Re: Tonight's game

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

This team is streaky good at best, because of talent depth, it has none.
Can't expect Walker and Pierce or Anderson to provide the firepower and
defense nite after nite. Their 2 forwards had 9 blocked shots, many in the
2nd half. Atlanta had a bunch of Gazelles running around, we looked slow,
similar to the Bird era. We're not even close to having the right chemistry
yet. The draft and trading season may provide the players we can build on.
We shot 37%, and 56% from the foul line. 

Myself along with others have been saying most of the season, that this
team is mediocre at best. A few weeks ago I felt the Celts could play 500
on the way out, I've been sucked in by these greenhorns again. It won't
happen again. My hat's off to Doc Rivers and his organization. 

At 10:23 PM 3/28/00 -0500, you wrote:
>What happened?  In the first half (or most of it) they were playing well,
driving to the basket, passing, etc.  Then they reverted to tossing up 3's,
leaving someone open every trip.  In short, they were out hustled,
outsmarted and outscored by a running team of madmen who are athletic,
fast, and deadly shooters.  Amazing what a former NBA player has done with
this team others didn't take (Tommy said that, I didn't).  
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>I sure don't like to be down on this team, but tonight really hurt.  I'm
not sure what's wrong with this picture, but it sure needs retouching.
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>Don't be so hard on Adrian.  The man is exhausted, he's been playing
basketball non-stop for three years and is exhausted.  
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>Dorine
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