Life of a Celtics Fan-atic

The reason we have been bad so long is a little bad luck but alot of shortsighted, idiotic moves that just set us back farther and farther. Kidos to these guys to try to break the pattern.

You sound like a Red Sox fan of a couple years ago….remember, “All things must end”…including “bad” seasons. All it takes is one finals appearance to erase the heartbreak. There were a lot of promising signs this year, reason to look forward to next year! Please don’t give up yet. (from another dedicated optimist!

I think what Patrick is asking is that are they really trying to break the pattern or is it more of the same moves of the last 20 years.

We can end 20 years of frustration if we either a.) get Oden or Durant or b.)make a major trade on draft night. I wonder if there’s any way we could do a 3-way with Phoenix and Memphis and end up with Gasol and Barbosa or Gasol and Diaw or Gasol and Marion?

You hit it right on the top my man. Sometimes I feel i’m getting kicked. The best sports town in the world and we have the worst looking team in the world. But I still come back for more abuse like an one eye spouse. I hope the beating would stop sooner than later. :’(

Wow! Someone give this drama queen an oscar for that performance. I swear I almost had a tear in my eye! Almost!

Everyone keeps looking for an overnight fix. There isn’t one. Oden or Durant, not Kevin Garnett mean instant Eastern Conf Finals, much less Banner 17.
If you can’t look at Rondo, West, Al, Perk, Gomes, Green, Pierce, Wally, and Powe and say you have nothing to cheer for and nothing to look forward to, then you must be confused. I like this team. They aren’t great, sometimes they’re bad, but it’s far from losing sleep over while crying in a pillow.

Someone get that guy some feminine hygene products, he’s leaking.

No one counts the amount of times you were in the finals!…. It is about Championships!!!!!!!!!

I support this staement: Maybe the Celtics don’t want “my” type of fan?

To the rose colored glasses wearers, good for you. I prefer to see things the way they are as opposed to how I would like them to be.

What has new management brought us? A new scoreboard, louder music, piped in fan noise, dancing girls, expensive perks for courtside season tix holders, (have you seen the Lexus Lounge?) and a much weaker team.

The idea that working to come in last for a draft pick is NOT brilliant management.

  The NBA is the least of the ‘team’ effort things. ONE man can make the difference between bad and mediocre or mediocre and good or good and VERY good. Without the injuries, we are NOW a mediocre team. With ONE good man (Oden, Hibbard, Durant?) we can be certainly a good playoff caliber team. If Rondo gets a decent outside shot to go with Oden, we can be a very good team.

First of all, I think Celtic Management does know that it’s the team, in the end, that brings the crowds. I wouldn’t make that much of the dancers etc. Danny and Doc have nothing to do, nor do they care about the dancers, etc. All are trying to bring us back to the “glory” days. It’s just not that easy any more. There is no longer a minor league system (the 4 year college player). It’s now remedial basketball and the C’s have the most players in need of teaching. Instead of learning the game in college they are learning it here. It takes time. With our draft positions since Danny took over, I think he has done a great job. I also think Doc has done a great job of teaching. We have quality character players on this team and we should be proud of that. The players are also starting to put things together, chemistry is developing. This is just not going to be a quick fix. Despite the record, I think much progress has been made this year. As to the draft, I don’t see that as our saviour. We will just get another player needing remedial work. There are no more Tim Duncans or Larry Birds or players of their like to draft. I saw more positives than negatives this year. The record will soon begin to reflect this.

Thank you! That’s right thank you and not to the article writer but to the fans who posted above me (for the most part anyway). For that is why I’m a Celtic Fan! I had to even go back and read each one again, why? Pride! Celtic Pride! That’s what I read in most the post, and no not rose colored glasses but Faith! Celtic Faith!

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

I know myself I was a Celtic fan since 6th grade seriously, that 1965. Being a C fan those early years, it was a take position, another words it was easy. For 20 years the C’s gave to me, and I took, I took Pride, and I developed Faith in them. Now I feel I owe them the faith, through these hard times, for all the reasons my fellow faithful above explained. I think for a young fan, (like the article writer) who may of not had all those winning moments, it’s harder to see our perspective of optimisum. Again to you, I thank you, for showing Celtic Pride, and Celtic Faith still resides in the hearts of some. I’m proud to stand with you!

Just to clarify, Again to you “posters” I thank you…to the younger fans my heart goes out, but don’t wavior and be sucked into negativisum. There is no upside in it, only downside. To the Article writer, the reason you don’t understand Wyc, Doc, and Danny is there perspective at grasping the whole. You stated since 1995, a drop of time in a bucket. 12 years, all three were alive and around for 20 or more years of Celtic Glory, Celtic tradition. Their working to restore it, it takes time as was stated above. First, Find the Faith, then Restore the Pride!

Could there be a more myopic whine-fest than this tripe? It’s not about 1995, its about a team on the cusp of putting themselves back on the map…this offseason will complete what has been a 20 year Oddessy…give it up Gilroy, you ebb and flow game-to-game way too much with little insight into the bigger picture…prepare to be blindsided…

Eric W, I can never say it enough, your the man!

Just one more point, Bob Day: how can you say you love something and have no faith in it? Are you married? Can you love your wife and yet have no faith in her? You know I lost my wife when she was 30 and I raised my daughter 4 at the time and my son 2 at the time by myself. For those who have had children, you will understand this. One thing about kids, is they love unconditionally. If you “love” your Celtics, how can you not find faith in them. Do you think Danny Ainge’s goal is to destroy the Celtics? Wyc’s, or Doc’s? Is that there goal? No there human as are we, we all make mistakes, we make them raising our children are most precious comodiity. Does it mean we don’t love them? Some of you talk with such hate in here against the people who truely love the team? Is that right? Children love unconditionally becuase they have “Faith” in that love. Once you lose the love, you lose the Faith. Think about it. Didn’t realize that was Gilroy, no wonder I turn him off all the time…

Oh and to those who didn’t get my point let me say this, go home tonight and tell your wife/girlfriend you love her but you have no faith in her. She’ll help you see my point….I’m sure you’ll have a good night sleep I know I will, good night from the far north!

Eric W has the right idea. This is the point where it will be the most fun to be a fan. I loved the Celtics through the sixties, seventies and eighties. But fact is we were spoiled and the Celts a bit taken for granted at the time by some. 1967 was the best year as a Red Sox fan. That year changed everything for the Red Sox, though they still didn’t get over the final hurdle until 2004.

And we are hopefully heading in a similar direction with the Celtics (except for the championship part). And I want the Celts to be competitive for a long time when that happens, just as the Red Sox have been. Even without the championships the Red Sox have been a very exciting team to follow. And the Celtics don’t have to deal with the psychological pressure of not having won since the turn of the century, so hopefully the championships will come if they build the team the right way. I think this management is really trying to do that. And of course a little luck wouldn’t hurt, because that’s often the difference between an exciting and entertaining contender and winning it

Mcpu, sounds as if you need some anti-depressants and to get off of the hallucinogens.

This team will likely win 40 to 45 if they bring back the exact same roster. Better with a smart high draft pick. And who knows how much better with some lottery luck and or a sound personnel move to acquire another veteran who fills a need and has adds to team leadership and chemistry.

Durant like Kedrick Brown? Why because he didn’t take his team to the final four? The kid lives, eats, sleeps and breathes basketball and has since he was about seven. And apparently he is driven to succeed like very few. If I remember right Brown started playing late and was a physically gifted athletic specimen without developed skills.
Durant has the body, skills and head. Add weight, strength and experience and you are much closer to Michael Jordan or Kobe than to Kedrick Brown.

Alaska, thanks for that very good point! I tend to trash Ainge sometimes too forgetting that he really isn’t trying to bring them down on purpose. Yes mistakes are made but he is trying and I guess I forget that sometimes. Hopefully is decisions going forward will all be correct. You’re right about love and faith and that will never leave me when it comes to the C’s.

Celty86, thank you! I try to post only when I feel the ship is listing in it’s perspective as a fan base. When the pesimist start to overwhelm others. I leave basketball knowledge to those who have more and earn that respect. Eric W. as my main one, as even though a true fan he steps back and trys to give a “objective” analysis. I feel that being a fan is not only supporting my team but supporting my fellow brother fans through it all. If I only open the eyes of one, I feel honored, thank you..Keep the Faith, Restore the Pride!

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