Ryan praises Antoine!

[Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>]

from today's column:

Guess who played a pretty nice game? Antoine Walker;
that's who. He torched the Knicks in the first quarter
with an intelligent mixture of shots. He hit the
boards (10 rebounds). He made a Bird-like crop-down
pass to Tony Battie for a layup when he could have
cranked a three. And when he nailed a nice
straightaway three (59-45) in the third period, he
resisted the urge to wiggle, settling for an
acceptable fist-pump instead. There's hope for this
lad yet.

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As far as last night's game, it wasn't really that the
team played bad, although they did make some bad plays
and missed shots.  The knicks D was real tough, and
they stopped calling the new impeding fouls.  It was
old time eastern conference basketball, and we still
one.  Pierce had a great block on Spree with the game
on the line.  Vitaly saved a possesion by knocking a
rebound to a teammate.  It'll be nice if we can
execute against murderous D better, but that is what
playoff caliber basketball is defined as.  IN the
meantime, we gutted out a win.  I like it.

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