Re: Celts Come Back!!!!: Boston 101-Detroit 100

[Vinny Natale <vnatale@map.com>]

Great description!  I too thought they were going to get up nothing but a
rushed shot up since they ran the clock down so much.  But it went in and
it was a wonderful, wonderful finish!

Vinny


At 05:42 PM 4/4/98 -0500, Jonathan McIntyre wrote:
>Bill Cooper said:
>> Antoine.  Walker made a couple of fakes, then dribbled the ball to his
>> right, and put up an awkward looking jumper, without being squared up
>> to the basket, with a second left on the clock.  The resulting high
>> arcing shot, banged off the backboard (I do not, for a minute, believe
>> that Toine meant to go glass) and careened through the basket with
>> 0:00 showing on the clock.  The Celts win 101-100.
>
>  Quite a finish!  I was so worried when the ran the clock down so far. 
>Too often I've seen them get trapped taking an off-balance outside shot 
>at the buzzer because they let the clock run down too far before getting 
>into it.  This one wasn't even the best of shots, but I was impressed 
>with how Antoine kept his cool under the extended defensive pressure, 
>and just drove sideways to give himself an open shot, even though it wasn't 
>as close as they wanted.  For once, he focussed on getting open instead of 
>looking flashy.  I guess buzzer-beaters game-winners are flashy enough 
>without you having to add anything to them.  
>
>  Having the luxury of a videotape reply, I slowed it down to find that he 
>took the shot with 2 seconds left, and it passed through the rim with 
>0.2 seconds left, and was resting in the net with 0.1 seconds left.  Not 
>like the Pistons would be able to get off a shot in that much time. 
>
>  An interesting thing to see was how all the Celtics players and staff
>and assistants were celebrating and smiling and running onto the court
>after the shot, arms raised, high fives, etc., except for Pitino, who
>showed no expression on his face, and simply walked off the court.  Do
>you think he might have been concerned about showing up another team on
>their home court?  Antoine sure wasn't concerned.  He was jumping and
>wiggling and celebrating and fist-pumping all over every inch of the court.
>
>Jon Mc
>