More Excited for, Celtic win or Brooklyn Loss

[SCeltic34]

I went with Brooklyn loss for the purpose of this thread, but I think another fun question would be:

"More disappointed in a Celtic loss or a Brooklyn win"

I wonder if the results of your poll might change dramatically.

That's a good point.

I'm personally more excited about Celtics wins than Brooklyn losses.  I want a playoff spot.  More for Stevens than anyone else on the team.  I would have been perfectly content with a better draft pick last year if we had missed the playoffs, but I was more happy to see Stevens get an opportunity to coach against the best team in the Eastern conference in the playoffs, even if we got swept.  That experience is valuable for a young coach in my opinion. 

But if you're talking about disappointment, I'm more disappointed when Brooklyn picks up a win than when the Celtics lose.  Not sure if that makes sense.  It probably has a lot to do with expectations.  I expected the C's to be a slightly above .500 team.  At the same time, I pegged Brooklyn as a terrible team from the start of the season, healthy or not, and I expect them to lose.  When they actually win games, it's really disappointing because they have no true roster balance and no depth.  They might have a star in Brook Lopez and Thad Young is having the season of his career (putting up high scoring numbers on a team without a true 2nd option, and rebounds up because he plays next to a center that doesn't rebound), but they're still a lousy team with multiple deficiencies on both ends of the floor.

The Nets pick is likely of greater significance to our future than any win or playoff run our current Celtic team could produce this season.  As I've stated in another thread, I don't think most people would have predicted, nor been disappointed with, even one top 10 pick out of the return we got from the PP/KG trade.  I expected the Nets to suck, but not necessarily at the bottom-of-the-league level of terrible.  A top 10 pick is gravy.  And we got 2017 and 2018 coming up.

I don't fault anyone who values C's wins more than Nets losses, or vice versa.  They're both beneficial at this point.