Tonight's Gameplan

Oden or bust!

Let’s pray Red’s pulling some strings up there.
I’ll be tuning in from Australia, go C’s!!!

I’ll be so frigging glad when this is over. With a 62% chance of a mass suicide (probably involving Jonestown green Kool-Aid) perhaps attrition will finally bring the fellowship of the miserable to an end.

Guys, in your farewell notes, would you leave a last request to fire Doc.

It’s not a 62 percent chance of mass suicide, it’s only 61.3 percent!

After all these months, Its hard to fathom that tonight is closer to the beginning of the draft season than the end. the running of the Bull. Having nothing else to discuss for 5 months gets redundant. I hope that its the last year of that.

I just hope tomorrow we’re not trying to convince ourselves that Yi Jianlin is the next Chris Bosh, or that Corey Brewer is the next McGrady.

The sad part is that we’ll probably be wondering if Yi will fall to us at #5.

That, and Brick’s Mike Conley onslaught will begin, in earnest.

No more negative vibes guys, I’m serious. Put the positive vibe out there and we’ll get a top-2 pick. I guarantee it.

Let’s just all try to think positively for one day.

Instead of “if we lose, ……….”

think “When we get the top-2 pick,…..”

I’m with the good Dr. Think posi peoples. We’re getting the #2 pick

I might sacrifice the 1-2 pick for a chance to see Stern get caught red handed fixing the lottery, right on national TV. I wonder how he’s going to do it this time.

mcpu40 is the key to this whole thing. We’re counting on you.

Tonight has become more important than most of would like. It is October 20, 2004 for Celtics fans — after tonight there is no looking back. Oden or Durant? I’ll take either (but I want the center).

I’d love to get Oden or Durant, but I’m not turning up my nose at Wright, Yi, or Conley. There’s some really good players in this draft.

Having said that, if we get Oden or Durant, I think we’re every bit as good as every team in the East – except Detroit – right out of the gate next season.

If not 1 or 2, if ainge is not interested in wright nor brewer in the next couple of spots, look for a deal for a vet and a mid-later 1st round pick(ainge will definitely draft something this year in the 1st round)

It is hard for me to visual anybody but Oden in green. I get it that Durant is sick, but can you imagine Oden wearing green. With Al, Paul, Rondo, and Tony Allen. Dang. The world won’t end if we don’t get one, but it sure would be nice to wake up tommorrow knowing that we are so much better next season.

  Ã¢â‚¬Å"The Duncan thing, thatâ€â"¢s just the nature of ping-pong balls,” Pitino said. â€Å"Thatâ€â"¢s something you just have to live with. Thatâ€â"¢s not in your control. But the one move I really wanted to make, and I thought I could pull it off, was the three draft picks for Jermaine Oâ€â"¢Neal. Not many people were for it at the time, but I thought if you have Jermaine Oâ€â"¢Neal, Antoine Walker and Paul Pierce [stats], youâ€â"¢d have a good team.
    Ã¢â‚¬Å"I was this close to doing it. I had the deal done. . . . But Portland pulled out at the end.”

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I’d like to have an independent third party verification on this. Pitino will say anything to save his guarded reputation. Hey Rick, using your own words, I thought SUCCESS IS A CHOICE!!!

Pitino’s biggest mistakes weren’t the trades he missed out on, it was his trade of Billups.

We can pretend that not getting Duncan was the downfall of this team, but the Celts have had the opportunity to get some great players, but wasn’t able to identify them, and also let go of future great players in Billups and Johnson. It’s not just bad lottery luck that has kept us down, but overall horrible management for 10 years.

Large James,

I have heard that statement before. I have also heard Patino whining about how he could have had both Duncan and Kieth Van Horn and that was why things didn’t work out. Yeah, passing three times on Tony Parker, thinking Kendrick Brown and Jerome Moiso cold play, running David Wesley and Rick Fox out of town, giving Chauncy Billups away and drafting Ron Mercer with the fifth pick in the draft had nothing to do with it. God Patino is a weasel.

There’s a great song that Bob Dylan covered for I can’t remember whom but the essence is" so I can die easy…"…I’m nervous…You?

either of the top two is fine. The two worst parts of 3 or worse is we won’t know really anything after tonight and we lost out on the top two studs.

Jeff a good poll would be, would you rather have oden or durant? I really think durant is going to be the better player. So I am hoping for the 2nd pick. Hold the tomatoes until we let a few years pass please.
Top two or bust

You get the feeling that if we get the #1 or #2, Pierce might be traded. If we don’t get a top 2, the pick will be traded for a good veteran and Pierce will stay. Humbly, I hope we get the top 2 and trade Pierce to a team that wants to play with and we get solid return for the future on that trade. (Maybe a serviceable point guard as well.) That way, ownership has its marketing chip in Oden or Durant, and Doc (uggh) has an impressive group of younger players that will mature at the say time.

Hi!, Jeff,

I just checked into the Celtics live site and minimized the screen…I guess I’m the only guy there at the moment…Was I correct in simply clicking the link you have posted here???
In actuality, i know nothing about this computer business…and perhaps less about life…

Real Large…I just caught your first line, but that’s what I’m thinking…Unless we get Oden, Pierce is gone…

Primer for the less fortunate Celtics fan that never got to see the glory days:

http://www.sportsguyredux.blogspot.com/

Hey!,

Your link doesn’t work!

So…Here we are…in all of our lives…it’s the 22nd of May for all of us…Same day, couldn’t be any different…and yet, there’s something hanging about in the air that wants to scream that this day is somehow different…I guess we’re about to find out, eh?

is it 830 yet

Sorry but I for one will not be around anywhere.

I just can’t stomach the pain if we end up with anything but the 1 or 2

I will be an my Son’s AAU Basketball game not even thinking about it until I get into the car and listen to Planet Mikey

Let’s see if this works…my computer is horrible:

www.sportsguyredux.blogspot.com

We will certainly get a contributor tonight no matter what spot we get. However if we don’t get #1 or #2 some other team will have put themself between us and the next banner. I believe that the last 10 years were the evening up of the score for all the years Red outfoxed the league. With him gone now we are a lousy, unintimidating franchise. Just the kind due for a #1 or #2.

I heard so much of the draft selection is done behind closed doors
like picking 4 number lots, then bringing them out. is this accurate?
wouldnt this make for cheating of the odds so much easier.

Let’s see, I’m meeting someone at 9 (so won’t be home to fret with you all!), so I guess I can check on ESPN mobile at around 8:59 for the news?

pg Rondo 2nd pg West & ?
sg Pierce sg West & Ray
sf Durant sf Pierce & Dudley
pf Big Al pf Gomes & Powe
c Perk c Big Al & ?

Green and Wally are traded together to make salaries work
in trade for a vet pg
we draft Durant and Dudley
Perk and Big Al keep impressing and keep upping production
Rondo makes huge strides
Durant edges out Brewer for ROY

If we get picks 1 or 2 there’s nothing left to say. On the other hand, if the “curse” remains and we draft 3-5, we’ll have plenty of infighting trying to promote our sentimental pick. After shedding much blood the victor will be proclaimed but before he can bask in glory the rumor starts that Ainge plans to move the pick…..just proving that at this early predraft stage, anything can and will happen….

The butterflies continue…..

Perk, Rumor has it that the actual ping pong portion of the draft order IS done behind closed doors some 1 hour or so before the event is “staged” for public viewing. The early results are kept secret so that the T.V. revenues stay high. Stern is in attendance as well as one representative from each team. In our case it could be Ainge or Wyc and not necessarily Heinsohn who will represent the Celtic’s for the public reinactment portion.

Re ManUp, if we get either picks 1 or 2, we’ll tell you what’s so special about today. If we get pick 3-5, don’t bother to ask about today being “special”.

thanks moskqq,we should be okay , it would have to take a big conspiracy
and a big checkbook to buy the pick and that wont happen.

I’ve read the history of the draft and I know why it has materially been changed over the years. It’s still deeply flawed in that the teams in most need usually don’t get the help they need. The importance of getting the top pick can transform a mediocre franchise into a perennial winner or condemn that franchise to a perpetuity of mediocrity.

Considering it’s importance and the fact that it frequently does not distribute wealth as intended (because it’s a deeply flawed system), why retain it in its present form?

I honestly knelt at my bed side last night, and prayed for the Celtics. I asked him if he would be so kind as to grant the Celtics the honor of picking #1 or #2 this year. I sure hope he was listening to me! ;D

Just played the ESPN lottery game 3 times… First we were 3rd and picked Yi. 2nd we were 4th and picked Yi. 3rd time we were 5th and picked Yi. Does that mean something?!

Yeah, that we’re F***’d ;D

Is the chat suppossed to open OK? Or is it only opening at 8? I just want to know if it’s my browser messing up or if I’m just not suppossed to try yet.