Re: woohoo!! we won!!!!!!!

["Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.andara.com>]

I started to read this response.  After about a third of the way through, I
gave up.  Why don't you go write a book if you want to impress the list with
your vernacular?  It is very unbecoming to trod in the style which seems to
give you such pleasure.  Cmon, let's get back to basketball.

Cecil
-----Original Message-----
From: K. Kveraga <6166kkver@umbsky.cc.umb.edu>
To: celtics@igtc.COM <celtics@igtc.COM>
Date: Saturday, February 14, 1998 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: woohoo!! we won!!!!!!!


>
>
>jmf@capecod.net wrote:
>
>>         Cooz seems to be alot more worried than the rest of us, and a lot
>> more pessimistic. He is quick to point out the negative and slow to point
>> out the positives. You have to think Pitino has noticed this. One of
Ricks
>> first statements was he wanted to change the perception of the team to a
>> positive one!! Does Rick have any say in who broadcasts these games( I
think
>> so). Look for a change next year, if it can be done under the existing
>> contract with UPN.
>
>While we're at it, let's hire the infamous Orlando
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-rena's PA.
>Then the "Positive Image Squad" (P.I.S.) will be complete: Celtic Girls,
>faceless, blow-dried yes men as TV commentators, and the aforementioned
>obnoxious creature as the PA. Speaking of TV analysts, Heinsohn is trying
his
>darnest to make the team, but Cousy is failing the "positivity test". He is
>quickly becoming the proverbial skunk at a lawn party, daring to criticize
such
>great basketball minds as Chauncey Billups and the megasuperduperstar
Antoine
>"No Such Thing as a Bad Shot" Walker, and suggesting that the great Celtic
>7-foot center/shooting guard Travis Knight dunk the basketball, instead of
>trying to make a layup when it's obvious the kid's mind is at war with his
>shooting reflexes.
>Furthermore, Cooz's seemingly congenital inability to pronounce any but the
>commonest Anglo-Saxon names,  and his lack of interest in stats and in
games he
>doesn't have to do (and, rightfully,  sometimes even those that he's doing)
do
>not help his chances of cracking  P.I.S.  From the management's viewpoint,
>having a Celtic legend like Cousy, with his Mr. Basketball stature no less,
>plainly state the obvious (e.g.,  last night: "This is stupid basketball")
is
>very undesirable; honesty is always the worst policy insofar as the
management
>(and even some fans on this list) are concerned. They prefer endless
promotion
>and inane comments from some professional motor mouth, who might have been
>"analyzing" curling yesterday and bowling the day before, and who can
dissect a
>pick-and-roll about as well as Cousy can pronounce "Predrag Stojakovic".
Alas,
>the era of corporate spinmeißters has dawned in Celticland. 'Nuff ranting.
>
>On to trade talk: since Anderson is adamant that he won't play for the
Raptors,
>could we possibly get him? Should we get him? He's a true point guard, but
is
>injury-prone, expensive, and seems to be a head case. Chauncey's just the
>opposite. If you're firmly in the "nurture" camp, then he's golden - it's
just a
>matter of waiting for him to develop into a PG. If you're in the "nature"
camp,
>you want to send Chauncey to the home-like northern climes and less
frenetic
>basketball in Toronto in exchange for Kenny (with additional weight thrown
in to
>even the scale, of course). Lately, however, Chauncey's been looking like a
>keeper, with PG skills or without.
>One of our most tradeworthy, but least tradable  tri-captains choked in the
>waning minutes. Oh well,  most likely, nobody but Celtic diehards watched
last
>night's game anyway.
>
>K. Kveraga
>
>