The Fan's Perspective

Just got done watching my Celts cast a spell on the Magic. (Get it “cast a spell” and “magic”!? I know. I know. I can’t believe I don’t get paid for this either.) In one of the worst offensive performances I have ever seen by two teams not playing in the WNBA  I seriously wondered at times if ABC wasn’t just showing a 50′s telecast and added some color or if the refs had forgotten to switch the shot clock on.

Anyway you slice it though my Celts won and I can’t complain so far. Garnett is still healthy (knocking my hand against wood so violently that it’s staring to turn red and blue), the defense is back to being superb and my man-crush on Rondo is now officially only outdone by Brady and Welker.

The team is simply winning games. (And that despite Tony Allen getting major minutes. I don’t care how good of a defender he is, [To be honest I don't really think he is a particularly good one . Yes I said it and yes I am doing parentheses in parentheses. Try to stop me!] the truth is he just jacks up shots without thinking about any repercussions. Trust me I wouldn’t be complaining if he’d make them, but he’s not. This guy shoots airballs routinely, takes ill-advised shots and hits  parts of the backboard I didn’t even know exist. It makes me mad just watching him. The only way to survive his horrific offensive play is to do a shot everytime he bricks one off the basket. Heck, let’s make that drinking game a household name. We’ll call it the “Drink ALLen Night”. Spread the word.)

Of course it’s obvious that I should receive some of the credit. After all I was the one who wrote the season preview reverse jinx that worked to perfection so far.

(Quick jinx tangent: I hope I didn’t just jinx the reverse jinx. Somebody needs to come up with jinx rules. I feel like we need to set some ground rules and don’t tell me you wouldn’t be interested. You’re googling “jinx rules” right now. Either that or porn. You know I am right.)

The only thing that concerns me is Shed. You could see Rondon was giving him the evil eye at times, because basically all Shed does now is take threes and jog up and down the court. (Oh I almost forgot, and he collects technicals like there baseball cards. Sorry, Shed didn’t want to sell you short there.) I would almost rather see Big Baby in there. At least I feel like he gives a crap. Plus with Big Baby and Perkins (one of the most underrated players in the NBA right now by the way) it looks like a wrestler and a heavy weight boxer are playing  the four and five for the Celts.

All in all I am not quite sure how to feel about this Celtics team. Now granted I haven’t caught many of their games so far, but I don’t know if they can sustain this defensive intensity throughout the whole year. (To be exact that was the first one. I know what you’re thinking: “What kind of Celtics fan is that!?!?!” Believe you me I am ashamed of myself, but I just can’t get up at 2 a.m. every third night and then get back up at six for work. The playoffs last year alone made me age at least one third quicker to the point were my body was about to break down like an alcholic’s liver. I know it’s a weak excuse. I know.) Defense is all about hustle and hustle is all about being fresh and having young legs. Those are two things the Celts are not and don’t have anymore (safe for some exceptions).

So really I don’t know if I’ll feel all merry and jolly come June or if I’ll feel like blowing chunks.

Speaking of chunks.

(Watch this smooth transition! I think it’s realistic to add TV announcer and radio host to my career choices if I can pull this off.)

I also caught chunks (Ohhhhh, he did it!!! He did pull it off!!! The fans are going berserk!!! What a transition!!! You are watching what greatness is all about!!!) of the Heat-Knicks game and with all those threes clinking off the back of the rim my ears are still ringing. That game was so poorly executed and sloopy I was actually glad that my stream was so blurry. Congrats ESPN/ABC you are 2 for 2 at showing terrible games. The only thing that could save the day for them would be a Kobe-Lebron face-off.

Oh, wait that is happening, which reminds me I have to watch that game and so do you. So go and do that right now, but not before you check out the ODS pick for San Diego-Tenessee:

San Diego (11,46198986) over TENESSEE (8,115174634)

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU!!!