Re: Tonight's game

["Shawn Niles" <shizzjr@hotmail.com>]

I picked the C's to go .500 this year, so barring a total collapse, they 
will surpass that. And I will be thrilled. I don't see any way that anyone 
can be dissapointed in this years team. Sure, maybe people would have liked 
to see things done differently at times, but if you were told at the 
beginning of the year that we would be 9 games over with 11 to play, would 
anyone on this list have turned it down? Besides Snoopy(the ultimate 
optomist)? So yes Bird, I am happy with this year. And I don't think they 
suck if they don't go to the Finals.
But I still strive to see them do better. Never settle, right? My points 
were that a couple things could have been done differently in that game 
that, IMO, would have made the game easier.

>From: bird <birdwl@earthlink.net>
>To: "Shawn Niles" <shizzjr@hotmail.com>
>CC: Celtics@igtc.com
>Subject: Re: Tonight's game
>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:39:50 -0800
>
>On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 04:52 PM, Shawn Niles wrote:
>
>>I am happy with wins any way they come as well. But I also think that the
>>only time you should not wonder how you could have done things better
>>even in a win is if that win is to clinch a championship. I hope the
>>coaches feel the same way. I hope Obie is not saying, "Well we won,
>>everything is great".
>
>There's a certain amount of truth (for me) in what you're saying, too.  I
>also hope the coaches and management and players are going for the jugular.
>   They need to drive and motivate themselves to always try to do better, I
>agree.  At the same time, though, they're people, and I hope they give
>themselves credit for having what amounts to an outstanding season.  As a
>fan, I sure am. I mean, few people thought they'd be even as good as they
>are now.  Certainly no one in the media did.  I mean, if you discount the
>"optimistic-for-optimism's-sake" predictions (which is, to me, fine and
>dandy) and the "pessimism-hiding-as-optimism" prediction (which is, you
>know, not) from the list's predictions, more people seemed to think the C'
>s were terrible to mediocre than decent.
>
>And now that they *are* doing fairly well, for some people they suck again
>if they don't win it all, it almost seems.  I don't think you're like that,
>  but for those that are, how about some realistic expectations?  Sure, the
>Celtics *could* win the East.  No one would be happier than I.  But if
>they don't, I'm going to look back on the season and judge it to be a
>success.  There's a "now that they're good, they ought to be better"
>attitude that I don't share.  I'll raise my expectations for next year.
>Right now, they've exceeded my expectations for *this* year, and I'm
>pretty damn happy about that.
>
>>I'm going to the game tomorrow night and I hope they play better than
>>last night or it could make for a long night. For some reason, GS gives
>>us fits.
>
>Exactly -- "for some reason".  I certainly don't know why.  The Worriers
>basically suck yet again.  Sure they have height and some bulk, but don't
>seem to use it all that much against the C's.  I have no clue, as I don't
>watch many GS games, only the Celtic ones, and I saw them live here in
>Portland once this year.  They suck live, too.  But, like you said, they
>give the Celtics a hard time.  Hope they figure out how to beat GS like
>almost all the other teams have done.
>
>Bird


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