Re: 31 Wins?

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

I look at a series of games to determine the future of the Celts success.
They certainly had a bad stretch for awhile. Now they seem to be on the
right track again, so crystal ball changes can be made accordingly. Detroit
was another sobering equation. From past weeks performances there's no
reason to think we can't be 500 for the rest of the season. I make no
apologies knocking the team when they play below their standards, and that
is 9th or 10th place in the East. I really don't expect much from team this
season. Too many weaknesses that haven't been addressed yet. Looking
forward to the draft and trades for next season. 


At 08:51 AM 3/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
>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Of course, that prediction was superseded by your bold statement on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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