Just over 29 hours left before the season starts!

[Snoopy the Celtics Beagle <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The season is upon us, nearly, where we start playing for real.  Jim 
O'Brien is pushing the players through their defensive drills, and Danny is 
making them run everywhere.

If anyone is going to dress up for Halloween --go as Danny's Brain Drain 
guy, he sounds pretty scary to me!

I have to wonder if Pat Riley quit because he couldn't stomach coaching a 
mediocre team to another bad season.

I have confidence in Vin coming off the bench.  But I still think it's too 
soon to throw him into the starting rotation, with the extra minutes 
involved.  He looked a bit tired at the end of the last couple of games.  I 
think about 20 minutes is about all he can reasonably handle for the first 
few games, especially the scheduling headache that opens the season.  Am I 
the only one around here who thinks this?

I'm already annoyed at most of the "professional" sports writers/pundits 
who seem to go out of their way to take shots at the Celtics.  Not the C's 
fault the experts looked foolish for the last two seasons on the 
Celtics.  May the Good Guys do it again this season.

I admit, I'm a fan of Jim O'Brien's.  I'm really hoping he proves the 
naysayers wrong this season.

My major player disagreement is everyone's  (i.e. : Ainge and O'Brien) 
continued insistence on leaving Jumaine Jones on the active list.  The guy 
may be a decent player, but he missed the whole of training and 
preseason--and isn't due back for at least another week!  He's going to 
look quite bad in comparison to his teammates unless he's lucky, or the C's 
play really, really badly.

Those of you making predictions to various places, make sure you have them 
in, there's just over a day to go!

Snoopy the Celtics Beagle
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