I just went back and reread what I wrote a couple hours ago, and I feel I have to include an addendum. At the beginning of this season, we were still reeling from 7 years of chronic ML/Pitino mismanagement, and we would have been happy just to know the Celtics would make it to the postseason. The thought that they could knock out Philly and bury Detroit would have been unimaginable.
My emotions have been in a blender this series. I go from despair to exuberation to wanting to run on the court and perform a citizen's arrest on Tony Delk for impersonating an NBA scorer. And in all this, I've forgotten that even the thought of playing past Memorial Day was beyond us back around Halloween.
So if it is the Celtics' fate to lose at home tomorrow, I have to keep sight of the fact that they surpassed even our wildest expectations. And I, for one, will give them a long, appreciative round of applause for giving us more happy memories in one season than we've had since '95. But I'll cheer even louder if it means sending them off to the swamp to finish the Nets off.
Come on, Celts. Dig in one last time.
Posted by michaelf at May 31, 2002 12:42 AM