Re: 31 Wins?

["Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>]

How about we refer to this post.  This was written by a resident curmudgeon,
named Dan Forant, who stated that he didn't think it was possible for us to
win 7 more games as of the afternoon of March 8, 2000.  Since then we've
beaten Milwaukee by 11, Chicago by 30 and Philly by 16.

Si, you're right Dan.  I was wrong.  You can't see us winning FOUR more
games instead of the THREE I made mention of.

Cecil

----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Forant <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: 31 Wins?


> Maybe I look at this team from a sober point of view. I could see a bad
> performance trend at the end of December. Like looking at a stock chart,
> you can see possible trouble ahead and sure enough after playing 500 from
> Jan 3rd till the 14th all hell broke loose. The shallowness of the team
> surfaced. I don't see 7 more wins.
>
> At 07:19 AM 3/8/00 PST, you wrote:
> >>From: Dan Forant <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>
> >>
> >>I picked 31 wins for the Celts at the beginning of the season. Are there
7
> >>more wins in the final 23 games?
> >
> >Of course, that prediction was superseded by your bold statement on
January
> >14th, the day after a humiliating 103-85 loss to Minnesota, that the
Celtics
> >would win no more than 10 games for the rest of the season.  You didn't
> >think we'd let you forget that, did you?  That was 9 wins ago, despite
their
> >horrible play of late.  Do you think there are 2 wins in the final 23
games?
> >
> >But, to answer your question, yes, I do think there are at least 7 wins
left
> >in the season.  I'd be hard pressed to predict any more than 12, though,
> >even being generously optimistic, which would give them 36 wins to match
> >their '97-'98 mark.  How depressing is that?  Objectively the talent on
this
> >team is far superior to two years ago.  The only two negatives, that I
can
> >think of, are that in '98 Walker was playing like an unstopable stud,
> >getting 20/10 night in and night out. And Pitino was in the running for
many
> >people's coach of the year honors (and deservedly so, looking back on
it),
> >while this year many are questioning if he can even coach in the NBA.
> >
> >Jim
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