The way we write. The stuff you read. The games we’re watching. The atmosphere on Causeway street.
It’s all different.
It’s different for us… for the local writers… for all you fans… and for the new players:
“Crazy,” Garnett said of last night’s experience, complete with a teeming crowd of 17,506 that fell just 1,018 short of a sellout. “Paul (Pierce) kept telling us about the atmosphere here. It was going to be off the chain, we knew that. We’ve played here before, but as the opposition.
“I didn’t know it was going to be like this for a preseason game. We’re looking forward to a regular season game. It was a great atmosphere, a great basketball atmosphere.”
It’s something Chuck and I tried to grasp in our post-game 4th quarter call in show last night (sorry again about that). The players got a taste of it last night. There is no doubt… the buzz is back. In the Globe: Garnett & Allen wow the crowd. Souza Sez: Causeway for Excitement.
It’s like we spent the past 20 years in a bad marriage… and now we’ve met someone that loves and respects us. I’m not sure we know quite how to handle it yet. All I know is… I saw good basketball being played in the Garden… and it’s the guys in the white and green who were doing it.
Funny moment… courtesy of WBZ… KG and Ray Allen talk about getting lost on the way to the Garden.
I don’t actually believe some1 suggested doing a package of Rondo and Pierce for Kobe as a reasonable trade. That is more ridiculous than anything fire Doc said about Sebastian last year.