RE: Season's Winners/Diatribe

[Dan Forant Sr <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

We are all losers, because we went down with the team. We all, at least
those of us with broad enough shoulders to venture into this list with an
opinion, had our say. I enjoyed it all. The draft isn't all that far away.
If I'm not mistaken, the playoffs will bring us later into the season than
normally because of the shutdown. That means we can enjoy the playoffs and
inch closer to next season.

I think Pitino's clock is ticking, but I really don't think he can miss
with the big four of Anderson, Mercer, Walker and Pierce. He has mucho room
for trades now that these players have shown their worth. We'll lose one or
two. I think we'll get them. If we get anyone w/decent skills at point and
a power forward worth his salt, we'll be there. 

Greg Odegaard wrote:

At 11:11 AM 5/6/99 -0700, you wrote:
>We are all the losers; list members, fans, supporters and stockholders, our
>families, coworkers and friends as well, as we have all been pretty
>miserable for at least a month now.  Just read some of the crap we have all
>(to one degree or another) thrown out or at each other.  Hardly productive
>or mature.  Count me in on the garbage line.
>
>The bottom line, as Paul likes to put it, this team better show some spark
>of improvement next season or I hope, as one of the local TV sports guy (in
>little old Portland, Oregon) puts it, the management has the balls to fire
>RP like the Nets did with Calpo. At the time the guy actually related the
>firing to the situation in Boston.  Made my day; NOT! 
>
>Rick your clock is ticking, we all hate to a degree that the coach always
>has to be the fall guy, but either you are going to be a hero to us all here
>next season (me personally they have to get the 2nd round to be on a
>productive improvement path, the playoffs were a reasonable goal this
>season, now they got to win a round) or you are going to get your sorry butt
>run out of town.  ML was a fan favorite as player, but turned A+ sour, and
>Rick this is your fate unless you start proving your value and proving a
>good number of us around here wrong.  This franchise is too important and
>storied to be using as some pathetic experiment in ego stroking.  Handle it
>well or take a hike.
>
>Again we have all suffered.  Go back to my game report after the Portland
>blowout, and as I noted the only thing worth paying for that night was
>getting to see Paul Pierce (THE key shining light this year) and to a lesser
>degree Battie, who also played very well, but still in a very ugly losing
>effort.  A loss is still just that, a loss.
>
>My prediction now is 25 wins by the trading deadline next season or RP is
>traded to Miami for a second round pick, something maybe we could actually
>use, as we apparently don't have any this year.  47 wins on the season.
>
>Thanks for the good times, sorry for grief, and now let's all watch
>something resembling good ball (hopefully) in the playoffs.  Let the games
>begin.
>
>Greg
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: "ramani_rite"@lnmta.bentley.edu
>[mailto:"ramani_rite"@lnmta.bentley.edu]
>Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 10:29 AM
>To: celtics@igtc.com
>Subject: Season's Winners
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>Sooo, who won the predictions for the number of wins this season???
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>Ritesh Ramani
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