celts beat nuggets

["Maurice Spruijt" <maurice@soneramail.nl>]

I got this from NBA.com and thought it had interesting stuff:

'Used extensively as a decoy, Boston's Antoine Walker still found time to
score 26 points.' "Tonight we used Antoine as a decoy for the first time,"
Boston coach Rick Pitino said.  "They come and trap him, and we find the
open man. He did find them and got us some easy shots."
Walker said that strategy "was a key because we knew they're not the
greatest offense in the half-court. So we knew if we could get easy buckets,
we could force them to do things they don't like to do."

A decoy? That sounds like a nice strategy, can anybody tell more about that?
Or was it just basic stuff, pass it down low, wait for double teams and kick
it out again?


"Denver shot just 39 percent from the floor, which Pitino credited to "the
best defense we've played all season."

The best defensive game?


Added Pierce, "... We know we have great offensive players on this team."

I've read that several people on this list think the Celts don't have good
offensive players...


"We had a marvelous opportunity to get to four games above .500 tonight, and
we let a team that can't win on the road come in and beat us," Nuggets coach
Dan Issel said. "Boston came out and played with a great deal of energy.
They took the game away from us from the opening tip.

See that as an compliment. Denver was 15-12, 8th in the west and that's
pretty much the highest they can get!!


Notes: Two of the principals in the six-player Boston-Denver trade on Aug. 3
are out with injuries (Denver's Chauncey Billups and Popeye Jones). ...

That's funny.


The loss snapped Denver's five-game home winning streak. ...

Is Denver for real?


Walker has scored 20 or more points in six straight games. ...

Is Walker for (finally) real (again)?


I'm glad we won, especially because they almost got that worst franchise
road losing streak.

Maurice.