Re: 5 minute games

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

Let me say I don't see anything good in losing and we're going to lose a
lot more. Next season is already becoming more promising. Concerning Walker
he did stink it up. Part was his fault for his conditioning and next comes
the coaching early in the season when he played Mr.Ball Handler. Last nite
he was rarely found where he belongs. Why? Did a Knick have B.O.? This
isn't a coached team, it's a tinkered with one. Oh Boy we'll try this
tonite, this tomorrow............

After 30 games, my conclusion is we'll not make the 8th spot. Just as well,
we need to draft and trade some more. And make a deposit in the trash bin
for the junk we have. If Walker, Anderson, Pierce, Pots and Griffin were on
any team below us I'd be willing to bet they'd have a better record. It was
imperative we win the games we had to win. I count 4 of them. It was asking
a lot with a no bench team. These guys do have to keep working hard and
develop because soon we'll have the 2-3 players we need. Maybe Pitino will
pull something off. 

At 09:50 AM 1/5/00 -0400, you wrote:
>First, I want to say how delighted I am that Dan Forant has shown some real
>humane qualities over the past little while.  The incessant stuff about
>Toine was really bad and I am proud of him for coming around of late.  I
>know it's a big step.
>
>Second, we didn't lose this game in the last 5 minutes, we lost it in the
>first 5 minutes when we didn't cover anyone defensively.  THAT is our
>biggest team weakness.
>
>We are not quite ready yet to handle teams who are as veteran as the Knicks
>yet but we are getting closer and closer.  If not for Kenny's injury, we may
>well have pulled this game out despite our frontline playing well beneath
>their true capabilities.
>
>I am still asking you all to stay patient and let Pitino do his job.
>
>Cecil
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Dan Forant <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>
>To: <celtics@igtc.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 9:31 AM
>Subject: 5 minute games
>
>
>> How many games have we lost because we couldn't close in the last 5
>> minutes?  The NBA is known as the 5 minute game. The last 5 minutes
>usually
>> tells the tale of most of the games, especially ours. We made it look
>close
>> but in reality we lost it in the last 5 minutes, tired, injured or or not,
>> the Knicks shut us down. A real center and a backup point could change all
>> that.
>>
>> >The Celts got what they needed out of the tough back-to-back (a win
>> >against Cleveland) so I don't fault Pitino for giving 40+ minutes to his
>> >starters on the front end of the two games, even if they inevitably
>> >seemed to wilt in the 4Q and also probably came out a little tight in
>> >the 1Q at MSG. Tough loss but at least they hung in despite the poor
>> >shooting of our forwards (11-37 from Walker, Griffin, Battie and
>> >Williams) and a career game from Allan "Houston, we have a problem".
>> >
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