No Toughness. No Pride. Little Effort. No Nothing.

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Come out with all the negative thoughts and observations that you want because I have heard them all before in 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12. Yet those teams turned things around late in the season and the playoffs and were a Game 6 Perkins injury away from a ring, a cheap dirty play by Wade away from a possible deep playoff run, and an injured Avery Bradley away from beating late year's champs in the ECFs.

They're slow.
They're old.
They aren't playing good defense.
They aren't playing good offense.
Doc sucks.
Doc isn't playing the rookies enough.
Doc is playing the older guys too much.
Thibideau is gone, he was the defensive mastermind.
Franks is gone, he was the defensive mastermind.
James Posey is gone, we needed him.
Tony Allen is gone, we needed him.
Kendrick Perkins is gone, we needed him.
Ray Allen is gone, we need him.
Rondo doesn't play defense.
Rondo dribbles too much.
Rondo can't shoot.
Blah.
Blah.
Blah.
Blah.

I have heard it all before.

I'll believe this team can't be good and won't be ready for the playoffs when they are eliminated from playing for a ring before the playoffs start or are beat by a better team in a 7 game playoff series.

Did we win the championship on any of those seasons? That's why you heard that.

Wrong.

I heard those things because the Celtics were not playing well at the time.

When they started playing well and started beating teams in the playoffs and started looking like a contender......yeah, people stopped saying those things and some even took time off from posting because they looked pretty lame from their incessant hammering about how bad the team was.