Watchability: C's Rank 5th
by Jeff Clark on Dec 14, 2009 11:57 AM EST
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PrintEver wonder what other team's fans think of watching the Celtics? Here's a quick insight from SBNation's Mike Prada.
NBA 'Watchability' Scale: Ranking Every Team Based On Entertainment, Not Talent - SB Nation
There's something unbelievably satisfying about watching a veteran team just take care of business no matter what, even if everyone guns for them. Boston is 11-1 on the road this year, and watching them, you know why. They never make a mistake. All their sets are precise, though it helps that they have two great scorers in Paul Pierce and Ray Allen, along with two of the league's best screeners in Kevin Garnett and Kendrick Perkins. On defense, they shut down everything your team likes to do. You like pick-and-roll? No problem, we'll unleash the human pick-and-roll eraser, KG, on you. Like post play? Don't worry, we only have the two best low-post defenders in basketball. Good luck, guys. Thanks to Rajon Rondo, they also have the best secondary fast break in the league, meaning they do a great job of pushing the ball on missed shots and taking advantage of the confusion that results while players try to find their man on defense.
Here's the problem: Boston is so damn unlikeable. Garnett and Rondo are punks. Perkins has developed some ridiculous fake swagger, the kind that results from riding the coattails of your four all-star caliber teammates. Rasheed Wallace needs no introduction, and Pierce is a chronic whiner that got carried off the floor by his teammates in the 2008 Finals, only to magically come back a few minutes later and be just fine.
Same stuff we've heard time and time again. One of the reasons people like watching us is because they need a villain to root against. Like I've said before: This team will be America's Most Hated this year.
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No one who actually knows
basketball feels this way.
"Do you know that nonbelievers create the most positive energy?" Davis said
no big deal
does anyone really care what a non-C’s fan thinks of the C’s?
personally, I have a complete disinterest in the other 29 teams. They’re only watchable when playing the C’s.
I think the last time I watched an entire NBA game that the C’s weren’t playing in was the ’83 finals between the Sixers and Lakers—-back when basketball was basketball and not this bastardized version of the game.
Perkins swagger is fake?
Im so sick of hearing how he and rondo “ride the coattails” of the “big 3”
they are every bit as important to the team
Also
What happened to the Big 3 being too old to coattail in the first place? Plus, as far as I’m concerned, that’s still a piece waiting to happen later in the mid-season by these haters, that our old guys will break down by the time February come around.
Hilarious.
That 2nd paragraph is absolutely hillarious because
Prada has no basis whatsoever assertions like “punk” and “whiner”. The stuff the C’s do is the norm in the NBA today. There are dozens of “punks” and “whiners” out there.
That said, I actually agree with him that the Celtics are not very likeable. That’s a thought I’ve been carrying for a while. However, they don’t have to be likeable, they only have to WIN GAMES.
I am still humored by Amare telling Perk to “cheer up” or whatever he said.
They are very unlikable
to fans and bloggers of other teams. But it’s more out of jealousy disguised as hate like the writer in the article.
"Do you know that nonbelievers create the most positive energy?" Davis said
If you really want to see “punks and whiners” watch a Lakers game. They have to wipe the tears off the floor every few possessions. The best “punks and whiner” Celtics team was the 86 Celtics. Everyone hated them and no one not even KG talked more trash than Bird. For punks they had Angie and Walton and McHale was not well liked ( See clothes line of Rambis) Great teams are never well liked by the people they lose to.
as I posted in my comment there
it is just one fan spewing his opinions on all the other teams – propping the teams he likes and dissing the team’s he doesn’t like.
It has no worth whatsoever beyond that, despite the presentation.
This is a Celtic hater
who spends more time saying how hated the Celtics are then discussing their entertainment value. He seems like a shill for the Lakers. Ho hum
Just Silly
This guy is obviously from LA. Who wants to watch the Clippers. They ought to be ranked 31st. And what about Memphis? I don’t find it enjoyable to watch selfish players, and they should have been ranked 32nd.
This guy's nuts
PP is the opposite of a whiner. He picks the only time PP ever went down, and was lucky enough to have it not be serious… and where other guys might have stayed out for the rest of the game, he comes back to help his mates. And I really don’t understand how KG and Rondo (Rondo??) are “punks”? What does that mean? Neither of them is a fouler or complainer. And Rondo hardly talks except to direct his teammates. Even when he gets thrown to the ground, which happens at least once per game… he just gets up and takes care of business.
There only “unlikable” thing about them, from others’ pov, is that they win. I think then that their unlikability is going to get much, much worse.
The team they love to hate
You will be hated and despised and envied by your enemies if you’re great. There has to exist a way to get some consolation from the fact that the Celtics are just abusing the league. That is why God invented whining. Let them spew their venom and bile while we, the Celtic nation, laugh to ourselves knowing that come June, they will have to scoop all that venom and bile and eat it with a hearty helping of crow.
Remember, there is no greater natural advantage in life than to have an enemy overestimate your faults . . . unless it is to have a friend underestimate your virtues. So keep posting haters, we’ll help you with the ladle.
Good insights...
There is no greater natural advantage in life than to have an enemy overestimate…his own intelligence!
Uhh ... guys
The Celtics were fifth, not 25th…
You know you'll get devoured by Cheaney, Wallace, and Juwan Howard.
right
and you called them punks, so yeah, you are going to get a reaction
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers" Henry V
I Had No Problem with the Celtics at 5th
It was some of the other rankings that bothered me.
Oh yeah, I'm totally aware and I'm totally cool with the backlash
I went to school in Boston for four years, so I understand Celtic fans’ passion. Just figured I’d remind people that fifth is pretty damn high.
You know you'll get devoured by Cheaney, Wallace, and Juwan Howard.
back handed BS
I rank you high – so I get a free pass as regurgitating out-of-context swipes at you?
Lame.
And what’s so ‘pretty damn high’ about a totally subjectively fabricated ‘ranking’ by some random blogger? Like you have any special authority on “watchability”? Like we should feel ‘honored’ by your gracing us with fifth place – in a contest that took place inside your own mind?
Double Lame.
Like I said, "hilarious"
No need to get upset by someone’s subjective opinion. Just laugh at the dweeb.
I actually thought the article was a fun read
But I don’t understand where “fake swagger” comes from. Perk is having the best year of his career so far, and doing a lot of damage down low in the paint. As far as his attitude, I don’t see much of a change from past years.
Follow me @jimmy_toscano
Yeah, I see it Timmy's way.
Fun read. Interesting but not unexpected for non-Celtic fans to view our team’s intense leaders as punks.
well because it's Christmas season and you used the word Timmy let me just say it for Tiny Tim
“God bless us……everyone” …….now get me some pudding!!!
Is it Soup Yet?
LOved the PP jersey,
I was going to make a Tiny Tim joke. But you just can’t joke about Tiny Tim.
Kind of like saying something about Mother Teresa…or Papa John’s
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