Hello everybody,
this is my first post and I have to say that I'm absolutely thrilled to join this community. I'm a Celtics fan for about 2 years now.
In Holland, we rarely get to see any basketball on television, so I naturally as a sports fanatic was more familiar with football (I'll never say soccer), cycling, ice skating and such. But about 5/6 years ago, NBA basketball became an interest. I enjoyed to see the NBA finals with the San Antonio Spurs and more and more I invested my (often night) time in watching and learning the NBA.
I wanted to support a team to make it even more interesting, but what team did I have to choose? No dad that taught me as of childhood (partly why I support Ajax
) what team is the greatest team on earth. No roots with any city in the US.
Easy to pick one of the best teams in the NBA. I disliked the stars of Miami (and later Cleveland) or the LA Clippers, so that weren't options. I liked watching the Spurs, but I didn't have any feelings about their results. So I watched basically any team if I had time to spare.
In general I like teams (like in football, Ajax) that play daring offensively with guts and sportmanship. Basketball is a strange sport in that sense as you can't choose to defend or attack, as it is always both. You can only choose to focus on being great on one end. But in 2015 there was a team that jumped in the eye that actually did play offense all the time in some way.
It was the Boston Celtics. They attacked even when they we're defending! I loved how players like Smart, Crowder and Bradley constantly harassed their opponents. So I began to watch Boston more and more. Friends who knew a bit about basketball found that odd (the Celtics are a
Edited. Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline. team!), and they did loose a lot. Always fighting, playing with their heart, never giving up, but in the end often it wasn't enough. But I didn't mind! Boston had no stars and we're unlikely to achieve anything (at best making a low play-off spot) anytime soon, but I enjoyed watching their games and I got fully engaged with the team. I had become a Celtics fan!
It is two years later now and I have (intensely) watched almost every game they played since then. Strangely enough they achieved a lot in this period. From a questionable play-off team they became a conference finalist. They have stars now with Thomas, Horford and even Bradley to an extent. They almost acquired a NBA superstar in Durant (I really thought that after the news that Horford chose the Celtics, Durant would follow
). And they have an even better future with the talent that is incoming with Fultz (!!!), Brooklyn pick '18, Zizic and Brown (Ainge did great).
Of course I don't have to tell you guys this. I just want to explain how I got to be a Celtics fan and hope you will accept me on this forum. I really don't want to be seen as a bandwagon-fan
. I have been reading this forum for about two years and I learned a lot. There are very interesting discussions going on and the complexity of the NBA (no buying only trade, salarycaps, roster limits, drafts) makes up for a great variety of views on this franchise.
For example this discussion of a potential move of Isaiah Thomas. Which I think is very very very complicated, because it would be so personal to Thomas after all that has occurred. But though it seems offensive to some people I think it has to be discussed. Because what would you do if the Knicks made (an unlikely, just for the sake of argument) an offer of Porzingis for Thomas + some minor assets?
At some point you would have to pull the trigger right? Since we are not a championship team yet. To get to the question of this topic title, does it really matter which pick you get if it means the same player? With the 3rd pick I would take Jonathan Isaac no matter what (after we would have taken Fultz with the 1st), but he might be available until the 8th pick as well.
My first post has been a long one. I'll try to be less wordy from now one
. And now I have to try to figure out this system of Tommy Points
.
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