For want of an Egg, the omelet was lost

[Kim Malo]

At 03:12 PM 1/4/2008, Pereira, Jorge M wrote:
>Er... speaking of love, like and hate, I think that's where the main
>reason for less participation lies.  It's human nature for us to fret,
>nurture, worry, complain, all in an effort to help the ones we love, but
>usually only when they most need it.  That is in times of sickness,
>sadness, grief.  I'm sure we've all done it with a loved one.  Then,
>when that clears, we are able to relax and appear to forget about that
>person.  It doesn't mean we don't love them anymore, that we are not
>happy for their success or better health.  That's just the way we are
>and speaking for myself, I still admire the now wonderful work the Celts
>are doing, but instead of all of the above, I just feel happy and say a
>lot of wows, mostly to myself.

You know what, that reminds me of one of my favorite posters on the 
old Cs usenet group, who when we first started to see some daylight 
after the ML Carr years (of course, it was obviously merely someone 
waving a flashlight, not the genuine daylight at the end of the 
tunnel, as we now know) who said that while he enjoyed the success, 
he really missed the rage.

I guess I'm just different. Ranting about the disaster is no more 
enjoyable to me than stupid trade talk requiring an alternate 
universe to work.

I'm actually a lot more interested now that there's something that's 
working that you can analyze why it is working (and what's not, but 
that's easier to do when it's individual things vs everything) and 
now that the big things are going well you can enjoy the subtleties 
like the one I posted about a week or so back watching the so smart 
and smooth Ray Allen trip the baseline fantastic testing, testing for 
any hole in the defense - something that we didn't have anyone 
capable of doing before and were so bad it wouldn't have mattered if 
we did, but also that I never realized was part of his much more 
complete than I realized game. Or admiring what a great job Danny did 
with the role players he picked up. Garnett was a relative no 
brainer, but who'd have thought Posey would fit in so beautifully and 
matter so much. Or trying to figure out what kind of a drills I might 
set up with Perk to cut back the fouls even more now that some of his 
rough edges are getting worn off (isn't it nice how he learned to 
protect the ball with his body when going up to the hoop over the 
past offseason, among other things) and you can zero in more on core 
things. NOW there are real things to talk about that matter, where 
before there wasn't a hell of a lot to do but moan and groan about 
how bad everything is.

I can't just sit back and enjoy, I want to analyze and REALLY enjoy 
because I see the what and why and understand just how perfect it 
is... or what could be done to make it even more exquisite. Enjoyment 
to me is a multimedia experience. And I don't mind people complaining 
(although negativity for the sake of negativity is something else 
entirely, and bores me as much as positive for the sake of positive) 
because I might not agree but it might make me look at something in a 
different way.

Like I said, it's not the rants that interest me. Those are easy. 
Basketball the game is what I love with Celtics basketball a close 
second, and now that Celtics basketball is really basketball again vs 
schoolyard desperation, seems to me there should be even more to talk 
about because it's stuff that has some connection to reality. 
Analyzing this substitution or that foul in the face of the total 
disaster we've had around here for too long is in the nature of using 
a thumbtack to try to keep a nuclear reactor about to blow together.

/soapbox
Kim