“Let’s not go sucking each others ***** just yet”

Dammit all if Doc Rivers ain’t the voice of reason.

“First of all, we’re 0-0. We haven’t won a game.  I told [the team] we broke the rules on a ton of little things. We are not going to be a good team if we don’t do the little things. Even if that was a regular season game, and we won like that [I wouldn’t be satisfied],” he concluded. “If we break the rules that we broke yesterday when it is a big game, we couldn’t win that game.”

Say what you will about Doc… he’s right on this.  It doesn’t mean that you or I shouldn’t be happy with what we’ve seen.  We’re fans… we get to be irrational about the team.  Doc, on the other hand, is driving a chariot full of horses… and if he lets them get out of control now… he’ll never reach the finish line.

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No if you’ll excuse me… I have to go punch myself in the face.  No matter how good a point Doc made… he should never be compared to Winston Wolf… maybe the coolest character in movie history.  I suppose I could delete the picture and the reference… but I’m too lazy.  I also don’t believe in the backspace key.  It’s against my religion.  DON’T REPRESS MY BELIEFS, DAMMIT!

Also… get ready to see a lot of our back ups.  The team has 4 games in the next 5 days… and you won’t see everyone in all of those games:

“Of those four games, Ray (Allen), Paul (Pierce) and Kevin (Garnett) may only play in two of those games each – maybe two-and-a-half,” Rivers said.

Links:  Camerato:  Celtics reclaiming the Garden  |  Herald-Vets have C’s energized.  |  Globe:  Pruitt holds the Mayo  | Suns beat C’s for title… in NBA Live ‘08  |  Reggie Miller joins TNT  |  SI:  Things can only get better for the NBA 

And how about that Josh Beckett?  That guy is money.  What a weekend this is going to be.