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Irish Coffee: 10 things to learn from Jason Terry’s diary 11.05.12 at 9:42 am ET
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Celtics guard Jason Terry submitted his second diary entry for ESPN.com. Here are 10 highlights.

10. No self-respecting team loses to the Wizards: “I had said [Saturday night] was a must-win. The reason is when you play a team like Washington, which has had some injuries and might be short a man, you definitely want to win these games. These are the type of games you just have to win.”

9. The difference between Sully and Bass was negligible: “I know the starting lineup was changed a little bit with Jared Sullinger starting and Brandon Bass coming off the bench, but really I didn’t notice that much. Everyone who came into the game tonight was focused on our defensive coverages.”

8. Terry is clutch, according to Terry: “I was happy to contribute in our win with two free throws down the stretch. It’s definitely in my DNA to make big shots, especially when the game is on the line, whether that’s with free throws or making a play or an assist or a shot to win or tie the game — that’s just who I am.”

7. The JET hasn’t quite arrived in Boston yet: “I’m still trying to get comfortable within the structure of the team. I’m a work in progress. I’m very optimistic. I know we have the making of a championship team. I know we have to continue to grow and there are going to be some speed bumps along the way.”

6. For now, the Celtics are going to struggle against elite teams: “The Heat are the champions, and the core of that team has been together and had two full seasons for the most part. They’re going to know each other very well, while we’re still trying to figure it out. We’re going to struggle in a situation like that.”

Jason Terry's "trying to get comfortable." (AP)

5. Sullinger is the Red from Shawshank Redemption of the Celtics. He’s a man who knows how to get things: “The young brother, Sullinger, just shuts up and does whatever we tell him to do. If we need something, he gets it done. If we need batteries or if we need soap, he does whatever we need to do.”

4. Terry’s superstitions are a little creepy: “I sleep in the opposing team’s game shorts before every game. For example, Friday night I slept in Washington Wizards shorts since we played them on Saturday. John Wall is a good friend of mine. So I had his shorts from last year.”

3. NBA locker room attendants are easily bribed: “You might be wondering how I got every team’s game shorts. I have friends on more than 75 percent of the teams. But for those 25 percent of the teams I don’t, a little $20 to a $100 bill here and there can get you a pair of game shorts from a locker room attendant.”

2. Terry is a math wiz: “My number has always been 31 up until this season. Thirty-one is just my favorite number. I wore it in high school. I said that like Baskin Robbins, I have 31 flavors to my game. That’s why I did it. But now I’m No. 4. Since the number 31 is retired by the Celtics for Cedric Maxwell, I needed to come up with a new one. The reason I picked it is three plus one equals four, and I have four daughters as well.”

1. Slick Watts loves headbands. Jason Terry loves Slick Watts. So, Jason Terry loves headbands: “I wear a headband every game. The headband goes back to my third grade P.E. teacher. It’s a tribute to the great Slick Watts, who played in the NBA for the Seattle SuperSonics. The Sonics were my hometown and favorite team growing up. I walked into the third grade and he was the gym teacher. He had the headband on every day.”

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  • Wmeritz

    Uncle Buck, where are you? Man up the NY trolls await your words of wisdom.

  • Zimbeaux

    Brady you suck! Again! Defense did its job! Brady blows it again! Time for new QB, the Brady era is OVER!

  • wu

    Brady is a fake.  He cannot understand pressure.  He is a paper tiger.  A fraud, a loser.

    • ThisisCrap

      You sir are a fake. I guess you didn’t see the last 57 seconds where he kept numerous plays alive

      • Guest

        Like the intentional grounding that lead to a safety? lol

        • WW

           What a stupid play to start the game.  Nobody to blame but Brady on that.

  • hooah12

    Tom Brady could not have played a better game…dicks…his recievers let him down at the end of the game…both quarterbacks could not have played better…and why dont you talk about how three fumbles were taken away by a penalty and two lucky lucky bounces…ny always gets the lucky breaks in these games but it is what it is…good game giants…good game patriots…heart breaker

    • Joe

      Giants made more plays and deserved the victory

  • Guest

    Breaking News: Tom Brady is a has been.

  • Mpl1975

    Brady wins when it’s convenient, or when it pads his career numbers.  He is no champion.  Adam Vinateiri knows that.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QEHT7JYYL25AB3DBLLYJ6PG22A JOHN

    The Patriots CHOKED. They had many opportunities to put the game away and DIDN’T.. Inconsistent play calling. Dropped passes by all receivers. Green Ellis NOTHING.  The defense was up and down. Brady safety to start the game Interception by the Pats with too many men on the field negating it. Brady interception on an under thrown pass to Grronk. Then Minkovich off side on a 3rd and10 that changed the whole game. That was a HUIGE CHOKE. CHOKE CHOKE CHOKE on giant cock

    • meh

       It’s only a choke if you lose to an inferior team.  Giants are better.

    • ThisisCrap

      If the Patriots choked on a giants cok, you must have had their balls covering your eyes. It was a fumble not an interception & Bennie run pretty well considering how much they used him.

  • Guest

    If I got to go home to Giselle I think I would forget about the game quickly.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QEHT7JYYL25AB3DBLLYJ6PG22A JOHN

    That was the biggest choke of all time for the Patriots. They had many opportunitites to put it away and didn’t. Dropped passes from all receivers. Minkovichs offside on a 3 and 10 changed the momentum for the Giants ..Game over..Defense was what they have been all year. inconsistant ..Choke Choke Choke

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QEHT7JYYL25AB3DBLLYJ6PG22A JOHN

       That was the biggest choke of all time for the Patriots. They had many
      opportunitites to put it away and didn’t. Dropped passes from all
      receivers. Minkovichs offside on a 3 and 10 changed the momentum for the
      Giants ..Game over..Defense was what they have been all year.
      inconsistant ..Choke Choke Choke

      • Guest

        Couldn’t agree more. Everyone is blaming Welker but Ninkovich’s offsides was a huge turning point in the game.

    • Relax

      It was 3rd and 7 John.  And saying that they choked is stupid.  The fact that you wrote it twice says your stupid.  Yes, Welker should have caught that pass.  NO, the defense wasn’t inconsistent.  They held The Giants to 21 points fool.  The played better than expected.  And if the defense played that bad and inconsistent, then what do you say about the Giants defense which is clearly better than the Pats?  They let Brady march down on 2 consecutive drives and score TD’s.  You sir are a turd.

  • Mpl1975

    Tom Brady is a fraud.  LOOOOOSSSERRRR!  Like me and all the other pats fans who have stood by him for so many years.

  • Welkereatsit

    i hope welker gets married and divorced and his wife fleeces every cent from him.  get some hands you stone handed chooch.  1 friggin catch to eb a champion and you drop it.  wes lee evans welker.  goat-man

  • terrier89

    Once again, it came down to the Patriots not making ANY clutch plays and the Giants making a few:

    1.  Brady safety – horrible decision by him.
    2.  12 men on the field – nullifying the fumble (and giving the Giants 7 points)
    3.  Ihedigbo once again NOT falling on a fumble right in front of him that would have given the Pats the ball at the NYG 10 yard line.
    4.  Brady underthrowing Gronk for the interception.  If he throws that ball 5 yards further, it is in a position where only Gronk can catch it.  Instead, Brady underthrows and it gets picked.
    5.  Welker’s drop (also not a great throw by Brady)
    6.  Branch’s drop (also not a great throw by Brady)
    7.  Belichick’s once again horrible time management and dumb challenge on that catch by Manningham, which was RIGHT in front of him.  They could’ve used that timeout. 

    • meh

       I agree that it was a dumb challenge by Belichick

  • Wmeritz

    As a Pats fan, as much as it hurts to admit it, The GIANTS were the better team today! Congratulations to them, end of story!

  • Hesher

    Wow Welker getting death threats and all this nonsense, people really need to chill the F&^% out and realize its JUST a game….More important thing’s in life than a Football game…..A damn shame what society has become today.

    • Typical Boston Fan

      seriously a game is not worth a life, obviously these people ahve no life to realize waht its worth.

  • hooah12

    These comments are retarded..how is brady overrated he takes his team ninety eight yards and completes 16 straight passes to go up by nine points after a rough start..you idiots…such haters…if anything the way brady played is exaclty like his career excellent…and do not say the giants were the better team…they are a great team…but the better team did not win..thee fumbles no recoveries…please..again ny fans have no class…only hater comments trying to hit us when we are down….good job pats..good job giants..you executed when you needed too

  • Guest

    OchoStinko caught a pass?!?!?!

  • TJ Streeter

    Does this still make Belichick a genious? I think not. Great head coach? No doubt. Don’t blame Welker. Blame the person who passed it. The better defense won this game. Now what do you think of that front 7?

  • Billsfan

    LOL PATRIOTS LOSE hahahahah

  • Wmeritz

    The Giants won,end of syory. No excuses. The trolls will have their day and deservedly so. Keep giviving them ammunition and suffer the consequences.

    Conratulations are in order for the Giants win against a good Pats team.

    Get over it!

  • SSE122

    MISTAKES,AND DROPS
      GOATS ARE WELKER,NICKA.  GIANTS FUMBLED THREE TIMES AND WE GOT ZILCH
      NEXT YEAR LOOKS GOOD, NEED A A1 WIDEOUT, A COREY DILLEN CHAIN MOVER AND UP GRADE THE DB’S
     A HEALTH GRONK WOULD HAVE MADE A DIFFERANCE

  • http://www.facebook.com/alex.quirk Alex Quirk

    I have four words for them, “They lost to Tebow”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7ZCDPVISSRBRA3GQQNSHOOECCU YourNeighbor

    It hit him square in the hands. No excuse

  • Fug

    you get 2 hands on it … you catch it … any other answer is BS

  • Saltyolddog1

    Wes Welker makes me miss Troy Brown .Big stats don’t tell the whole story .

  • Rilawman

    if the ball is where it should have been, it’s a TD.

  • Wadehodder

    Could Brady have made a better throw to Welker, probably, but it was in his hands and then he dropped it, he holds on and Pats pretty much r in, how about the one Fernandez “dropped”, perfect pass, the Branch one i thought was catchable. Funny i didn’t see Brady on the field the last 4 min when the giants literaly walked down the field from there own 22 yd line. Even if yur a giants fan u have to feel that there was a whole lot of luck that they were even there, and don’t forget the 2 fumbles that bounced the right way. Kirk u r as prejudice a N.E. sportswriter i’ve read in my 60 yrs. as a Boston fan, at least have the commen sense to put the blame on the right people, u r just using yur ignorance to try and make a name for yourself, trust me it won’t last,  (yur name) not yur ignorance, you’ll always have that.

  • Allistereris

    that pass was right where it needed to be welker has every right to be kicking himself thats a catch he has made a hundred time you dont lead him and you have to throw it over the linebacker watch the play the pass should have been caught that was the game right there. Also the d played great except thats bonehead 12 men on the field after they recovered a fumble which gave the giants 7 points also the game 2 plays that should have been made that usually the pats make..

  • kzone73

    It wasnt just wes,branch needed to make his catch and though hernendez had a hell of a game he did make a big 4th qtr drop. The whole offensive crew was pretty much insignificant for most of the second half.

  • http://www.facebook.com/charles.patch Charles Patch

    manningham made a catch that was darn near imposible!when it was needed to win! the pats recvers did not! gronk aside, nobody that ever played qb could have made better throws on the last drive! branch,welker ,and hernandez dropped balls when it mattered most!all 3 were pedestrian catches if made!dont blame brady! he was as good as always! i am chuck from new york and the giants were a little lucky as well!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XBWAD6JINBRIC6OW4BHCL23HCE scotch679

    The Steelers sat home watching the superbowl because thet weren’t good enough to be part of it, sore losers with inbred fans.

    • guest

      big talk coming from a team that hasn’t won a super bowl in the last 5 years

  • Tim

    EVERYONE HAD CAMERAS? Someone please tell me of one other coach in the history of sports who has been fined $500,000 and the team $250,000 for something that DIDNT MATTER? News flash, IT MATTERED!  they didnt burn the tapes for nothing.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4W6DZNTRVUQ6YJYGSHXIHODV64 K

    It’s hard to be a “genius” when you can’t cheat, isn’t it Billy? 

  • Pittsburgh is trashville

    Ill take 3 super bowls and ALL THOSE WINS over pittsburgh ALL DAY EVERYDAY!!   THANK YOU SPYGATE!!  I LOVE HOW THE STEELERS AND THEIR FANS WILL NEVER……NEVER GET OVER THOSE LOSSES!!!!!  BOOOOOOYAAAAA!!!  you can have your 4 1969 championships

  • Really_33

    cry  baby db’s

  • MATT

    someone should tell steelers fan when you go up a gainst tebow. the broncos won’t let his prophet lose to a serial rapist. and besides, how many playoff wins did the steelers have this year?

  • Ridenour21

    Steelers are beast the patriots can go cry about it

    • MATT

      by the way, how did it feel to lose to a team in the playoffs, that we beat twice this year, and that it was 8-8 when you faced them.

  • PittsburghNewYorker

    It comes down to this, teams like the Steelers, Packers, and Giants will always be respected because they have great ownership and a long successful history with great fans. The Patriots whine and cheat and their fans are fake. I would be surprised if most Pats “fan” can name 3 players from before the Brady-Belichick era. However, I do disagree with James Harrison’s tweet because it just made him look stupid again. He needs to learn how to shut up.

    • NewEnglandRules

      PittsburghNewYork, Don’t forget about the Boston Celtics.  17 NBA titles, and more to come.

      • PittsburghNewYorker

        Thats fair considering Pittsburgh doesn’t have an NBA team but the Celtics are has-beens now…they have to start a new Big 3 with Rondo. There is no chance that they’ll win the championship this year.

  • Move On

    The one common theme in every super bowl the patriots have played in with Belichick as head coach is that they were all decided by 3 points. If you’re stupid enough to believe that the reason they lost the last 2 by 3 points instead of winning them by 3 is because of outright cheating, you’re a lunatic. The lesson here – any of those 5 super bowls could have gone either way. A 3 point decision is indicative of an evenly matched game that was decided by the smallest of margins – such as a David Tyree circus catch off the helmet or the Giants recovering Bradshaw’s fumble on their own 10 yard line instead of the Patriots. Simply put; in the first 3, the ball was in the Patriots possession at the right time of the game and in the last two, the ball was in Eli’s hands at the right time. There’s no science to this.

    • Move On

      correction – losy last night by 4, but the same argument applies.

  • Rotoppa

    Haha! Never try and convince a Steeler fan that he is wrong lol!

    I have to say though, no one gives a damn that the Steelers had four Super Bowl championships in the 1960s, people only care about whats happening with today’s players (aside from Steeler fans I guess).  Yes, the Patriots lost to the Steelers this year (in what?? week five??) but whose to say that the Patriots wouldn’t have won a rematch? (one of you even said that the Steelers played Denver with second string players, you think the Steelers would have beat Brady with second string players?).

    And as for the spy-gate talk going around (again) I am resigned to the fact that some people will never let it go, and will continue to talk about it fifty years from now.  I will say this however: losers make excuses for losing, winners learn from it.

  • Rotoppa

    Hey, I hate to double post, but I found a really good quote that kind of applies to the New England Patriots.

    “Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public’s enthusiasm.” -Knute Rockne

    I think that this quote describes New England pretty well lol!

  • ryan mathieson

    the spy kids aint ntn we cant win it every yr lets go burgh

  • Wmeritz

    Thats football.

  • ThisisCrap

    Could not agree with this statement more

  • Joe

     Bigger Miracle that the Patsies even mad it to the Super Bowl.  They beat nobody with a winning record all year other than the Ravens.  Why did everyone think this team was good?

  • Wmeritz

    The man is an immortal quarterback! Okay he lost this game but nevertheless he is one of the the greatest qb’s to play the game.

  • Eastview

     ” He’s no longer in any serious conversation of “best ever.”" Quite possible the stupidest comment of the night. OF COURSE he is one fof the best ever. And guess what? The Giants really ARE that good.

  • Eastview

    It’s definitely all the quarterback’s fault. You are so wise to think of that! The safety happened BECAUSE of the Giants pass rush…the interception because Gronk was wide open and let a lesser player catch him…there was no way of knowing how much his injury would hamper him, and the Pats had to play their game, which he is a big part of. Brady’s stats and Eli’s were nearly identical. One play going the other way here or there and the Pats win…it was an even game and the Giants executed a couple of plays more. Too bad for you having to be a fan of a team with a QB as awful as Tom Brady. By the way, you are NOT a typical Boston fan.

  • Eastview

    TROLL>go back to NY boards.

  • Eastview

    TROLL

  • Adigangi18

    you sound stupid shut up you moron

  • Adigangi18

    listen go troll on someone elses website you pink hat turd, your the type of girl that deserves to get a beer poured on her at any type of sporting event.  ka-ka-ka-ka looooosa!

  • ThisisCrap

    This “didn’t beat anyone with a winning record all year” is BS. How come no one cries when the AFC or NFC West makes the playoffs and wins a game or gets to the Super Bowl. Seahawks and Cardinals in the Super Bowl, please those teams sux. I think the bigger miracle was both the Patriots AND giants making the Super Bowl, both teams were fortunate to play teams that weren’t as well coached as they were.

  • GoBuySomeTP

    You may not like the stat, but there is no disputing the fact that the only team that Pats beat with a winning record was the Ravens.  Nobody’s crying about anything except you.  Pats were unable to beat any teams with a good quarterback all year.  And the Super Bowl was yet another example of that.  Fact.

  • Typical Boston Fan

    All you said was a bunch of IFS, IFS don’t win games execution does and Brady failed to execute several times. I’m sure the Giants pass rush made Brady throw the ball to a place on the field where there wasn’t even a referee present. Once again if a play here if a play there if my grandfather wasn’t dead he would be alive thats how realistic IFS are.

  • ThisisCrap

    So you would have rather them lose all of their games and not make the playoffs like the jets. My point is they can only play who’s on the schedule. They went 13-3 with a defense in rebuilding mode and were one play away from winning the Super Bowl. Last time I checked it was pretty hard to win the Super Bowl, but this lose still stings

  • Engymass2

    But still the team with the most SB wins…

  • Ognimdo1954

    no tapes …no wins…..he he he

  • Ridenour21

    You lost get over it

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002661581129 Chris Hutchins

    ill take watching the super bowl at home over lose the superbowl any season anytime

  • Fug

    BS

  • Bobwalker002

    Strange, but I have the opposite reaction to the Patriots future,the post-Brady one. Brady has not proven to be an elite qb in too many recent big games. Should the Pats consider trading him and used the money saved to improve other areas of the team? Should Bill begin seriously working out the backups in games where the Pats are clearly in charge? How much better is a clearly injured Brady to a fully healthy backup?

  • kzone73

    I think the fact that Brady had no deep threats is drasticaly over looked. The offense becomes to one dementional by the fourth quarter and though the inside recievers are quick and shifty when you know  where the ball is going it is a lot easier to defend and stop a comeback. The Giants played a better game and protected the ball when it really mattered. Perhaps Tom gets a real deep route reciever with some significant speed next year.Until then it’s going to be all about big blue. Congrats giants fans it was a well played game.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ZVFM2HRNC5CTO2OUXD4XTX65O4 Dennis

     Evidently, you’ve never played football. Unless receivers are stationary, a QB always has to “lead” his receivers.

  • Wiley16350

    Brady didn’t have to lead him.  The problem with the pass wasn’t because it was behind Welker, the problem was that it was high and behind.  If he hits Welker in the chest or gut (making Welker turn his back shoulder), Welker can easily make the catch and get yards after.  That was not a good pass, especially since Brady wasn’t under pressure and there was a better spot to throw it.  So sure, Welker could have made the catch but Brady could have made a better throw too.  So when it gets right down too it, there was nothing that influenced Brady to make a poor throw.  But Brady’s poor throw made it a much tougher catch than need be for Welker to make.  That means it has to be more Brady’s fault then Welkers.

  • scottatbc

    Brady has become impatient, bordering on arrogant (I don’t mean his personality – I mean his decision-making). He doesn’t step into throws with the same authority as I remember and his accuracy in pressure situations is diminished.  I’m not ready for a new QB but the defense holds a team to 19 points (Brady chipped in the other 2), the Patriots are supposed to win. I guess I’m agreeing with Garyritter.

  • Ognminod1954

    49ers and Pats are trying to keep up…..we do not have to jealous of anything…the Pats took one championship from us becase the were taping teams back then….

  • PittsburghNewYorker

    “rapers” Nice English you idiot. Go Steelers & Giants!!

  • PittsburghNewYorker

    Wow classy…way to represent Boston and its people…Go Steelers & Giants!

  • NewEnglandRules

    Hey Test, check out New England professional team sports titles: Boston Celtics: 17 NBA Championships; Boston Red Sox 7 World Series Championships; Boston Bruins 6 Stanely Cup Titles, and the Patriots 3 Super Bowls.  Pittsburgh doesn’t come close. A little perspective please!!!! 

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