RE: See, it's OK to be critical...

[shawnr@ufpi.com]

But if Larry Brown can ask Allen Iverson, MVP and leader of the East Champs,
to change his game to help the team improve....couldn't it be possible that
we could have a BETTER record if Antoine wasn't trying to do his best Tim
Legler impersonation every other night?  

I really hope that Antoine doesn't wield that much power in Boston that he
can scare a coach into silence.  And I am certainly enjoying listening to
sportscenter every morning and hearing about a Celtics win.  But I still
think that Antoine's shooting is to streaky to be jacking up more than 10
three's a game....

Shawn R

-----Original Message-----
From: damekmo@teleport.com [mailto:damekmo@teleport.com]
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 10:16 AM
To: celtics@igtc.com
Subject: Re: See, it's OK to be critical...


And maybe O'Brien actually believes that Antoine is helping his team
improve! You think their record might indicate that? You say that if Iverson
could shoot less then it couldn't hurt Antoine... But while Antoine is
shooting so much the team is 15-8. Is that hurting the team? Maybe O'Brien
believes that Antoine is shooting, passing rebounding, doing everything he
can and should to help the team win. Even the Peter "The Prince of Darkness"
May said that Antoine is finally making his teammates better this year. And
their record might actually prove that. Again you might think that he needs
to shoot less. But my concern was Mark's comment about O'Brien's fear of
Antoine's knife in the back. Maybe his lack of criticism has nothing to do
with his fear of Antoine. Maybe he just thinks Antoine is doing everything
this year to help his team win. Their record proves nothing?

Paul M.


> All the article is saying, and I tend to agree, is that if someone as
> "accomplished" as the Answer could change his game to help his team
improve,
> maybe Antoine could do the same.  I'm not saying O'Brien does or doesn't
> like Antoine chucking up more three's than Chuck Person, but if Allen
> Iverson needs to shoot less, it probably couldn't hurt Antoine "the black
> hole" Walker.  Who out there doesn't believe that going 0 for 11 in
three's
> is a bad thing for your POWER forward......
>
> Shawn R.