Re: Attendance

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

Listened to the game on WEEI, was going to tape the delay but decided to
save the VCR the grief after all the result was in early. Pierce would had
to have made a difference, he went out early. We came back to 8 in the 4th
without him but couldn't sustain any decent offense and he can be a stopper
on defense when it counts. Coleman is a savvy player and does push his
weight around. Anderson and Walker had awful shooting nites. This back to
back thing continues to haunt us, don't know why, Charlotte had the same
situation and won. I think it has a lot to do with Kenny, if someone would
look back at his past back to back performances we may find the answer.
Also for the great shape the Celts are supposed to be in we go through our
share of bandaids. Pierce turned an ankle last season and hurt his
performance after, this season same deal, will he ever get a complete
season in? Walker it seems is never hurt.

We're hurtin for certain with this schedule coming up. I really don't
expect much. We needed to buffer our win and losses earlier and didn't. If
there's any logical conclusion how we can stay positive I'd like to hear
it. I figured we had a chance at a decent season, but it would take a
healthy starting unit, because we can't rely on the bench. 

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>I don't know how Dan got his information last night, but I agree that if
>we had Pierce on the floor, he might have made the difference down the
>stretch.  And defense really hurt, when we closed the gap and you could
>see the momentum about to swing our way, we couldn't get an easy basket,
>and they could.
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>Toine needs to get over this prima donna thing.  He fusses with the
>refs, holds the ball and won't give it to them, whines when he doesn't
>get a call, pouts on the bench during time outs, etc. and ends up with a
>T because the refs just got tired of his act.  If he plays like this at
>home, I can see why he brings out the boo birds when he doesn't play
>well.  Not that there is an excuse for booing your own player at home,
>but he needs to grow up, quit expecting the game to revolve around him,
>and the respect from the officials will come.  Even on a bad night like
>last night, his physical talent is evident.  As I am typing this, I am
>thinking, man, could they get John Havlichek (sp?) to come in and give
>Toine tutoring on attitude and sportsmanship.  If Toine would approach
>the game with John's attitude, the calls would come.  And he is getting
>mauled inside and should be getting the calls.  I mean, my God, Coleman
>got 8 free throws, Miller gets 9 and Toine gets 0?  No wonder he was
>frustrated and clearly he is on some kind of unspoken, "don't give Toine
>the call list", but he has to change that with his attitude.  The refs
>simply aren't going to give it to him as long as he thinks it is his
>world and all revolves around him.
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>But, the strange thing was, his play wasn't selfish as he made some nice
>passes and generally did not force shots.  It was his attitude with the
>refs that was very obvious.
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>I also like the caption to the photo in the State paper, that Coleman
>"slips" his way between two Celtic players.  "Bulls" his way, "shoves"
>his way, "batters" his way, but not slips!!!
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>Bentz Kirby
>bocelts@usit.net
>http://www.public.usit.net/bocelts/
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