Celtics Know How Patriots Feel
 

It took six games to reach this point, then it became just like a Super Bowl.

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I'm incredibly proud to be a Celtics fan. No one expected the Celtics to reach the NBA Finals, and no one expected them to take it to 7 versus the Lakers. A great season by a team of great veterans. Last night the Celtics outplayed the Lakers for 3 and 1/2 quarters, but the Lakers managed to edge it out (with significant help from the officiating crew) ;). Great job containing the "MVP" Kobe Bryant for the entirety of game 7. Thank you to the Boston Three, Doc Rivers, "Shrek and Donkey", Rondo, Perk, Sheed, and last but certainly not least, Scal. :D

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Co-sign that. This team fought like hell, took out the 2 top teams in the league in the playoffs, and fought until the bitter end.

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Yep..great team...just wish them games didnt start so late.

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That article is more than a little "gloom-and-doom", isn't it? Yeah, it sucks they lost the series but it's not like they were swept.

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Ha ha. Another signature article.

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Which is why the analogy in this article is about as off base as usual... Just a vehicle constructed to allow for the predictable digs to be lobbed in Belichick's direction.

Oddly the two mediots who nailed it in their postscripts were Borges and Mazz...lol Maybe they should stick to basketball.

Last night was about reading the fine print on a bold deal with the devil Danny Ainge engineered to restore a once legendary franchise to relevance overnight. It proved to be a brilliant deal short term, which was all it was ever intended to be, and now we get to see if he can trump it and assemble a team coached and built to compete for the long haul and not just a three year window during which they got to the NBA finals twice winning it once in 6 and losing it once in 7. As fans we have become so spolied and increasingly entitled and demanding. It doesn't get much better as a sports fan than what we've experienced in the last decade here in NE...unless hockey is your passion... Six championships complete with parades in three sports, 8 finals berths earned by every means from unimaginable guts and guile to utter dominance. Leave it to some who have been fortunate enough to experienced the thrill of victory to such an extent to focus on the agony of defeat...

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I'd agree with you...except sometimes its not the loss, its how you lose. The way the Patriots lost Super Bowl 42 or the 06 Colts AFCCG, the way the Sox lost the 03 ALCS, the way the Celts lose game 7 against the Lakers last nite - those were just about the most horrifying ways you can lose a game.

I'll take the way we lost to the Ravens over what happened to the C's every damn time. The Celts players - and we as fans - will have all year to think about every friggin minor could have and should have been play. The team played well enough to win, but just didn't have enough in the tank (and/or was screwed by a shift in the refereeing, if you feel like opening that up) and came up short b/c of it.

There's no worse way to lose than to have the game in your grasp, to have played well enough to win, and to let it slip away. In theory, one could argue its better to play that way than just not show up, like the Pats did versus the Ravens - but in terms of the practical long-term effects of the game on the psyche of the fans and players, there is no question a crushing last-second defeat in which victory seemed within the grasp is much worse.

I don't think it's being spoiled to acknowledge that fact - and acknowledge that the losses I have mentioned are extraordinary, unique, and particularly powerful. It's a fact of sports. Now I think the high volume in which Boston has experienced these defeats in the past decade is a) abnormal b) tied to their success and level of competition. But it doesn't change the fact - those 6 titles we've won right now do not make what happened last night any less heart-wrenching for the fans, and more particularly, for the players who played their asses off for the last two months. And who may have just given it their last go together. I think fans & players alike - obviously, the players moreso, since they are the ones who make the sacrifice - have the right to mourn, begrudge, bemoan, etc. what transpired last night however they see fit.

Particularly with the stakes of last night's game. In terms of legacies, you could argue it was the single biggest game in the history of the NBA. And we had it in our hands, and we lost. It just plain sucks.

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you guys can spin it any way you want --- losing to the lakers in the finals sucks.