I committed myself to post 33 hours in front of the tip off of the 1st game of the season and here I am.
The Celtics must win the title this season. They must take care of their home court and not have to take the long and difficult road through Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, and Los Angelos to accomplish their career goal. They have a bunch of championship starved veterans and a coach who understand the traditions of NBA basketball and Red Auerbach. In the name of Johnny Most, it is your civic duty to root for the Celtics and everyone else is the enemy.
All of you I am sure have little rituals and routines that you do to will the Celtics to victory. I got mine.
I know that I am preaching to the choir in here but I feel better for doing this. So I urge you to not give up on this season if we do lose games we aren't supposed to lose. I want to finish somewhere around 57 wins and get at least a number 2 seed. I want to win 35 home games and go over .500 on the road.
I want to punch out our EC opponents in no more than 16 games total (12-4 or better). I want to punch out the Lakers and punish KobeA-Artest-Pischer-Gasoft-noshowBynum in 5 games.
I think we got a mulligan this year because Ray and Doc came back and so did Delonte and the O'Neal brothers joined us and I firmly believe that they are committed to getting this done. And all the good old fans are pulling for the Celtics this year to win their 18th championship.
After this season, the league will change. Strange as it might sound, Dictator David Stern is almost talking common sense hear as it sounds like he is listening to his accountants.