Re: Anti Bulls sentiment

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

My only comments are that if Indy hit their free throws, they would have
defeated the bulls in game 7.

Cecil
-----Original Message-----
From: JThorneST@aol.com <JThorneST@aol.com>
To: Celtics@igtc.COM <Celtics@igtc.COM>
Date: Saturday, June 06, 1998 6:28 PM
Subject: Anti Bulls sentiment


>I understand that a lot of people are against the Bulls and thus are
biased.
>Also I am pro-Bulls and thus I am biased the other way. But some of the
>comments from this board during both this Utah series and the Indiana
series
>are ridiculous. Sure MJ gets his fair share of calls, and the refs aren't
the
>greatest, but it's both ways, don't complain about a Kerr flop off a Malone
>screen, which BTW I don't even think was a flop, but fail to mention
Malone's
>flop on Longley early in the 3rd quarter that gave him 5 fouls and made him
>sit for about 15 minutes(game minutes). Utah also gets away with quite a
lot
>of illegal screening by their guards, although they haven't been screening
>much for Malone in this series because Malone thinks he is god's gift to
the
>art of jump shooting. Don't even get me started on Malone kicking his legs
out
>when he shoots, when he looks like a scared 13 year old, but yet he is 6'9"
>255 pounds and can do a lot of damage.
>And in particular the anti MJ sentiment doesn't make any sense, because he
is
>not a trouble maker, is arguably the greatest player of all time, plays
both
>ends of the court, and is a big time competitor who is all about winning,
>unlike many of today's players. He doesn't blow off interviewers, and makes
>his teammates better. I could understand disliking a number of Bulls such
as
>Rodman, Pippen, Jackson, and others, but MJ is an entirely different story
in
>my book. The only thing that I could see disliking the Bulls for is perhaps
an
>over-saturation with their winning 5 titles, but that shouldn't be enough
to
>be so against them.
>Just my opinion-I'm sure I'll get killed on it and people will spin things
to
>their hearts content.
>