone stays healthy.

Yeah, when does that ever happen tho.

It doesn't always. I'm fully expecting some injuries next year. But we have more depth than last year with Green back (counting his injury as before the season, so we never really had him) and three great signings.

[celticslove]

Ray who?

[soap07]

Is anyone up for a Gerald Green thread?

[BballTim]

By begging us to stop talking about Ray...you've started talking about Ray.


We lost the game!

Not really. I've asked that this post not have any more mentions of him.

  Starting a thread about Ray Allen is much more likely to stop the Ray Allen talk than asking people to stop talking about him.

[AB_Celtic]

Ray who?

TP my friend