Re: Tonight's game

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

True to form.  Thanks for the insight.  Who did Atlanta play last night?  I
thought we played Orlando :-)

I listened to the game on EEI and Howard and Max both made alot out of the
spats which developed in the 3rd quarter.  Max said that the team should not
air its dirty laundry in public like that despite how frustrated they may
be.  Of course, Pitino is pissed.  Suspensions and possible trades
forthcoming as a result.  Question is, of course, who?  Overton has no
value.  Fortson, for his shortcomings, is a monster on the glass, but didn't
command any name players in the earlier snafu.  Toine, however.  Well that's
another question.

Was that the last straw for Toine in Pitino's eyes?  How can they
discipline, say Overton, without disciplining the captain?  This could get
interesting.

Toine and Overton to Seattle for Payton and Maxwell with Dan Forant as chief
therapist :-)

Cecil





----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Forant <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: Tonight's game


> 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).
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Don't be so hard on Adrian.  The man is exhausted, he's been playing
> basketball non-stop for three years and is exhausted.
> >
> >Dorine
> >
> >
>