Re: Celtics outmanned, outgunned by Philly 85-83

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

c'mon, the Celts lost this game on the foul line. If they can't make free throws they won't win the close ones. 16-27 are you kidding. Same stuff as last year. 2-4, like the market going down....................
I don't want to hear KA would have made a difference, at least we're competitive now. Two close games against two good teams. KA causes stagnation. As soon as he can open his mouth, sell him to the highest bidder and let Batgirl  become one of the homeless. 

Dan

At 10:51 PM 11/11/00 -0500, you wrote: 
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> This was a heartbreaker, with Celtics mistakes compounded by the difficulty of playing against eight people on the floor.  Apparently, Antoine Walker drove to the hoop, got aggressively defended, but was almost never fouled.  It looked to me like a Celtic player had to be laid out on the floor before the refs reluctantly blew a whistle.  Conversely, it seems that when a Celtic defender stands somewhere in the vicinity of the man with the ball, that's now a foul.
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> Not to say the C's were playing as well as they ought--on those rare occasions when they did get to the line, it had been so long since the last trip, they forgot how to make the shot.  They also need to work on not taking so long to pass the ball.  Everyone in the building knows where the ball's going to go long before it leaves the passer's hands.  That makes it very easy to set the defense.
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> Despite this, the Good Guys actually had a lead through the first half, and kept close in the third quarter.  Then they self-destructed, with a lot of help from those three guys on Philly's side. A fierce flurry in the last minute made it close--in fact, gave the C's a good chance to win.  But another set of non-calls and there went the game.  
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> To quote the late great Johnny Most, "WE WERE MUGGED!"
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> Rats.  Ah, well, onward to the next game, Wednesday against the Washington Wizards.  Let's hope they only put five guys on the floor, or it's gonna ba another long night. 
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