Daily Links 5/24

“Long-suffering fans of perennial losers don’t know what they’re missing. After all, how would they know? You can’t miss steak if you’ve never eaten steak, right? But if you’re fortunate enough to follow a perennially successful franchise, then that same franchise starts decomposing right in front of you … what then?”

I about choked on my coffee when I read that by Simmons. So fans of bad teams don’t really suffer because they have never known a good team? Hmm. I guess then Red Sox fans really had no right to complain for all those decades they stunk because they had never known what a good team was. Only Yankees Cardinals and Dodger fans really knew heartbreak. So I guess when the Red Sox did win it would been pretty stupid for their fans to over react, since they had never known steak anyway, and I don’t know right books with stupid titles like “Now I can die in Peace”. God does Simmons even read this stuff before he writes it? It sucks to be a Celtics fan today but it sucks just as bad to be a Grizzley fan or a Bucks fan.

You’ve gotta love Al. Looks like he’s gained the weight back in his face again anyway, so I hope they’ve got a good diet chef cooking for him, Perk and Paul out there in Waltham…

Peter May is such an idiot.

That was the best Al interview that I have ever seen. His confidence both on the court and in front of the media has grown so much.

If Al was coming out of college this year he’d be the #1 pick. Actually maybe not. He’s probably developed more playing in the NBA than he would have in college. He’s played against much better players in a more complicated system. He wouldn’t be as advanced as he is today if he’d gone to college. Consider that when thinking about Oden and Durant in the immediate future.

I know it wasnt in an article.

But where do you think Gerald would be drafted if he were coming out of college this year?

Just interested

You can’t have pride (Celtic Pride) when you’re tanking games. Lesson learned, no tanking ever again!

The Celtics players never tanked and they played with more intensity for most all games all season. And they played with more intensity than many of the other lottery teams above them. Loy is very correct in noting that most of the season, the Celtics lineups were dictated by injuries and game circumstances.

The tank stuff is so overblown. All teams in all years do some of what the Celtics did. It’s not tanking. All teams rest players and make changes to give guys experience for the future, especially with a very young team with virtually all its veterans and several of its key young players sidelined for an extraordinary number games with injuries.

As you can see the “tanking” gave the Celtics a greater than 80% chance of not getting the top pick and a greater than 60% chance of not getting either of the first two. And unfortunately probabilities played out as would be predicted pretty much in the long run for all the three lowest ranked teams, as it did for Portland last year and many others other years.

And you can tell someone named JohnCK that the Red Sox have been one of the best and most competitive American League teams in most years since 1967. Its not like they were the Cubs or Indians. They made it interesting and entertaining many years, though they didn’t win four World Series games in a given year until 2004. What kind of fans are these people?

SteveZ from Edgemont, couldn’t agree with you more,but no one will listen.

Truegreen and Steve Z, trying to debate you guys who think we didn’t tank this season is the equivalent of arguing with those people who claim “Elvis is alive” IMO.

With all due respect, if you don’t think we tanked, then you are telling me the 76ers without Iverson and Webber are a superior team than the Celts? You are going to tell me Doc deserves his extension? You are going to tell me a coach, any coach, in any sport that loses 18 straight games does not deserve to be fired?

Doc told Gomes he was sitting him out the whole 4th Q in a game he was playing well because he didn’t want to hurt our lottery chances. That’s not tanking?