Re: Blow out!

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

Can we stop making comparisons between Toine and Bird?  It is not fair to
either but I suppose it is nice that the two of them can be mentioned in the
same breath.

There are absolutely no comparisons, except in some instances, a couple
statistics.

I guess Toine should be humbled.

Cecil


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Meninno" <jam@london.com>
To: "Celtics @ igtc.com" <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: Blow out!


> ----- Original Message ----- From: "JB" <jbmetzea@yahoo.com>
>
> >    Walker did some nice things, hit a few threes, a few inside moves,
but
> I
> > couldn't help feeling that he is still the skunk at the TEAM garden
party.
> > Heinsohn blasted him a few times for stupid plays; shots and passes that
> > were ill advised. O'Brien is sitting him more than Pitino did. This is
> good
> > for the team and as fans we can get a better idea of what this team can
> do,
> > with a different focus.
>
> I thought Antoine was playing well and was a big part of the TEAM building
> the 20+ point lead they had in the third quarter.  He absolutely did slip
> into hotdog mode way too early, though, and Obie sat him down because of
it.
> It was nice to see Obie take control like that.  He put Antoine back in
for
> the fourth and ran enough plays to really lock up the game.  Then Randy,
> Kedrick, Blount, etc. got to run around a little bit.  Just like the good
> old days.
>
> I won't argue that Antoine couldn't have shown a little more maturity and
> just focused on building as big a lead as possible so that he could head
to
> the bench as soon as possible.  That's what Bird would have done, right?
> Funny thing is, it seems like these guys don't want to sit down.  It was
> like 'Toine and Paul were thinking "finally, a chance to have a little bit
> of fun!"  And, can you blame them?  How many games have they had in hand
> before the end of the third quarter?  Not many.  This winning stuff is
still
> kind of new to them.  Hopefully they'll get a chance to get used to it.
>
> Jim