I hate to be a non-believer in this thread but considering the way the season is going couldn't it be that all the experts were right
After only 49 games the C's have lost 17 games, probably more than most of the participants and maybe even the originator of the thread thought they would lose this year
Is a 52-30 record really out of the question
I desperately want this team to win and will be cheering them on until the end with all my heart and soul
But maybe those experts were right
Maybe this team is too old and not good enough
Isn't time to maybe concede they might have been correct
The original point of this thread wasn't to prophecy, or even to pat ourselves on the back for our "great" team. If you go back to the OP, the point was that the "experts" (and even fans) often write teams off early only to change their story dramatically at the end. I gave the example of the '04 Wolves and the '08 Celtics, both of whom were supposedly fragile and iffy before-hand then after the fact were lauded as obvious juggernauts.
I, personally, believe this current team is the champion-in-waiting. I believed it before the season when everyone had stars in their eyes (then, I really thought they could win 70), I believed it early in the season when KG was hobbling into shape and many started writing him/us off (the 70 looked bleaker then, but definitely still saw the championship), I believed it in December when KG started getting into shape and the team went on its win streak, I believed it when Pierce and KG have had their injuries and the team struggled, and I continue to believe it now while they are trying to play themselves back into shape (no longer see them fighting for regular season stuff at all, but prep for 18 still on-going). That's what I believe.
Now perhaps, as you say, the pundits are right. If so, then come June (or whenever the Cs lose) I'll come to this thread and acknowledge it and try to pinpoint whether my error was due to incorrect evaluation, bad luck, or homer-tinted glasses. But I'll come in here and fall on the sword.
But if, as I suspect, the pundits are wrong. If, as I suspected last year and suspect again this year, the team is doing what it has to in order to make it through the long year healthy and they start to find their groove after the Break in March and April. If, as I suspect, once the playoffs come around and there is at least a day between games and our best players are playing 38 minutes instead of 31 the team starts looking like champions. If, as I suspect, this team handles their business in the early round then comes in as heavy underdogs and defeats the Cavs in the ECF and the Lakers in the Finals. If, as I suspect, THOSE things happen, I don't want the same writers (and fans, even) that are burying the team now to claim that they knew it all the time. That this team was just too talented to lose. That it was obvious that the Cs would take this title.
If they (or anyone else) later say "you know, I doubted and it didn't seem possible, but somehow this team overcame the obstacles and fought their way to a title"...I'm cool with that. But if the doubters now are all over in June talking about how they were on the bandwagon all along...no you (freakin) WASN'T!
Topic: Remember who really believed when the stories change (Read 88785 times)