Well, that’s it. A season that started with so much promise, officially ends as one of the most painful Celtics seasons of my lifetime. I’ve seen it all, dogshit lottery bound teams, scrappy overachieving underdogs, champions, and now this group. All the talent in the world on paper yet they could never put it together. A gigantic step backwards from the year before after adding two All Star talents. To say all of us were wrong about what this season would become is a gigantic understatement. We put up with the bullshit during the year because our best player told us things would be better in the playoffs. It wasn’t. Not even fucking close. There was no flipping of the switch, big deal they beat the Pacers. This was the series we were going to find out just how different they were and here’s what we learned.

Kyrie Irving: 37-104 (35%)

Gordon Hayward: 12-35 (34%)

Al Horford: 30-63 (47%)

Jayson Tatum: 19-53 (35%)

Jaylen Brown: 27-58 (46%)

Marcus Morris: 25-40 (62%)

Essentially, the entire team outside of two guys completely shit their pants. It’s going to be impossible to beat MIL team with so many guys having awful series, but this loss in 5 games is more than just the poor shooting. They were gutless. They played with no energy despite their season being on the line. I can’t say that’s a surprise given how the entire season went, this was their MO and that’s what was so maddening. Even when backed into a corner they couldn’t show any fight. Pathetic.

Obviously, a lot of the blame will be put on Kyrie and Hayward. I honestly cannot believe Kyrie Irving talked all that shit and then had a series like this. He shot them out of each of the last 4 losses. Promised it wouldn’t happen again, and then was even worse the next time out. After ruining the regular season with his drama and bullshit about how nobody was on his level, I’m sorry you have to be better than this. YOU wanted to be the fucking star. YOU told us not to worry because we had you for the playoffs. He gagged, no other way to put it. His bullshit is not worth putting up with if you’re going to play like this and lose in the second round, how could it be? I don’t know whether he stays or goes, but maybe it’s time for Ainge to eat the fact that this did not work.

With Hayward, it’s hard to be more of a disaster. While he didn’t do any of the same talking Kyrie did, he’s just as much to blame and should get just as much heat. A complete and total mental no show. He was hesitant, he couldn’t buy a fucking basket, his defense was poor, that can’t happen. It’s pretty pathetic when your two star additions are virtually unplayable in the playoffs. This had nothing to do with his health too which is the worst part.

When a team continues to play so soft and show no mental toughness, I have to look at Brad Stevens. This was his big test heading into the year, and he failed during the regular season. Then the playoffs came and honestly it wasn’t much better. Still late with timeouts, couldn’t figure out rotations, couldn’t make adjustments, couldn’t motivate his players, a complete failure by Brad as well.

They showed up in this Game 5 and had one of their worst shooting performances of the year. They were outworked, outclassed, and completely dominated by the better team. They deserve all the heat they’re going to get and then some. An embarrassing season from start to finish, that hurts.

Now the big elephant in the room. Who knows if this is going to be my last blog on this site. I certainly hope not, but I’ll keep going until my login doesn’t work. All I’ll say is it’s been a privilege to be able to ride these waves with fellow stoolies and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. Having said that, I put my faith in this team and they boned me. Without lube.

More in the morning, let the trolling commence.