Florida Celts Fan posted one of the better articles I've read during the KG Era. It pretty much puts everything in perspective. You need to read it.
It cements our understanding of this team.
The team remains supremely close and supremely confident. The Celtics' schedule between Christmas and the All-Star break, the article reiterates, is tough and simply something for the players to get through. It also confirms that Sam Cassell remains an integral part of this team.
One day Cassell will take off his warm-ups and play this year.
When he does, you can be certain the Celtics' mindset will have shifted from "getting through the season" to "preparing for the playoffs." You go to war with the proven veterans, and Cassell will be there when it counts.
Until then, I can live with the stumbling and bumbling we've seen of late, even if we don't make any trades. It's sort of like being a Red Sox fan after the Yankees just added enough salary to total almost a billion. You dig in and you support your team. You circle the wagons.
Losing might just make this team stronger.
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I agree that that was one of the better articles written about the Celtics in a while. They are loose and having fun after games but intense and focused before. I have been saying all along. This is the same team that won 19 in a row and they may be tired or unfocused right now, but they just went through a brutal part of the schedule. They are going to be fine. Looking back at the 2004 Pistons who beat the Lakers for the championship. They lost 7 of 9 in December and then in February lost 6 in a row and 7 of 9 again. But, they came together when it counted and this Celtics team will do the same.
No panic here.... just lots of green koolaid.
I didn't know that about the Pistons.
Good stuff!
Then again, didn't they get sheed later in the season?
Yes the Pistons got Rasheed in a steal from Atlanta.
Please do NOT equate being a Celtics fan with being a Red Sox fan. That can really get nauseating.
Some of us love the Celtics for more reasons than their geographic location-- chief among which is a legacy of class and of winning. Needless to say, the same attributes do not describe the Boston Red Sox.
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