Savor This

[Banks2Pierce]

Savor this season guys. I remember last year i lost a decent amount of interest in the regular season and was just ready for the playoffs. This may be the best team we will see for the rest of our lives, or for another 20-30 years. Look at that 85-86 team and what happened with Bias after that. It can all come tumbling down. So enjoy these games and the last couple of years of Paul Pierce's prime. Paul Pierce is our 20-somethings' Larry Bird.

I look at a team like the Nets or Bucks and even our team for the 90's and 00's and I'd go insane rooting for a team like that, with a window 3 years in the future, depending 100% on developing young talent.

Savor Tommy Heinsohn...he won't be doing games much longer. He has gotten a little more wonky in the past year, probably due to his wife, but think about how miserable home broadcasts will be with Donny Marshall.

This isn't a city like LA...where a player like Kobe Bryant will force a draft day trade to... we need Ainge to keep hitting on young talent and to think ahead to the future with all of his shrewd moves and it is a sensitive and delicate process.

[Scalamental]

Man I'm really depressed now, thanks.

[Prophet_C]

Good post

It's gonna be a very sad day when Tommy hangs it up. I've been dreading it for years. Tommy is the friggin man!

[Hemingway]

I wonder if Tommy can hold out until we can get someone currently on the team to do it. Maybe Ray?

[stiles21]

Do you think Tommy and Mike with go out together or will Mike Gorman stick around a little longer after Tommy calls it quits.

[Zin5]

I've been feeling this all year. I said before the year, this is something really special that I get to follow and enjoy and will likely never have a chance at this again. The '08 championship team was something and we've had stretches of dominance these past two years, but this is just going to be incredible.

As for Tommy, he's what made the Celtics watchable before 2007. I can't imagine watching a game while we're rebuilding without Tommy coming through my speakers. I certainly don't want Donny Marshall every night. I think ideal scenario would be that Doc steps down when the team goes into rebuild mode and joins the booth.

[kgnwally]

If mike Gorman and Tommy leave it will be really hard to listen to a Cs game. i might just put it on mute and enjoy the action

[armageddon]

I'd be happy with Max taking over when it eventually has to happen.

[er1c]

I've been watching a bunch of games on the NBA league pass and I have to say the announcers for a lot of the other teams are so bland and boring. Heinsoln may be the biggest homer announcer around but he's also the most entertaining and from the other games I've watched, it's not even close.

[GuyClinch]

Yeah Tommy is great. He has grated a bit in the past when the team was bad.. But give him a good team to work with and he is fun. And I do agree with the OP who feels we could be in for another drought after the big 3 end their run.

Personally I don't think for a minute we are going to see championship teams piloted by Perkins, Rondo, and BBD.. More then likely all those guys get swept out in any attempted transition..in the post big 3 era.

OTOH that could be farther away then people think. Athletes can play longer now with advances in sports medicine and state of the art training.. The athletic decline is slower then people realize. Look at Nash - an older PG still playing at an MVP level..

Pete

[sam_I_am]

Not only will I savor this season but if this the last hurrah.... I am okay with it. #18 will be the sweetest one yet! !986 was great but finals was letdown. !981 was amazing but the ECF was the highlight. 1984 is still the best ever. 2008 was so special but I didn't really know the team because they were just thrown together. And then with the BS Gasol trade I thought we were going to get jobbed out our title but the Truth would not be denied. I already love this team and the additions already feel like Celtics.

Is there anything better than revenge against the Lakers. It never materialized in 1986 for us because the Lakers didn't show up. Unfortunately they came back with a vengeance the next 2 seasons.

We must win this year because the next 3 will probably belong to the Lakers, the Magic or wherever Lebron plays.

[JSABleedsGreen]

Heinsohn is our Johnny Most of today. I'm only 31 so I do recall some Johnny Most in the 80's but that was towards his later years and he was fading fast. I've heard some of the commentary from Most in 60's and 70's on ESPN classic and he was so animated....i distinctly remember him being a bigtime Celtics fan the way Heinsohn even in his broadcasts.....does anyone remember when Lambeer toke down Larry Bird how fired up Most was? Man.....i thought the guy was gonna run out there and punch Lambeer.....he was so fired up.

Live it up boys....i agree.....heinsohn's time is running low as a broadcaster. I agree that Max should take over......his radio commentary is 100 times better than a bland Donny Marshall. Only thing I agree with Donny is his "The ball never lies comments" that's the best he says because that's what the ballers today say....but guess what....Max says it too....so bring on the Max...in the mean time...I'm gonna sit back and enjoy my tommy points.

[Tricky Ricky]

Man I'm really depressed now, thanks.

Lol

Honestly I enjoy every game even from our awful years, this team is soo good and I think we are all seeing something very special

[SichtingLives]

Something else to consider.....after the Big 3 are gone, we may have our ups and downs....but we will be back to the top again eventually. It might take 3 years, 5, 10 or 30, but it'll happen. I know quite a few folks who have been following the C's for 40-60 years, who have literally seen it all, and they seem to remember all of the good and the bad over the years.

I've only been on the C's bandwagon since the late 80's, but I have a lot of fondness for some of our decent, mediocre and even bad teams of the past. I love all of it. But going with the tone of this thread, I definitely haven't taken these last 3 years for granted. 2008 was one of the most special seasons I've witnessed from any team in any sport, and if the cards are stacked right this year could be just as special. So to that, I'm going to embrace it and hope that m'fing I word becomes somebody elses problem this year.

[bendyone]

I reckon a Scal/MAx calling combo could be good to listen too.....with special comments from Eddie H........

[ryaningf]

Don't agree with the idea that we're in for a drought post-Big 3....shrewd GMs like Danny know how to prolong winning teams...once you start winning, it's easier to prolong it provided you have good decision makers at top and ownership will to foot the bill..we have both...

Definitely miss Tommy and Mike when their time is up...hopefully they got another 5 years in them at least.

[Ortho Stice]

I agree that we need to savor this. It takes a certain degree of luck to build a championship contender, and we're lucky we have such a dominant team to root for right now. It may be another 20 years until the Celtics have a team as good as this current squad, so savor it indeed.

[Jwade]

Savor this season guys. I remember last year i lost a decent amount of interest in the regular season and was just ready for the playoffs. This may be the best team we will see for the rest of our lives, or for another 20-30 years. Look at that 85-86 team and what happened with Bias after that. It can all come tumbling down. So enjoy these games and the last couple of years of Paul Pierce's prime. Paul Pierce is our 20-somethings' Larry Bird.

I look at a team like the Nets or Bucks and even our team for the 90's and 00's and I'd go insane rooting for a team like that, with a window 3 years in the future, depending 100% on developing young talent.

Savor Tommy Heinsohn...he won't be doing games much longer. He has gotten a little more wonky in the past year, probably due to his wife, but think about how miserable home broadcasts will be with Donny Marshall.

This isn't a city like LA...where a player like Kobe Bryant will force a draft day trade to... we need Ainge to keep hitting on young talent and to think ahead to the future with all of his shrewd moves and it is a sensitive and delicate process.

YOU = DEBBIE DOWNER