Originally Posted by
Pelicanidae
Well, I actually fell asleep by accident for this game (damned 3:30am starts!) But looking over the thread and looking at the box score, all I can say is damn.
From the looks of it, we had rough moments but we fought, and that's all you can ask for. We know how good the team is when everything's clicking on full cylinders, but from the looks of early posts in this thread that took a little while to happen. So we're done for the year, but that's not cause to be sad. Obviously everyone wants to go further, but given the injuries we've had to deal with, given the personnel we have (bench, mostly) and given the fact that we were playing a team that's going down as one of the top 5 teams ever, I'm proud of our guys.
We made the playoffs when nobody expected us to, we swept Portland when nobody thought we'd have a chance, and although we lost in 5 to Golden State, we competed such that we could have won 2 of the games we lost, and even blew them out in one game.
Next season Boogie is back, I have no doubts. If he's anything resembling his old self, and we can resign Rondo and possibly do some work for a SF, we're a conference finals team at minimum.