Re: Sportline's : Miami and Boston are close in the standings but worlds apart

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

I buy it. Miami's a fine team with plenty of talent including an excellent
bench and one of the best coaches in round ball ever. They move the ball
around like it should be, they take it inside or out whatever they want.
They did shoot the lite's out from the outside though and don't know if
they can keep that up. 

We are a good team no doubt, but equal to Miami, not yet. I'm ecstatic
we're doing as well as we are. To ask for more especially without Forston
would make us believe we should be doing better. We won't improve much
until we straighten out the point guard off the bench player. 

At 11:31 AM 11/22/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I don't buy that Sportsline guy's article about Saturday's game being proof
>that the Miami Heat and the Celtics being worlds apart.  Yes, Miami is more
>poised and experienced, and will do better than the Celtics this season, and
>might even win a championship, while the Celtics are not ready for a
>championship this year.  But they're not worlds apart, either, and the 
>Celtics record is no fluke.
>
>The reporter must remember that Saturday's game was one which Miami had 3
>days to prepare for, with a revenge factor from going 0-3 against the Celtics
>last year, while the Celtics played a game the night before in Boston and had
>to leave for Miami an hour after that game.  Even with all this advantage
that 
>Miami had, they were never ahead by more than 10 points until late in the 4th
>quarter when Lenard started hoisting up quick 3-pointers and hitting them.
>
>The Celtics are 0-3 in Saturday road games after a Friday home game this 
>season (Indiana's home opener, the Chicago debacle, and Miami... all 
>competitive games) and 6-1 in all other games (5-1 at home, 1-0 in road 
>games after a day off).  The Celtics have more road games the night
>after home games for their back-to-backs early in the season than any
>other kind of back-to-back.  Let's see how they do this week playing 
>tough teams, but playing them at home with days off before each game. 
>
>Jon Mc
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