Hey Everyone,
This is my first post ever so bare with me. I have been reading this blog for years but never really had any desire to pop my head up until now. First I want to say I really enjoy reading everyones perspective on here and I think you are all awesome and I so impressed with the Basketball knowledge you all posses, it's been a pleasure reading all your posts over the years.
To give everyone a quick background before I make my points, I'm a 12 year season ticket holder in my mid 30's who has seen some great years and have suffered through the bad years also.
The reason I decided to post was the frustration I am having with this talk of tanking and seeing how excited many people are with the prospect of having a terrible year. It basically is a losing mentality, winners don't strive to lose or be worse than the previous year, winners want to do the best they can and improve every year. I remember once hearing of a Red Auberbach story where they had mentioned tanking one year and to summarize I think his reply was "You always play to win", with an organization such as the Celtics I think you always play to wine and strive to be your best each and every game no matter what the circumstances, that's a culture of winning.
The second concern I have is as a season ticket holder. Every year I spend thousands of dollars that I could be spending on other things on season tickets to see my beloved Celts. Like a good consumer I don't want to invest good money to see a garbage product, another problem I have with tanking and I am sure other season ticket holders can relate to this is that what if a few years down the road when they are good I am priced out of the season tickets for whatever reason. So in theory I could be forced to pay for the poor product and then when the product became decent again I could get forced it and get nothing for investing in the team when they weren't very good. So as somebody who is financially invested in the team in some sense I expect to see a quality product each and every game for my money.
Finally I don't like reading about how some people are going to hope that the Celtics suck so they could possibly get a good draft pick and then say they will chear for the Celtics opponents because they have players on the team that used to play for the Celtics (ex: KG & Paul Pierce), if you are going to root for the Nets because they have Paul Pierce, then you are really a Paul Pierce fan and you are not a celtics fan, and maybe paulpierceblog.com instead of celticsblog.com might be a more appropriate place for you. If you are a Boston Celtics fan you route for the Boston Celtics first not for the individual players, otherwise you are a fan of the players and not of the team and the tradition that the team has in my opinion.
In conclusion again I think you guys and gals are all awesome and I would love to hear your thoughts on the above.
