Re: Celtics-76ers

["John Lyell" <johnlyell@hotmail.com>]

The C's have played well as of late and made the 76's look bad.  Although
looking at the Sixers record, and team, I have to say this has got to be one
of the best coaching jobs this year. Other than Iverson &  Kukoc they have a
bunch of mediocre players. Giving up a young talent like  Larry Hughes,  who
has played well with the Warriors, for Kukoc who may bail at year end could
look like a real dumb move.Geiger & Ratliff are just two big overpaid stiffs
I think Larry Brown would like to get rid of if he had a taker. Ratliff for
Walker, yeah right.


John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kestas" <Kestutis.Kveraga@Dartmouth.EDU>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 6:00 PM
Subject: Celtics-76ers


> 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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