Just reflecting that the last three championship games for my teams (Celtics and Patriots) were brutal losses. The 2 Giants games and the 7th game to the Lakers. I am not a Sox or Bruins fan so I got nothing out of their championships. Glad to have the winning feeling again.
So lucky that we've had so many opportunities over the last 15 years. Great to have another win.
All three of those losses were painful, but perhaps the two Pats' ones moreso because they depended heavily on fluke/highly improbable plays.
I don't know man. I'd rather swim naked in a sea of scorpions than watch game 7 against the Lakers in 2010 again. That loss still haunts me to this day.
I actually watched it on youtube a few months ago, and it wasn't too bad. Of course I was disappointed, but I wanted to see it again to figure out what went wrong - you know, aside from the refs never calling an over-the-back foul and Ray never helping out on the boards, and honestly, the problem was our offense. It was always our offense, and I blame Doc for that, in addition to never making any adjustments. All we had to do was to keep it simple, both in that game and in that entire series, and we might have won. After we somehow beat them in game 2, and seeing who the refs were for the next contest, I was convinced that if we could somehow find a way to eek out game 3 that that series would have been ours. We started out as if we were picking right up from where we left off in game 6, lol, and then it's like we stopped playing, in addition to Artest taking Ray out on the first shot of the game by kneeing him in the thigh. I've seen stuff on youtube where Lakers fans said that the refs gave us the series in 08 and that Posey was a thug, so they enjoyed seeing Ray struggle, to which I can only go
. I've often wondered if Michael Finley could have won us game 3, along with a change in strategy. Yes, you read that correctly - Michael Finley. I also wish that we had had Bass instead of Baby that year. Ugh. Am I nuts, lol?
Imo, all we needed to do was to take advantage of a few matchups and we would have won that series, but whatever.
