Re: Celtics-76ers

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

This team has talent. It has not been used properly. Pitino did an
excellent job today dishing out minutes. Any team can play defense if their
motivated enough. This team actually has better defensive capabilities than
offense. Witness the score today and shooting averages. Shooting was awful,
defense and heart were everything. The Celts have been trying to score 102
points per game and forgetting the 103 the opposition scores.


At 09:00 PM 3/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
>This was a beautiful win. The Celts are finally playing the way some of us
>thought they are capable of, and should've been, playing all along. If
>they'd had this attitude from the beginning of the season, we'd be angling
>for the homecourt advantage, not scraping to make the playoffs. I guess,
>better later than never. 
>The impressive part was that they did it with their starting C and PG
>having a bad day. That's what playing tough D will do for you. I thought
>Pitino did a good job of giving minutes to players who were gettting it
>done, and sitting those who weren't (aside from Overton's 19-minute, 1-11,
>0 assist contribution, but he was more or less forced to play Doug by
>Kenny's foul situation and Barros's own unimpressive performance at PG).
>The Tony Battie that was signed to a $25M contract showed up today, as did
>Calbert Cheaney. I thought Antoine played  a lot better before his
>departure than after his return, and I don't think it was because of the
>tender ankle: he was forcing a lot of one-on-one stuff in the second half.
>Still, he submitted a gutsy performance - hope that ankle doesn't blow up
>on him overnight. 
>Tomorrow night the outlook is less optimism-inspiring, but then again, I
>thought they'd drop today's game for sure. Maybe they'll have another
>surprise win for us against the odds.  
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