Pessimistic Haters & Negative Nancy's!

Common Sayings: "It's over!" "It's all _____'s fault we lost!" "Typical Cleveland team!" "We never should have made the trade!" "Mike Brown needs to be fired!" "I can do better than ____!

Some people think that if you're not complaining, you're not a real fan. I beg to differ.

Being a fan doesn't mean you have to criticize every play of every game. Losses aren't the result of one bad play, or one player! A game and moreso a series is an entire body of work. Delonte didn't cost us that game by leaving Rondo open for those two threes. I hate to tell you this, but we've been doing it ALL SERIES LONG! It just so happened that he finally made some shots! He followed the gameplan. Bravo Delonte! Boo phanns!!!

Delonte showed me a lot of heart last night. This kid didn't give up, even though a lot of you phanns had already written us off at halftime. I think he's been the best of the "tradesmen" so far, and I look for him to continue to grow and develop.

True, it would've been nice to win game five. But we didn't.

What we DID do though is we ended the game on a somewhat positive note by fighting back and letting the Celtics know that we can win a game in their building if we make less silly mistakes, sloppy turnovers and distribute the ball better. If anything, they're more scared now than they were at the beginning of last night's game. They thought they'd show up and blow us out again at home. I don't think we'll lose again in Boston.

We WILL win on Friday.

We WILL force a deciding game seven.

We WILL move on to the ECF's.

Have FAITH FANS! Don't be a PHANN!!!